This paper discusses our initial work in developing metrics for software adaptability. In this paper we have developed several metrics for software adaptability. One of the advantages of the metrics that we have developed is that they are applicable at the architectural level. Since architecture development is the first stage of the design process, the extent to which the architecture is adapta...

Research on career adaptability predominantly uses variable-centered approaches that focus on the average effects in terms of the predictors and outcomes within a given sample. Extending this research, the present paper used a person-centered approach to determine whether subgroups with distinct adaptability profiles in terms of concern, control, curiosity and confidence can be identified. We a...

the purpose of this study was to explore the role that perceived childhood attachment, family functioning and attribution styles have in social anxiety of high school students. 430 iranian students were selected by multistage cluster sampling from high schools of isfahan city. participants completed measures of childhood attachment to each parent (hazen and shaver, 1986), the family adaptabilit...

We address the issue of domain adaptation for automatic Personality Recognition from Text (PRT). The PRT task consists in the classification of the personality traits of some authors, given some pieces of text they wrote. The purpose of our work is to improve current approaches to PRT in order to extract personality information from social network sites, which is a really challenging task. We a...

The need for adaptation can be largely justified today by the increasing use of a large variety of interactive services by the whole population using various computer devices in different technical and social environments. Adaptation can apply to many aspects of software: presentation, data, services or assistance according to many factors like user characteristics, interaction platforms, envir...

It is well known that it is possible to achieve adaptation for “free” in function estimation under a global loss. It is unclear, however, why and how the adaptability is achieved. In this article we show that adaptability is achieved through information pooling. It is first shown that separable rules, which figure prominently in wavelet and other orthogonal series methods, lack adaptability; th...

This paper introduces the concept of Social Adaptability, a characteristic of games that are explicitly designed to function in changing social environments, and provides initial guidelines for how to design games so that they have this characteristic. The guidelines are based upon analysis of related concepts, types of social roles players can have in games, and how social environments in game...

Based on the theories of career construction and of social exchange, the current research examined the joint and interactive effects of perceived organizational career management and career adaptability on indicators of career success (i.e., salary and career satisfaction) and work attitudes (i.e., turnover intention) among 654 Chinese employees. The results showed that career adaptability play...