couple of months ago, the members of the World Association of Medical Editors have had a lively discussion on whether a student can be the author of an original article. All the respondents agreed that as long as a person fulfills the authorship criteria and conducts the research in a universally acceptable way, no matter what his or her stance is, there is no objection to name him or her as th...

Computer programming is an activity which requires a set of cognitive processes that naturally develop through practice, writing algorithmic solutions. Students learn a lot from their mistakes, but for this they need feedback on their workouts. Marking students’ work outs is very time consuming, which often limits a teacher’s capacity to offer close guidance individually. The PROBOCA project ai...

Within a group of cooperating agents the decision making of an individual agent depends on the actions of the other agents. In dynamic environments, these dependencies will change rapidly as a result of the continuously changing state. Via a contextspecific decomposition of the problem into smaller subproblems, coordination graphs offer scalable solutions to the problem of multiagent decision m...