The authors conducted an investigation of mental toughness in a sample population of athletes who have achieved ultimate sporting success. Eight Olympic or world champions, 3 coaches, and 4 sport psychologists agreed to participate. Qualitative methods addressed 3 fundamental issues: the definition of mental toughness, the identification of its essential attributes, and the development of a fra...

We introduce a method for improving facial attribute predictions using other attributes. In the domain of face recognition and verification, attributes are high-level descriptions of face images. Attributes are very useful for identification as well as image search as they provide easily understandable descriptions of faces, rather than most other image descriptors (i.e. HOG, LBP, and SIFT). A ...

Software engineers are fundamental to software engineering. Their importance belies a deficient understanding about the essential attributes of software engineering expertise. We present the results of a large-scale world-wide survey of 1,926 expert Microsoft engineers across 67 countries to learn about the importance of 54 previously identified attributes of great software engineers. To help i...

One of the main objectives of developing component-based software systems is to enable integration of components which are perceived as black boxes. While the construction part of the integration using component interfaces is a standard part of all component models, the prediction of the quality attributes of the component compositions is not fully developed. This decreases significantly the va...

Representing temporal data in conceptual data models and ontologies is required by various application domains. For it to be useful for modellers to represent the information precisely and reason over it, it is essential to have a language that is expressive enough to capture the required operational semantics of the time-varying information. Temporal modelling languages have little support for...

A product (e.g. automobile, computer) can be configured using different combinations of its available attributes (features). However, selection of attributes may not be independent of the selection of other attributes. In practice, each attribute implies a selection rule (dependency) for other sets of attributes in order to generate a valid configuration. Due to dynamic changes in the product d...

ion • Explanation or documentation of the implementation or abstraction • The analysis of the abstraction or model • The application of the abstraction Design patterns typically include several additional attributes, including characteristic task features, rubrics, and variable task features, attributes designed to help the designer further refine the assessment tasks, including essential featu...