Drawing on a systematic content analysis, this article examines how far television news bulletins with different levels of public service obligations reported the EU and local elections in 2009 and the local elections in 2013. The aim is to compare coverage on the main evening terrestrial bulletins in the United Kingdom (the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5) during different types of second or...

Creol is a high-level, object-oriented language for distributed systems, featuring active objects and asynchronous method calls. In this paper we present a behavioral interface specification language over communication trace labels to specify components in terms of traces of observable behavior. In the specification, a clean separation of concerns between interaction under the control of the co...

Gabriel Taubin Brown University Holly Rushmeier, who’s served as associate editor in chief (AEIC) for special issues since 2007, has recently been appointed co-editor in chief of Eurographics’ Computer Graphics Forum, effective May 2010. Owing to her increased responsibilities and numerous other commitments, Holly has decided she’ll be unable to continue serving effectively in her current CG&A ...

In this paper, a new domain-based organisational model is proposed as an extension of the traditional role-based models for formal agent society specification. The concept of social commitment policies, which govern various aspects of group behaviour, including penalties for individual acts in the context of group activities, is at the heart of this model. The concept of penalty is presented as...

While work-care reconciliation strategies can benefit family carers, employers, wider society and the economy, juggling caregiving responsibilities with paid employment lead to role strain. Family carers frequently find themselves engaged in decisions negotiations being faced alter their work commitments order fulfil responsibilities. The purpose of this study was explore carers’ experiences mo...