In an effort to contain the spread of COVID-19, many states and countries have adopted public health restrictions on activities previously considered commonplace: crossing state borders, eating indoors, gathering together, even leaving one’s home. These policies often focus specific or groups, rather than imposing same limits across board. this Article, I consider law ethics these policies, whi...

This paper deals with the problem of finding an average of several curves subject to qualitative constraints and restrictions on the curves. The unknown average curve is the solution of a weighted least squares problem involving the deviation between the given curves and the unknown curve. The qualitative constraints are that some curves are preferred compared to other curves. The qualitative i...

We design functional algebras that characterize various complexity classes of global functions. For this purpose, classical schemata from recursion theory are tailored for capturing complexity. In particular we present a functional analogue of rst-order logic and describe algebras of the functions computable in nondeterministic logarithmic space, deterministic and nondeterministic polynomial ti...

With markets globalizing and customers’ demands specializing organizations worldwide need to change. To reach the necessary flexibility of information technology one approach is tailorability, i. e. users are enabled to adjust software to their needs. Some examples for tailorability are given, and its potential benefits and shortcomings are discussed. Software development plays an important rol...

Companies formalize their software processes as a way of organizing their development projects. In practice, a family of processes is required, in order to ensure that each project is handled appropriately. This family may be a collection of predefined processes, but can also be generated by tailoring a general process to a project’s context. Automated process tailoring yields the most appropri...

In order to systematize development, software companies define their organizational processes. The process engineer is in charge of this activity. Tailoring software processes is an activity that allows project managers to adapt organizational software processes to the needs of particular projects. Modeldriven engineering (MDE) has been applied with that purpose using process model tailoring tr...

Ideally, a multi-user desktop environment must cater adequately for dynamic and possibly unanticipated awareness needs of each participant [6]. Any strategy to fulfil these needs appropriately without overloading the participant with awareness-information presupposes the ability of the multi-user environment to be continuously informed of her awareness requirements. This provides the awareness ...