This paper describes an agent-based system implementing an original consumer-based methodology for product penetration strategy selection in real-world situations. Agents are simultaneously considered according to two different levels: a functional and a structural level. In the functional level, we have three types of agents: task agents, information agents, and interface agents assuming task ...

This paper presents, illustrates and discusses a generic framework for studying knowledge co-elaboration in online epistemic communities ("OECs"). Our approach is characterised by: considering knowledge co-elaboration as a design activity; distinguishing discussion and production spaces in OECs; characterising participation via the notion of role; fine-grained analyses of meaning, content and c...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a communicable disease that one of the top 10 causes death worldwide according to World Health Organization. Hence, Early detection an important task save millions lives from this life threatening disease. For diagnosing TB chest X-Ray, different handcrafted features were utilized previously and they provided high accuracy even in small dataset. However, at present, deep le...

This study aimed to test a multilevel mediation model which examined the relationship between the perceived motivational climate created by coaches at team level and motivational regulations towards sport at individual level, as mediated by individual goal orientations. 211 university athletes from 20 teams training in different types of sport completed a battery of instruments that measured th...

Several traffic control approaches address the problem of reducing traffic jams. A class of them deals with coordination of traffic lights to allow vehicles traveling in a given direction to pass an arterial without stopping. However, in cities where the business centers are no longer located exclusively downtown, this approach is not appropriate: simple offline optimization of the synchronizat...

Technological advances provide designers with tools to develop interfaces with anthropomorphic qualities. However, it is not known how human participants accommodate such design features in their interactions with computers, nor do we know if these features facilitate or hinder information exchange and task performance. Study 1 examined the properties of mediation, contingency, and modality ric...

Policies and recommendations on the measurement of TB prevalence (pages 19 to 26) are taken directly from the meeting report of the December 2007 meeting of the Task Force, except for text highlighted in yellow. Text highlighted in yellow is text that has been added or modified following the comments, advice and recommendations provided by WHO's Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on TB (STA...