Requirements engineering is not straightforward for any software development team. Developing software when team members are located in widely distributed geographic locations poses many challenges for developers, particularly during the requirements engineering phase. This paper reports on a case study concerning a large software development project that was completed in just seven months betw...

This chapter aims at defining a framework for the design of e-government services on cultural heritage. Starting from an analysis of three cases on digitisation of different types of cultural objects the authors highlight the problems existing in the creation of e-services on cultural heritage. These cases show the existence of four key issues in the development of this kind of information syst...

Problems in the design, development and management of large scale systems have be related to the multi-cultural contexts in which these systems are developed and deployed. Culture can be defined in terms of human values (axiology). Using an axiological lens, this paper explores potential value conflicts between systems engineers and the praxis in which they are formally educated. The findings p...

Darwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a population of items of different types, whose relative frequencies may change over time. Three nested subtypes of populational models can be distinguished: evolutionary, selectional and replicative. Substantial progress has been made in the study of cultural evolution by modelling it within the selectional frame. This progres...

Models of cultural evolution study how the distribution of cultural traits changes over time. The dynamics of cultural evolution strongly depends on the way these traits are transmitted between individuals by social learning. Two prominent forms of social learning are payoff-based learning (imitating others that have higher payoffs) and conformist learning (imitating locally common behaviours)....

Globalization of the construction industry has brought unique challenges such as coordination among project participants from different countries. This research attempts to understand cultural differences in international joint-venture (IJV) teams composed of Japanese and American participants, and to develop a prototype computational model— “Cross-Cultural”-Virtual Design Team (CC-VDT)—to seek...

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1 EUCEET ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE/PATRAS/GREECE/24-25 NOVEMBER 2011 New Trends and Challenges in Civil Engineering Education Edited by S. E. DRITSOS University of Patras, Greece Venue University of Patras, Conference and Cultural Centre