We present the concept of an agenda. This concept serves to represent process knowledge in the area of software development. An agenda consists of a list of steps to be performed when developing a software artifact. Each activity may have associated a schematic expression of the language in which the artifact is expressed and some validation conditions that help detect errors. Agendas provide m...

broadly speaking, the holy quran as the most sublime heavenly message is a book of human life. since, the life creator, the sender of this holy book, is the creator of human body and mind. human mental activity starts from about 16 weeks of fetal life with the blow of divine spirit into the fetus. at this point, we observe the beginning of mental and psychological activities and the emergence o...

Broadly speaking, the Holy Quran as the most sublime heavenly message is a book of human life. Since, the Life Creator, the sender of this holy book, is the Creator of human body and mind. Human mental activity starts from about 16 weeks of fetal life with the blow of divine spirit into the fetus. At this point, we observe the beginning of mental and psychological activities and the emergence o...

A two-part model is presented to explain how some organisms and humans add structure to the world to reduce cognitive complexity. Some philosophical possibilities of this model are then outlined, which include a situated cognition explanation of representation and intentionality. Many organisms generate stable structures in the world to reduce cognitive complexity (minimize search or inference)...

Sound systems may never stop changing, not even if only internal factors are present, because there may always be a better system. Non-teleological random variation of constraint ranking defines a pressure that explains the existence of perpetually rotating cycles of sound changes. In a companion paper (Boersma 1997b), I showed that the symmetries in inventories of sounds can be described and e...

The paper deals with the question how to understand the design process as a collaborative activity and how to facilitate design of smart objects from that perspective. We reflect on some current paradigms of design, and argue that these approaches could be improved further through considering users not only as participants in the design process, but also as designers through their practice in t...