Tailorability has long been recognised as a key issue concerning groupware applications in general and componentbased groupware applications in particular. Tailoring activities are usually classified according to three levels, viz., customisation, integration and extension. This paper presents an approach to component-based tailoring based on the use of monitoring extensions. Our approach allow...

1. Thermodynamic Relations and Poisson Statistics The thermodynamically guided tailoring of surface morphologies aims at depressing the heterogeneous ice nucleation rate by unfavorable thermodynamic conditions stemming from the surface/droplet interaction. The theoretical framework for this surface morphology tailoring can be established by invoking the use of the classical heterogeneous nuclea...

Tailoring large ontologies can be a very cumbersome task. The Grid enables resource sharing to handle such tasks over a distributed environment. It makes sense then, to investigate the possibility of using resources on the Grid to tailor large Ontologies. This paper proposes a distributed ontology framework for tailoring ontologies in the Grid. The framework consists of five main categories; On...

A detailed bioinformatics analysis of six glycopeptide biosynthetic gene clusters isolated from soil environmental DNA (eDNA) megalibraries indicates that a subset of these gene clusters contains collections of tailoring enzymes that are predicted to result in the production of new glycopeptide congeners. In particular, sulfotransferases appear in eDNA-derived gene clusters at a much higher fre...

Independent, heterogeneous, distributed, sometimes transient and mobile data sources produce an enormous amount of information that should be semantically integrated and filtered, or, as we say, tailored, based on the users’ interests and context. Since both the user and the data sources may be mobile, and communication unreliable, caching the information on the user device is certainly useful....

Past research has found that tailoring increases the persuasive effectiveness of a message. However, the observed effect has been small and the explanatory mechanism remains unknown. To address these shortcomings, a tailoring software program was created that personalized breast cancer screening pamphlets according to risk, health belief model constructs, and visual preference. Women aged 40 an...

Methodologies are one of the most significant key factors to the success of project development. Since there is no single methodology that can be uniquely pointed as “the best", the discipline of situational method engineering (SME) promotes the idea of creating method components, rather than complete methodologies, and tailoring them to specific situations at hand. In this paper we present a h...