This panel addresses the perspective that agents and workflow can be seen as an evolution of components and scripting. There are several ways in which agents can be used to perform or support a workflow, and several ways in which workflow can be used to orchestrate or control the interactions between agents. The panelists explore several of these connections and various applications of agents a...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my committee members Drs. I couldn't have finished my work without the help of my lab members, in par-thoroughly enjoyed my stay at Georgia Tech with other lab members. I would like to thank my parents and sister who made so many sacrifices to help me achieve my goals. Without their support I could not dream to reach this juncture in my life. I would also ...

Stock options have been criticized as fair weather friends: good at motivating and retaining executives when the market is going up, but of little incentive value when the market is going down. The veracity of this criticism is of particular importance to executives at information technology (IT) companies, where options are used aggressively and where stock declines in 2000 were extreme. In th...

هدف پژوهش حاضر، طراحی و اعتباریابی برنامه فرزندپروری بالنده به‌منظور ایجاد آرامش در خانواده‌های دارای فرزند کم‌شنوا بود. این بر اساس از نوع بنیادی نظر ماهیت گرد‌آوری داده‌ها کیفی است. دو گام نخست با روش تحلیل محتوا، سه بعدی استفاده نظریه داده‌بنیاد گام‌های دلفی انجام شد. جامعه آماری حاضر شامل متخصصان روان‌شناسی آموزش کودکان کم‌شنوا، معلمان کم‌شنوای پیش‌دبستانی مادران نمونه پنج متخصص، معلم پانزد...

Studies examining friendships among Mexican-American adolescents have largely focused on their potentially negative influence. The current study examined the extent to which deviant and achievement-oriented friend affiliations are associated with Mexican-American adolescents' school adjustment and also tested whether support from friends and parents moderates these associations. High school stu...

Both parents and peers have been validated by previous research as being important contributors to the development of religious faith. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the contributions of the transmission (e.g., parent church attendance) and transactional (e.g., discussions about faith) models of socialization, as well as explore the possibility that a third model, the transformation...

First off, bottoms up to you for seeking out strategies to keep your drinking in check! To maintain your safety (and the safety of others), and to make sure you?re not ?that guy? or ?that gal? at a soirée with all your closest friends (you know, the one stuck in the bathroom sick all night), it?s helpful to know strategies for limiting or pacing your drinking. Depending on the type of social si...