От переводчика С разрешения авторов мы перевели первую главу их книги, и один из них (В. В.) смог найти время и просмотреть первые семь страниц перевода. Текст главы оказался весьма непривычным, а потому трудным для перевода, и мы совсем не уверены, что в нём не осталось ошибок. Надеемся, что В. В. сможет со временем просмотреть и исправить оставшуюся часть перевода, после чего можно будет данн...

A Software-Process-Off-The-Shelf (SPOTS) is a software process which can be bought and used in a software developing organization. Choosing the SPOTS that fulfills the needs of an organization is a difficult task and errors may have serious and expensive consequences. This paper introduces the concept of SPOTS, discusses the problem of their choice and provides the requirements and the general ...

This paper contrasts the user-centred design with the gamification design framework and proposes a model of usability benefits adapted to gamification. The model is useful for selling the usability activities to management and strategists when developing gamified solutions, services, and software. In this paper, we focus on identifying the benefits since they can be used to legitimise the usabi...

ELKI is a uni ed software framework, designed as a tool suitable for evaluation of di erent algorithms on high dimensional realvalued feature-vectors. A special case of high dimensional real-valued feature-vectors are time series data where traditional distance measures like Lp-distances can be applied. However, also a broad range of specialized distance measures like, e.g., dynamic time-warpin...

Classification of given data sets according to a training set is one of the essentials bread and butter tools in machine learning. There are several application scenarios, reaching from the detection of spam and non-spam mails to recognition of malicious behavior, or other forensic use cases. To this end, there are several approaches that can be used to train such classifiers. Often, scientists...

In the last decade the ARTigo platform collected descriptive tags for historic artworks through the help of different games with a purpose (GWAP). Using the additional provided creation date of the artworks, the goal of this thesis is to detect events relevant in an art historic context. To achieve this goal the relative amount of distinct tags is analyzed over time. Locating the events is acco...

in recent years there have been many attempts to develop and market inexpensive mixtures of high protein food for the children in developing areas of the world. biological studies have shown that these foods are rich sources of protein and are every effective in combating protein malnutrition. however, practical marketing and distribution has not been very successful due to the local people's h...

aims: non-communicable diseases have become an emerging pandemic globally with disproportionately higher rates in developing countries. this study aimed to design a representative model of non-communicable diseases determinants in iran according to the viewpoint of experts. participants & methods: the statistical population of this qualitative study was experts and academic member informants, w...