This paper presents the core ideas of my doctoral research project. The purposes of my research are (1) to investigate better means to make students learn important metacognitive skills (such as planning and self−monitoring) during problem solving activities when using a computer based learning environments; (2) to design and develop a learning system that can act as a assistant that helps stud...

S/W Engineering is a cognitive activity of problem solving. It means that some cognitive features, valid in general problem solving, may be identified in such context. In particular, we propose a translation in S/W Engineering context of the cognitive definition of problem and of a set of cognitive strategies people adopt in problem solving. Therefore, we try to sketch which relevant cognitive ...

1This research was sponsored, in part, by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DOD), monitored by the Office of Naval Research under Contract NR049-041.

This paper presents an approach to coordination based upon concurrent interpretation of scripts among agents adopting various roles in cooperative problem solving tasks. The paper also introduces an associated coordination language TRuCE that can be used for writing protocol scripts.

pdates on yarn dyeing technology U were shared among the 83 participants in the AATCC symposium held at Southern Pines, N. C., in April. The symposium included 11 presentations, problem solving sessions and a discussion session on the challenges of package dyeing microfibers. Developed by AATCC‘s Committee on Yarn Dyeing Technology, the two-day program offered registrants ampleopportunity to co...

Personal health is an aspect of everyday life that typifies both the commonplace and the stressful in the course of a lifetime. Many socialcognitive variables have been associated with indicators of behavioral health and with the adjustment and recovery of individuals facing health-related problems, and these characteristics are important factors in providing interventions (Auerbach, 1989). The...

This chapter analyses the results of the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to describe how proficiency in literacy, numeracy and problem solving in technology-rich environments is distributed among individuals according to various socio-demographic characteristics, including socioeconomic background, educational attainment, immigrant and/or foreign-language background, age, gender and type of occu...

The first ideas to be considered during creative idea generation can have profoundly constraining effects on the scope of the ideas that are subsequently generated. Even if initial ideas are intended to serve as helpful examples, or they are given simply to get the creative process going, the constraints of initial ideas may be inescapable. Such constraints can impede successful problem solving...

Document drafting is an essential component of judicial problem solving. This paper distinguishes several classes of judicial documents based on (1) the stage of the judicial process in which they are created, (2) the complexity of the documents, and (3) the party who drafts the documents: a judge, judicial support personnel, or a litigant. Three approaches to automated document drafting are id...