PVMaple: A Distributed Approach to Cooperative Work of Maple Processes

Working with multiple Maple kernels connected by Distributed Maple or PVMaple

An Activity Theory Perspective on the Role of Cooperative Assessment in the Reading Comprehension of Iranian EFL Learners

Reading comprehension has recently been reconceptualized in EFL reading instruction to foreground the importance of putting a social perspective on learning. Developed as a crucial aspect of Vygotskian sociocultural theory, activity theory views reading as a socially-mediated activity, for which the prerequisite cognitive processes are distributed among teacher, individual reader, other student...

Agent-based approach for cooperative scheduling

This paper studies the multi-factory production (MFP) network scheduling problem where a number of different individual factories join together to form a MFP network, in which these factories can operate more economically than operating individually. However, in such network which known as virtual production network with self-interested factories with transportation times, each individual facto...

An Integrated Approach for Measuring Performance of Network structure: Case study on power plants

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) and balanced scorecard (BSC) are two well-known approaches for measuring performance of decision making units (DMUs). BSC is especially applied with quality measures, whereas, when the quantity measures are used to evaluate, DEA is more appropriate. In the real-world, DMUs usually have complex structures such as network structures. One of the well-known network s...

Supporting Tool for Cooperative Work Analysis Based on Distributed Cognition

This paper aims to use a distributed cognition-inspired approach in an analysis of how teams work. The intention is to extract tacit knowledge from observations of a cognitive system which can be derived from the identification of information trajectories and the grouping of agent actions/activities into specific abstract processes. For this purpose, we have developed a tool to support analysis...