Abstract Creating suitable classrooms that can meet the educational needs of mentally-retarded students is vitally important. The present study explores the effect of three physical characteristics of classroom environment on the creativity of educable mentally-retarded children: window view, window size, and classroom size. The participants, one hundred 9-to-11-year-old girl students, took th...

The network of excellence HUMAINE is currently making a co-ordinated, interdisciplinary effort to develop a consistent view on emotion-oriented computing. This overview paper proposes a “map” of the research area, distinguishing core technologies from application-oriented and psychologically oriented work. First results from the on-going research in the thematic workpackages are reported.

The paper presents a process-oriented view on knowledge management in software development. We describe requirements on knowledge management systems from a process-oriented perspective, introduce a process modeling language MILOS and its use for knowledge management. Then we explain how a process-oriented knowledge management system can be implemented using advanced but available information te...

ion Class Design Encapsulation, intra class complexity, proper placement of methods and attributes, choice of class protocol. Labels or names of attributes and methods. Number of attributes, etc. Use of global variables, polymorphism, or information hiding. CD.2 number of methods per class CD.6 class vs instance variables what to put in each CD.7 Polymorphism and information hiding CD.10 underl...

Interactive multimedia technology and the world wide web play an increasingly central role in the work of cultural organizations especially when they begin to embark on creation of new information resources, public outreach and online catalogue projects. Recent reports clearly indicate the high desire (or intention) of most museums to join the web. There are three primary reasons: (i) the high ...

In recent years, domain-independent planning has been applied to a rising number of real-world applications. Usually, the description language of choice is PDDL. However, PDDL is not suited to model all challenges imposed by real-world applications. Dornhege et al. proposed semantic attachments to allow the computation of Boolean fluents by external processes called modules during planning. To ...

ion request ROOM-RES requested ROOM-RES confirmed r r confirm ROOM-RES used r use r r (c) abstracted view ROOM-RES Figure 14: Integration steps for view ROOM-RES Example: During abstraction, labels rr and rs of ROOM-RES, which correspond to label r in CAR-RES by inclusion, are abstracted to label r; the di erent re nements of the abstract activity use, which correspond to each other by a subnet...

Developing secure software is still a software engineering challenge because of the complexity of software security. Yet integrating security engineering and software engineering is increasingly important, especially for serviceoriented applications, as they are exposed to new security challenges due to their open nature. Current security engineering approaches do not consider existing security...

The main motivation of parallel discrete event-driven simulations (PDES) is a speedup of simulation runs. This aim is reflected by two similarities shared by almost all current PDES implementations: For efficiency reasons the event-oriented modeling view is used exclusively and the implementation is done in a low-level programming language. However, both properties impose serious constraints on...

Control is a major issue in end-user computing. The migration of responsibility, resources and authority from IT departments to user departments is frequently seen as a loss of power by the IT departments and an erosion of cost control by senior management. Reactions to this situation tend to focus on technology and formal control mechanisms. This paper contrasts such an IT-oriented view with a...