The PVM is a system for distributed processing implementations that offers tools for communication between tasks, like point to point messages and broadcasts, and tools to control the spawning of tasks. It was chosen due to the simplicity it allows in the implementation of message exchanges between the agents, and because it allows the definition of which workstation a process must run. Besides...

Software developers and maintainers need to read and understand source programs and other software artifacts. The increase in size and complexity of software drastically affects several quality attributes, especially understandability and maintainability. False interpretation often leads to ambiguities, misunderstanding and hence to faulty development results. Despite the fact that software und...

Sarcasm understandability or the ability to understand textual sarcasm depends upon readers’ language proficiency, social knowledge, mental state and attentiveness. We introduce a novel method to predict the sarcasm understandability of a reader. Presence of incongruity in textual sarcasm often elicits distinctive eye-movement behavior by human readers. By recording and analyzing the eye-gaze d...

Against the background of the growing significance of Business Process Management (BPM) for Information Systems (IS) research and practice, especially the field of Business Process Modeling gains more and more importance. Business process models support communication about as well as the coordination of processes and have become a widely adopted tool in practice. As the understandability of bus...

Knowledge about accuracy, reliability and validity by pre-university students and science teachers (Chapter 2) CoE model 82 coe 47 relevant for evaluation arV in inquiries Conclusion 23 coe items relevant for evaluation arV in inquiry by novices Feasibility of revised instrument as self-evaluation instrument for pre-university students (Chapter 4) Design eQI instrument (ch.4) teaching-learning ...