Empirical research aims to establish generalizable claims from data. Such may involve concepts that must be measured indirectly by using indicators. Construct validity is concerned with whether one can justifiably make at the conceptual level are supported results operational level. We report a quantitative analysis of awareness construct in software engineering literature between 2000 and 2019...

The conventional wisdom regarding the aims and shortcomings of Kantian constructivism is mistaken. aim metaethical not to provide a naturalistic account objectivity normative facts by deriving substantive morality from conception agency so thin as be uncontroversial (a task at which it generally regarded have failed). Its explain “grip” that on us—to avoid what I call problem alienation. So und...

Helioseismology has established the existence of a layer of strong gradients of angular velocity at the base of the solar convection zone. This layer (`tachocline') separates the convection zone exhibiting a strong latitudinal differential rotation from the radiative interior that rotates almost rigidly. Turbulence generated in the tachocline is likely to mix material in the upper radiative zon...

Fitting algorithms to meet input data characteristics and/or a changing computing environment is a tedious and error prone task. Programmers need to deal with code instrumentation details and implement the selection of which algorithm best suits a given data set. In this paper we describe a set of simple programming constructs for C that allows programmers to specify and generate applications t...

Business processes can use Internet of Things (IoT) information to monitor context data in real-time and to respond to changes in their values in a timely fashion. For this matter, business process definition and execution languages should foresee an easy way for process modelers to define which values to monitor, and which automatic behaviors to adopt when these values change. In this paper, w...

The management of complexity in large systems is traditionally focused on the modeling and management of classes and hierarchies of classes. In order to improve the compositional flexibility in large systems, this paper turns the focus on objects rather than classes. We will demonstrate that a more powerful object system can ease the development of large systems and can improve the degree of co...

Inheritance anomaly is a well known problem in concurrent object-oriented programming. Much work has been done in this area recently, but the problem is far from solved. In this paper we propose a simple language construct that solves the inheritance anomaly. Our proposal involves the use of preconditions and post-actions in which synchronization constraints of objects are speciied. Preconditio...

Template semantics is a template-based approach to describing the semantics of model-based notations, where a pre-defined template captures the notations’ common semantics, and parameters specify the notations’ distinct semantics. We introduce a translator that takes as input a specification, and a set of template parameters, encoding the specification’s semantics, and produces a model suitable...