OBJECTIVE This article presents a systematic framework characterizing adaptive systems. BACKGROUND Adaptive systems are those that can appropriately modify their behavior to fit the current context. This concept is appealing because it offers the possibility of creating computer assistants that behave like good human assistants who can provide what is needed without being asked. However, the ...

Received: 22 February 1995 Accepted: 25 July 1995 The need for search and rescue and medical care following a sudden impact disaster is immediate and often overwhelming. In the past, governments and international organizations have relied on external assistance for these efforts. Because the life expectancy of severely injured and trapped victims is limited, the response must come first from th...

*Correspondence: Xueliang Sun, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Western Ontario, Spencer Engineering Building, London, ON N6A 5B9, Canada e-mail: [email protected] Li–S batteries have been considered as next generation Li batteries because of their hightheoretical energy density. Over the past few years, researchers have made significant efforts in breaking throug...

Doctoral graduates in philosophy are an excellent source of information about the discipline: they at cutting edge research trends, have inside view research-focused departments, and their employment prospects provide early insights on future health discipline. This report details results a survey sent 2021 to recent Ph.D. current students, as well data-gathering efforts by Academic Placement D...

F or the past 40 years, the semiconductor industry has distinguished itself by the rapid pace of improvement in its products. This growth has resulted principally from the industry’s ability to decrease exponentially the minimum feature sizes it uses to fabricate integrated circuits, commonly referred to as Moore’s law. The most significant trend for society is the decreasing cost per function,...

The issue of “professional ethics” in the workplace has been put under the spotlight in recent years; especially several scandals have involved questionable behaviour on the part of information systems (IS) professionals. In the past years, many countries have constructively paid attention to the rules of professional ethics. Among these efforts, many acts asked for corporate information disclo...

Tourism industry is emerging as a new era, one of the main pillars of the economy, the business world. Many planners and policy makers in the development of the tourism industry as the main pillars of sustainable development are mentioned. In this direction, this research inspired by these changes and therefore Social indicators such as social capital, Sense of place, and so on programming usin...

Much of the value contained in early stages of pharmaceutical projects is in the promise of developing a blockbuster drug. This is especially apparent for firms in the biotechnology industry. Many biotech firms have significant valuations, yet do not have product revenue because their products are in early stages of development. In the past ten to fifteen years investors have bid up the stock p...