the present study investigates the culture of development in hawrami proverbs. analysis of development-related variables is the basis of sociology. as collective phenomena, proverbs are part of the oral culture of a society and their investigation can sociologically explain cultural and social foundations of the society. this research attempts to specify 6 development-related parameters in hawr...

The main paradigm for practical motion planning in the last two decades is Probabilistic Road Map (PRM). We propose an alternative paradigm called Soft Subdivision Search (SSS). The SSS approach is based on two ingredients: the standard subdivision of space, coupled with soft predicates. Such predicates are conservative and convergent relative to exact predicates. This leads to a new class of r...

The main paradigm for practical motion planning in the last two decades is Probabilistic Road Map (PRM). We propose an alternative paradigm called Soft Subdivision Search (SSS). The SSS approach is based on two ingredients: the standard subdivision of space, coupled with soft predicates. Such predicates are conservative and convergent relative to exact predicates. This leads to a new class of r...

Due to the continual increase of the significance of information technology (IT), the need to provide governance in the deployment, use and management of the artefacts is simultaneously essential. However, even though different frameworks have been employed, the implementation of IT governance has never been easy for many organisations. This is attributed to many factors, such as people, proces...

Argumentation frameworks developed in AI have greatly eased the developments of many kinds of intelligent systems. Recently, to deal with quantitative uncertainties, several authors integrate probabilities into such frameworks to propose probabilistic argumentation frameworks. However, the developments of intelligent systems using these new frameworks are still hindered by the lack of programmi...

Electrochemical water splitting has been considered as a promising approach to produce clean and sustainable hydrogen fuel. However, the lack of high-performance and low-cost electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction hinders the large-scale application. As a new class of porous materials with tunable structure and composition, metal-organic frameworks have been considered as promising ca...

Frameworks promote design and code reuse, at a higher level of granularity. The use of frameworks is a hard task though, because usually they lack documentation and instructions on how to use them, thus being, in general, very difficult to understand. This paper addresses some mechanisms to help framework usage. It presents SEA-Preceptor, a hyperdocument based tool that sets up the possible pat...

Existing modeling frameworks for manufacturing system control can be classified into hierarchical, heterarchical, and hybrid control frameworks. The main drawbacks of existing frameworks are discussed in this paper. A new hybrid modeling framework is also described. It is a hybrid of the two: hierarchical and heterarchical frameworks. In this proposed framework, entities (e.g., parts) and resou...

Internet is a complex, diverse, distributed, apparent, multilingual, multimedia, independent and cooperative multidisciplinary platform. Today internet is flourishing in all sectors of our life. As Web applications are part of global economy, growing demand for Web-based applications enhanced the need to compare various Web quality frameworks popularly in use. Most of the work on Web applicatio...

To design support for distributed cognition is tough. A big amount of this type of systems have been designed during the years and a great number of them have failed in order to fulfill the purpose of supporting people to distribute the cognition. One reason for this may be the lack of support for the design process. In this article we argue that it exists a lack of theoretical framework to sup...