Autonomic personal computing is personal computing on autonomic computing platforms. Its goals combine those of personal computing with those of autonomic computing. The challenge of personal autonomic computing is to simplify and enhance the end-user experience, delighting the user by anticipating his or her needs in the face of a complex, dynamic, and uncertain environment. In this paper we i...

objective: this study was conducted to compare the personal well-being among the wives of iranian veterans living in the city of qom. method: a sample of 300 was randomly selected from a database containing the addresses of veteran’s families at iran’s veterans foundation in qom (bonyad-e-shahid va omoore isargaran).the veterans' wives were divided into three groups: wives of martyrs (killed ve...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to investigate nurses' and care workers' experiences of spiritual needs among residents with dementia in nursing homes. Nurses claim to practice holistic nursing. Nevertheless, there is little knowledge about how to recognise spiritual needs in residents with dementia. METHODS The study was conducted using a qualitative method with an exploratory design. Ei...

T he evaluation process is critical for successfully deploying new technologies. You can use evaluations throughout a technology's development to inspire new applications by identifying unmet user needs and to help learn whether your applications meet the needs of your users. If your applications are not meeting your users' needs, evaluations can help identify the reasons. There is a class of u...

education satisfies the human primary need for knowledge. it is a mean helping to meet other fundamental needs and it facilitates continuance and expedition of community overall development. education provides required skillful labor for modern and traditional devisions and it increases the labor' skills and its production capacities. it is not olny a mean to improve current generation's income...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical foundation for the study of Personal Cloud Computing in organizations; a foundation that would assist researchers and practitioners to develop a deeper understanding of the impacts of this type of information technology use on organizations. Currently, very little theorizing has been done about the management of Personal Cloud in organizatio...

Scientists, engineers, knowledge workers and others need help managing their personal data files and the programs that manipulate their data. The current generation of software for supporting their needs, which we call Personal File Managers (PFMs), is not adequate. We propose five requirements that a next generation PFM should satisfy. We have created a mockup of a PFM which satisfies these re...

In this paper, we discuss the construction of dialogs for Personal Assistant Agents that are in charge of the interface between users and a Multi-Agent System. Such a system aims at providing support for small teams developing software collaboratively. Small teams have specific needs such as the integration of free or open-source tools or the support to elaborate project documentation. Consider...