Contemporary embedded systems quite often employ extremely complicated software consisting of a number of interrelated components, and this has made object-oriented design methodologies widely used in practice. To implement an object-oriented model in given target hardware, it is imperative to derive a set of tasks from the designed objects. This process of determining tasks and the events they...

Individual differences in working memory capacity (WMC) typically predict reduced rates of mind-wandering during laboratory tasks (Randall, Oswald, & Beier, 2014). However, some studies have shown a positive relationship between WMC and mind-wandering during particularly low-demand tasks (Levinson, Smallwood, & Davidson, 2012; Rummel & Boywitt, 2014; Zavagnin, Borella, & De Beni, 2014). More sp...

While much recent progress has been made in research on fact-based question answering, our work aims to extend question-answering research in a different direction — to handle multi-perspective question-answering tasks, i.e. question-answering tasks that require an ability to find and organize opinions in text. In particular, this paper proposes an approach to multi-perspective question answeri...

Two different types of development tasks are distinguished: Clear and unclear development tasks. Based on hypotheses from organizational theory two different designs of software development are derived. The transformational design is appropriate if the development task is clear. In case of an unclear development task software development should employ the adaptive design. The transformational d...

Actor: Entity (human or computer) possessing a capability to act intelligently and process specific assignments (activities/tasks). Atomic task: Task that can be handled by an individual actor. CAS: Collective adaptive system. Collaboration system (platform): Information system supporting execution of collaborative processes. Collaborative process (collaboration): Joint effort of a (limited) nu...

Developers of applications for health and wellness monitoring are facing a diversity of protocols, standards and communication mechanisms for collecting data from heterogeneous sensors, devices and services, as well as when exporting data to various health and wellness services and systems. The REACTION platform addresses this using a middleware approach which leverages the development tasks to...

Classical planning representations such as PDDL are primarily designed for goal-oriented problem solving, but some tasks such as creative composition lack a well defined goal. Structured performing arts, despite lacking a specific goal for their composition tasks, can be sufficiently expressed as goal-oriented problems for their performance tasks. Using contradance as an example performing art,...