This paper presents a pattern for generating persistence methods in runtime, using the Java API Reflection, with high levels of maintainability and reusability.

In professional settings, people often have diverse and competing conceptions of responsibility and of when it is fair to hold someone responsible. This may lead to undesirable gaps in the distribution of responsibilities. In this paper, a procedural model is developed for alleviating the tension between diverging responsibility conceptions. The model is based on the Rawlsian approach of wide r...

Classical game theory treats players as special—a description of a game contains a full, explicit enumeration of all players—even though in the real world, “players” are no more fundamentally special than rocks or clouds. It isn’t trivial to find a decision-theoretic foundation for game theory in which an agent’s coplayers are a non-distinguished part of the agent’s environment. Attempts to mod...

the present research aimed at investigating the interaction of the classroom talk to have a better understanding of the teachers’ practice teaching which can pave the way for reflection on teaching. the study benefitted from conversation analytic perspective to qualitatively and interpretively examine the classroom discourse of the teacher-learner interaction. the classroom talk was analyzed th...

T he processing of chemical pathology requests includes pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical phases. At its most basic, the postanalytical process is the reporting and delivery of validated results. One of the ways in which the chemical pathology laboratory provides ‘‘added value’’ over a purely analytical service is at this postanalytical stage—that is, further processing of results...

In the expanding domain of mobile service robots deployed in natural, everyday environments, this assumption does not hold, since humans (which are themoving obstacles in this context) do perceive the robot and its motion and adapt their ownmotion accordingly. Therefore, reflective navigation approaches which include reasoning about other agents’ navigational decision processes become increasin...

We render runtime system adaptations by design-level concepts such that running systems can be adapted and examined at a higher level of abstraction. The overall idea is to express design decisions as applications of design operators to be carried out at runtime. Design operators can implement design patterns for use at runtime. Applications of design operators are made explicit as design eleme...

To solve this problem, recent research in reflective middleware8 uses techniques derived from previous work in computational reflection to add flexibility to middleware. Reflective middleware exploits Gregory Kiczales’ meta-object protocol, combining the ideas of computational reflection and object orientation.9 His model distinguishes between base-level objects (concerning the systems’ functio...