This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 14512 “Collective Adaptive Systems: Qualitative and Quantitative Modelling and Analysis”. Besides presentations on current work in the area, the seminar focused on the following topics: (i) Modelling techniques and languages for collective adaptive systems based on the above formalisms. (ii) Verification of collective adapti...

background: failure in reaching the predetermined goals of education can be considered as one of the most important problems of educational systems. today, it is believed that active teaching methods are more effective than lecturing which lead to effective teaching. participation of students in education is one of the major factors of active learning. the purpose of the present study is to det...

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 14181 “Multi-agent systems and their role in future energy grids”. A number of recent events (e. g. Fukushima, Japan, and the largest blackout in history, India) have once again increased global attention on climate change and resource depletion. The evaluation of the feasibility of current approaches for future energy gener...

introduction: nowadays, the widespread distribution of hospital information systems (his) in healthcare institutions requires professional evaluation to assess the practical usefulness of these applications. nursing staff are the largest group of staff in a hospital and play an important role in the adoption and evaluation of hiss. methods: this was a descriptive, analytic, cross-sectional stud...

1 Universität Innsbru k, A Ruth.Breu uibk.a .at 2 Stanford University, USA mit hell s.stanford.edu 3 Vanderbilt University, USA janos.sztipanovits vanderbilt.edu 4 Universität Leipzig, D alfred.winter imise.uni-leipzig.de Abstra t. The Dagstuhl Seminar Model-Based Design of Trustworthy Information Systems took pla e from February 11th to February 14th, 2009, at the International Conferen e and ...

introduction: oral diseases are the most prevalent diseases probable at any age. they are chronic in nature and expensive to care.  accurate, comprehensive, well-structured, well-managed data is required to control and prevent oral diseases, clinical audit, quality of patient care, and administrative, financial, research and legal goals fulfillment we need. in dentistry, data collection would p...

Recursive Make Considered Harmful by Peter Miller discusses software construction using Make for projects that span several directories. Using an example, Miller shows the shortcomings and dangers of the traditional approach where each directory has its own Makefile that is executed by an recursively invoked instance of Make. In the example, two directories have mutual dependencies which cannot...

Using bibliographic data extracted from an Endnote database, social network analysis techniques were used to generate and analyse a network of co-authors with the aim of developing an understanding of the research community that produces the research knowledge published by the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS). The ACIS community was found to be a healthy small-world communi...