Business process management systems are well equipped to support the enactment of business processes. However, relations between process instances have not sufficiently been taken into account. To improve the execution of related process instances, batch activities have been introduced, which are based on jointly executing process activities. When analyzing real-world business processes, we enc...

This study is concerned with the effect of activity settings on the mothers' regulation of their two-year-old children's activities. Ten mother-child dyads were videotaped in two settings: at mealtime and during joint puzzle solving. Attention was paid, first of all, to the mothers' regulative utterances, operationally defined as utterances that required the child to look, to speak, or to do so...

In this paper we introduce a novel feature of the DALI language: a DALI agent is now able to activate child agents and to feed them either with a goal to be reached or a result to be obtained. Each child agent is independent and can communicate with its father or with other agents. When the child finally reaches the given goal, it notifies the father. At any point, the latter may possibly decid...

provides a forum for the states to explore ideas and state-specific strategies, build and expand a collective knowledge base, and initiate cross-state collaborative activities that benefit each state with economies of scale and cost-efficiency. A primary focus for the New England Compact is the implementation of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation. Current Compact projects include activ...