frequent interaction among family members, may lead to conflict or problems. therefore, designing intervention programs for promote interpersonal skills among family members seemed to be necessary. one of these programs is problem solving strategies teaching.  this study aime to investigate the effects of teaching problem solving on parenting style and family problem solving. the sample is cons...

"Performance management has become a global trend in government reform movements. Previous studies have emphasized performance feedback, referring to the fact that local governments ad opted numerous practices enhance service performance. Accordingly, while many sought mechanisms motivate manag ers seek they not clarified how different information signals foster managers’ problem-solving activi...

programmed cell death, which can be classified into apoptosis, autophagy, and oncosis, based on the cellular signalling pathways involved in the process, plays a critical role in cellular house-keeping. aberrant cell death regulation leads to body malformations, as well as to numerous diseases. here, we describe the effects of cytototoxins isolated from marine organisms on the various programme...

Globally coherent behavior is the holy grail of distributed problem solving network research. Obtaining coherent network activity without sacrificing node autonomy and network flexibility places severe demands on the local control component of each node. We introduce new mechanisms that allow a node to compute an abstracted, high-level description of its local state which it then uses to formul...

Social collaboration has been shown to facilitate problemsolving activity in diverse sets of environments. Nevertheless, if not well designed, social and human computation systems may achieve results only similar to those of a single human subject performing a task. This scenario reflects a need for better understanding of the performance issues of human problem-solving social networks. Firstly...

Most CLP languages designed in the past few years feature at least some combination of constraint solving capabilities. These combinations can take m ultiple forms since they achieve either the mixing of diierent domains or the use of diierent algorithms over the same domain. These solvers are also very diierent in nature. Some of them perform complete constraint solving while others are based ...

In this paper, we present an approach for fault-tolerant synthesis by combining predefined patterns for fault-tolerance with algorithmic game solving. A non-fault-tolerant system, together with the relevant fault hypothesis and fault-tolerant mechanism templates in a pool are translated into a distributed game, and we perform an incomplete search of strategies to cope with undecidability. The r...

In the present article, we articulate three assumptions underlying theories proposing that restructuring processes play a key role in insightful problem solving: representational difficulty, representational change, and discontinuity in solution processes. We argue that these assumptions need empirical validation to justify the proposition of restructuring mechanisms that are unique from those ...

Introspection refers to an agent’s knowledge of its own beliefs. In this paper we explore the use of introspection as a mechanism for control in result-sharing cooperative assumptionbased reasoning systems. Contrary to the current trend towards building agents with mechanisms for selective communication, our experiments indicate there exists an interesting class of cooperative distributed probl...

In this paper, we present an approach for fault-tolerant synthesis by combining predefined patterns for fault-tolerance with algorithmic game solving. A non-fault-tolerant system, together with the relevant fault hypothesis and faulttolerant mechanism templates in a pool are translated into a distributed game, and we perform an incomplete search of strategies to cope with undecidability. The re...