This paper reports results from a study on using electronic testing tool for assessment of student knowledge in few university courses for CS education. The study was basically concerned with the effectiveness of using electronic testing tool for assessment purposes. The effectiveness was analyzed through cost savings and improvement of quality of the assessment process, viewed from both perspe...

Past research in task modeling suggests the need to introduce objects when using task models for the design of interactive applications. Objects are however rarely included in the task model notations and formalisms. Furthermore, when part of the formalism, their definition is usually informal; and the supporting tool does not generally take them into account for simulation. K-MADe is the first...

There is an emerging consensus on the need to develop methodologies and tool-kits for building distributed multi-agent systems. This paper presents ZEUS, an advanced development tool-kit for constructing collaborative agent applications. ZEUS is a culmination of a careful synthesis of established agent technologies with the addition of some new ones, to provide an integrated environment for the...

Spatial parsers augment spatial hypermedia systems by letting the computer perceive the informal – but visually apparent – groupings formed by humans working with a spatial hypermedia tool. A number of research systems implementing 2D spatial parsing have been described in recent years. This position paper describes an implementation of a tailorable 3D spatial parser for the Topos system: a 3D ...

This article presents in an informal way some early results on the design of a series of paradigms for visualization of the parallel execution of logic programs. The results presented here refer to the visualization of or-parallelism, as in MUSE and Aurora, deterministic dependent and-parallelism, as in Andorra-I, and independent and-parallelism as in &-Prolog. A tool has been implemented for t...

This research sought to develop a palliative care measurement tool that could track and measure the rendering of care by informal caregivers to dying persons across the diversity of South African cultural and religious groups. This mixed method research led to the development of an instrument consisting of a one-dimensional domain, eight sub-items and 56 scores against which care can be numeric...

Artful processes are informal processes typically carried out by those people whose work is mental rather than physical (managers, professors, researchers, engineers, etc.), the so called “knowledge workers”. MailOfMine is a tool, the aim of which is to automatically build, on top of a collection of email messages, a set of workflow models that represent the artful processes laying behind the k...

BACKGROUND Delirium is a common condition in hospitalized seniors that nonetheless often goes undetected by nurses or is delayed in being detected which negatively impacts quality of care and outcomes. We sought to develop a new screening tool for delirium, The Sour Seven Questionnaire, a 7-item questionnaire suitable to be completed from informal or untrained caregiver observation. The study a...

one of the most important issues that faced cities in developing countries with a crisis is expanding informal settlement in them. these settlements with differences in definition are known as occupational, changing, marginal, self-made and uncontrolled housing. it is estimated that about 1 billion man in all over the world live in such kinds of places. these zones are the texture for creation ...