Assessing the consequences of actions and events often requires comparing a mental stimulation of the world in which the action is present to one in which the action is absent. We propose that people perceive more impact when asked to assess whether an action would increase the likelihood or degree of a potential outcome (mental addition) than when asked whether it would reduce the probability ...

The demand of energy has been increased over the years due to increasing world population and expansion of global industries especially for food and feed. Most of the energy is consumed in transportation, industries & factories, power generation, and community sectors. Moreover, in order to fulfill our demand we are mostly dependent on energy, taken from fossil oil, gas and coal. In developing ...

Scenario languages define typical executions of systems. They are used to represent output traces, but also to capture requirements of distributed systems. Even if several dialects exist, all scenario languages are based on a similar idea: they depict systems runs as compositions of partially ordered sets of events. A drawback of scenarios is that the number of participants in a given interacti...