The use of pictograms is discussed considering their information content, graphic complexity and cultural dimension. The resemblance and the illusion theories are highlighted to define pictogram as a salience-based representation system, which communicational efficacy depends upon historical and cultural aspects in their interpretation. Thus, the competence in interpreting pictograms is conside...

In this article, a single application is suggested to determine the position of vehicles using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Geographical Position Systems (GPS). The part of the article material included mapping three dimensional coordinates to two dimensional coordinates using UTM or LAMBERT geographical methods, and the algorithm of conversion of GPS information into GIS maps is ...

Compared to more common media of communication such as telephone or e−mail, video conferences (VCs) provide further communicational resources for the interactants by allowing for visual cues that are suspected to play a major role in discourse management, cognitive and affective processing. Video−conferencing furthermore has a number of practical advantages compared to real meetings, such as th...

“Socio-Semantic Web”(S2W) applications, such as “Knowledge-Based MarketPlaces” (KBMs), lead to co-construct symbolic organizational artifacts including “maps” or others semantic instruments, bringing a visibility and a reflexivity of the knowledge and of the action in communities. In presenting and comparing examples of KBMs, we note that the creation and the whole lifecycle of such S2W applica...

The ever-growing amount of documents (electronic or other) has increased the value of abstracts, and abstracting systems and services, as instruments for concentrating and supplying relevant information. Ongoing research in different disciplines, with abstracting as the common subject matter, points to the usefulness of the paradigm concept. This perspective would provide the coherence necessar...

The problems of introducing unvironmcntal sound into the compositional process arc discussed, including its acoustic character, syntactic orgmization, contextuaIly based meaning,and resultant listening patterns. Gaps in traditional discipIinary approaches in dealing with environmental sound arc identified, and an acoustic communicational model is proposed as an interdisciplinary alternative. Th...

We first propose an unbiased consensus algorithm in wireless networks via random broadcast, by which all the nodes tend to the initial average in mean almost surely. The innovation of the algorithm lies in that it can work in any connected topology, in spite of the possible collisions from simultaneous data arriving at receivers in a shared channel. Based on the consensus algorithm, we propose ...

This paper proposes a global escape mechanism which can handle unexpected or unwanted conditions changing the default execution of distributed communicational flows, preserving compatibility of the multiparty conversations. Our escape is realised by a collection of asynchronous local exceptions which can be thrown at any stage of the communication and to any subsets of participants in a multipa...

This article examines the evidence available on obstacles and facilitating factors for the socioprofessional integration of internationally educated nurses (IENs) and tries to generate best practices concerning their workforce integration. In the nursing shortage context, more and more attention is given to IEN recruitment. Still, IENs' integration experiences into their new environment are str...