Ten Do It Better, Do They? An Empirical Analysis of an Old Football Myth In this paper we investigate how the expulsion of a player influences the outcome of a football match. Common sense implies a negative impact for the affected team. However, an old football myth suggests that such an expulsion might also be beneficial since it increases the team spirit as well as the efforts of the affecte...

Scenarios have proven useful to elicit, validate and document requirements but cannot be used in isolation. Our concern in this paper is to integrate scenario-based techniques in existing methods. We propose a set of operators to support such an integration. This set is classified in two sub-sets: the one dealing with the integration of the product models of the two initial methods and the one ...

Nowadays standard technologies play important roles in enhancing sharability, reusability and interoperability of learning contents. However, there is a lack of pedagogical justification of the contents implemented with the standards. This paper discusses the standard-compliance of our ontology-based modeling framework and how the framework gives theoretical justification to standardcompliant l...

the purpose of the paper is to survey and discuss inflation targeting in framework of monetary policy rules. this study design an optimal economy model for iran which compare different cases of domestic and cpi inflation targeting, strict and flexible inflation targeting.in relation to this, the optimal monetary policy rule was designed using three constraints neo-keynesian phillips curve, aggr...

Motivation – Team training should reflect the increasing complexity of decision-making environments. Research approach – Guidelines for scenario-based training were adopted for a distributed setting and tested in a pilot training session with a distributed team in the offshore oil industry. Findings – Participants valued the scenario as challenging and useful, but also highlighted problems of d...

The paper focuses on the methodology of making observations that account for the actual use of ICT infrastructure and tools in the classroom. The observational study is part of a project that focuses on scenario feasibility as an enabler of ICT usage. In particular, the observations provide input on pattern mining with the aim to help teachers and other stakeholders in the decision-making proce...

In the context of end-of-life clinical care decisions, it is true that all mentally competent patients can make these decisions for themselves. However, patients’ conditions may decline so that they become mentally incompetent in their terminal illnesses. The latter scenario is fairly common. For example, Silveira et al1 found 30% of the older adults who required decision making at the end of l...

due to the nature of the sediment data, selection of appropriate methods for processing the data before entering them to the artificial intelligence models can enhance the reliability of simulations results. in this study, the effects of sediment data processing procedures on ann and anfis models outputs in 7 dez basin stations were evaluated. accordingly, three scenarios were considered: in th...