Novice innovators and entrepreneurs face the risk of designing naive business models. In fact, lack of viability in business models is perceived to be a major threat for the start-up success. Both the literature and the responses we gathered from experts in incubation present evidences of this problem. The LightCDD method helps entrepreneurs in the analysis, design and specification of start-up...

The modeling of plants is an active area of research in computer graphics and the geometrical modeling of veins is essential for obtaining plant images with a realistic appearance. The venation patterns determine the anisotropy of plant tissues, and affect the shadowing and masking of light incident on these tissues, hence the images. The current trend in the area of plant image generation is t...

In this study omission evoked potentials (OEPs) were studied in rhythmic experts (n=12) and non-musicians (n=12). Trains of auditory stimuli were presented. Trials (n=90) contained five omissions and started with a random number of beats, thus making every first omission unpredictable. Participants had to tap along with the first beat after the fifth omission (n=90), thus determining timing-acc...

Separation of concerns (SoC) and modularisation are well established strategies for managing complex specifications [1, 2]. However, although software is designed with SoC in mind, the language mechanisms at hand often lead to tangling and scattering of concerns. This has motivated a range of language extensions to support concern specification, such as aspects and subjects in programming and m...

Ordinary people make moral judgments that are consistent with philosophical and legal principles. Do those judgments derive from the controlled application of principles, or do the principles derive from automatic judgments? As a case study, we explore the tendency to judge harmful actions morally worse than harmful omissions (the 'omission effect') using fMRI. Because ordinary people readily a...

In this paper we argue that the distribution of article omission in newspaper headlines is constrained by information-theoretical principles (Shannon 1948). To this effect, we present corpus data and results from an acceptability rating study. Both point in the same direction: In our corpus, articles are significantly more frequent, when they precede a less predictable head noun. And subjects p...

The perfectly-synchronized round-based model provides the powerful abstraction of crash-stop failures with atomic and synchronous message delivery. This abstraction makes distributed programming very easy. We describe a technique to automatically transform protocols devised in the perfectly-synchronized round-based model into protocols for the crash, send omission, general omission or Byzantine...