Achieving a balance between the quality characteristics that need to be addressed during the development of a software product may determine the success of a software project. However, few software organizations deal with interactions between the quality characteristics that could be present in a software project. In order to support organizations, we have developed a process framework, SQIMF, ...

My research interests span the areas of data mining, machine learning, and social network analysis. A common thread in my research is understanding the different types of interactions that occur within social networks, and their effects on the users’ behavior. In particular, my research focuses on reasoning in dynamic, multi-modal, multi-relational network settings, where there exist multiple e...

One of the most important roles that music serves in human society is the promotion of social relationships and group cohesion. In general, emotional experiences tend to be amplified in group settings through processes of social feedback. However, previous research has established that listening to sad music can intensify negative emotions in people with tendencies to rumination and depression....

This paper draws on a single longitudinal case study of Trend Micro, a leading anti-virus company, to examine its entrepreneurial, value-creating trajectory. Applying and extending an entrepreneurship perspective, the paper manifests positive effect, rather than negative effect, of environmental jolt on entrepreneurial actions including opportunity identification and opportunity exploitation. W...

The aim of the Column is to highlight Cochrane systematic reviews of relevance to public health and to stimulate debate on relevance, feasibility, and acceptability. The HIV/AIDS pandemic is affecting all spheres of healthcare. In this issue we discuss the effectiveness of mass media interventions for promoting HIV testing. The Cochrane Collaboration (http://www.cochrane.org) is an internationa...

Suppose that you are at a live jazz show. The drummer begins a solo. You see the cymbal jolt and you hear the clang. But in addition seeing the cymbal jolt and hearing the clang, you are also aware that the jolt and the clang are part of the same event. Casey O'Callaghan (forthcoming) calls this awareness "intermodal feature binding awareness." Psychologists have long assumed that multimodal pe...