Goals play an important role in human cognition. Different aspects of human mind influence the generation of goals they pursue, and the goals guide their behavior. In psychology, researchers made significant efforts to study goals and their origin, and cognitive architectures include various facilities to handle goals of artificial agents. One such architecture, ICARUS, supports goal-driven beh...

Business-IT alignment for software specifications means that the specifications have to be aligned with business goals. In the SIKOSA research project, we developed the SIKOSA methodology which supports the integrated assurance of quality during the whole software development process. In the present work, we present these aspects of the SIKOSA methodology, which especially align specification d...

This study aimed to develop a prioritization index speed up the achievement of national health targets proposed in 2030 Agenda. is an ecological that addressed Health Regions Brazil. The incorporated 25 indicators with analytical proximity official Agenda whose data are available from public municipal sources for period 2015-2019. According our study, was powerful method support management deci...

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Agroecosystems have traditionally been considered incompatible with biological conservation goals, and often been excluded from spatial conservation prioritization strategies. The consequences for the representativeness of identified priority areas have been little explored. Here, we evaluate these for biodiversity and carbon storage representation when agricultural land areas are excluded from...

Test case prioritization techniques involve scheduling over test cases in an order that improves the performance of regression testing. It is inefficient to re execute every test cases for every program function if once change occurs. Test case prioritization techniques organize the test cases in a test suite by ordering such that the most beneficial are executed first thus allowing for an incr...