A software process can take many forms and its optimality demands that it should be harmonised with the needs of the given software development situational context. This theoretical proposition is reasonably clear. However, the finer details of the interaction between the software process and the factors of the situational context are much less obvious. In previously published research, the aut...

On our Trisk robotic manipulation platform, we have implemented a conceptual representation based around object schemas, which organize all perceptions, motor actions, planning structures, and natural language use according to the objects that they are “about.” This representation provides a clear point of interaction between the discrete domains of task-level planning and language use, and the...

This paper reviews the role of situational variables in health risk behaviors and the literature on the impact of context and situation in public health. Three postulates for a situational model are presented: that the situation can account for additional variance in explanation of health risk behaviors; that the power of the situation is reciprocal to the degree of individual autonomy; and tha...

When a child first begins to acquire a lexicon, the sources of word-meanings must be available from the situational context. However, it has been argued that the situational availability of the meanings of relational terms, such as verbs, is lower than that of whole-object labels, such as nouns. In this paper, we present a corpus of child-directed language, paired with situational descriptions,...

BACKGROUND It is known that interprofessional collaboration is crucial for integrated care delivery, yet we are still unclear about the underlying mechanisms explaining effectiveness of integrated care delivery to older patients. In addition, we lack research comparing integrated care delivery between hospitals. Therefore, this study aims to (i) provide insight into the underlying components 'r...

Modern search engines leverage a variety of sources, beyond the conventional query-document content similarity, to improve their ranking performance. Among them, query context has attracted attention in prior work. Previously, query context was mainly modeled by user search history, either long-term or short-term, to help the ranking of future queries. In this paper, we focus on situational con...

Based on the experience that there cannot be a "one-size-fits-all" method, different situational method engineering approaches are examined in this paper. The result of the analysis shows that "situations" are conceptualized very imprecisely. Therefore, we propose to differentiate between "context" and "project type" in situational method engineering. Especially context is neglected in existing...