Traditional systems development research largely adopts a negative view and focuses on failures. In contrast, this study adopts a positive approach to improve current practices. We report from an action research project at a small software firm, TelSoft, in which we applied appreciative inquiry to develop information technology (IT) project management skills. The inquiry process offers two cont...

Requirements negotiation is quite an interesting, ongoing research area. Current requirements engineering models usually propose a negotiation process with similar methods and goals. Unfortunately, only a few have partial automatic support. In this paper, we revisit one of the most mature models, Boehm’s Win–Win model. Win–Win is a qualitative, process–oriented model so that it is specially sui...

Win Stay, Lose Shift as well as imitation strategies for iterated games rely on an aspiration level. With both learning rules a move is repeated unless the pay-o fell short of the aspiration level. I investigate social adaptation mechanisms for the aspiration level and their impact on the eÆciency of learning in a large population of agents that repeatedly play one round of a symmetric 2 2 game...

We use replicator dynamics to study an iterated prisoners’ dilemma game with memory. In this study, we investigate the characteristics of all 32 possible strategies with a single-step memory by observing the results when each strategy encounters another one. Based on these results, we define similarity measures between the 32 strategies and perform a network analysis of the relationship between...

Chepoi showed that every breadth /rst search of a bridged graph produces a cop-win ordering of the graph. We note here that Chepoi’s proof gives a simple proof of the theorem that G is bridged if and only if G is cop-win and has no induced cycle of length four or /ve, and that this characterization together with Chepoi’s proof reduces the time complexity of bridged graph recognition. Speci/call...

Cannabinoids can evoke antihyperalgesia and antinociception at a peripheral site of action. However, the signaling pathways mediating these effects are not clearly understood. We tested the hypothesis that certain cannabinoids directly inhibit peripheral capsaicin-sensitive nociceptive neurons by dephosphorylating and desensitizing transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) via a calcium ...

آراء و اندیشه‌های فارابی در تبیین شکاف میان معرفت فعل اخلاقی، با بررسی نقش مدینة‌ فاضله نمایان می‌شود. از نظر فارابی، وظیفة حکومت مدینة فاضله،‌ ایجاد زمینة مناسب برای عادت‌ها سنت‌های شهرها بین امت‌هاست که طریق تعلیم تربیت امکان‌پذیر واقع دیدگاه مدینه می‌تواند شرایط صحیح به تبع آن بروز ظهور رفتارهای اخلاقی پسندیده گردد زمانی است نوع فاضلة باشد؛ اما عین حال زمینه‌ساز فاسقه باشد. فاسقه، مدینه‌ای ا...

هیدروفرمینگ لوله به‌طور گسترده، در تولید قطعات ساختاری اتومبیل استفاده می‌شود. یکی از خصوصیات تولید‌شده با این فرایند، نسبت استحکام به وزن بالا می‌باشد. لولۀ فشار پایین، روش‌های پیشنهاد‌شده برای حل مشکلات قبیل نیاز بالای سیال و آب‌بندی روش انجام پایین لوله، شبیه فشردن جسم جامد است آن برخلاف بالا، قالب بالایی طول فرایند ثابت نبوده هم‌زمان اعمال داخلی حرکت کرده را تحت قرار می‌دهد. مقاله، لوله‌های...