Two relevant dimensions are revealed within which developmental patterns of perceptual organization might be investigated. Within the local-integrative dimension, employing a contour integration task, we found indications that spatial integration develops slowly. We also found reduced contextual modulation of a local target in children employing the Ebbinghaus illusion. Within the action-percep...

The current state of traditional software development is surveyed and essential problems are investigated on the basis of empirical data and theoretical considerations. The concept of optimisation cycle is proposed as a solution. The relation of several different kinds of local optimisation cycles to the specifications, the communications, and the optimisation problem is integrated into a conce...

in aplhabetical order QSAR MODELING AND LIBRARY DESIGN STRATEGIES Dr. Wolfram Altenhofen Chemical Computing Group AG, Lörrach, Germany [email protected] The session will be devided into an introduction to basic concepts of QSAR Modeling and Library Design and a hands-on tutorial which will allow participants to experience the basic steps from deriving a QSAR model to designing a focused libra...

The increasing complexity of distributed applications requires new modeling and engineering approaches. Such domains require representing the regulating structures explicitly and independently from the acting components (or agents). Organization computational models, based on Organization Theory, have been advocated to specify such systems. In this paper, we present the organizational modeling ...