Course generation automatically assembles courseware adapted to the learner’s competencies and learning goals. Previous course generators offered only a limited representation a pedagogical knowledge and did not take full advantage of service-oriented architectures. This dissertation proposes a course generation framework (called Paigos) that enables the formalization and application of complex...

This study extends previous research that showed how informal social sanctions can backfire when members prefer friendship over enforcement of group norms. We use a type of neural network to model the coordination of informal social control in a small group of adaptive agents confronted with a social dilemma. This model incorporates two mechanisms of social influence, informal sanctions and imi...

The EuroCoOp Task Manager allows for asynchronous distributed work management. It provides means for dynamic and flexible modification of task shared by users. This paper describes the extension of the EuroCoOp Task Manager to meeting support functionality. Examining the specific requirements for meeting support, there are some demands which are already covered by the Task Manager itself and so...

For Archer, everyday life is shaped, in part, by the interplay of social and cultural systems [2]. A Social System is an array of positions, occupied by persons, and a distribution of status (or ranking) over that array. A Cultural System is conceived as a collection of belief-informing propositions. A Socio-Cultural System is Archer’s abstraction from everyday life and is analyzable as the int...