In this Chapter, we further highlight the difficulties to combat the problems of change with conventional techniques, in view of maintenance and evolution challenges discussed in Chapter 1. We also briefly preview some of the remedies to fight these problems using unconventional approaches. With emphasis on complexity inherent in software, we focus on the following problems: Poor visibility of ...

Social influence has been shown to profoundly affect human behavior in general and technology adoption (TA) in particular. Over time, multiple definitions and measures of social influence have been introduced to the field of TA research, contributing to an increasingly fragmented landscape of constructs that challenges the conceptual integrity of the field. In this vein, this paper sets out to ...

1Allergy Related Disease Unit, G d’Annunzio University Foundation, Chieti, Italy 2Department of Medicine and Science of Ageing, Section of Allergy, Clinical Immunology and Occupational Medicine, G d’Annunzio University, Chieti, Italy 3Allergy Unit, Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy 4Allergy/Pulmonary Rehabilitation Unit, ICP Hospital, Milan, Italy 5Biostatistical Laboratory, Department of Biomedic...

This research tests whether analogical processing ability is present in 3-month-old infants. Infants are habituated to a series of analogous pairs, instantiating either same (e.g., AA, BB, etc.) or different (e.g., AB, CD, etc.), and then tested with further exemplars of the relations. If they can distinguish the familiar relation from the novel relation, even with new objects, this is evidence...