Does chance have a role in intelligent environments? In this work-inprogress paper we argue that chance and non-deterministic behaviour can play a fundamental and important role in intelligent environments. We discuss how this behaviour can be both destructive and constructive. Underpinning our ideas is the view that intelligent environments may be seen as a complex system of interacting servic...

This paper describes an ethnographic study of conflict in software engineering teams. The aim of the study was to uncover whether certain forms of conflict can be either constructive or destructive. Prior research has uncovered three distinct forms of conflict: task, relationship, and process. This trichotomy was used to measure conflict in this study. Additionally, each conflict episode was re...

youth deviance has always been a major concern and an irritant issue and the focal attention among various societies and it has also been the focus of attention by a large number of authorities. this sociological study deals with the cultural tendency of the youth to deviance by a sociological procedure. using a clustering method, in this survey, the data were obtained from a sample including 3...

Despite a long tradition of effectiveness in laboratory tests, normative messages have had mixed success in changing behavior in field contexts, with some studies showing boomerang effects. To test a theoretical account of this inconsistency, we conducted a field experiment in which normative messages were used to promote household energy conservation. As predicted, a descriptive normative mess...

We introduce a constructive model for algebraic tori based on reduced divisors on singular curves. By using a singular hyperelliptic model, this provides an alternative representation, and computational model, for groups of rational points on an algebraic tori [4]. We obtain a represention of elements on certain tori of dimension r in compact representation using r +1 elements. By embedding the...

The influence of social norms on behavior has been a longstanding storyline within social psychology. Our 2007 Psychological Science publication presented a new rendition of this classic telling. The reported field experiment showed that social norms could be leveraged to promote residential energy conservation, but importantly, the descriptive norm was shown to increase consumption for low-con...