Welcome to the 12th Annual International conference on Computational Science, to be held in Omaha, USA. This year’s conference will take place in Omaha, the heart of USA, at the Embassy suites – Downtown/Old Market. ICCS 2012 is organized by the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Universiteit van Amsterdam, the University of Tennessee, Nanyang Technological University, and Chinese Academy of Scie...

In this article, we explore the role of emotion in digital theater. Unlike heavily scripted productions, we create a theatrical agency which uses the world wide web to determine what content to deliver and how to deliver it with emotional competency. We describe the use of the web as a cultural artifact and how an autonomous agency can externalize these online connections during a performance. ...

Healthcare employers often criticize the lack of emotional competency and critical thinking skills demonstrated by newly licensed nurses. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether emotional intelligence (EI) training for nurses improves critical thinking and emotional competence enough to justify including EI in nursing curricula. A meta-analysis was conducted inclusive of EI related nu...

We present a system that generates original music designed to match a target emotion. It creates n-gram models, Hidden Markov Models, and other statistical distributions based on musical selections from a corpus representing a given emotion and uses these models to probabilistically generate new musical selections with similar emotional content. This system produces unique and often remarkably ...

This study examined the psychometric properties of performance measures for three novel, interactive virtual reality vignette exercises developed to assess social competency skills of at-risk adolescents. Performance data were collected from 117 African-American male 15-17 year olds. Data for 18 performance measures were obtained, based on adolescents' interaction with a provocative virtual tee...

A competency model of tutoring in China is described and established. Emphasis is placed on the assessment of a tutor’s sense of competence across different domains, instead of viewing perceived competence as a unitary construct. The results show that significant characteristics for an effective tutor include: personal charisma, emotional stability, ability to think clearly, patience, aptitude ...

The purpose of this study is to scrutinize participants’ research competency, source and problems related the conduct. Nine graduates Department English Language Education were purposefully selected; three them completed their theses in one semester, others finished two semesters, other finalized semesters. In qualitative study, semi-structured interviews used. findings revealed that with one-s...

Grief is regarded as a critical life event. Unresolved grief issues can interfere with quality of life and can result in emotional, behavioral, physical, and cognitive symptoms. If unresolved, this can result in suicidal ideation. Counselors can be called upon and often do work with grief issues in clients, including U.S. Military veterans. This study examined whether 93 master’s-level counselo...

This study investigated the impact of emotional intelligence on the perceived effectiveness of leaders in organisations. Emotional intelligence is seen as an individual’s capacity to appropriately regulate his/her emotions, and to use the information to guide one’s thinking and action. Most managers would rather steer away from dealing with emotional issues, whereas emotions that are properly m...