Our species is routinely depicted as unique in its ability to achieve cooperation, whereas our closest relative, the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), is often characterized as overly competitive. Human cooperation is assisted by the cost attached to competitive tendencies through enforcement mechanisms, such as punishment and partner choice. To examine if chimpanzees possess the same ability to mi...

A major challenge in todays fast pace world is the acquisition of competence in a timely and efficient manner, whilst keeping the individual highly motivated. This paper presents a novel based on the use of serious games driven by Case Based Reasoning (CBR) tailored by Threshold Concepts (TC) to present the learner with the most efficient choice of game scenarios to address their present compet...

Todays Web Applications are complex distributed applications, that deploy their functionality to the World Wide Web. In many cases Web Applications have been developed by using an adhoc and unsystematic development process. As a conesquence these applications have a high probability of failure during operation. In order to develop high quality Web Application both the development process and th...

In todays internet-centric world, web applications are replacing desktop applications. Cloud systems are frequently used to store and manage user data. Given the complexity inherent in web applications, it is imperative to ensure that this data is never invalidated. We overview existing techniques for data model verification in web applications, list bugs discovered by these tools, and investig...

Within the beginning of the Internet there was always a need for an automatic browsing its resources for many purposes like: indexing, cataloguing, validating, monitoring, etc. Because of a todays large volume of the World Wide Web the term Internet is often wrongly identified with the single HTTP protocol service. The process of browsing the World Wide Web in automated manner is called crawlin...