Psychiatric rehabilitation is a framework for providing services to people with mental illness that encourages adaptive community functioning in all life domains. Despite its well-established inclusion in community mental health treatment programs, psychiatric rehabilitation has received little attention in the discipline-specific social work literature. The philosophical base of psychiatric re...

Binary translation allows to maintain compatibility across different architectures while still executing at native speeds. To this end, the original program is treated as input to a binary translator which analyzes the program and generates equivalent code for the current base architecture. Binary translation can either occur as a separate step prior to program execution, also referred to as 's...

Manufacturers expanding their business globally need to understand and analyze long-term trends of technology innovation relevant to their products as well as future socio-economic development of the target markets. Qualitative scenario modeling methods can evaluate opportunities and risks of their products in a specific market. To obtain quantitative evaluation results, however, just qualitati...

This paper analyzes the welfare implications of creating a Single Euro Payments Area. We study the effects of increased network compatibility and payment scale economies on consumer and merchant card fees and its impact on card usage. In particular, we model competition among debit cards and between debit and credit cards. We show that competitive pressures dampen merchant fees and increase tot...

License compliance in Free and Open Source Software development is a significant issue today and organizations using free and open source software are predominately focusing on this issue. The non-compliance to licenses in free and open source software development leads to the loss of reputation and the high costs of litigation for organizations. Towards an automated compliance management, we u...

This study analyzes current and future company use of various new business technologies, such as management software, employing a technology acceptance model (TAM) optimized by the inclusion of experience with other technologies (Internet, e-mail, EDI, Web procurement). Moreover, it examines whether relationships in the model change according to sectors to which companies belong, that is, if th...

Thread level parallelism (TLP) is a key technology to coming generation of high performance processors. Although it provides higher processing capability, the loss of compatibility with existing processors is a crucial issue. This research is motivated by the following two points: (1) TLP requires multithread programming which is rather di cult for ordinary programmers, or complexed compilation...

Federation in identity management has emerged as a key concept for reducing complexity in the companies and offering an improved user experience when accessing services. In this sense, the process of trust establishment is fundamental to allow rapid and seamless interaction between different trust domains. However, the problem of establishing identity federations in dynamic and open environment...

Markov logic is a robust approach for probabilistic relational knowledge representation that uses a log-linear model of weighted first-order formulas for probabilistic reasoning. This loglinear model always exists but may not represent the knowledge engineer’s intentions adequately. In this paper, we develop a general framework for measuring this coherence of Markov logic networks by comparing ...