The ‘ensembles’ identified by the InterLink working group on Software Intensive Systems comprise vast numbers of components adapting and interacting in complex and even unforseen ways. If the analysis of ensembles is difficult, their synthesis, or engineering, is downright intimidating. We show, following a recent three-level approach to agent-oriented software engineering, that it is possible ...

Social influence is an important factor in guiding individual behavior, including purchase decisions. The online gaming industry has demonstrated itself to be one of the most successful business sectors to integrate the Internet into its business models. The purpose of the study is to investigate the influence an individual’s social environment has on willingness-to-pay a subscription fee for a...

Purpose. The aim of the article is research modern trends in labour rationing IT industry; determination functions standardization innovative specialists at three levels management ‒ macro-, meso- (the level industry) and micro- enterprise industry); substantiation principles work industry. Methodology research. method logical generalization office was used to substantiate functions, features, ...

We propose a three-scale hierarchical representation of scenes and objects and show how this representation is suitable for both computer vision capture of models from images and efficient photo-realistic graphics rendering. The model consists of: (1) a conventional triangulated geometry on the macro-scale; (2) a displacement map, introducing pixel-wise depth with respect to each planar model f...

Researchers, corporate leaders, and other stakeholders have shown increasing interest in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)-a company's discretionary actions and policies that appear to advance societal well-being beyond its immediate financial interests and legal requirements. Spanning decades of research activity, the scholarly literature on CSR has been dominated by meso- and macro-level ...

Abstract Objective The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically altered social determinants of health including work, education, connections, movement, and perceived control; loneliness was commonly experienced. This longitudinal study examined how at the personal (micro), community (meso), societal (macro) levels predicted during pandemic. Methods Participants were 2056 Australian adults surveyed up to ...

In the ecosystem and network perspectives on innovation, cooperation between various actors is seen as essential to innovation. Because of several factors known hinder cooperation, literature has pointed out need for knowledge brokerage functions. This paper investigates needs in building care robotics innovation ecosystems networks Finland. The research questions are follows: What macro-, meso...

In this paper we present a search-based approach for procedural generation of game levels that represents levels as sequences of micro-patterns and searched for meso-patterns. The micro-patterns are “slices” of original human-designed levels from an existing game, whereas the meso-patters are abstractions of common design patterns seen in the same levels. This method generates levels that are s...