The authors outline a new identity for the professional psychologist termed Unified Professional Psychology (UPP). UPP combines recent movements toward a unified psychological science, an independent professional psychology, and Combined-Integrated (C-I) doctoral training programs in psychology. The value in the synthesis of these ideas is that they (a) provide a comprehensive system of thought...

This paper presents a controlled experiment study, investigating the impact of design techniques on a central and critical activity in designing ObjectOriented systems, behaviour allocation, implemented by assigning responsibilities to classes. Two alternative designing methods were used; Rational Unified Process (RUP) versus ICONIX method. Two groups of undergraduate students participated, eac...

A number of differences among quality approaches exist and there can be various situations in which the usage of multiple approaches is required, e.g. to strengthen a particular process with multiple quality approaches or to reach certification of the compliance to a number of standards. First of all it has to be decided which approaches have potential for the organization. In many cases one ap...

Besides being a status report on the Soar project, Unified Theories of Cognition is Allen Newell’s attempt at directing the field of Cognitive Science by example. Newell argues that his approach to "unification," which involves the programmed extension of a single piece of software-architecture-as-theory to as many psychological domains as possible, is the proper research methodology for Cognit...

Figure 1: (a) General Overview of the house (b) Room details (c) Active devices per room (d) Active devices per type A Unified Interactive System for Controlling a Smart Home Alexandra Barka, Asterios Leonidis, Margherita Antona, Constantine Stephanidis Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) – Institute of Computer Science (ICS) University of Crete, Department of Computer Scien...

In this review of Giere's Cognitive Models of Science 1992), underlying theoretical assumptions of cognitive models are examined from a psychological and philosophical viewpoint. In particular, the aim of the book to constitute a unified cognitive model for the sciences is addressed. The ambiguity of cognitive processes is discussed as a major problem for cognitive explanations of science theor...