Competence management has received much attention during recent years because it contributes to achieving organizational goals and solving problems such as improvement of information flow or competence supply. Many approaches were proposed to modelling competence and using competence models but there is still a lack of research into structures and utilisation of competence profiles in a compete...

In MMORPGs, there are many problems with the Grinding player experience. This research divides experience into four dimensions: in-Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness and Positive affect through theoretical investigation of game Through study Litman (2008), Curiosity is divided two dimensions, I-Type D-Type Curiosity, relationship between studied. By distributing questionnaires, collecting data, ...

following a thorough survey of the available literature and concentrating on the wax and wane of testing pragmatic competence so far, the present study firstly is an attempt to develop a comprehensive test of inter-language pragmatics mainly focusing on academic situations in the iranian context. secondly, the study aims to investigate the criteria required for the selection of speech acts of a...

conclusions it is likely that learning social skills in adolescents with deafness would improve their sense of competence, and emotional well being. results the intervention led to significant improvement in total perceived competence scores of adolescents with deafness (p < 0.001) as well as in three domains of socio-emotional competence (p = 0.003), communication competence (p < 0.001), and s...

In companies, competence management involves several heavy processes that we have categorised in four classes: competence identification, competence assessment, competence acquisition, competence usage. Competence management, being the management of knowledge about competence, can also take advantage from the knowledge engineering techniques to support the mentioned processes. The paper classif...

In order to improve performance of particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO) in global optimization, the reason of premature convergence of the PSO is analyzed, and a new particle swarm optimization based on two subswarms (TSS-PSO) is proposed in this paper. The particle swarm is divided into two identical sub-swarms, that is, the first sub-swarm adopts basic PSO model to evolve, whereas the ...