in recent years, underactuated nonlinear dynamic systems trajectory tracking, such as space robots and manipulators with structural flexibility, has become a major field of interest due to the complexity and high computational load of these systems. hierarchical sliding mode control has been investigated recently for these systems; however, the instability phenomena will possibly occur, especia...

Self-adaptive software is a closed-loop system that tries to manage, direct, or regulate its own behavior dynamically. Such a system aims at providing an automated and systematic approach to handling the increasing complexity of operation management. Mission-critical systems (e.g., e-business and telecommunication systems) are usually large, complex, and distributed. These systems must preserve...

The major goal of self-adaptive software is to provide a mechanism that allows a software system to dynamically change its architectural configuration during run-time to cope with requirement changes and unexpected conditions. Software which needs to handle dynamically changing internal and external environment is one of the areas in which self-adaptive software may do an important role in impr...

The paper describes an adaptive intelligent controller architecture (GRAVA) for an image understanding system. The controller architecture is based on the concept of selfadaptive software, an approach that has seen significant effort in the past few years. Self-adaptive software involves synthesizing code that monitors, diagnoses and repairs behavioral deviations from explicitly stored and mana...

Self-adaptive system is an effective method to improve its usability to adapt to different individuals, user groups, surroundings and techniques. In the field of self-adaptive geo-information visualization (SAGVis), self-adaptive contexts mean various devices, different surroundings and individual requirements, etc. Context theory is a theoretic foundation for SAGVis, legible context awareness ...

Background. Self-compassion is a character trait consisting of self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness that promotes adaptive cognitive, behavioral, and emotional processing it is natural, trainable and multi-faceted human capacity. Objectives. This study investigates the direct and indirect influence of self-compassion on academic performance among undergraduate sport science students...

We are reaching the end of the second generation of knowledge management, with its focus on tacit-explicit knowledge conversion. Triggered by the SECI model of Nonaka, it replaced a first generation focus and in support of BPR initiatives. Like BPR it has substantially failed to deliver on its promised benefits. The third generation requires the clear separation of contest, narrative and conten...

There is a strong synergy between the concepts of evolution and adaptation in software engineering: software adaptation refers to both the current software being adapted and to the evolution process that leads to the new adapted software. Evolution changes for the purpose of adaptation are usually made at development or compile time, and are meant to handle predictable situations in the form of...