I n today's world of rapidly changing software technology, engineers must deal with new methods , tools, platforms, user expectations, and software markets. This changing environment underscores the need for software engineering education that not only teaches current technologies, but also trains engineers to adapt quickly to new technologies and trends, allowing them to anticipate and exploit...

Agent-based computing is becoming a popular tool for modelling, designing and implementing distributed systems. In the engineering of multi-agent systems both the analyst and architect may benefit by thinking about the solution in terms of the roles that agents may enact and the relationships between them. As in human organisations, roles and the relationships between them define expected behav...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight undergraduates as an emergent student–scholar author group and to encourage institutions to take a future-oriented view, focusing greater attention to and support of undergraduate’s publishing. Design/methodology/approach – Highlighting benefits derived from undergraduate research (UR) experiences and publishing taken from the literature and e...

Successful enterprises are built on change. Increasingly, businesses operate in a rapidly evolving environment where the response to changing markets may of necessity be measured in hours and days instead of months and years. Responsiveness and adaptability will be the hallmarks of business success. BT is strategically placed as both a major potential facilitator of this change, as well as bene...

A meeting on Biodiversity Technologies was held by the Biodiversity Institute, Oxford on the 27-28 of September 2012 at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. The symposium brought together 36 speakers from North America, Australia and across Europe, presenting the latest research on emerging technologies in biodiversity science and conservation. Here we present a perspective on the g...

This paper describes how personalities influence the behaviour of emotional agents. Two different emotional models are discussed, namely the OCC emotion model and the emotion-connectionist model. In both models personalities changes the behaviour on a different way. This paper also presents an implementation of a prototype to evaluate the performance of the different personalities in the emotio...

Change is hard, especially in a large organization. Yet some leaders succeed--often spectacularly--at transforming their workplaces. what makes them able to exert this sort of influence when the vast majority can't? The authors tracked 68 change initiatives in the UK's National Health Service, an organization whose size, complexity, and tradition can make reform difficult. They discovered sever...