In Software Engineering (SE) process Requirement Engineering (RE) is considered as an important part in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Requirement Prioritization is very useful for making good decisions about product plan but most of the times it is ignored. In many cases it is seem that the product fails to meet its core objectives because lack of proper prioritization. Increased emph...

As bimanual robots become increasingly popular, learning and control algorithms must take into account new constraints and challenges imposed by this morphology. Most research on learning bimanual skills has focused on learning coordination between end-effectors, exploiting operational space formulations. However, motion patterns in bimanual scenarios are not exclusive to operational space, als...

Task prioritization can lead to trade-off patterns in dual-task situations. The authors compared dual-task performances in 9- and 11-year-old children and young adults performing a cognitive task and a motor task concurrently. The motor task required balancing on an ankle-disc board. Two cognitive tasks measured working memory and episodic memory at difficulty levels individually adjusted durin...

The simple postural task of quiet standing, which requires minimal attentional resources, is generally paired with cognitive activity. Competition for attentional resources is a consequence of simultaneously performing balance tasks and cognitive tasks, and impairment of attentional resource allocation with aging leads to increased risks of fall. We investigated age-related changes in posture c...

This paper presents a ranking-based approach used in a participating system for the TAC 2010 Information Extraction Task. We introduce a prioritization hierarchy consisting of four levels that are used to determine the most important sentences for extraction. The presence of named entities and the document date play major roles in our approach.

We consider the multi-robot task scheduling problem with precedence constraints, and introduce a general algorithm to approximate a solution to this problem. Our algorithm utilizes an iterated auction scheme, in which a batch of tasks that are pairwise unconstrained is selected in each iteration and scheduled using a modified sequential single-item auction. This algorithm also gains flexibility...

An allocation rule that prioritizes registered donors increases the willingness to register for organ donation, as laboratory experiments show. In public opinion, however, this priority rule faces repugnance. We explore the discrepancy by implementing a vote on the rule in a donation experiment, and we also elicit opinion poll-like views. We find that two-thirds of the participants voted for th...

iran is located in a high-risk seismic zone of earthquakes. it has thousands of valuable historic buildings, mostly made of unreinforced masonry, which is quite vulnerable to natural hazards, especially earthquakes. the conservation and seismic upgrading of these buildings is vital for their survival. however, resources are limited and some sort of prioritization is needed in order to allocate ...