In topology recognition, each node of an anonymous network has to deterministically produce an isomorphic copy of the underlying graph, with all ports correctly marked. This task is usually unfeasible without any a priori information. Such information can be provided to nodes as advice. An oracle knowing the network can give a (possibly different) string of bits to each node, and all nodes must...

This paper explores the validity of the advice to specify what and not how for requirements, including quality requirements. In several specific domains, it may be necessary to say How to make the What precise enough.

Acknowledgements I would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of my advisors Yves le Traon and Benoit Baudry. I am very grateful to them for their helpful advices.

Prior research suggests that decision support system (DSS) provide model advice and display non-modeled information for decision makers [4,13]. We investigate whether decision makers (1) delegate the processing of the modeled information to the model, (2) cognitively process the non-modeled information, and (3) decide based on the model’s advice adjusted for the nonmodeled information. Experime...

A poor quality of the presentation of the science indicates that the author lacks something: writing skills, fluency in the language being used, concern about quality, positive models of quality writing, or a variety of related attributes. There are many different writing styles and good authors learn what works for them and what does not. For the rest of us, template formats are useful for the...

Would you rather invest in a risky or a safe company? Think carefully. Financial advisors choose both because they would each provide superior returns! This conclusion comes from a survey of 742 Finnish advisors using a between-subjects experimental manipulation. We ask about requiring a risk premium in one mode, and about expected returns in the other mode. Firm level risk factors cause an inc...

aces in the audience on the 25th of January! "How to win a house job" is not a subject to which there is a short answer, but rather one in which the importance lies ln the summation of a lot of minor points plus a few more major and more definite ?nes, so I shall give a general factual background and then some more detailed advice. The factual background I decided to obtain from a questionnaire...

Aspect composition often involves advice interference and this is a crucial problem in aspect oriented programming. When multiple advices are woven at the same join point, the advices often interfere with each other. Giving appropriate precedence order is a typical solution of this problem but it cannot resolve all kinds of advice interference. To address this problem, we propose a novel langua...

background incomplete hospitalization is the cause of disease relapse, readmission, and increase in medical costs. discharge against medical advice (dama) in emergency department (ed) is critical for hospitals. this paper aims to explore the underlying reasons behind dama in ed of four teaching hospitals in kerman, iran.   methods this was a cross-sectional study in which the samples were drawn...

Yevgeny Seldin Peter Bartlett Koby Crammer Mathematical Sciences School, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia Department of Electical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA Department of Electrical Engineering, The Tec...