We cast a design view on the interactions that occur when humans face (interconnected) adaptive systems. As humans are also adaptive, the combined behavior of such systems and humans can exhibit various phenomena that are especially of concern to designers of adaptive systems dealing with the inherent complexity of systems, systems’ interfaces, interconnectivity, and other design factors. Based...

Personalization was a hype in the late 1990s. Several organizations offered (and are still offering) personalization services for their customers. From e-commerce applications we know that people are willing to provide their names and other personal data if they know exactly how this information is used. Many of us are using different Digital Libraries on a regular basis. If our interests chang...

A Normative Multi-Agent System consists of autonomous agents who must comply with social norms. Different kinds of norms make different assumptions about the cognitive architecture of the agents. For example, a principlebased norm assumes that agents can reflect upon the consequences of their actions; a rule-based formulation only assumes that agents can avoid violations. In this paper we prese...

Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) is a methodology for analyzing complex socio-technical systems. It aims to structure system information in a manner that is meaningful for human control and interaction. The Abstraction Decomposition Space (ADS) in an important tool used during the first phase of CWA to describe the work domain. In this paper we create an ADS for a Semiconductor Fabrication Plant (...

Cross-layer optimization solutions have been proposed in recent years to improve the performance of network users operating in a time-varying, error-prone wireless environment. However, these solutions often rely on ad-hoc optimization approaches with known environmental dynamics experienced at various layers by a user and violate the layered network architecture of the protocol stack. This pap...

AIMS To examine the relative contribution of providers' professional affiliation (medical vs. non-medical), involvement in research, and training needs for associations with endorsement of the following evidence-based practices (EBPs): (1) pharmacological - buprenorphine treatment and (2) psychosocial - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). METHODS Secondary analysis from a 2008 survey of a na...

Considering the time constraints, it is impossible to achieve absolutely complete reasoning results based on Web-scale data. Plus, for the same query, the same results may not meet the diversity of user needs since their expectations may differ a lot. One of the major solutions for this problem is to unify search and reasoning. From the perspective of granularity, this talk provides various str...

The development of complex software relies -among other thingson well defined interfaces or APIs between the different modules. Unfortunately, as development cycles tend to shorten, the need for greater parallelism of development activities makes it more difficult to have well established APIs, since everything is under construction. This uncertainty introduces a coordination problem for the de...

The impact of a system development lifecycle (SDLC) often determines the success of a project from analysis to evolution. Although SDLC can be universally used design projects, a focused SDLC for a specific complex design issue could be valuable for understanding diverse user needs. The importance of sustainability elevation using a persuasive system is not new. Previous research presented fram...

The authors examined the role of food insecurity in the etiology of children's cognitive and mental health problems. Data from a prospective longitudinal study of 1,116 United Kingdom families with twins (sample constructed in 1999-2000) were used to test associations among household food insecurity; income; maternal personality; household sensitivity to children's needs; and children's cogniti...