This research hypothesized that a practical approach in the form of a solution framework known as Natural Language Understanding and Reasoning for Intelligence (NaLURI), which combines full-discourse natural language understanding, powerful representation formalism capable of exploiting ontological information and reasoning approach with advanced features, will solve the following problems with...

This paper addresses the question of how to increase local coherence in summaries of multi-party conversations. Due to the interactive nature of dialogues, local regions of coherence often stretch across diierent speakers, as for instance in question-answer pairs. We present an approach to automatically detect those regions of local coherence and evaluate the resulting summaries' uency and info...

Managing the evolution of a dynamic virtual organisation (VO) is a considerable challenge, particularly in ensuring that participating agents provide sufficient access to resources in order to achieve the overall goals without compromising their own information management principles. We propose a tool-supported approach, based on executable formal models, that supports rapid visualised feedback...

The project management discipline is expanding within many engineering activities. This discipline can facilitate strivings toward successful accomplishment of an engineering project. Therefore, many academic institutes teach the “project management” program. This study presents a novel approach that educates engineering students to become successful project managers based on contextual learnin...

Ambivalence, the presence of positive and negative reactions toward an object, typically involves the subjective experience of conflict. We investigate the role that the perceived validity of each side of an ambivalent attitude plays in producing subjective ambivalence (SA). Consistent with the metacognitive model of attitudes, we demonstrated that SA is reduced when people doubt either the pos...

The functional perspective on attitudes suggests that individuals will be more persuaded by advertisements that match their individual needs or attitude functions. Although previous research provided correlational support for this functional approach, the current study aimed to provide a stronger, experimental test. A pilot study validated situational manipulations of the value-expressive and k...