Context-awareness is the ability of computing systems to acquire and reason about the situational context and adapt application accordingly. Context-aware system start with gathering of raw, low-level contextual data, interpret the raw contextual data into high-level interpreted context, reason the interpreted context to derive implications and adapt the application behaviour on the basis of th...

The lack of easy to use environment to connect and manage the things is one of the obstacles that hold back multimodal personalized use of Internet of Things. We present a novel idea and a cloud framework with original elements that enable development of ecosystem for the user tailored deployment of things in the context of a personalized situational awareness. The benefits of the infrastructur...

Method Engineering aims at providing effective solutions to build, improve and support evolution of development methodologies. Contributions, in the field of situational method engineering, aim at providing techniques and tools allowing to construct project-specific methodologies. But little research has focused on how to tailor such situational methodologies when used as organization-wide stan...

BACKGROUND Contemporary research suggests that task and ego achievement goal orientations affect students' intrinsic motivation in physical education. This research has assessed intrinsic motivation as a unidimensional contruct, however, which is inconsistent with the more contemporary postulates of self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985, 1991) which states that intrinsic motivation is on...

Previous research has suggested that children do not rely on prosody to infer a speaker's emotional state because of biases toward lexical content or situational context. We hypothesized that there are actually no such biases and that young children simply have trouble in using emotional prosody. Sixty children from 5 to 13 years of age had to judge the emotional state of a happy or sad speaker...

The term cognitive computing (CC) refers to computer systems that harness multiple techniques from artificial intelligence (AI) and signal processing (SP). Situational understanding (SU) involves creating and reasoning about models of an environment and events. Coalition operations are defined by multiple partners seeking to achieve a common purpose. This paper characterises the SU problem in a...

Distributed systems for computer security analysis must perform information fusion in order to construct a cyberspace situational awareness picture. To date such fusion has been conducted in the context of a single abstraction set. As the complexity and heterogony increase, this approach becomes unwieldy. In a conceptual sense it is unscaleable. In this paper we describe an alternative approach...

Context-awareness is highly desired, particularly in highly dynamic mobile environments. Semantic Web Services (SWS) address context-adaptation by enabling the automatic discovery of distributed Web services based on comprehensive semantic capability descriptions. Even though the appropriateness of resources in mobile settings is strongly dependent on the current situation, SWS technology does ...

The application of business process execution and guidance to environments with highly dynamic situations and workflow diversity is hindered by rigid predefined workflow models. Software engineering environments constitute an acute example where developers could benefit from automated workflow guidance if the workflows were made sufficiently concrete and conformant to actual situations. A conte...

BACKGROUND Failure to convey time-critical information to team members during surgery diminishes members' perception of the dynamic information relevant to their task, and compromises shared situational awareness. This research reports the dialog around clinical decisions made by team members in the time-pressured and high-risk context of surgery, and the impact of these communications on share...