Media, tools, and methods for expression have traditionally been essential for design (Stolterman, 2008). The size of a knowledge pool of expression often defines the level of skillfulness of a designer in practice. The more expression methods and tools designers are comfortable with using, the more they feel confident and skillful in designing and expressing the aesthetic qualities of their id...

Security, as an architectural quality, is often thought to be measured in terms of availability, confidentiality and integrity. These qualities are part of a broader quality dependability. There are inherent tradeoffs among the qualities that define security and dependability. Architectural tactics, or architectural design decisions, that enhance one aspect of dependability can decrease securit...

Software architecture is a standard and essential part of system development. The knowledge produced and consumed during this process needs to be shared and reused among different stakeholders. Therefore, software architecture knowledge (AK) needs to be managed for improving the architectural capabilities. ADUAK (Architectural Development using Architectural Knowledge) model has been developed ...

Natural and affective handshakes of two participants define the course of dyadic interaction. Affective states of the participants are expected to be correlated with the nature or type of the dyadic interaction. In this study, we investigate relationship between affective attributes and nature of dyadic interaction. In this investigation we use the JESTKOD database, which consists of speech and...

Many effective and efficient learning algorithms assume independence of attributes. They often perform well even in domains where this assumption is not really true. However, they may fail badly when the degree of attribute dependencies becomes critical. In this paper, we examine methods for detecting deviations from independence. These dependencies give rise to “interactions” between attribute...

Sexual selection theory suggests that willingness to participate in risky or violent competitive interactions should be observed primarily in those age-sex classes that have experienced the most intense reproductive competition (fitness variance) during the species’ evolutionary history, and in those individuals whose present circumstances are predictive of reproductive failure. Homicidal confl...