Software process improvement initiatives such as metrics programs have a high failure rate during their assimilation in a software organization. Social and individual issues are s...
The design of software toolkits embodies a fundamental tension. On the one hand, it aims to reduce programmer effort by providing prefabricated, reusable software modules encapsula...
Managing personal aspects of health is challenging for many patients, particularly those facing a serious condition such as cancer. Finding experienced patients, who can share the...
Andrea Civan-Hartzler, David W. McDonald, Chris Po...
This paper presents a model of autonomy called autonomy with regard to an attribute applicable to cognitive and not cognitive artificial agents. Three criteria (global / partial, ...
: When a logistics system is "self-organizing" it can function without significant intervention by managers, engineers, or software control. The social insects, such as a...
John J. Bartholdi III, Donald D. Eisenstein, Yun F...