This conceptual paper suggests how Politeness Theory [6] – well known in anthropological and linguistic literatures – can contribute to the study of role relations in computer...
The ability to distinguish between objects is the fundamental to learning and intelligent behavior in general. The difference between two things is the information we seek; the pr...
Bostjan Brumen, Izidor Golob, Hannu Jaakkola, Tatj...
While CSCW research has mostly been focusing on desktop applications there is a growing interest on ubiquitous and tangible computing. We present ethnographic fieldwork and prototy...
This case describes how Siemens Power Corporation, a Richland, Washington (USA), based manufacturer of nuclear fuel assemblies, came to adopt and implement SAP's R/3 applicat...
There has been a lot of recent interest in so-called "steady state" genetic algorithms (GAs) which, among other things, replace only a few individuals (typically 1 or 2)...