A Framework for Communicability of Software Documentation

2009 ◽  
pp. 180-188
Author(s):  
Pankaj Kamthan
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Computer Architectures ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Communication Infrastructure ◽  
Software Documentation ◽  
Current State ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Communication Challenges ◽  
State Of Affairs

The role of communication is central to any software development. The documentation forms the message carrier within the communication infrastructure of a software project. As software development processes shift from predictive to adaptive environments and serve an ever more hardware diverse demographic, new communication challenges arise. For example, an engineer may want to be able to remotely author a document in a shell environment without the need of any special purpose software, port it to different computer architectures, and provide different views of it to users without making modifications to the original. However, the current state of affairs of software documentation is inadequate to respond to such expectations.

A Framework for Communicability of Software Documentation

2011 ◽  
pp. 1574-1579
Author(s):  
Pankaj Kamthan
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Documentation ◽  
Current State ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Communication Challenges ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Agile Software

The role of communication is central to any software development. The documentation forms the message carrier within the communication infrastructure of a software project. As software development processes shift from predictive to adaptive environments and serve an ever more hardware diverse demographic, new communication challenges arise. For example, an engineer may want to be able to remotely author a document in a shell environment without the need of any special purpose software, port it to different computer architectures, and provide different views of it to users without making modifications to the original. However, the current state of affairs of software documentation is inadequate to respond to such expectations. In this article, we take the position that the ability of documents to be able to communicate at all levels intrinsically depends upon their representation. The rest of the article proceeds as follows. We first outline the background necessary for later discussion. This is followed by a proposal for a quality-based framework for representing software documentation in descriptive markup and application to agile software documentation. Next, challenges and avenues for future research are outlined. Finally, concluding remarks are given.

scholarly journals Emotions in leaders’ enactment of professional agency

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Päivi Hökkä ◽  
Katja Vähäsantanen ◽  
Susanna Paloniemi ◽  
Sanna Herranen ◽  
Anneli Eteläpelto
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Leadership Coaching ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Current State ◽  
Before And After ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
A Current

Purpose Although there has been an increase in workplace studies on professional agency, few of these have examined the role of emotions in the enactment of agency at work. To date, professional agency has been mainly conceptualised as a goal-oriented, rational activity aimed at influencing a current state of affairs. Challenged by this, this study aims to elaborate the nature and quality of emotions and how they might be connected to the enactment of professional agency. Design/methodology/approach Data are collected in the context of a leadership coaching programme that aimed to promote the leaders’ professional agency over the course of a year. The participants (11 middle-management leaders working in university and hospital contexts) were interviewed before and after the programme, and the data were analysed using qualitative content analysis. Findings Findings showed that emotions played an important role in the leaders’ enactment of professional agency, as it pertained to their work and to their professional identity. The study suggests that enacting professional agency is by no means a matter of purely rational actions. Practical implications The study suggests that emotional agency can be learned and enhanced through group-based interventions reflecting on and processing one’s own professional roles and work. Originality/value As a theoretical conclusion, the study argues that professional agency should be reconceptualised in such a way as to acknowledge the importance of emotions (one’s own and those of one’s fellow workers) in practising agency within organisational contexts.

scholarly journals Real tense and real aspect in mirativity

2015 ◽  
pp. 347
Author(s):  
Teresa Torres Bustamante
Keyword(s):  
Past Tense ◽  
Tense And Aspect ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
Time Argument ◽  
Modal Base ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Lifetime Effects ◽  
Usual Interpretation

The goal of this paper is an account of the role of tense and aspect in mirative constructions in Spanish. I propose that the past tense morphology and the imperfect/perfect morphology in Spanish miratives contribute their standard meanings to the semantics of mirativity. I define mirativity as the clash between the speaker’s previous beliefs and the current state of affairs asserted by the proposition. I propose a M operator that relates the speaker’s beliefs and the proposition by ranking the worlds in which the proposition doesn’t hold in the speaker’s previous beliefs as better ones. The past tense is interpreted outside the proposition, and constitutes the time argument of the modal base (doxastic domain). Aspect gets its usual interpretation in the proposition but also in the alternative propositions that order the worlds in the modal base. This way, differences regarding the imperfect mirative and the pluperfect one are accounted for. Finally, the paper also discusses stative miratives, which apparently challenge part of the analysis. I claim that these are not counter examples, but rather confirmation of the analysis, once we account for the interaction between miratives, statives and lifetime effects.

Innovation in Russia: regional and industrial aspects

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-147
Author(s):  
I. V. Khristoforova ◽  
I. I. Idilov ◽  
M. S. Abrashkin
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Management ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Federal State ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Current State ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Desk Research

The article is of an analytical and analytical nature and is based on information prepared in the course of desk research. Secondary data from the Internet is used, including from the website of the Federal State Statistics Service. The review made it possible to consider the current state of affairs in the field of innovation management in the Russian Federation, to make comparisons on individual indicators in territorial and sectoral contexts. The main problems and possible ways of development of innovative activity are revealed; the role of the state in the development of innovative policy of the country, regions, specific industries and enterprises is shown.

scholarly journals Biomedical Informatics for Sustainable Health Systems. Editorial

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (01) ◽  
pp. 6-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Geissbuhler ◽  
R. Haux ◽  
C. Kulikowski
Keyword(s):  
Health Systems ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Biomedical Informatics ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
Conference Theme ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Sustainable Health

SummaryTo provide an editorial introduction to the 2007 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics with an overview of its contents and contributors.A brief overview of the main theme of “Biomedical Informatics for Sustainable Health Systems”, and an outline of the purposes, contents, format, and acknowledgment of contributions for the 2007 IMIA Yearbook.In resonance with the MEDINFO 2007 conference theme “Building Sustainable Health Systems”, this issue of the Yearbook examines the role of healthcare informatics in helping face the challenge of sustainability for our health systems, through a number of original contributions, and selected papers published during the past 12 months.This timely topic, along with the review and surveys on the main streams of research in medical informatics, offer a complete overview of the development of our field. This current state of affairs is put in the perspective of the fortieth birthday of IMIA, reflecting on the past achievements of the Association, and outlining its potential to continue shaping the world of medical informatics.

scholarly journals Socially responsible project management

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-60
Author(s):  
Michał Trocki ◽  
Mateusz Juchniewicz ◽  
Emil Bukłaha
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Global Awareness ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

In recent years we have observed the global awareness of threats posed by unrestrained and irresponsible growth gaining ground. Hence, continuous searches for sustainable solutions which enable to put in place measures that promote global, national, and local efficiency seem to make sense.This paper aims to examine and assess the current state of affairs and proposes directions for the development of sustainable and socially responsible project-related activities. It explains how the idea of social responsibility emerged as a natural consequence of the evolution of an organisation with respect to sustainable development. Against the background of these notions we define the place and role of project management in socially responsible development and discuss different views on the subject presented by authors from different countries. Theoretical considerations are supplemented with the discussion of the findings of own surveys focused on the role and relevance of social responsibility in project management in organisations active in this field in Poland. It was an exploratory study, the first of its kind in Poland.

scholarly journals ECONOMICS, CULTURE, EDUCATION: GENDER ASPECT

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 66-76
Author(s):  
N. A. Vinokurova ◽  
◽  
O. M. Tabachnikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Current State ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Culture Education ◽  
Gender Aspect

This article examines the close relationship between culture and economics, with a particular emphasis on the gender aspect. It analyzes the role of art education in the development of Russian humanitarian sphere and the levelling of gender inequality. The article promotes the idea that it is the cultural progression that determines economic development, and discusses the current state of affairs, in which the cultural sphere remains a non-priority, and therefore financially lagging, non-prestigious and suffering from gender imbalances, as proven by our own sociological surveys, presented in the article. The study was carried out in 2018–2019 in five cities of the Russian Federation, where students from XNUMX higher educational institutions were interviewed. These surveys were designed to determine the level of interest of Russian youth in the cultural sphere, demonstrating the plans and intentions of young Russians regarding their professional future and career choice. At the same time, the respondents' answers were analyzed according to a number of parameters, including gender. Based on the results of the surveys, as well as on the analysis of existing literature and statistics, conclusions are drawn about the role of public policy and the need for changes — not only in the field of financing culture, but also in relation to the tasks of art education, responsible primarily for the spiritual state of society, both in the present and (due to its educational function) and in the future. The methodology of our work is defined by its interdisciplinarity, which involves subjects ranging from sociology and economics to cultural studies and pedagogics.

scholarly journals Global Education Industry - Exploring the state of affairs in Austria

Seminar.net ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Theo Hug ◽  
Reinhold Madritsch
Keyword(s):  
Global Education ◽  
Education Technology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Digital Education ◽  
Current State ◽  
Education Industry ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The One

Digitization initiatives in the field of education always correspond with developments in the education industry. In recent years, globally networked development dynamics have emerged that are essentially characterized by an education-industrial complex and are also relevant in Austria. While on the one hand the corona-induced developmental boosts of 'digital' education are welcomed, especially in edtech contexts, on the other hand the international discourses on the problematic role of the global education industry can no longer be ignored. This contribution ties in with these discourses and explores the current state of affairs in Austria. The lack of alternatives to an innovation path, which is often suggested by industry, education policy and education technology, is questioned.

9 India

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mukhopadhaya Ciccu
Keyword(s):  
Available P ◽  
International Arbitration ◽  
Luxury Hotels ◽  
Current State ◽  
State Of Affairs

This chapter evaluates the merits of India as a venue for international arbitration proceedings. It discusses the history and development of arbitration in India; the processes and rules involved as well as the role of courts in the conduct of arbitration proceedings; and rules for arbitral awards. Many arbitration practitioners lament the current state of affairs in India. Delays are common at nearly every stage of arbitration, from the very constitution of the tribunal, to the conduct of the arbitration proceedings, and the delivery, challenge, and enforcement of awards. India is not equipped with good hearing centers. Hearings are usually held in luxury hotels, adding to cost. Transcription facilities are also not available.

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