This paper focuses on two key aspects of self-evaluation in adult education and training through the perspective of (a) a social cognitive framework which is used to categorise those factors that enhance self-efficacy ...

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) is focusing on 'smart' vehicles- vehicles equipped with significant computing, communicating and sensing capabilities to provide services to travelers or the goal of providing safety ...

To describe self-management, symptom monitoring and the associated influences among older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Background. Optimal self-management and monitoring of key symptoms in patients ...

Chronic illness causes the majority of disease burden and health costs in developed countries; however, this could be substantially reduced by optimal patient self-management. This study examined the levels of self-management ...

The self-organisation of telecommunications networks has to confront the two challenges of the scalability and the stability of the solution. This paper describes a distributed, co-operative multiagent system in which ...

A lightweight multiagent system is deployed at each node in a communications network with the aim of self-organising the network as usage alters. The distributed, light-weight, co-operative multiagent system guarantees ...

The termite architecture model of O'Toole et'al. (1999) is extended to incorporate arbitrary halting time-scales. It is shown that this also means that the assumption of synchronous building must be relaxed. Numerical ...