Three textbooks from Brazil and three textbooks from the United States were analysed with a focus on similarity and context-based tasks. Students’ opportunities to learn similarity were examined by considering whether ...

Contextual information extracted from the user task can help to better target retrieval to task-relevant content. In particular, topical context can be exploited to identify the sub- ject of the information needs, contributing ...

The System Architecture definition of the majority of organizations requires a deep understanding about its environment and organizational structure; nevertheless, the construction of such models is not an easy task because ...

One of the main activities of the early elicitation of software requirements is the recognition and specification of organizational problems. Such activity is intended to allow for an initial requirements definition and ...

Research on analogical thinking has devised several ways of promoting an abstract encoding of base analogs, thus rendering them more retrievable during later encounters with similar situations lacking surface similarities. ...

Usability is a software attribute usually associated with the "ease of use and to learn" of a given interactive system. Nowadays usability evaluation is becoming an important part of software development, providing results ...