This essay relies on my research works about abstraction conducted over the past decade. It
addresses the importance of increasing students' awareness to the concept of abstraction …

Face recognition has become a valuable and routine forensic tool used by criminal
investigators. Compared to automated face recognition, forensic face recognition is more …

In current theorising, projects and firms are understood as “learning organisations”. Although
the learning function can be regarded as constituent for both organisational forms, the …

The post-graduate course, Software Requirements for Business Systems, in the Department
of Computing of the Open University involves teaching systematic elicitation and …

Given the increasing importance of soft skills in the computing profession, there is good
reason to provide students with more opportunities to learn and practice those skills in …

This book is the result of many years of discussions, thoughts, questioning, trials, errors,
improvement, retrials, persistency, doubts, encouragement, challenges, and progress …

representations are the foundation of design, which is an essential component of
engineering (Dym et al., 2005).[...] the objective nature of the hard sciences (including …

Current conceptions of teacher training reflect key issues in professional practices. Two
prevailing views seem to be in conflict, the first is that a teacher ought to be able to act as an …

The software architecture is usually the first design artifact that addresses quality issues (eg,
performance, security). Also, the architecture is reference point for other development …

Learning is a lifelong process, especially in the fast-paced software industry. In addition to
formal training courses, good software developers continually learn by reflecting on what …