This position paper describes some of the issues to be faced by the AOSD community in pursuing widespread adoption of AOSD techniques by software development practitioners. A mix of technical, social, psychological and commercial considerations come into play, making for a complex environment

The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent those of USDA. Copyright 2005 by Klonsky and Greene. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. 2 Organic food production faces rapidly growing consumer demand in the U.S. and other industrialized countries, along with a worldwide regulatory framework and rapidly developing support infrastructure, making it a premier technology in the efforts of many public and private organizations that advocate more sustainable farming practices. The use of organic farming systems for crop production in the U.S. has grown rapidly during the last decade, but is still under 0.5 percent of total U.S. farmland—substantially less than in many countries in Europe and elsewhere. Within the U.S., conversion to organic farming systems has been more extensive in particular commodity sectors and regions. In California, for example, about two percent of the state’s crop acreage is managed under organic farming systems, and over

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for unskilled labor is less well developed. In this paper, we apply an understanding of what computers do – the execution of procedural or rules-based logic – to develop a simple model of how the widespread adoption of computers in the workplace might alter workplace skill demands. An essential contention

Models for the processes by which ideas and influence propagate through a social network have been studied in a number of domains, including the diffusion of medical and technological innovations, the sudden and widespread adoption of various strategies in game-theoretic settings, and the effects

graphics-based documentation (“3DDo”). This paper evaluates a number of factors that are likely to play a role in the adoption of the 3DDo technique. Subsequently, this paper attempts to assemble a timeline for the various factors. This leads to an estimated timeframe for the start of the widespread

Research on ontology is becoming increasingly widespread in the computer science community, and its importance is being recognized in a multiplicity of research fields and application areas, including knowledge engineering, database design and integration, information retrieval and extraction. We

Fodder shrubs are highly attractive to farmers as protein supplements for their dairy cows because they require little or no cash. Nor do they require land as they are grown along boundaries, pathways, and across the contour to curb soil erosion. But like many agroforestry and natural resource management practices, fodder shrubs are “knowledge intensive”, that is, they require considerable skills that most farmers do not have such as raising seedlings in a nursery, pruning trees, and feeding the leaves to livestock. Because of the difficulty in acquiring knowledge and skills and at times, seed, the technology does not spread easily. Nevertheless, over

Building Integrated Photovoltaic BIPV technology (BIPV) is a mature and proven technology, yet it still encounters many barriers for penetration into public realm especially residential sector. Malaysian residential sector consumed approximately 19 % of the total energy usage of the country (R. Saidur et al., 2007). As the process of urbanization is going at a rapid pace in a developing country like Malaysia, this percentage is expected to rise rapidly in the near future. Therefore, it is critical to identify these barriers in the Malaysian urban residential sector, analyse them and draw strategies for the penetration of BIPV into Malaysian urban residential sector. One important aspects in identification of these barriers is to understand the public awareness and perception of this emerging renewable technology in Malaysia. According to Farhar, B.C.,(1996), perceptions are important because what people believe to be real is real in its consequences. She also added that perceptions and preferences are themselves facts that describe the social world in which people operate. Farhar, B.C.,(1996), also pointed out that people perceptions and preferences about energy and the environment are influenced by objectively factual information. Due to great diversity of barriers to finding and implementing solutions to this emerging renewable technology like BIPV, it will be useful to group these barriers in some way which should not seen as rigid, but as a