Location-Based Service(LBS) is a wireless application service that uses geographic information to serve a mobile user. Recent research on the LBS focuses on context sensitive computing and visualization. Location is t...
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The NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education program at the University of South Carolina supports engineering and computer science graduate students to serve as content resources in local schools. This paper an...
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The NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education program at the University of South Carolina supports engineering and computer science graduate students to serve as content resources in local schools. This paper analyzes how participation in the GK-12 program affected the Fellows' university research and program of study. Qualitative and quantitative assessment data were collected from the Fellows and from the Fellow's advisors, evaluated and used to identify intended as well as unintended effects. The time commitment for many of the Fellows often exceeded what was expected or required. However, the majority of Fellows and advisors did not report that participating delayed their graduation. In many cases, participation enhanced their ability to conduct research and present the results. The results indicate that the benefits to the Fellows of participating in the program outweighed any negative consequences.
One of the main problems related to regulatory network reconstruction from expression data concerns the small size and low quality of the available dataset. When trying to infer a model from little information it is n...
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One of the main problems related to regulatory network reconstruction from expression data concerns the small size and low quality of the available dataset. When trying to infer a model from little information it is necessary to give much more precedence to generalization, rather than specificity, otherwise, any attempt will be fated to overfitting. In this paper we address this issue by focusing on data sparseness and noisy information, and propose a density estimation technique that achieves regularized curves when data is scarce. We first compare the proposed method with the EM algorithm for mixture models on density estimation problems. Next, we apply the method, together with Bayesian networks, on realistic simulations of static gene networks, and compare the obtained results with the standard discrete Bayesian network model. We intend to demonstrate that adopting a discrete approach is not justifiable when only a small amount of information is available.
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De Brito, Halisson MatosStrauch, JuliaDe Souza, Jano MoreiraOsthoff, CarlaCOPPE/UFRJ
Systems Engineering and Computer Science Program Federal University of Rio de Janeiro PO Box 68511 ZIP Code: 21945-970 Rio de Janeiro RJ Brazil ENCE /IBGE
National School of Statistical Sciences 106 S. 401 ZIP Code: 20231-050 R. André Cavalcanti Rio de Janeiro RJ Brazil LNCC
National Laboratory for Scientific Computing Av. Getulio 333 Quitandinha Vargas Petrópolis RJ Brazil IM/UFRJ
Institute of Mathematics Federal University of Rio de Janeiro PO Box 68511 ZIP Code: 21945-970 Rio de Janeiro RJ Brazil
This paper presents MODENA, an architecture for scientific models management using Computational Grid platform. This architecture is comprised of two systems: ModManager and ModRunner. ModManager deals with knowledge ...
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This paper presents MODENA, an architecture for scientific models management using Computational Grid platform. This architecture is comprised of two systems: ModManager and ModRunner. ModManager deals with knowledge management about scientific models, acting as a scientific models library allowing for cataloguing, searching, reutilization and generation of new models. To achieve this, a metamodel is proposed to classify models, in order to support the organization, searching and retrieving of models. ModRunner manages the execution of models in a Grid environment allowing for model composition to generate a scientific Grid Workflow to be executed by distributed services offered by Grid Services. An initial prototype of ModManager is presented.
To address the need to improve the Commonwealth Graduate engineeringprogram (CGEP) at Virginia Tech, the college relied upon the expertise of students completing graduate theses and group projects in the Industrial a...
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To address the need to improve the Commonwealth Graduate engineeringprogram (CGEP) at Virginia Tech, the college relied upon the expertise of students completing graduate theses and group projects in the Industrial and Systems engineering Department. This arrangement allowed graduate students to work on real problems as well as conduct applied research projects for an organization - the College of engineering. The students benefited from the experience and the college benefited from the result. CGEP is a coalition of five Virginia universities that deliver engineering graduate degree programs through distance learning. Three years ago this program was under review by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. Given that the CGEP director and administrators were new to this program, it was a high priority to establish metrics to determine the program's success. Another high priority was to search for expertise in the area of performance measurements. During the past three years, progress has been made in creating a continuous-process improvement plan for the program through the application of management systems methodologies. This paper discusses how graduate student expertise was used to assist with improving administrative aspects of the CGEP. It also describes the progression of projects and how data was analyzed and used to establish future direction. The concept described in this paper is traditional, yet the success of the methods used to improve the Commonwealth Graduate engineeringprogram offers a new way to apply management system methodologies.
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