The iLOG Project (intelligent learning object guide) is designed to augment multimedia learning objects with information about (1) how a learning object has been used, (2) how it has impacted instruction and learning,...
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The iLOG Project (intelligent learning object guide) is designed to augment multimedia learning objects with information about (1) how a learning object has been used, (2) how it has impacted instruction and learning, and (3) how it should be used. The goal of the project is to generate metadata tags from data collected while students interact with learning objects; these metadata tags can then be used to help teachers identify learning objects that match the educational and experiential backgrounds of their students. The project involves the development of an agent-based intelligent system for tracking student interaction with learning objects, in tandem with an extensive learning research agenda. This paper provides an overview of this NSF-funded project, focusing on the instructional approach and research on varying levels of active learning and feedback. Using a randomized design and a hierarchical linear modeling framework, research showed that the active learning conditions resulted in significantly higher student learning. The elaborative feedback results approached (p = .056), but did not reach, the established significance criteria of alpha = .05. Both active learning conditions and one of the elaborative feedback conditions resulted in significantly higher content assessment scores compared to a control group.
The study of tourist activities and the mapping of their routes in space and time has become an important issue in tourism management. Here we represent space-time paths for the tourism industry by visualizing individ...
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The study of tourist activities and the mapping of their routes in space and time has become an important issue in tourism management. Here we represent space-time paths for the tourism industry by visualizing individual tourist activities and the paths followed using a 3D Geographic Information System (GIS). Considerable attention has been devoted to the measurement of accessibility to shopping, eating, walking and other services at the tourist destination. I turns out that GIS is a useful tool for studying the spatial behaviors of tourists in the area. The value of GIS is especially advantageous for space-time potential path area measures, especially for the accurate visualization of possible paths through existing city road networks. This study seeks to apply space-time concepts with a detailed street network map obtained from Google Maps to measure tourist paths both spatially and temporally. These paths are further determined based on data obtained from map questionnaires regarding the trip activities of 40 individuals. The analysis of the data makes it possible to determining the locations of the more popular paths. The results can be visualized using 3D GIS to show the areas and potential activity opportunities accessible to tourists during their travel time.
We study a problem of optimal scheduling and lot-sizing a number of products on m unrelated parallel machines to satisfy given demands, minimizing the makespan criterion. A sequence dependent setup time is required be...
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We study a problem of optimal scheduling and lot-sizing a number of products on m unrelated parallel machines to satisfy given demands, minimizing the makespan criterion. A sequence dependent setup time is required between lots of different products. The products are assumed to be all continuously divisible or all discrete. The problem is motivated by the real-life scheduling applications in multi-product plants. We derive properties of optimal solutions, NP -hardness proof, enumeration and dynamic programming algorithms for various special cases of the problem. A greedy-type heuristic is proposed and tested in computational experiment.
This work is a part of the research focused on the creation of modelling platform based on the Digital Material Representation (DMR) [1]. Particular attention is put on development of the automatic image analysis meth...
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Finite words and their overlap properties are considered in this paper. Let w be a finite word of length n with period p and where the maximum length of its unbordered factors equals k. A word is called unbordered if ...
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(纸本)3540857796
Finite words and their overlap properties are considered in this paper. Let w be a finite word of length n with period p and where the maximum length of its unbordered factors equals k. A word is called unbordered if it possesses no proper prefix that is also a suffix of that word. Suppose ki , with two different letters a and b and i1, and b i occurs exactly once in w. This answers a conjecture by Harju and the second author of this paper about a structural property of maximum Duval extensions. Moreover, we show here that i
This paper presents an approach in which a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) is coupled to a surrogate method in order to explore the search space in an efficient manner. A small comparative study among th...
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(纸本)9781605581309
This paper presents an approach in which a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) is coupled to a surrogate method in order to explore the search space in an efficient manner. A small comparative study among three surrogate methods is conducted: an artificial neural network (ANN), a radial basis function (RBF) and a support vector machine (SVM). The winner in this comparative study was the SVM. However, our results indicated that the spread of solutions achieved by our surrogate-based MOEA was poor. Thus, we decided to introduce a second phase to the algorithm in which it is hybridized with the rough sets in order to improve the spread of solutions and help to reach the true Pareto front. We show that our proposed hybrid approach only requires 2,000 fitness function evaluations in order to solve test problems with up to 30 decision variables.
This NSF-funded community-building (CB) project brings together Michigan State University (MSU), Lansing Community College (LCC), and the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW) to design and implement a process to ...
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(纸本)9781424419692
This NSF-funded community-building (CB) project brings together Michigan State University (MSU), Lansing Community College (LCC), and the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW) to design and implement a process to create a collaboratively-defined undergraduate computing education within the engineering and technology fields in alignment with the computational problem-solving abilities needed to transform mid-Michigan's economy and workforce. In this WIP we outline the process we are developing to ensure that a wide variety of stakeholders - business, community leaders and post secondary educators collaborate to identify workforce computational skills, define how these skills can be integrated across a curriculum, and develop revised curricula that integrate computational problem-solving across engineering departmental courses. By documenting, evaluating and making the process explicit, this process can serve as a model for national efforts to revitalize undergraduate computing education in engineering, and should be extensible to other computing education reform efforts.
This paper focuses on personalized information retrieval which is a research focus in Web Information Service,and it's the key technology of enhance retrieval quality. As a user concept map composed of some concep...
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This work discusses usage of Lindenmayer's grammar for finding the optimum usage of a land. First, we discuss adaptation of land's value theory and Lindenmayer's grammar. Next are discussed the present att...
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This work discusses usage of Lindenmayer's grammar for finding the optimum usage of a land. First, we discuss adaptation of land's value theory and Lindenmayer's grammar. Next are discussed the present attempts to make a computer program. Then the paper discusses future developments to the system.
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