Web-based teaching-support systems are overwhelmingly accepted by instructors, students, and educational institutions. In order to improve quality of existing systems, the questions must be answered are what underlyin...
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(纸本)9806560426
Web-based teaching-support systems are overwhelmingly accepted by instructors, students, and educational institutions. In order to improve quality of existing systems, the questions must be answered are what underlying dimensions of user's satisfaction exist and on which of those dimensions we should apply the resources. In this study, the principal component analysis was undertaken to determine the underlying dimensions. Then the scores for each dimension were calculated, and bivariate correlations between the dimensions and the user's satisfaction were used to assess the marginal importance of each dimension in improving web course management systems. In addition, the survey instrument was tested for reliability and validity.
In this paper, we propose a new constraint handling approach that transforms constrained optimization problem of any number of constraints into a two objective preference optimization problem. We design a new crossove...
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In this paper we argue for the serious need for research on the theme of not so much "the professor at risk", but "the student at risk" in online learning. Our aim is thus not to try to save the pr...
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(纸本)1920017119
In this paper we argue for the serious need for research on the theme of not so much "the professor at risk", but "the student at risk" in online learning. Our aim is thus not to try to save the professor and the lectern from extinction. We are more seriously pleading the case for research in online learning to explore the learning dynamic of the student masses that are now 'multimediated' learners. The type of research that we are advocating is inquiry into the thinking that grounds online learning itself. The theoretical framework of online learning draws on a wide range of theoretical substance: theory of media and of semiotics (Tomaselli & Sheperson, 1996;Ryder, 1998), theory of distributed cognition (Brown, 2000;Brown, Collins & Duguid, 1989;Salomon, 1999;Saljö,1999), theory of activity (Engeström, 1991) and theory of learning and of knowledge (Bransford, Brown & Cocking (eds.) 2000;Vygotsky, 1992;Kozulin, 1990;Rogoff, 1990;Phillips, 2000). Our concern regarding research is thus not so much with issues of access, course delivery and 'packaging' and of management of all of these enterprises, but about learning design, about the shifting epistemologies that are grounding online learning (Henning & Van Rensburg, 2002;Henning & Van Der Westhuizen, 2003), about issues of design of learning contents and the student engagement with and use of learning objects as raw asset data, issues of content as metadata, and issues of knowledge content and the place in the hierarchy/network of knowledge pools in a domain of learning. We are less motivated to look at products, of learning, although in randomised experiments, for example, as part of a whole plethora of mixed methods, we would advocate comparisons of learning outcomes, both off- and online. Nothing less, we argue, would be viable to address the complexities of learning of the new student population in its exciting multimedia environment. We make the claim that the field of online learning is still largely under-resea
Communication skills are important to software engineers. Yet, this topic is sometimes overlooked in computerscience and software engineering curricula. To address this problem, we attempted to explicitly teach commu...
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Communication skills are important to software engineers. Yet, this topic is sometimes overlooked in computerscience and software engineering curricula. To address this problem, we attempted to explicitly teach communication skills in a software engineering course. We experimented with a number of approaches, including lectures by the instructor, student presentations, mini-lectures mixed with in-class discussions, and other in-class activities such as student-designed scenarios. The results of these approaches were mixed. There were approaches that clearly worked better than one or more other approaches;there were also approaches to which students with different backgrounds responded differently. Overall, after taking this course, students communicated better and were more self-confident in team environments. Our experience shows that with careful planning and innovative pedagogy, we can help our students become both technically competent software engineers or computer scientists, and good team players in the same time.
Penalty functions are often used to handle constraints for constrained optimization problems in evolutionary algorithms. However it is difficult to control penalty parameters. To overcome this shortcoming, a new penal...
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Man, K.L.Formal Methods Group
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Eindhoven University of Technology P.O.Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven Netherlands
In this paper, we define a formal communication semantics for SystemCdouble-struck F sign double-struck L sign that deals with concurrency and interaction. The communication semantics of SystemCdouble-struck F sign do...
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Man, K.L.Formal Methods Group
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Eindhoven University of Technology P.O.Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven Netherlands
SystemCdouble struck F sign double struck L sign is a formal language for hardware/software co-design. Principally, SystemCdouble struck F sign double struck L sign;is the formalization of SystemC based on classical p...
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(纸本)0780390660
SystemCdouble struck F sign double struck L sign is a formal language for hardware/software co-design. Principally, SystemCdouble struck F sign double struck L sign;is the formalization of SystemC based on classical process algebra ACP. The language Is aimed to give formal specification of SystemC designs and perform formal analysis of SystemC processes. This paper, designed for the first-time user of SystemCdouble struck F sign double struck L sign;, guides the reader through modeling, analyzing and verifying designs using SystemCdouble struck F sign double struck L sign;. This paper Illustrates the use of SystemCdouble struck F sign double struck L sign;with two case studies taken from literature.
作者:
Man, K.L.Formal Methods Group
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Eindhoven University of Technology P.O.Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven Netherlands
This paper describes our on-going research. Recently, we developed an algebraic theory based on classical process algebra ACP, called SystemC double-struck F signdouble-struck L sign, for the specification and analysi...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0780393457
This paper describes our on-going research. Recently, we developed an algebraic theory based on classical process algebra ACP, called SystemC double-struck F signdouble-struck L sign, for the specification and analysis of SystemC designs. The semantics of SystemC double-struck F signdouble-struck L sign is defined by means of deduction rules in a standard structured operational semantics style that associate a labelled transition transition system with a SystemC double-struck F signdouble-struck L sign process. In this paper, we first provide an overview of the current status of SystemC double-struck F signdouble-struck L sign and show some practical applications of SystemCdouble-struck F signdouble-struck L sign, as well as some key features and results of SystemC double-struck F signdouble-struck L sign. Then, we give an out-line for the latest developments of SystemC double-struck F signdouble-struck L sign and point out the direction for future work.
Over the next 10 years, we anticipate that personal, portable, wirelessly-networked technologies will become ubiquitous in the lives of learners — indeed, in many countries, this is already a reality. We see that rea...
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Over the next 10 years, we anticipate that personal, portable, wirelessly-networked technologies will become ubiquitous in the lives of learners — indeed, in many countries, this is already a reality. We see that ready-to-hand access creates the potential for a new phase in the evolution of technology-enhanced learning (TEL), characterized by "seamless learning spaces" and marked by continuity of the learning experience across different scenarios (or environments), and emerging from the availability of one device or more per student ("one-to-one"). One-to-one TEL has the potential to "cross the chasm" from early adopters conducting isolated design studies to adoption-based research and widespread implementation, with the help of research and evaluation that gives attention to the digital divide and other potentially negative consequences of pervasive computing. We describe technology-enhanced learning and the affordances of one-to-one computing and outline a research agenda, including the risks and challenges of reaching scale. We reflect upon how this compares with prior patterns of technology innovation and diffusion. We also introduce a community, called "G1:1," that brings together leaders of major research laboratories and one-to-one TEL projects. We share a vision of global research, inviting other research groups to collaborate in ongoing activities.
In this paper we introduce the use of recurrent least square support vector machine algorithm for the adaptive control of a class of nonlinear discrete-time systems. The curse of dimensionality is avoided by using the...
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