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AIED
2007
Springer
14 years 24 days ago
'Tis Better to Construct than to Receive? The Effects of Diagram Tools on Causal Reasoning
Previous research on the use of diagrams for argumentation instruction has highlighted, but not conclusively demonstrated, their potential benefits. We examine the relative benefit...
Matthew W. Easterday, Vincent Aleven, Richard Sche...
GECCO
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Improving Generalisation Performance Through Multiobjective Parsimony Enforcement
This paper describes POPE-GP, a system that makes use of the NSGA-II multiobjective evolutionary algorithm as an alternative, parameter-free technique for eliminating program bloat...
Yaniv Bernstein, Xiaodong Li, Victor Ciesielski, A...
ACL
2010
13 years 6 months ago
A New Approach to Improving Multilingual Summarization Using a Genetic Algorithm
Automated summarization methods can be defined as "language-independent," if they are not based on any languagespecific knowledge. Such methods can be used for multiling...
Marina Litvak, Mark Last, Menahem Friedman
CEC
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Performance assessment of the hybrid Archive-based Micro Genetic Algorithm (AMGA) on the CEC09 test problems
— In this paper, the performance assessment of the hybrid Archive-based Micro Genetic Algorithm (AMGA) on a set of bound-constrained synthetic test problems is reported. The hybr...
Santosh Tiwari, Georges Fadel, Patrick Koch, Kalya...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
143views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Test-driven learning in early programming courses
Coercing new programmers to adopt disciplined development practices such as thorough unit testing is a challenging endeavor. Test-driven development (TDD) has been proposed as a s...
David Janzen, Hossein Saiedian