When designing questionnaires there is a tradition of including items with both positive and negative wording to minimize acquiescence and extreme response biases. Two disadvantag...
: The experience from years of development and use, the advance of technology, and the development of authoring tools for questions and tests has resulted in a sophisticated, compu...
Antonella Carbonaro, Giorgio Casadei, Simone Riccu...
We define the class of SMART scheduling policies. These are policies that bias towards jobs with small remaining service times, jobs with small original sizes, or both, with the ...
Adam Wierman, Mor Harchol-Balter, Takayuki Osogami
How can we best explore the range of users' reactions when developing future technologies that maybe controversial, such as personal healthcare systems? Our approach – Cont...
Clara Mancini, Yvonne Rogers, Arosha K. Bandara, T...
We present an incentive-based architecture for providing recommendations in a social network. We maintain a distinct reputation system for each individual and we rely on users to ...
Rajat Bhattacharjee, Ashish Goel, Konstantinos Kol...