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DL
1997
Springer
125views Digital Library» more  DL 1997»
13 years 12 months ago
Talking in the Library: Implications for the Design of Digital Libraries
We describe the use of ethnomethodologically-informed ethnography as a means of informing the requirements elicitation, design, development and evaluation of digital libraries. We...
Andy Crabtree, Michael Twidale, Jon O'Brien, David...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
169views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
The impact of instructor initiative on student learning: a tutoring study
In the quest to find instructional approaches that benefit student learning, engagement, and retention, evidence suggests providing students with hands-on practice is a worthwhile...
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Michael D...
KDD
2006
ACM
153views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
14 years 8 months ago
Spatial scan statistics: approximations and performance study
Spatial scan statistics are used to determine hotspots in spatial data, and are widely used in epidemiology and biosurveillance. In recent years, there has been much effort invest...
Deepak Agarwal, Andrew McGregor, Jeff M. Phillips,...
GECCO
2005
Springer
103views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Pricing the 'free lunch' of meta-evolution
A number of recent studies introduced meta-evolutionary strategies and successfully used them for solving problems in genetic programming. While individual results indicate possib...
Alexei V. Samsonovich, Kenneth A. De Jong
ESWA
2006
182views more  ESWA 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
Improved route planning and scheduling of waste collection and transport
The collection of waste is a highly visible and important municipal service that involves large expenditures. Waste collection problems are, however, one of the most difficult ope...
Teemu Nuortio, Jari Kytöjoki, Harri Niska, Ol...