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SGAI
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Improving Cooperative PSO using Fuzzy Logic
PSO is a population-based technique for optimization, which simulates the social behavior of the fish schooling or bird flocking. Two significant weaknesses of this method are: fir...
Zahra Afsahi, Mohammad Reza Meybodi
EDM
2010
125views Data Mining» more  EDM 2010»
13 years 10 months ago
Where in the World? Demographic Patterns in Access Data
As learning environments become increasingly available online, the fine-grained records of user activities can be captured and analyzed (generally called webmetrics) to better unde...
Mimi Recker, Beijie Xu, Sherry Hsi, Christine Garr...
LREC
2008
103views Education» more  LREC 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
From Field Notes towards a Knowledge Base
We describe the process of converting plain text cultural heritage data to elements of a domain-specific knowledge base, using general machine learning techniques. First, digitise...
Piroska Lendvai, Steve Hunt
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
158views Education» more  SIGCSE 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
The benefits of pairing by ability
An analysis of data from 259 CS1 students is performed to compare the performance of students who were paired by demonstrated ability to that of students who were paired randomly ...
Grant Braught, John MacCormick, Tim Wahls
SIAMDM
2010
117views more  SIAMDM 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Design is as Easy as Optimization
We consider the class of max-min and min-max optimization problems subject to a global budget (or weight) constraint and we undertake a systematic algorithmic and complexitytheore...
Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Aranyak Mehta, Vijay V. Vaz...