Cognitive Tutors are proven effective learning environments, but are still not as effective as one-on-one human tutoring. We describe an environment (ALPS) designed to engage stude...
Lisa Anthony, Albert T. Corbett, Angela Z. Wagner,...
This paper examines the behavioral phenomena that occur with the tuning of the binomial-3 problem. Our analysis identifies a distinct set of phenomena that may be generalizable to...
Omer A. Chaudhri, Jason M. Daida, Jonathan C. Khoo...
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Many intractable problems such as NP-complete problems (provided P = NP) have easy subproblems. In contrast, we investigate the existence and the properties of inherently hard sub...
We consider the general on-line two server problem in which at each step both servers receive a request, which is a point in a metric space. One of the servers has to be moved to i...