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Distributed Awareness for Class Orchestration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Hamed Seiied Alavi

The orchestration process consists of managing classroom interactions at multiple levels: individual activities, teamwork and class-wide sessions. We study the process of orchestration in recitation sections, i.e. when Students work on their assignments in ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2009

Information Percolation with Equilibrium Search Dynamics

Semyon Malamud, Darrell Duffie

We solve for the equilibrium dynamics of Information sharing in a large population Each agent is endowed with signals regarding the likely outcome of a random variable of common concern Individuals choose the effort with which they search for others from w ...

2009

PLSI: the true Fisher Kernel and beyond

Jean-Cédric Chappelier, Emmanuel Eckard

The Probalistic Latent Semantic Indexing model, introduced by T. Hofmann (1999), has engendered applications in numerous fields, notably document classification and information retrieval. In this context, the Fisher kernel was found to be an appropriate do ...

2009

Distributed Awareness for Class Orchestration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Hamed Seiied Alavi

Springer2009

Synergies of different reputation systems: challenges and opportunities

Karl Aberer

Reputation is a well established means to determine trustworthiness in online systems in various contexts, e.g. online transactions, product recommendation, e-mail spam fighting, etc. However, typically these reputation systems are "closed" outside of the ...

IEEE Computer Society2009

The Evolution of Information Suppression in Communicating Robots with Conflicting Interests

Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller, Sara Mitri

Reliable information is a crucial factor influencing decision-making, and thus fitness in all animals. A common source of information comes from inadvertent cues produced by the behavior of conspecifics. Here we use a system of experimental evolution with ...

2009

Prediction of hybrid (e-commerce and traditional) demand evolution and the assessment of its impact on production system robustness

Luca Canetta

Increased market pressure, sharp competition and globalisation are some of the main challenges faced nowadays by companies, pushing them to continuously evaluate the suitability of their business model and to look for new opportunities. Electronic commerce ...

EPFL2009

Mapping for Multi-Source Visualization: Scientific Information Retrieval Service (SIRS)

Dario Rodighiero

This paper introduces SIRS and discusses the design process of a multi-index, multi-source information retrieval system. SIRS provides comprehensive visualization of different document types for the JRC working environment. The interface design is based on ...

Springer Verlag2009

Consistent Cooperative Localization

Alexander Bahr

In cooperative navigation, teams of mobile robots obtain range and/or angle measurements to each other and dead-reckoning information to help each other navigate more accurately. One typical approach is moving baseline navigation, in which multiple Autonom ...

2009

A Simulation-Based Expert System for Daylighting Design

Marilyne Andersen

In this paper, we propose an expert system for daylighting in architecture which is used to guide a goal-oriented, user-interactive design process. This system is supported by a knowledge-base which has been populated using a set of previously completed si ...

2009