14th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning - ICL2011

Program for 14th International Conference on Information Fusion

14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT’14), July 8-11, 2014, Athens, Greece

The CS OER Portal was created with the goal of improving the findability and increasing the use of open educational resources in Computer Science. In this paper we describe the portal’s design principles which exploit the domain specificity of the hosted content and are focused on enhancing the search and navigation in the portal. Distinctive retrieval features are the proposed topical recommen...

International Conference on Machine Learning

Kernel methods combined with large-margin learning algorithms such as SVMs have been used successfully to tackle a variety of learning tasks since their introduction in the early 90s. However, in the standard framework of these methods, the choice of an appropriate kernel is left to the user and a poor selection may lead to sub-optimal performance. Instead, sample points can be used to select a...

International Conference on Islamic Awakening

Recent developments in the middle-east have been differently explained by different figures and dignitaries from different countries of the world. Calling these developments as "Islamic awakening", "Human awakening", "Arab Spring" and "Purple Revolution" indicates there are different theories in this regard definitely leading to different measures in the political arena. Among supreme leader's ...

The 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering

Semi-active control devices have been shown to be more energy efficient than active devices and more effective in reducing seismic structural vibration than passive devices. A new type of semi-active control device, the piezoelectric friction damper has been made in this paper. Piezoelectric actuators used in the dampers can quickly and accurately respond to a voltage signal. They are also effe...