Introduction to the Special Issue on Shared Control: Applications

Introduction to the Special Issue on Shared Control: Applications

Introduction to Special Issue on Corporate Applications of Prediction Markets

Most academic journals are destined to be read by a few specialists and then quickly archived to dusty bookshelves. This special issue has a very different aim. It is primarily intended to be a gentle introduction for business practitioners interested in corporate applications of prediction markets. While it is easy to find laudatory reports on these markets in the popular press, such stories a...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Binding

In many ways visual processing acts as a prism, splitting visual information from the retinal image into separately processed visual features such as colours, shapes, sizes, or orientations. Binding refers to the set of cognitive and neural mechanisms that re-integrate these features to create a holistic representation of the objects in the visual field. The binding problem in vision refers to ...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Summarization

As the amount of online information increases, systems that can automatically summarize one or more documents become increasingly desirable. Recent research has investigated types of summaries, methods to create them, and methods to evaluate them. Several evaluation competitions (in the style of NIST’s TREC1) have helped determine baseline performance levels and provide a limited set of trainin...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Personalization

IN the traditional classroom, learning suffers from the difficulties that teachers face in meeting the needs of each student. At many times, it is unavoidable that teaching must take a “one size fits all” approach. Personalization in this setting is prohibitively expensive. Technology-enhanced learning offers the potential to implement not only personalization, but even automated personalizatio...