A cognitive model is a set of production rules or skills encoded in intelligent tutors to model how students solve problems. It is usually generated by brainstorming and iterative refinement between subject experts, cognitive scientists and programmers. In this paper we propose a semi-automated method for improving a cognitive model called Learning Factors Analysis that combines a statistical m...

As a much needed quality in today’s businesses, creativity is an important area of research. Whilst implementing and evaluating computer support for electronic brainstorming, it was noticed that the sheer presence of technology does neither guarantee usage nor success. Contextual factors such as organisational culture and attitudes seem to have an equally important role, and this observation ca...

the purpose of the present study is to develop appropriate scoring scales for each of the defined stages of the writing process, and also to determine to what extent these scoring scales can reliably and validly assess the performances of efl learners in an academic writing task. two hundred and two students’ writing samples were collected after a step-by-step process oriented essay writing ins...

This paper presents an integrated decision analysis model using multi-criteria decision making for evaluating and selecting the food service strategy. In practical environments, managers face a variety of information types that are vague. For the difficulties in determining the decision alternatives, we used the brainstorming and fuzzy-AHP (analytic hierarchy process) methods to determine the w...

Penelitian dilakukan untuk melihat pengaruh metode pembelajaran brainstorming terhadap keterampilan berpikir kreatif siswa dalam menyelesaikan masalah relasi dan fungsi. Sampel diambil secara purposive sampling dengan sampel adalah SMPN 2 Cikulur kelas 8B 8C. Metode yang digunakan quasi eksperimen desain non randomized pretest-posttest nonequivalen control group design. Data pretest posttest. P...

Emergent idea creation is an important function in organizations for stimulating innovation, and is often accomplished through group activities such as brainstorming using Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS). Research has attempted to provide some best practices related to the various components of GDSS, with mixed results. This article focuses on the advantages of one type of GDSS, Electroni...

This is a list of open problems and research topics collected after the Twelfth Conference on Membrane Computing, CMC 2012 (Fontainebleau, France (23 26 August 2011), meant initially to be a working material for Tenth Brainstorming Week on Membrane Computing, Sevilla, Spain (January 30 February 3, 2012). The result was circulated in several versions before the brainstorming and then modified ac...

Many crowd ideation systems seek to gather scores of ideas from people online. However, this often leads to many bad ideas and duplication. A dedicated facilitator who guides exploration of the solution space is a common and effective strategy for optimizing ideation in face-to-face brainstorming, but has not yet been explored in computer-supported crowd ideation. We introduce IdeaGens, a socia...