Purpose: According with the principles of impartial evaluation of the students’ knowledge, with the national trends in ensuring the efficient and effective end-of-course evaluation, the authors developed an original computer-assisted examination system. Materials and Methods: The information discussed at courses and laboratory class, for the Physical Chemistry Course and for the Microbiology an...

In order to identify the knowledge required for human-computer collaboration, it is first necessary to have a clear understanding of what it means to be collaborative. Based on the formal definition of collaboration presented in this paper, there are three necessary and sufficient knowledge sources for a collaborative computer system: a model of the task domain, a partial model of the user’s go...

The term “cultural package” is employed here in its usual anthropological sense. For a canonical example, think of hunting with dogs; this “culture,” which took shape in the late paleolithic, entailed for humans to adopt, adapt, learn how best to use, and get themselves adapted to an external entity employed as an extension of their individual faculties. In our case, we want to make it possible...

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Our main aim is to raise awareness of higher-order knowledge, i.e. knowledge about knowledge, as an issue in simulating realistic non-player characters in computer games. We motivate the importance of higher-order knowledge with arguments, as well as a few examples. We survey existing games and literature to show that this issue is currently neglected. We also refer to our earlier work to illus...

Advances in the technology of expert systems have made it possible to implement and operate cost-effective systems in complex domains of great practical importance. However, the knowledge engineering necessary to set up an expert system in a new domain is currently labourintensive and requires skilled staff to elicit and codify the knowledge of an expert. This paper outlines a methodology for k...

To be knowledgeable in a subject matter is a prerequisite of being competent. Experts typically possess densely connected structural knowledge of the concepts in their field of expertise. Therefore, investigating the knowledge structures of learners remains a central aspect of educational research in computer science as well as in other subjects, despite the ongoing trend towards outcome and co...

Collecting commonsense knowledge from freely available text can reduce the cost and effort of creating large knowledge bases. For the acquired knowledge to be useful, we must ensure that it is correct, and that it carries information about its relevance and about the context in which it can be considered commonsense. In this paper, we design, and evaluate an online game that classifies, using t...

This chapter provides a perspective on 3 important collaborative areas in systems biology research. These areas represent biological problems of clinical significance. The first area deals with macromolecular crystallization, which is a crucial step in protein structure determination. The second area deals with proteomic biomarker discovery from high-throughput mass spectral technologies; while...