Despite many efforts for making data about scholarly publications available on the Web of Data, information about academic conferences is still contained in (at best) free-text format. Availability of this data in a structured format would enable more efficient decision making for researchers, libraries, publishers, funding and evaluation bodies. This demo paper showcases the Springer Linked Op...

This paper presents the output of a discussion group formed at the ITEM 3.7 Working Conference. The main theme of the discussion group was to consider the evolutionary nature of IT in Educational Management.

This paper is concerned with automatic extraction of titles from the bodies of HTML documents (web pages). Titles of HTML documents should be correctly defined in the title fields by the authors; however, in reality they are often bogus. It is advantageous if we can automatically extract titles from HTML documents. In this paper, we take a supervised machine learning approach to address the pro...

Richard A. Duschl Graduate School of Education Rutgers University Introduction This is a report of an NSF sponsored conference we organized whose purpose was to provide a structure for discussion of science education with the goal of summarizing and synthesizing developments in three domains (1) science studies, e.g., history, philosophy and sociology of science (2) the learning sciences, e.g.,...

We formulate a model that captures the inter-dependence between hardware demand and software supply –indirect network e¤ect in the DVD industry. The identi…cation of the network e¤ect comes from the di¤erence in software availability across two di¤erent formats: VHS and DVD. We …nd that a 1% increase in the number of DVD titles raises the demand for DVD players by 0.68%. Simultaneously, a 1% in...

response surface methodology is a common tool in optimizing processes. it mainly concerns situations when there is only one response of interest. however, many designed experiments often involve simultaneous optimization of several quality characteristics. this is called a multiresponse surface optimization problem. a common approach in dealing with these problems is to apply desirability funct...

This paper describes the development and evolution of re∗Address all correspondence to this author. search themes in the Design Theory and Methodology (DTM) conference. Essays containing reflections on the history of DTM, 1 Copyright c © 2013 by ASME supported by an analysis of session titles and papers winning the “best paper award”, describe the development of the research themes. A second se...