Traditional client-server based e-Learning architecture has many limitations. There is the overhead in a single learning server and inefficient use of resources. There is a lack of real-time interactive ness among learning group members therefore learning is not effective. There is also difficulty in the collaborative work because learners may have different interest, may feel lonely and may le...

The article presents the use of open, inclusive pedagogical frameworks to develop a series open education resources (OERs), specifically, interactive shiny web applications for teaching beginner-level computational social science (CSS) in undergraduate education. CSS is an emerging discipline that integrates data methods with theories and research designs. However, students could face lack sens...

Mobile games and other mobile graphics applications have become popular because untethered computing is convenient and ubiquitous entertainment is compelling. However, rendering graphics on mobile devices faces challenges due to limited system resources, such as battery energy, low memory and disk space. Real time frame rates, low energy consumption and high image quality are all desirable attr...

Many new kinds of tool are being developed to take advantage of the increasing use of XML for expressing semi-structured information. One category of support is the provision of interactive tools that let people request and control the merging of disparate resources. However, these tools typically assume that the users have a clear idea of exactly how they wish to combine the resources, and tha...

Cloud infrastructures offer a wide variety of resources to choose from. However, most cloud users ignore the potential benefits of dynamically choosing cloud resources among a wide variety of VM instance types with different configuration/cost tradeoffs. We propose to automate the choice of resources that should be assigned to arbitrary non-interactive applications. During the first executions ...

the present study explored the rhetorical representation of authorial identity signaled by interactive/interactional metadiscourse strategies and integral/non-integral citation patterns in international and iranian local research article discussion sections. the study also explored variation in metadiscourse and citation resources across three subdisciplines of language testing, english languag...

a r t i c l e i n f o In this study, a fuzzy-boundary interval-stochastic programming (FBISP) method is developed for planning water resources management systems under uncertainty. The developed FBISP method can deal with uncertainties expressed as probability distributions and fuzzy-boundary intervals. With the aid of an interactive algorithm woven with a vertex analysis, solutions for FBISP m...

This paper summarizes the state of the art in Multilingual Information Retrieval, paying special attention to the linguistic resources used and to the interactive aspects of searching documents in unknown languages.

a vast number of organizational projects as well as complexity of decision making process can cause particular challenges for project management and its leadership. in order to use organization assets and opportunities efficiently, it is necessary that manager implement a comprehensive multidimensional project portfolio management system that considers economic, social and technical details of ...

One major component of our efforts continues to be centered around developing technologies for interactive, high-performance, distributed applications. Our work in this area has been jointly funded by NSF and DOE. During the last year, we have (1) developed realistic applications jointly with end users, (2) created adaptive middleware technologies to better cope with dynamic changes in resource...