Modern social media relies on high quality user generated writing such as reviews, explanations, and answers. In contrast to standard validation to provide feedback for structured inputs (e.g., dates, email addresses), it is difficult to provide timely, high quality, customized feedback for freeform text input. While existing solutions based on crowdsourced feedback (e.g., upvotes and comments)...

The paradigm of Open-Innovation allows software companies new forms of interactive innovation and its diffusion across socio-cultural boundaries. This process constitutes and is constituted by a heterogeneous network of interacting actors. In this interaction, seeds for innovation will be created and have to be adopted by the participants of the respective network. This paper studies the concep...

In this paper, I discuss the connection between Lakatosian method of proofs and refutations, Hintikkan models of interrogative inquiry and paraconsistency. I bridge these different schools with dialectic, and their underlying reliance on the inconsistent.

COMMA 2012, Vienna " The science of Dialectic, in one sense of the word, is mainly concerned to tabulate and analyse dishonest stratagems " Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of Controversy (1896)

Power to the edge is a result of technological advances that will, in the coming decade, eliminate the constraint of bandwidth, free us from the need to know a lot in order to share a lot, unfetter us from the requirement to be synchronous in time and space, and remove the last remaining technical barriers to information sharing and collaboration – Mr John Stenbit, (Alberts & Hayes, 2003:pp.xiii).

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are often not fully aligned with the implementing organization. It is important to understand their sources of misalignments because they can have significant implications for the organization. From a dialectic perspective, such misalignments are the result of opposing forces that arise from structures embedded in the ERP package and the organization. ...

We compared two automated approaches to teaching distinguishing, a fundamental skill of case-based reasoning that involves assessing the relevant differences among cases in a context-sensitive way. The approaches are implemented in two versions of CATO, an ITS designed to teach law students basic skills of casebased legal argument. The original version of CATO employed a didactic explanatory di...