Background and Purpose: Teaching is a mutual and cooperative process in which the learner and teacher both get affected, thus its effectiveness should be studied from the viewpoint of students and teachers so that by approximating the viewpoints, more effectiveness can be achieved in education, therefore we aimed to study the characteristics of effective teaching from the viewpoint of students ...

identity and collective memory is one of the fascinating subjects in modern sociology. in iran, it arose again as modern and government-nation discourse emerged, and has been endlessly discussed since then. such subjects have assumed an increasing importance due to the multi-cultural and multi-ethical existence of iranian society and recent global developments. accordingly, the present study ha...

We propose a video communication method that lets the user freely change his/her viewing position and viewing direction. Free-viewpoint video is a next-generation visual application that has been extensively studied and discussed by the international MPEG standard body as 3DAV (three-dimensional audio and visual). For this application, we propose a multi-view video coding method and communicati...

In a simple model where global trade negotiations precede sequential Free Trade Agreement (FTA) formation, we show global tari¤ negotiations can prevent global free trade: FTA formation can yield global free trade in the absence of global tari¤ negotiations, but global free trade never emerges when global tari¤ negotitaions precede FTA formation. Intuitively, global tari¤ negotiations can preve...

In this paper we study the problem of model selection for a linear programming-based support vector machine for regression. We propose generalized method that is based on a quasi-Newton method that uses a globalization strategy and an inexact computation of first order information. We explore the case of two-class, multi-class, and regression problems. Simulation results among standard datasets...

This paper proposes a multi-dimensional concept model of an ICT enabled classroom to highlight potential similarities and differences between where teachers perceive themselves relative to their learners. Some teachers and learners may be at the two dimensional text-book level, while others are operating in at a globalization level. Being armed with this type of information, educators may be em...

With the rapid development of e-commerce and the expansion of e-commerce system scale, scalable trust in e-commerce becomes critical. This article examines scalable trust of multiagent e-commerce system (MECS) and proposes a fuzzy model for scalable trust in e-commerce. It also discusses the realization of scalable trust from the viewpoint of engineering. The proposed approach will facilitate r...

A psychological perspective has been largely absent in the multidisciplinary discourse surrounding globalization. In this commentary, we highlight the unique contributions that the articles in this special issue have made in advancing a new psychological science of globalization. We discuss the critical role that psychological theory plays in understanding reactions to globalization, and in tur...

Since the properties of systems comprising many homogeneous agents may be expected to be independent of how the agents happen to be indexed, it should be possible to formulate and solve multiagent control problems in an index-free way. In this paper we provide such an approach, based on an indicator distribution representation, which results in integrodifferential dynamics that parallel and ext...