This year marks the 30th anniversary of Defense Planning Guidance, which largely shaped U.S. government’s national security approach at end previous century and start current one. Although it was not adopted as policy, ideas embodied in formed basis a number American defense foreign policy decisions. The plan is also known Wolfowitz Doctrine, after its chief architect, neoconservative former US...

Well written and organized, the paper by Zopounidis and Doumpos suggests to us the following questions: (a) whether or not the multiple criteria decision aid (MCDA) approaches are realistic and convincing in environments of Simon’s bounded rationality; (b) whether or not the MCDA approaches rely on assumptions which are in accordance to (or at least, are not in contradiction to) principles firm...

Is learning for assessment an inevitable outcome of assessment for learning? We plan to investigate on this – by showing the effects of traditional continuous assessment modes we have implemented, and inviting student opinions on an e-assessment proposal which was virtually tested in a university setup. Student’s perceptions are checked in the case of traditional continuous assessment technique...

Educational model for higher education has shown a drift from traditional classroom to technology-driven models that merge classroom teaching with web-based learning management systems (LMS) such as Moodle and CLEW. Every teaching model has a set of supervised (e.g. quizzes) and/or unsupervised (e.g. assignments) instruments that are used to evaluate the effectiveness of learning. The challenge...

I prove that there are phonological patterns which are expressible by ordered rewrite rules but not by any Optimality Theoretic (OT) grammar whose constraint set contains only markedness constraints and single–state faithfulness constraints, i.e. faithfulness constraints that assign violation marks to pairs of single input–output segments in correspondence, with no reference to other segments i...

Emeriti Week will again be celebrated during the second week of February, with the annual recognition by the Academic Senate set for Tuesday, February 13. This observance marks the 23rd anniversary of the founding of the Emeriti Association and the 19th annual Emeriti Week. The Academic Senate meeting on February 13 will be followed by the traditional Emeriti Association reception. However, bec...

Consider a situation in which a group of assessors mark a collection of submissions; each assessor marks more than one submission and each submission is marked by more than one assessor. Typical scenarios include reviewing conference submissions and peer marking in a class. The problem is how to optimally assign a final mark to each submission. The mark assignment must be robust in the followin...