The mathematical treatment of rate-independent systems has recently attracted an increasing deal of attention. For this 5-days meeting at BIRS in Banff we have succeeded in gathering some of the most active researchers in the field. Their presentations (recorded below) are documenting some of the current investigation lines for this community. We hope that this short informal report would help ...

This article develops an online interview conducted with the visual artist Marcel Pinas who lives and works in Caribbean continental country of Suriname, South America. Pinas, starting from his standpoint as a Maroon clan descendant, focuses art practice, projects, festival on country’s complex culture. The analyzes historical sociopolitical context explains creative process communitarian devel...

The Ministry of Education and Culture stepped up the connect-and-match effort by creating a teaching factory to combine vocational education with industrial world. program's goal is increase number graduates from schools who are employed as trained qualified human resources (HR) meet demands sector. suitability relevance material local needs, especially in world tourism Banyuwangi should be inc...

This report describes the 1993 SRC Algorithm Animation Festival. The festival continues an experiment in developing algorithm animations by non-experts, started the previous year, and described in SRC Research Report #98. This year nineteen researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation’s Systems Research Center worked for two weeks on animating algorithms. Most of the participants had little (if...

The Katsuno and Mendelzon (KM) theory of belief update has been proposed as a reasonable model for revising beliefs about a changing world. However, the semantics of update relies on information which is not readily available. We describe an alternative semantical view of update in which observations are incorporated into a belief set by: a) explaining the observation in terms of a set of plaus...

While research in metacognition has grown significantly in the past 10 years, there has been a relative lack of research devoted to the focused study of the interactions between metacognition and affective processes. Computational models represent a useful tool which can help remedy this situation by constructing causal models of demonstrated correlational relationships, and by generating empir...

The 1 international conference on “Educational Data Mining” (EDM) took place in Montreal in 2008 while the 1 international conference on “Learning Analytics and Knowledge” (LAK) took place in Banff in 2011. Since then the fields have grown and established themselves with an annual international conference, a journal and an association each, and gradually increase their overlapping. This paper b...

In this section we present five specially selected and extended articles from the 5th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement which took place in Banff, Canada in September 2011. This conference attracted 103 full papers fromwhich we selected 33 for presentation and publication, an acceptance rate of 32%. From these, authors of five of the most highly ...