The present chapter reviews basic issues concerning the design of household survey questionnaires for use in developing countries. It begins with the first step of questionnaire design, which is to formulate the objectives of the survey and then modify those objectives to take into account the underlying constraints. After these broad issues are discussed, more detailed advice is given on many ...

The types of police inquiries performed these days are incredibly diverse. Often data processing architectures are not suited to cope with this diversity since most of the case data is still stored as unstructured text. In this paper Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is showcased for its exploratory data analysis capabilities in discovering domestic violence intelligence from a dataset of unstructu...

The paper describes main principles and guidelines for creation of realistically looking virtual town. It is focused mainly on the work on the project “Virtual Old Prague” and usage of original authoring tools and additional third party applications. It depicts special procedures and shows pit-falls and advices within the work. Methods and procedures described here can be successfully applied o...

Executives in large companies often ask: why are we not better at innovation? There is no shortage of sound advice on how to improve. You need better ideas. You need to work with others outside your company. You need different funding mechanisms. You need to protect the new and radically different businesses from the old. You need to execute innovations better. The problem is that all this advi...

who gave me the opportunity to work in this group. I am particularly grateful for the assistance given by my patient supervisor Janko Katic. His guidance and suggestions were indispensable for the design of the presented circuits. The excellent plan gave me the proper passion to carry through this Master Thesis. I would thank Ayobami and Jiazuo for sharing with me the office and a portion of th...

DISCLAIMER 1: This memo was written mainly with IDI phd students in mind, and might have varying relevance for phd students even within this one department, depending on their specific research project. The status and commonality of review or survey papers may be different in other disciplines, yet at least some of the advice in this memo would hopefully be relevant to students outside my own d...

We present the results of a 100 participant study on the role of a robot’s physical presence in a robot tutoring task. Participants were asked to solve a set of puzzles while being provided occasional gameplay advice by a robot tutor. Each participant was assigned one of five conditions: (1) no advice, (2) robot providing randomized advice, (3) voice of the robot providing personalized advice, ...

The system presented here shows how Soar, an architecture for general problem solving and learning, can acquire general search-control knowledge from outside guidance. The guidance can be either direct advice about what the system should do, or a problem that illustrates a relevant idea. The system makes use of the guidance by first formulating an appropriate goal for itself. In the process of ...