We address the problem of generalizing manipulative actions across different tasks and objects. Our robotic agent acquires task-oriented skills from a teacher, and it abstracts skill parameters away from the specificity of the objects and tools used by the teacher. This process enables the transfer of skills to novel objects. Our method relies on the modularization of a task’s representation. T...

The disproportionate supply/demand ratio of information security consultant manpower is worsening yearly. It is necessary to analyze the specialized knowledge and skills required of information security consultants in their fulfilling job responsibilities, and to reflect the findings in developing and operating training programs. To identify the job requirements of information security consulta...

We present a practical course in corpus linguistics meant to provide students with a humanities background with the necessary knowledge and skills for an empirical study as basis for term papers, BAor MA-thesis. The course is part of a new Bachelor program and is combined with a theoretically oriented course on corpus linguistics. The challenge is to provide students with the necessary understa...

An architecture for hard real-time applications is proposed that enables the user to care safety requirements and time restricted search explicitly. This is supported by an intelligent event-oriented interface to control the technical process. The knowledge-based system “programs” this interface. It stores always safe plans. If the knowledge-based system will eventually find a save and better s...

Recent studies suggest that certain mutual fund managers manifest genuine skill but do not stipulate the particular skills that they possess. We examine in detail the style-timing abilities of 3,181 growth-oriented equity mutual funds over the period from 1993 to 2006. We find that an important contributor to the persistent abnormal returns observed is growth timing, i.e., switching stocks alon...

This paper reports on an Action Research project that investigated the effect of introducing a number of Extreme Programming (XP) practices as teaching techniques to introductory programming students. The focus of the study was on using the XP practices to assist students in an introductory programming subject develop object oriented programming skills, problem solving skills and teach them to ...

The authors describe a new approach towards assessing skills of medical trainees. Based on experiences from previous projects with (i) applying virtual environments for medical training and (ii) competence assessment and personalisation in technology enhanced learning environments, a system for personalised medical training with virtual environments is built. Thus, the practical training of mot...

New ITCs have proven to be useful tools for implementing innovating didactic and pedagogical formula oriented to enhance students’ en teachers’ creativity. The up-and-coming massive e-learning and blended learning projects are clear examples of such a phenomenon. The teaching of oral communication offers a perfect scenario to experiment with these formulas. Since the traditional face to face ap...

The present contribution tackles the issue of creativity in educational contexts and in particular in online collaborative learning environments. The contribution proposes a model to evaluate collaborative learning activities oriented to the development of skills and attitudes underpinning the creative expression. The model is used in this study to evaluate two real online activities, based on ...

We propose a skill learning and inference framework, which includes five processing modules as follows: 1) human demonstration process, 2) autonomous segmentation process, 3) process of learning dynamic movement primitives, 4) process of learning Bayesian networks, 5) process of constructing motivation graph and inferring skills. Based on the framework, the robot learns and infers situation-ade...