This paper describes the Preservation Policy model as designed in the European project SCAPE and an experiment to test the viability of the model against two real life preservation policies.

As a reviewer, I think it important to state my bias up front: I work in a relatively unique academic environment, one that seeks to apply, in "real life" learning contexts, useful educational programs and events. Extension work is, by definition, continuing education emphasizing a balance between theory and practice. So be forewarned, this orientation necessarily colours my enthusiasm for Dist...

Current recommender systems using network data focus on a single network, either a trust or a document reference network. However, in a number of applications, several types of networks need to be taken into account. The paper describes an architecture for a recommender system for publications that integrates information from different networks. Relationships in the trust network are modeled in...

We first review some of the suggested methods for energy disaggregation. We then provide a real-life data set for researchers to help developing novel energy disaggregation algorithms. We also present a publicly available experimental data set captured from a typical building on the University of California, Berkeley campus.

In this paper, our objective is to assist a graphical artist throughout the creation of stylised facial animations that exhibit characters with a handdrawn look and resemble real life without mimicking it. To this end, we present a hybrid approach combining benefits from performancedriven facial animation and user-controlled 2D modelling and animation techniques. Once we capture the movement an...

In the realm of education, a common thread which unites inquirers, their critics, and academics in general is the concern to minimize the gap between classroom and real world so that students are effectively prepared for the demands of real-life problems. The present paper focuses on what can be done in the classroom in order to thus prepare students prior, that is, to even an intermediate real...

The coordination of dynamic task allocation based on available resources is very challenging in disaster domains under time, space and communication constraints. In addition, it is also very hard or even impossible to achieve tasks allocation by using a centralised manner with the global knowledge of the working environment. This paper presents a novel decentralised coordination approach for dy...

This paper presents the methodology, results and effectiveness in the development of Mobile telephonebased (Short Message Service-based) distance learning. The proposed novel real time interactive distance learning approach is about the application of information technology to education, was setup, delivered and evaluated using a real-life environment. Statistical analysis of the achieved resul...

Since the early studies of human behavior, emotions have attracted the interest of researchers in Neuroscience and Psychology. Recently, it has been a growing field of research in computer science. We are exploring how to represent and automatically detect a subject's emotional state. In contrast with most previous studies conducted on artificial data, this paper addresses some of the challenge...