Without shared understanding, hardly any group learning takes place. Though much has been written about the essence of shared understanding, less is known about how to assess the process of reaching shared understanding. Therefore, the study focuses on ways of assessing shared understanding. A conceptual framework is described that makes a distinction between the process of reaching shared unde...

In the effort to develop critical cyberphysical systems, existing computing formalisms are extended to include continuous behaviour. This may happen in a way that neglects elements necessary for correct continuous properties and correct physical properties. A simple language is taken to illustrate this. Issues and risks latent in this kind of approach are identified and discussed under the umbr...

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in this paper, strong laws of large numbers (slln) are obtained for the sums ƒ°=nii x1, undercertain conditions, where {x ,n . 1} n is a sequence of pairwise negatively dependent random variables.

there are several theorical results about order statistics and copulas in the literature that have  been mentioned also by nelsen cite{p20}. the present study after reviewing some of these results, relies on  simulation technique to investigate the mentioned results about order statistics and copulas. the study concentrates on two well known archimedean gumbel and frank families in the case tha...

Clinical trials in sleep medicine cover a wide range of sleep–wake problems, and accordingly the selection of outcome measures in sleep medicine clinical trials needs to be tailored to the specific disorder under examination. This review describes the measures most commonly used in sleep medicine clinical trials, weighing the relative merits of a self-report questionnaire versus a physiologic t...

This paper proposes a bridge between the Herding literature and the literature on Rational Expectations under asymmetric information. In particular we examine how the presence of discrete investment decisions affects the properties of a market equilibrium where information is costly to acquire. We choose to focus on the case where individual decisions are discrete since this appears to be the k...

Abstract. We consider the regression model with errors-in-variables where we observe n i.i.d. copies of (Y, Z) satisfying Y = f(X) + ξ, Z = X + σε, involving independent and unobserved random variablesX, ξ, ε. The density g ofX is unknown, whereas the density of σε is completely known. Using the observations (Yi, Zi), i = 1, · · · , n, we propose an estimator of the regression function f , buil...

Several POS-taggers are trained and tested on Swedish text. Methods to improve the accuracy of the tagging are then examined. These methods include voting, letting taggers change their voting contribution depending on how confident they are and training a new second level classifier on the output of the taggers. All these methods are more accurate than the most accurate original tagger, with 15...

We propose a model of computation, based on data flow, that unifies several disparate programming phenomena, including local and shared variables, synchronised and buffered communication, reliable and unreliable channels, dynamic and static allocation, explicit and garbage-collected disposal, fine-grained and coarse-grained concurrency, and weakly and strongly consistent memory.