Personalized Adaptation Schedule for Iterative Adaptation Chengming Cai Masters of Science Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 2006 Iterative content adaptation systems attempt to conserve bandwidth required to download multimedia content on mobile devices by initially loading an adapted version of the original content and refining its quality only when deemed necessar...

This paper summarises two controlled experiments conducted on a model that integrates the use of semiformal notation, the Unified Modelling Language (UML) and a formal notation, B. The experiments assessed the comprehensibility of the model, namely UML-B. The first experiment compared the comprehensibility of a UML-B model and a B model. In the second experiment, the model was compared with an ...

The following is a case study of series pioneering tests with visual teaching aids in elementary and secondary schools the United States, conducted between 1920 1923. As it happened, these coincided similar experiments Netherlands. Although unbeknown to each other, innovative aspect both studies consisted taking their research into classroom. With this measure experimenters countries hoped coll...

In this paper we elicit preferences for discounting via experimental techniques. We then estimate a general speci…cation of discounting that nests exponential and hyperbolic discounting, as well as various forms of present bias, including quasihyperbolic discounting. The data strongly favor a speci…cation with a small present bias in the form of a …xed cost, of the order of $4 on average across...