To the editor, Authors’ contributions to medical publications are semi-quantitatively assessed by order of authorship, with earlier listed authors generally having increasingly important contributions. Standard medical indexes, such as PubMed or MEDLINE, uniformly list authors of publications in peer-reviewed journals sequentially, without provision for designating equal authorship for equal co...

In Structured peer-to-peer systems, there are several problems hard to tackle. First, loads on different peers are difficult to balance. Since the peers in the system can be heterogenous, it is not fair to distribute equal load to every peer. In Chord, the authors argued that one peer with large capacity can occupy several nodes on the ring to relieve the pressure on other peers. In fact, there...

We propose a collaborative training platform where students collectively contribute to the co-construction of the required knowledge to produce their individual semester project. Peers feedback is implemented in order to complete trainers’ supervision with peer-training. This collaborative platform is implemented as a social network, where collaborative interactions are organized 1) to engage a...

This prospective, longitudinal study examines individual differences in two conceptually related but empirically distinct domains of social-cognitive competence (cognitive interpretive understanding and interpersonal perspective co-ordination) as moderators of the relation between peer rejection and neglect and behavioral and emotional problems in grades 2 and 3. As expected, peer rejection and...

The Co-Audicle describes the next phase of the Audicle’s development. We extend the Audicle to create a collaborative, multi-user interaction space based around the ChucK language. The Co-Audicle operates either in client/server mode or as part of a peer-to-peer network. We also describe new graphical and GUI-building functionalities. We draw inspiration from both live interaction software, as ...

Recently, there has been a growing interest in peer-topeer networks such as Gnutella. A typical characteristic of Gnutella is that it is a ‘pure’ peer-to-peer system, with all nodes being equal participants in the network. Due to its decentralized nature, Gnutella implements services such as searching and peer discovery via flooding-based application-level broadcast. In this paper, we study the...

We are analyzing peer collaborations in order to build a computational model of knowledge co-construction that could be useful in creating an effective artificial peer learning agent. We hypothesize that the start of a co-construction episode can be predicted based on initiative during interactions and that shifts of initiative during interactions indicate that co-construction is taking place. ...