Edwin Olson, Johannes Strom, Ryan Morton, Andrew Richardson, Pradeep Ranganathan, Robert Goeddel, and Mihai Bulic Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48824 e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] http://april.eecs.umich.edu Jacob Crossman a...

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We review the 2014 International Planning Competition (IPC-2014), the eighth in a series of competitions starting in 1998. IPC-2014 was held in three separate parts to assess state-of-the-art in three prominent areas of planning research: the deterministic (classical) part (IPCD), the learning part (IPCL), and the probabilistic part (IPPC). Each part evaluated planning systems in ways that push...

scientific progress and development is one of the significant issues and hot debates of the iranian government. there are some researches and seminars carried out and held regarding influential factors of scientific progress. unfortunately there is no proper place for legal and institutional factors but exceptionally and partially (intellectual property rights factor). my idea is that scientifi...

387 W ith his usual foresight, J.B.S. Haldane argued nearly 50 years ago that 'a non specific parasite is a powerful competitive weapon' 1. One species can be a superior competitor simply by harbouring and transmitting a pathogen to a more vulnerable species. This is 'apparent' competition, which is mediated via a shared pathogen, and contrasts with 're-source' competition, in which there can b...

Although the motivating role of feedback and progress indicators is understood in formal learning, their role in supporting incidental mobile learning is less well understood. In this paper we argue that well-designed feedback and progress indicators (FPIs) offer guidance and structure that may encourage mobile app users to move from fragmented learning episodes towards a longer term, reflectiv...