Merlin is a collaborative concept map that enables students to discuss their ideas. The agent in Merlin aims to monitor the students’ content of discussion in order to provide context-sensitive help.

Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 Department of Genetics, Rutgers, The...

Previous research has demonstrated an effect on pro-environment behaviours such as household recycling from communicating social norm information to respondents. In this paper, we extend this work by considering the effects of varying (i) the absolute size (strength) of the norm (ii) its geographic scope (iii) whether the norm is stated in relative terms. We also show how previous behaviours in...

Extended Abstract This paper offers three candidates for a deterministic, noninterleaving, behaviour model which generalizes Hoare traces to the noninterleaving situation. The three models are all proved equivalent in the rather strong sense of being equivalent as categories. The models are: deterministic labelled event structures, generalized trace languages in which the independence relation ...

This paper proposes a novel problem setting of selectional preference (SP) between a predicate and its arguments, called as context-sensitive SP (CSP). CSP models the narrative consistency between the predicate and preceding contexts of its arguments, in addition to the conventional SP based on semantic types. Furthermore, we present a novel CSP model that extends the neural SP model (Van de Cr...

This paper is concerned with the conceptual foundations of pragmatic reasoning (context-dependent reasoning). A general pragmatic semantics (a semantic analysis which includes a pragmatic parameter) is given for pragmatic reasoning, the logical properties of the various forms of pragmatic reasoning are discussed, as are many examples. The semantic pragmatics (the general study of choosing or in...

Network diversity yields context-dependent benefits that are not yet fully-understood. I elaborate on a recently introduced [1] distinction between tie strength diversity and information source diversity, and explain when, how, and why they matter. The issue whether there are benefits to specialization is the key.

We describe eÆcient output-sensitive algorithms to nd the longest arithmetic progression in a given set of numbers.

This paper seeks to tackle the current confusion about the constituent dimensions of IT Governance (ITG) and inconsistent operationalisation approaches inhibiting advances in research and organisational ITG practice. Through a structured literature review of ranked high-quality publications augmented by a meta-case study with five underlying projects, we find nine distinct dimensions of ITG. Th...

We present an improved version of random projections that takes advantage of marginal norms. Using a maximum likelihood estimator (MLE), marginconstrained random projections can improve estimation accuracy considerably. Theoretical properties of this estimator are analyzed in detail.