Formally published papers that have been through a traditional prepublication peer review process remain the most important means of communicating science today. Researchers depend on them to learn about the latest advances in their fields and to report their own findings. The intentions of traditional peer review are certainly noble: to ensure methodological integrity and to comment on potenti...

This study describes the design and implementation of a naive computer peer agent called KORI-2. Unlike prevalent intelligent tutoring systems that implement a machine tutor replacing a human expert, teachable agent systems try to implement a machine peer tutee. Human student tutors are motivated to learn domain knowledge effectively while tutoring a machine tutee. With KORI-2, a human student ...

The SAP Community is a platform for a true virtual community where people and companies come together to exchange ideas, solve problems, benefit from stimulating advice, and collaborate far more effectively than ever before. Members consider it a place that is engaging for peer-to-peer interaction. It has become very useful for SAP to help its customers gain insights through a large participati...

We study the effect of different market mechanisms, specifically auctions and postedprices, on participant behaviors and transaction outcomes in an online personal loan market. We develop a game theoretic model to generate empirically testable predictions, then exploit a regime change on a peer-to-peer lending site, Prosper.com, to test them. We find that under posted-prices, loans are funded w...

AHA expert consensus statement on the use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy in patients who are not included or not well represented in clinical trials. statements by selecting either the "By Topic" link or the "By Publication Date" link. To purchase additional reprints, call 843-216-2533 or e-mail kelle. [email protected]. Expert peer review of AHA Scientific Statements ...

An independent panel of expert scientists and risk assessors met in Ottawa, Ontario to review a hazard identification and dose-response assessment on carbon disulfide. Health Canada developed the assessment on carbon disulfide as part of the Priority Substances Program under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. This meeting was conducted by Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA)...

Revision is a core writing skill that presents challenges to both novice and expert writers. Within the context of peer review, peer feedback has the potential to provide rich guidance for reviewing, especially when making content-level changes. However, authors must review and evaluate each piece of feedback for meaningful critiques that can be applied to further drafts. In this work, we analy...

SHARK is a novel concept and middleware service for search in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Rather than flooding a network like Gnutella or imposing numerical IDs on objects like distributed hash tables, it is based on directed routing of keywords in a multidimensional redundant metadata hierarchy. SHARK arranges nodes and objects in the network and in semantic clusters. In spite of its rich key...

Expert systems are successfully applied to a number of domains. Often built on generic rulebased systems, they can also exploit optimized algorithms. On the other side, being based on loosely coupled components and peer to peer infrastructures for asynchronous messaging, multi-agent systems allow code mobility, adaptability, easy of deployment and reconfiguration, thus fitting distributed and d...

All papers published in this volume of Journal Physics: Conference Series have been peer-reviewed through processes administered by the Editors. Expert referees conducted reviews to professional and scientific standards expected a proceedings journal IOP Publishing.