Internet has become a major channel for academic information dissemination in recent years. As a matter of fact, academic information, e.g., “call for papers”, “call for proposals”, “advances of research”, etc., is crucial for researchers, since they have to publish research outputs and capture new research trends. This study focuses on extraction of academic conference information including to...

This paper explores a general model of economic exchange between heterogeneous agents representing firms, traders, or other socioeconomic entities, that self-organise into coalitions to face specific tasks. In particular, the work addresses coalition formation problems in which many tasks are addressed to the same population over time in an iterative fashion – giving the agents the possibility ...

This study developed and evaluated a brief training program for grant reviewers that aimed to increase inter-rater reliability, rating scale knowledge, and effort to read the grant review criteria. Enhancing reviewer training may improve the reliability and accuracy of research grant proposal scoring and funding recommendations. Seventy-five Public Health professors from U.S. research universit...

It is known that full Peano Arithmetic does not have the joint embedding property (JEP). At the other extreme of the hierarchy, Open Induction also fails to have this property. We prove, using some conservation results about fragments of arithmetic, that if T is a theory consistent with PA and T\IE^ (bounded existential parameter-free induction), then any two models of PA which jointly embed in...

Outline of Expectations for Students: • Schedule a thesis committee meeting for the exam. Scheduling includes finding a date that works for each of your committee members and finding a room to hold the exam in. • Prepare an NIH/NSF style written grant proposal on your thesis project (just the science and bibliography parts – not any of the other forms). While the proposal should include some pr...

This case study examines an often overlooked context of information system failures, that of preimplementation failure. It focuses on an Information Systems Development (ISD) project at a large public university that failed even before implementation could get under way. Specifically, it describes the vendor selection process of a proposed computerized maintenance management system. While the m...

An estimate of costs per session of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Programme was developed using data in the public domain and material obtained by Freedom of Information (FOI) request, with reference to other recent research. The estimate markedly exceeds that used in the Department of Health Impact Assessment, and with other factors such as the need to take account of ...

Fast ions in tokamaks are known to have a significant influence on global plasma instabilities. In normal mode analyses for tokamaks, the perturbed electric and magnetic fields have been evaluated at the position of the particle’s guiding center. The effect of spatial variation of the perturbed fields within the gyroradius for resistive internal magnetohydrodynamic ~MHD! modes is considered in ...

In this paper we present the Dual Support Apriori for Temporal data (DSAT) algorithm. This is a novel technique for discovering Jumping Emerging Patterns (JEPs) from time series data using a sliding window technique. Our approach is particularly effective when performing trend analysis in order to explore the itemset variations over time. Our proposed framework is different from the previous wo...

Industrial training is an emerging applicative domain for virtual reality. GVT (Generic Virtual Trai-ning) is a platform to create virtual environments for individual training on industrial procedures suchas maintenance procedures. Nevertheless, industrial needs keep on evolving and a new request concernstraining on collaborative procedures. In this thesis, we propose models to exte...