We describe the problem of aggregating the label predictions of diverse classifiers using a class taxonomy. Such a taxonomy may not have been available or referenced when the individual classifiers were designed and trained, yet mapping the output labels into the taxonomy is desirable to integrate the effort spent in training the constituent classifiers. A hierarchical taxonomy representing som...

Taxonomy construction is a resource-demanding, top down, and time consuming effort. It does not always cater for the prevailing context of the captured information. This paper proposes a novel approach to automatically convert tags into a hierarchical taxonomy. Folksonomy describes the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords or tags to shared content. Using folksonomy a...

The problem of mapping (deened as matching and scheduling) tasks and communications onto multiple machines and networks in a heterogeneous computing (HC) environment has been shown to be NP-complete, in general, requiring the development of heuristic techniques. Many diierent types of mapping heuristics have been developed in recent years. However, selecting the best heuristic to use in any giv...

Constructive Alignment devised by John Biggs is a widespread didactic approach and one of the most in uential ideas in higher education. The basic assumption is that a course is designed in a way that learning activities and assessment tasks are aligned with intended learning objectives. Additionally Bloom developed a taxonomy which classi es learning objectives. This taxonomy was revised later...

Research into games in education most frequently expresses itself in the form of noting that games interest and motivate, and that we might therefore find the learning process improved if we were to use games as a vehicle for the delivery of learning content. We do not wish to take this approach, but to analyse what it is that makes games interesting and motivating and apply this in the context...

Prakash ES, Narayan KA, Sethuraman KR. Student perceptions regarding the usefulness of explicit discussion of the “structure of the observed learning outcome” taxonomy. Adv Physiol Educ 34: 145– 149, 2010; doi:10.1152/advan.00026.2010.—One method of grading responses of the descriptive type is by using Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes (SOLO) taxonomy. The basis of this study was the expe...

BACKGROUND Interventions for preventing falls in older people often involve several components, multidisciplinary teams, and implementation in a variety of settings. We have developed a classification system (taxonomy) to describe interventions used to prevent falls in older people, with the aim of improving the design and reporting of clinical trials of fall-prevention interventions, and synth...

This chapter introduces OntoExtractor, a tool for the semi-automatic generation of the taxonomy from a set of documents or data sources. The tool generates the taxonomy in a bottom-up fashion. Starting from structural analysis of the documents, it produces a set of clusters, which can be refined by a further grouping created by content analysis. Metadata describing the content of each cluster i...

A comprehensive taxonomy categorizing passive behaviors in people with dementia was developed and revised through the use of expert raters. The taxonomy was first derived from the synthesis of 15 empirical studies that addressed this phenomenon, then was rated by an expert panel of six nurse-scientists with expertise in dementia and neuroscience research. This article describes the application ...