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The peer-review process is the most widely accepted standard for validating products of researchers within the scientific community. It is also adopted by funding agencies. An essential component of peer-review is to find a certain number of experts to review a research paper or a grant proposal. Previous work mainly focuses on finding experts with the necessary expertise relevant to the paper or...
In 2006, we launched the Language Grid project to realize a distributed language service infrastructure on the Internet. Using the Language Grid, we worked with a nongovernmental organization since 2011 to support knowledge communications between agricultural experts in Japan and farmers in Vietnam via their children. We observed that a large community emerged to efficiently utilize nonmature machine...
The development of science is clear. From 1950 to 1990 we lived in a world of Contention, with as main question: Will Contention between Paradigms lead to a Paradigm Shift? This development is nicely described by Popper (Logic of Scientific Discovery), Kuhn (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions), Lakatos (The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes), and Feyerabend (Against Method). In the...
This paper proposes a task allocation method in which, although social utility is attempted to be maximized, agents also give weight to individual preferences based on their own specifications and capabilities. Due to the recent advances in computer and network technologies, many services can be provided by appropriately combining multiple types of information and different computational capabilities...
With the popularity of smartphones, many users utilize the check-in function to share their current activity with their friends for more social interactions in location-based social networks (LBSNs). Due to the success of viral marketing for advertising, prior works have tried to exploit viral marketing for location promotion via check-in in LBSNs. This means that k users will be selected to check...
One of the most important factors for enriching student life is the promotion of good relationships among the students. Furthermore, good relationships among students lead to effective learning. Accordingly, teachers need to help students form good friendships through classwork. Cooperative learning, student and a task for the group to accomplish, is one of the most common methods of active learning...
It might not seem dangerous for a person to leave some pieces of personal information on the Internet since everyone tends to do this. But the truth is that if someone ever tries to collect those pieces of information together, he might be able to find out the true identity of the person in reality after analyzing the collected data, which is what we call “cyber hunting”. This work focuses on the...
This paper proposes a Modified Multiple Triangular Inequality Elimination (MMTIE) to further reduce the search number of candidate codevectors. The MMTIE adopts the same original search space as the MTIE scheme with the initial best-matched codevector selected by the Initial Index Code Assignment (IICA), and integrates the intersection rule of the Candidate Codevectors Group (CCG) scheme to further...
By the rise of mobile devices, trajectory data could be easily collected and used in several applications, like destination prediction, public transportation optimization, and travel route recommendation. However, due to the spatio-temporal nature, raw trajectory data usually contain redundant movement information. This observation motivates the trajectory simplication approaches which discard some...
This paper presents a two layer recurrent neural network employed in glass speed control transmitted by linear servo motor in Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) system platform. The recurrent neural network consists of an identifier and a controller, the identifier is used to catch a feedback signal from the position sensor and the controller is processed in microprocessor in order to supply an adaptive...
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