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The interests of individual Internet users fall into a hierarchical structure which is useful in regards to building personalized searches and recommendations. Most studies on this subject construct the interest hierarchy of a single person from the document perspective. In this study, we constructed the user interest hierarchy via user profiles. We organized 433,397 user interests, referred to here...
This paper proposes an approach to estimating fungibility between skills given multiple information sources of those skills. An estimate of skill adjacency or fungibility or substitutability is critical for effective capacity planning, analytics and optimization in the face of changing skill requirements of an organization. The proposed approach is based on computing a similarity measure between skills,...
The Gene hierarchy of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Thesaurus (NCIt) is of high priority for NCI. It is important to have quality assurance (QA) techniques to improve its content quality. We present a two-step methodology concentrating on auditing the modeling of complex concepts, which are shown to have a higher error rate compared to control concepts. In the first step, we test whether concepts...
Understanding user query intent is a crucial task to Question-Answering area. With the development of online health services, online health communities generate huge amount of valuable medical Question-Answering data, where user intention can be mined. However, the queries posted by common users have many domain concepts and colloquial expressions, which make the understanding of user intents very...
Question Classification is a very important component in question answering system. In this paper, we present a rule-based method to classify Arabic questions. We have used two taxonomies: Arabic taxonomy and Li & Roth taxonomy. We have conducted several experiments using TREC and CLEF questions. The obtained results show the importance of our method.
In this paper, we propose a novel domain-specific dataset named VegFru for fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC). While the existing datasets for FGVC are mainly focused on animal breeds or man-made objects with limited labelled data, VegFru is a larger dataset consisting of vegetables and fruits which are closely associated with the daily life of everyone. Aiming at domestic cooking and food...
Semantic similarity of texts is one of the important areas of Natural Language Processing, and there are several approaches to measure similarity: statistical, WordNet based, and hybrid. For all of these approaches, a lexical knowledge is used such as corpus or semantic network. WordNet is one of the most preferred and mature lexical knowledge base. In this study, we have focused on measuring semantic...
Based on a literature analysis, this paper examines the nature of evolution in Systems of Systems (SoS) by attempting to answer why, where and how change occurs in this new kind of complex systems as well as what unprecedented underlying challenges makes it difficult to manage. This paper gives special focus on how state-of-the-art research efforts are attempting to solve those challenges and ultimately...
This survey highlights issues in clustering which hinder in achieving optimal solution or generates inconsistent outputs. We called such malignancies as dark patches. We focus on the issues relating to clustering rather than concepts and techniques of clustering. For better insight into the issues of clustering, we categorize dark patches into three classes and then compare various clustering methods...
Engineering work involves constant deliberation, yet little effort is invested in most programs to provide a well-structured framework for engineering deliberation. The following paper presents how engineering students learn the virtue of professional and moral deliberation through various educational activities in the course Ethics in Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez. In addition,...
The Web is witnessing an exponential growth of distributed and heterogeneous educational material. This hampers distinguishing among contents of these materials, as well as their retrieval. While information retrieval and classification mechanisms concentrate on corpus analysis, annotation approaches either target specific formats or require that a document follows interoperable standards. Rather...
Designing course activities in harmony with class assignments and tests while providing both adequate challenges and appropriate content progression is critical in introductory programming courses (CS1). Such fine-tuned practices help students build the right mindset to perform better and prevent potential discouragement due to disharmonious test challenges. In this study, we apply levels of the cognitive...
Social media is very important factor in analyzing modern society as a whole, their values, norms, and behaviors, as being a part of our everyday life. This study is oriented towards analyzing social media in order to allow users to create their own preferences to follow (analyze) a specific social media source. The web application has been developed to allow a user to follow specific Facebook accounts...
Internet of Things (IoT) is slowly but steadily becoming part of different aspects of our lives, with its applications ranging from smart homes, to wearable devices, to healthcare, etc. This wide spectrum of applications results in shared data containing large amount of users' private information. The security of such information becomes a paramount concern. The IoT security requirements include data...
There has been a recent surge in the need for computer science educational resources. Often, this need is addressed with computer-based learning tools. However, many of these tools target coding skills and software design rather than teaching foundational topics. This work proposes an interactive tool for teaching process management using the common abstraction of the Dining Philosophers Problem....
Levels of Autonomy (LoA) provide a method for describing authority granted to operators and autonomous system elements. Unfortunately, LoA does not provide the user interface designer a clear method to distinguish interface concepts which impose varying levels of operator workload or result in human or system performance changes. The current research suggests an alternate classification framework...
The issue of competence assessment in engineering is analyzed in the context of the lack of motivation for learning. The source of this lack of motivation comes from the distribution of high school students. This assignment creates marginalization for a large number of students. Exit from marginalization can be accomplished through additional motivation. This is the responsibility of the competence...
As the number of devices (things) connected to the Internet (Internet of things: IoT) is growing, achieving robust security and privacy (S&P) is becoming increasingly challenging. With the heavy use of medical things (MT), the S&P in the medical domain poses a serious issue that continues to grow. Due to the criticality and sensitivity of the data in the healthcare domain, ensuring...
In this work we propose a recommender system of Open Educational Resources focused on the pedagogical intention of the learning session that the teacher designs. The Recommendation System considers the Taxonomy SOLO to identify the verb that directs the pedagogical intention of the teacher in his/her learning session. The verb unfolds the corresponding cognitive processes and the system suggests the...
Heterogeneous vehicular networks (HetVNets) are a promising approach to meet the various communication requirements of vehicular networks' services using a variety of available access networks. However, due to their inherited characteristics, HetVNets are rigid, difficult to manage and suffer from a lack of programmability, flexibility, and scalability. In this paper, we first highlight the limits...
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