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This lightning talk paper discusses an initial data set that has been gathered to understand the use of software in research, and is intended to spark wider interest in gathering more data. The initial data analyzes three months of articles in the journal Nature for software mentions. The wider activity that we seek is a community effort to analyze a wider set of articles, including both a longer...
Open Source Software's (OSS) have been existing since decades. Several organizations around the globe are joining the notion to build with Open Source Model. They are finding open source as an attractive and practical alternative to proprietary software. Price tag of Open Source Software is very appealing. It can be inspected, modified, and freely redistributed. So several major organizations are...
English Language Teachers were asked to voice their opinion and preferences as to the format, content matter as well as types of tasks and activities they would find most favourable in the training materials/course on the ELT and Assessment and their levels confidence regarding their competencies on the use of ICT for educational purposes. The findings reveal that the suggested formats and methods...
Effective robot collaborators that work with humans require an understanding of the underlying constraint network of any joint task to be performed. Discovering this network allows an agent to more effectively plan around co-worker actions or unexpected changes in its environment. To maximize the practicality of collaborative robots in real-world scenarios, humans should not be assumed to have an...
Standard Collaborative Filtering (CF) algorithms make use of interactions between users and items in the form of implicit or explicit ratings alone for generating recommendations. Similarity among users or items is calculated purely based on rating overlap in this case, without considering explicit properties of users or items involved, limiting their applicability in domains with very sparse rating...
The European Grid Infrastructure (EGI), a distributed computing infrastructure for research, has been continuously evolving from a project-based system into a 24/7 professional service. This transition comes with user expectations of increasingly reliable and predictable services, improvements that can only be achieved through advanced technologies coupled with mature human management processes. Many...
The article emphasizes that general cultural competence makes a competitive graduate student who is in demand on the job market and who can successfully realize their potential in various fields. In this article an attempt is made to determine a system of general cultural competencies as part of the formation of engineering competencies. The system of general cultural competence consists of objective,...
Collaborative filtering has been considerably successful in improving recommender systems both in the literature and commercial applications. Most of the algorithms designed up to now consider users' ratings equally and do not pay attention to the fact that users' interests or requirements might change over the time. In this paper a collaborative filtering based recommender system is designed which...
The construction industry has been facing a paradigm shift to (i) increase; productivity, efficiency, infrastructure value, quality and sustainability, (ii) reduce; lifecycle costs, lead times and duplications, via effective collaboration and communication of stakeholders in construction projects. Digital construction is a political initiative to address low productivity in the sector. This seeks...
Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable/treatable forms of cancer, due to the fact that precursor signs for the disease can be detected in microscopic examination of cervical cells. Currently these examinations are purely visual, but the project reported aims to process the visual images to present them in a complementary auditory form and thereby to improve diagnostic accuracy. Standard mean-shift...
The net generation of students have characteristics which make them well-suited for participating in open source projects including being comfortable with information technologies, using IT as a form of communication, desiring to work in groups, a desire to do social good, and being fascinated by new technologies. The nature of open source projects where communities of developers from around the world...
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