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In this paper, we propose a flow propagation algorithm (FlowPro) that finds the community of a node in a complex network. The novelty of the proposed approach is the fact that FlowPro is local and it does not require the knowledge of the entire graph as most of the existing methods from literature. This makes possible the application of FlowPro in extremely large graphs or in cases where the entire...
Mining web user trust relationship is important in web information credibility analysis. Motivated by the imprecise nature of trustiness, we propose a novel web user trust prediction method based on evidence theory, which uses user ratings to infer trust relationships between users, where each rating score is treated as an evidence. The method first generates basic probability assignments with training...
As an alternative to downloading content from a cellular access network, mobile devices could be used to store data files and distribute them through device-to-device (D2D) communication. We consider a D2D-based storage community that is comprised of mobile users. Assuming that transmitting data from a base station to a mobile user consumes more energy than transmitting data between two mobile users,...
The biggest driver for today's education is to match assessment to learning. School District (SD) leaders support efforts to hold schools accountable and are working to promote greater congruence between what's tested and what kids need to learn, if they are to thrive in the future. In order to promote important life skills like creativity, problem solving, and communications, one needs to have a...
Identifying critical components in networked systems is a key problem for many important applications in a diverse set of fields, including epidemiology, e-commerce and traffic systems. This paper describes the development and application of a semi-nonnegative matrix factorization for structural discovery featuring nodes that are important for transmission over social networks. The technique allows...
Regional activation highlights the importance of activities led by residents, a concept which has recently been gaining ground. These activities may solve regional problems that residents have through cooperation. "Regional vitality" has the power to solve these problems. Since a large number of residents need to cooperate to boost regional vitality, a society requires a system through which...
Current research environments are witnessing high enormities of presentations occurring in different sessions at academic conferences. This situation makes it difficult for researchers (especially juniors) to attend the right presentation session(s) for effective collaboration. In this paper, we propose an innovative venue recommendation algorithm to enhance smart conference participation. Our proposed...
The OOPSLE workshop is a discussion-oriented and collaborative forum for formulating and addressing with open, unsolved and unsolvable problems in software language engineering (SLE), which is a research domain of systematic, disciplined and measurable approaches of development, evolution and maintenance of artificial languages used in software development. OOPSLE aims to serve as a think tank in...
Student engagement represents two critical features of institutional quality, namely the amount of time and effort students put into all educationally purposeful activities, and how the institution deploys its resources and organises learning opportunities to encourage students to participate in activities that research studies have shown to be linked to better learning. Institution-wide surveys of...
This is a concept paper looking into how Google's worldwide augmented reality game called Ingress could be used to inform the development of learning from games. Ingress is Google's attempt in creating a game based on augmented reality of actual physical locations where a story line is set to guide two different factions of agents to move around geographical locations with mobile devices to capture...
Schools of 21st century Singapore are tapping on advancements in infocomm technology(ICT) to enhance the educational landscape. With the advent of mobile technological enhancement, teaching can now be brought beyond the four walls of the classroom. Textbook learning is brought to life, and experiential learning can now take place at the actual historic and iconic sites through the use of location-based...
The goal of the first session is to set the ground for the rest of the sessions in the workshop. In order to meet the goal for the workshop of the assessment strategies in the new educational paradigm making use of e-Portfolio, a brief introduction and background information for the importance of the role of assessment in e-Portfolio is given, covering the role of assessment in e-Portfolio, the basic...
At the University of the Free State (UFS) in South Africa, professional development is characterised by its focus on the advancement of scholarly teaching in the disciplines. Practices followed are informed by the scholarship of teaching and learning movement. Within learning communities special attention is given to the motivational conditions for optimal development, which are intentionally and...
The explosive growth of the Internet over the last few years, and the rapid changes in the global economy has given rise to the importance of e-learning. The growth and importance of the educational industry in the knowledge-based economy enforce the higher education institutions to communicate the viability and strategic value of e-leaning to gain the competitive advantage. Recently, universities...
The field of Learning Design now has an interesting challenge. With the prominence of MOOCs and the related field of Learning Analytics, there is an expectation that learning technology will now be able to solve the problem of the worldwide demand for higher education (currently estimated as ∼ 100m per year). This is a problem that all of us in LD recognise and probably share as being the most important...
It is stated that the students complain about the online learning environments mostly because of the sense of being isolated. Belonging to a community is one of the critical variables for online learning environments. Many studies on the online learning community have been conducted around the world. This research aimed to analyze the studies according to variable frequency, work group, data collection...
Gaming has now been a part of educational practice for many years. The application of technology to gaming opened new doors to both complexity and sophistication of the interactions and dimensions of learning in a game environment. More recently online facilitation has enabled the globalisation of the gaming environment and extended the potential roles of the synthetic world in teaching and learning...
Participatory democracy has been used in Brazil, and other countries in the world, as a form of social participation in the municipality's administration. In this sense, Participatory Budget (PB) is a government initiative to expand community participation in decision making on the public budget. However, the procedure normally used to survey the alternatives can lead to errors such as: (1) the alternative...
A number of recommender systems (RS) have been developed or are being developed in the context of technology enhanced learning (TEL). However, there is a lack of research focusing on the dual system of vocational education and training (VET). Knowledge sharing and transfer in VET have their own particularities. We suggest that RS can pro-actively support knowledge sharing and transfer and help users...
The world's population is greying. There are more older adults now than ever before, and it is expected that this population will grow rapidly in years to come. In addition to this rapid growth in the population of older adults, there is also rapid growth of free/open source software projects (FOSS). Despite the increasing diversity of FOSS's user base, FOSS's developer base is quite homogeneous,...
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