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One of the major steps for opinion mining is to extract product features. The vast majority of existing approaches focus on explicit feature identification, few attempts have been made to identify implicit features in reviews, however; people tend to express their opinions with simple structures and brachylogies, which lead to more implicit features in reviews. By analyzing the characteristics of...
In the Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan (UM), we have spent the past five years building social context into several courses in the traditional computer science (CS) curriculum. Specifically, freshman- and senior-level, project-based classes have been designed to both teach significant and appropriate academic content, while also building software games and apps for children...
This study explores how teachers' attitudes and competencies influence their willingness to adopt mobile learning approaches. By mobile learning we mean teaching approaches that use mobile devices to enliven and extend traditional teaching. Of particular interest is exploring how first-order (e.g. lack of adequate access, time, training and support) and second-order (e.g. teacher's pedagogical and...
Engineering professional societies, engineering education thought leaders, and academics in engineering education have established the need to promote systems thinking in engineering students so they can deal effectively with the future complexity of engineering practice. Universities and schools have taught systems thinking, but currently there are limitations in measuring the effectiveness of these...
Many universities of technology offer undergraduate diplomas in engineering that includes a Work Integrated Learning component. Many academic staff members may be involved in the assessment of this component due to student numbers and field expertise. The research question which arises is "What guidelines should academics follow in assessing Work Integrated Learning to ensure a consistent quality...
Constant changes in technology pose continuous challenges for higher education institutions that are training the engineers of the future. These changes are making it necessary to adapt the curriculum in order to develop the skills needed by the XXI century engineer. Moreover, instead of thinking in a large curriculum reform at a specific moment, it is necessary to define curriculum management processes...
Service providers and manufacturers released their services and functions by open APIs in the Internet of Things (IoT) service environment. And, user wants to create their own IoT service that satisfies the diverse goals in their daily lives. But IoT service creation is difficult to a non-technical user, because the existing service creation environment is required programmable ability and analytical...
It has become easier to create a lifelog by using smart phones. Lifelogs can be used in several ways. However, some problems exist in memory recollection; as many lifelogs owned by a person are partial information, it is impractical to remember days themselves. Therefore, a lifelog sharing system for memory recollection is proposed. The system elicits related information from other people's lifelogs...
Serious design of digital games is aiming at impact. Humans players may be affected by experiences in virtual worlds. Game designers anticipate potential experiences. Storyboarding is the technology of setting up conditions of future experience. Structural properties of storyboards correlate with potential human player experience. Those properties are named patterns. What shows when game play unfolds...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been collaborating since 2010 with the Singapore Ministry of Education to help develop the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). One element of this collaboration, the Global Leadership Program (GLP), aims to provide SUTD students with the opportunity to interact with the MIT community and experience MIT's academic culture, while...
This paper presents the application of knowledge-based epistemology of engineering to the understandings of the engineering design process. This work aims to extend discussion on Philosophy of Engineering into its impact on our understanding of engineering design. The question this paper aims to address is how a knowledge-based philosophy of engineering supports the distinctive challenges in distinguishing...
The paper presents an on-going project in developing a semantic information portal for academic institution. The concept of a semantic platform called SemLib, grew out of many academic discussions and it reflects the information needs of researchers and educators from Technical University of Czestochowa. The proposed method of needs assessment is especially designed to create the starting point to...
In this paper the authors evaluate in context of numerical calculations accuracy classical integer order and direct non-integer based order numerical algorithms of non-integer orders derivatives and integrals computations. Classical integer order based algorithm involves integer and fractional order differentiation and integration operators concatenation to obtain non-integer order. Riemann-Liouville...
In spite of several efforts in the last decade by researchers and educators, expected potential from the use of mobile device technology (MDT) to effect learning transformation is largely unfulfilled. Quantifying benefits of MDTs in learning, either through achievement of learning objectives or enhancement of the process, remains problematic. Rapid changes in development and manufacture also continue...
Corpora have become bigger, better and more numerous, and their interfaces are quicker, simpler and freely available for use on any computer. At the same time, user manuals and teaching materials have been created to support the technology. The technological and pedagogical aspects of corpus-based language learning are equally important, but the previous research has been weighted towards the creation...
Steady, persistent effort has gone a long way toward bridging the infamous "terahertz gap." Advances in circuit and device design, as well as continued lithographic scaling, have delivered building blocks that are suitable for superheterodyne receivers in the sub-millimeter wave region. High-power (e.g., watt-level) sources for transmitters, however, remain to be developed. This talk uses...
The paper presents the systematic exploration in the Theorema system of the theory of sets represented as sorted lists without duplications. This theory was build-up in parallel with the process of algorithm synthesis in the Theorema system. Sets are represented as ascending ordered lists without duplication, called monotone lists. The elements of the sets are assumed to be from an ordered domain...
In any modern desktop environment the glyph compositor—where raw text information is combined with font information and other attributes to render rasterized component images—is part of the software's core functionality. In this paper we present work that shows it is computationally feasible to apply full-text indexing in real-time to the live stream of glyph compositor operations generated by a user's...
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