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Grundlagen Der Kognition Und Perzeption Für Die Software-Ergonomie, Philipp Schaer, Holger Heuser Nov 2006

Grundlagen Der Kognition Und Perzeption Für Die Software-Ergonomie, Philipp Schaer, Holger Heuser

Philipp Schaer

Der folgende Arbeitsbericht soll eine kurze Zusammenfassung über die perzeptorischen und kognitiven Fähigkeiten des Menschen geben. Diese Zusammenfassung ist weit davon entfernt, umfassend zu sein. Jedoch bietet sie die Möglichkeit für Informatiker und Computervisualisten, einen kurzen Einblick in kognitionspsychologische Modelle zu gewinnen.

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Development Of Genetic Algorithm For Solving Scheduling Tasks In Fms With Coloured Petri Nets, Liana Napalkova, Galina Merkuryeva, Miquel Angel Piera Oct 2006

Development Of Genetic Algorithm For Solving Scheduling Tasks In Fms With Coloured Petri Nets, Liana Napalkova, Galina Merkuryeva, Miquel Angel Piera

Liana Napalkova

The paper describes the algorithm, which is developed to solve scheduling tasks in Flexible Manufacturing Systems. The algorithm is a combination of Genetic Algorithm and Coloured Petri Nets. It is proposed to use Coloured Petri Nets to tackle the encoding problem in Genetic Algorithm. The objective is to minimize the total make-span subject to different constraints obtained in Flexible Manufacturing Systems.

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The Challenges Of Embarking On Corporate Technology Initiatives, Gordon C. Tibbitts Sep 2006

The Challenges Of Embarking On Corporate Technology Initiatives, Gordon C. Tibbitts

Gordon C. Tibbitts III

The world of publishing is changing dramatically with the advent of the web and the dramatic shift toward the use of technology. This presentation addresses the challenges of technologic change through the case study of that change at one of the world’s largest privately owned academic publishers.

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Wavelet-Based Functional Mixed Model Analysis: Computational Considerations, Richard C. Herrick, Jeffrey S. Morris Aug 2006

Wavelet-Based Functional Mixed Model Analysis: Computational Considerations, Richard C. Herrick, Jeffrey S. Morris

Jeffrey S. Morris

Wavelet-based Functional Mixed Models is a new Bayesian method extending mixed models to irregular functional data (Morris and Carroll, JRSS-B, 2006). These data sets are typically very large and can quickly run into memory and time constraints unless these issues are carefully dealt with in the software. We reduce runtime by 1.) identifying and optimizing hotspots, 2.) using wavelet compression to do less computation with minimal impact on results, and 3.) dividing the code into multiple executables to be run in parallel using a grid computing resource. We discuss rules of thumb for estimating memory requirements and computation times in …

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Archiving Scholarly Material: One Publisher's Perspective, Gordon C. Tibbitts Jul 2006

Archiving Scholarly Material: One Publisher's Perspective, Gordon C. Tibbitts

Gordon C. Tibbitts III

We need large digital archives to preserve scholarly content for generations to come and we need them now. Deciding who should do the archiving (e.g. librarians and archivists), what to archive, where in the scholarly community archiving should be undertaken, and how to do it successfully, is starting to come into focus. A brief review of the scholarly digital archiving efforts underway reveals some commonality of intent. This can be contrasted with a clear need for decisions regarding the scope of what should be digitally archived, and ultimately, how archives in their many forms might be best constructed. While exploring …

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Clir Forms Advisory Committee For Scholarly Communication Report, Ann Okerson, Gordon C. Tibbitts Apr 2006

Clir Forms Advisory Committee For Scholarly Communication Report, Ann Okerson, Gordon C. Tibbitts

Gordon C. Tibbitts III

In January 2006 CLIR (the Council on Library and Information Resources) formed a committee of advisors to develop strategically directed scholarly communication and preservation agendas that would appeal to and create value for CLIR constituents and the broader communities of stakeholders whose existence is entwined with these two topics. This report represents the findings as presented by Ann Okerson (the committee leader) and the committee findings between mid-January and late March 2006, identifying possible directions and studies to be pursued in CLIR's scholarly communication programs over the next three years.

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Analysis Of Mass Spectrometry Data Using Bayesian Wavelet-Based Functional Mixed Models, Jeffrey S. Morris, Philip J. Brown, Keith A. Baggerly, Kevin R. Coombes Mar 2006

Analysis Of Mass Spectrometry Data Using Bayesian Wavelet-Based Functional Mixed Models, Jeffrey S. Morris, Philip J. Brown, Keith A. Baggerly, Kevin R. Coombes

Jeffrey S. Morris

In this chapter, we demonstrate how to analyze MALDI-TOF/SELDITOF mass spectrometry data using the wavelet-based functional mixed model introduced by Morris and Carroll (2006), which generalizes the linear mixed models to the case of functional data. This approach models each spectrum as a function, and is very general, accommodating a broad class of experimental designs and allowing one to model nonparametric functional effects for various factors, which can be conditions of interest (e.g. cancer/normal) or experimental factors (blocking factors). Inference on these functional effects allows us to identify protein peaks related to various outcomes of interest, including dichotomous outcomes, categorical …

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Development Of A Design Environment For End Users To Build The Target-Relevant Decision Support Tools In Rural Industry, Shah Jahan Miah Jan 2006

Development Of A Design Environment For End Users To Build The Target-Relevant Decision Support Tools In Rural Industry, Shah Jahan Miah

Dr Shah Jahan Miah

Decision support systems (DSS) developed by end users have had limited success in rural operations. This paper will discuss the development stages of a new tool for improving the DSS development process in the rural industries. The object of this project is to develop an end user enabled design environment (EUEDE) which will allow a non-technical computer user to build target-relevant decision support tools. The resultant design environment aims to allow the end user to re-use and share their knowledge within a specific business context. This approach will facilitate flexibility to build relevant DSS’s for an end user’s specific decision …

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Place-Valued Logics Around Cybernetic Ontology, The Bcl And Afosr, Rudolf Kaehr Jan 2006

Place-Valued Logics Around Cybernetic Ontology, The Bcl And Afosr, Rudolf Kaehr

Rudolf Kaehr

No abstract provided.

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From Ruby To Rudy, Rudolf Kaehr Jan 2006

From Ruby To Rudy, Rudolf Kaehr

Rudolf Kaehr

No abstract provided.

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The Chinese Challenge. Hallucinations For Other Futures, Rudolf Kaehr Jan 2006

The Chinese Challenge. Hallucinations For Other Futures, Rudolf Kaehr

Rudolf Kaehr

The main question is: What can we learn from China that China is not teaching us? It is proposed that a study of polycontextural logic and morphogrammatics could be helpful to discover this new kind of rationality.

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The Night Of October 2, 1984, Donald G. Laird Jan 2006

The Night Of October 2, 1984, Donald G. Laird

Dr. David Morgan Lochhead

October 2, 1984 David Lochhead made an address on the occasion of his becoming Full Professor of Theology at the Vancouver School of Theology. He entitled his address: Theology in a Digital World. This was four years before it became available in print.

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Exodus From Eden: Comprehending Our Creation In An Un/Real World, Curtis Ackley Jan 2006

Exodus From Eden: Comprehending Our Creation In An Un/Real World, Curtis Ackley

Dr. David Morgan Lochhead

Rev. Curis S. Ackey. Keynote Address Presented October 14, 2006 at the David Lochhead Memorial Symposium Virtual Un/Reality: The Spirituality of Cyberspace Copyright © 2006 by Curtis S. Ackley

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Getting Real In Virtual Reality, Debbie Herring Jan 2006

Getting Real In Virtual Reality, Debbie Herring

Dr. David Morgan Lochhead

Address of Dr. Debbie Herring at the David Lochhead Memorial Symposium, October 14-16, 2006. Dr. Herring is A Senior Lecturer at the Urban Theology Unit of the Sheffield University Biblical Studies Department.

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Dewey: The First Ghost-Buster?, Leslie Marsh Jan 2006

Dewey: The First Ghost-Buster?, Leslie Marsh

Leslie Marsh

Ghost-busting, or less colloquially, anti-Cartesianism or non-representationalism, is a loose and internally fluid coalition (philosophical and empirical) comprising Dynamical, Embodied, Extended, Distributed, and Situated (DEEDS) theories of cognition. Gilbert Ryle – DEEDS’ anglophonic masthead [1] – supposedly exorcised the Cartesian propensity to postulate mind as an apparition-like entity somehow situated in the body. Ryle’s behaviouristic recommendation was, that just as we don’t see the wind blowing but only see the trees waving, so too should we conceive intelligence as manifest though action. The Cartesian ghost of old has mutated, taking the form of the ‘Machine in the Machine’, the brain …

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The Role Of Connective Tissue Growth Factor In Skeletal Growth And Development, Philadelphia University Jan 2006

The Role Of Connective Tissue Growth Factor In Skeletal Growth And Development, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

No abstract provided.

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