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Using Implicit Feedback For User Modeling In Internet And Intranet Searching, Jinmook Kim, Douglas W. Oard, Kathleen Romanik

Faculty Publications

Powerize Server 1.0, developed by Powerize.com, is a content-based information filtering and retrieval system that presently uses a manually constructed user model known as a search profile. User modeling captures a user’s information needs. A user model can be constructed explicitly by the user or implicitly by exploiting feedback from the user about which documents are relevant. Implicit feedback can be inferred from user behavior without any additional work on the part of the user. The study reported in this paper investigates a way of implementing the implicit feedback technique of user modeling for the Powerize Server 1.0. Previous studies …

Review Of The Software "Dans Un Quartier De Paris", Lara Lomicka, Hélène Gresso

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

3d Outside Cell Interference Factor For An Air-Ground Cdma ‘Cellular’ System, David W. Matolak

Faculty Publications

We compute the outside-cell interference factor of a code-division multiple-access (CDMA) system for a three-dimensional (3-D) air-to-ground (AG) "cellular-like" network consisting of a set of uniformly distributed ground base stations and airborne mobile users. The CDMA capacity is roughly inversely proportional to the outside-cell interference factor. It is shown that for the nearly free-space propagation environment of these systems, the outside-cell interference factor can be larger than that for terrestrial propagation models (as expected) and depends approximately logarithmically upon both the cell height and cell radius.

April 27, 2000 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

April 5, 2000 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Settlement Patterns And The Origins Of African Jamaican Society: Seville Plantation, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica, Douglas V. Armstrong, Kenneth G. Kelly

Faculty Publications

Archaeological and historical research at Seville Plantation, Jamaica, are used to explain changes in settlement patterns within the estate's African Jamaican community between 1670 and the late nineteenth century. Sugar plantations, such as Seville, are marked by well-defined spatial order based upon economic and power relations that was imposed upon enslaved communities by planters and managers. Archaeological evidence is used to explore how enslaved Africans modified this imposed order and redefined boundaries in ways that correspond with the development of a distinct African Jamaican society. The rigidly defined linear housing arrangements initially established by the planter, and their relations to …

Corporal Punishment In America's Public Schools And The U.N. Convention On The Rights Of The Child: A Case For Nonratification, Andre R. Imbrogno

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Recent Developments In The Law - Primary And Secondary Education

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Decentralization Continued: A Survey Of Emerging Issues In Site-Based Decision Making, Benjamin F. Wyman

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Reflections - Spring 2000, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

Reflections

Contents:

Valuable Research Materials Are Located in Thomas Cooper Library’s Government Information, Microform, and Newspaper Collections..... p.1
Bill Sudduth, Head of Government Information, Microform, and Newspaper Collections..... p.2
University Libraries Establish Ex Libris Society..... p.3
Y2K: A Cause for Celebration and Thanks..... p.3
Libraries Receive Endowment for Reference and Information Resources..... p.3
USC Secures State Funding for Distance Education..... p.4
New Faces: Marna Hostetler..... p.4
News from Thomas Cooper Library’s Special Collections..... p.5
IRIS Provides Computer Support Via the Web..... p.6
Exhibit Features South Carolina Writers..... p.6
Payne Endowment Established..... p.7
South Caroliniana Library Receives Hennig Family Library..... p.7
TCL …

Usury Trompe L'Oeil, James J. White

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

March 1, 2000 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

February 2, 2000 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Constitution Or Conformity: When The Shirt Hits The Fan In Public Schools, Clay Weisenberger

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

1999-2000 Faculty Senate Annual Report, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

The primary file includes the 1999-2000 Committee on Academic Responsibility Annual Report. Additional annual reports are attached.

Playing To The Press In Mckinley’S Front Porch Campaign: The Early Weeks Of A Nineteenth-Century Pseudo-Event, William D. Harpine

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Are You Being Served: E-Mail And (Due) Service Of Process, Yvonne Tamayo

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Abbeville County School District V. State: The Right To A Minimally Adequate Education In South Carolina, Jennifer L. Fogle

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

"A Man In A Painted Garment:" The Social Functions Of Jesting In Elizabethan Rhetoric And Courtesy Manuals, Christopher Holcomb

Faculty Publications

Many Elizabethan rhetoric and courtesy manuals offer jesting as a powerful rhetorical strategy for managing specific situations. Although highly pragmatic, the manuals' treatments of the subject imply a sociology of humor that classifies jests according to the broader social functions they serve: jests which preserve existing social relations and jests which disrupt, or even challenge, them. What eludes this classificatory scheme, however, are the properties of jesting itself. Jesting is always a flirtation with disorder and often serves conservative and disruptive functions simultaneously. If this is so, then the manuals' discussions of jesting replay (and magnify) ambiguities and anxieties characteristic …

Conceptual Clarification And Policy-Related Science: The Case Of Chemical Hormesis, Kevin C. Elliott

Faculty Publications

This paper examines the epistemological warrant for a toxicological phenomenon known as chemical hormesis. First, it argues that conceptual confusion contributes significantly to current disagreements about the status of chemical hormesis as a biological hypothesis. Second, it analyzes seven distinct concepts of chemical hormesis, arguing that none are completely satisfactory. Finally, it suggests three ramifications of this analysis for ongoing debates about the epistemological status of chemical hormesis. This serves as a case study supporting the value of philosophical methodologies such as conceptual clarification for addressing contemporary scientific disputes, including policy-related scientific disputes that may be heavily influencedby social and …

Education For Students With Special Needs: The Judicially Defined Role Of Parents In The Process, Philip T. K. Daniel

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Recent Developments In The Law - Supreme Court Review

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Style And Commerce: The Charleston Ceramics Trade In The 1760s, Lisa Hudgins

Faculty & Staff Publications

Date of Award
2000

Department
Art

First Advisor
John M. Bryan

In September 1765, an advertisement in the South Carolina Gazette announced the establishment of a potworks near Charleston. The gentleman in question was John Bartlam, a resident of Stoke-on-Trent Parish in Staffordshire, England, who had been in the potting business for roughly twelve years before immigrating to Charleston. The full impact of Bartlam' s potworks on the colonial ceramics trade is still unknown, as Bartlam's kiln has not been found. But archaeological excavations at Cainhoy, South Carolina (38BK1349), the site of his pottery from 1763 to 1769, have revealed …

An Agent-Based Global Economy, Michael N. Huhns

Faculty Publications

Many people are buying music CDs over the Web, but with multiple retail sites offering the same CDs, how do you decide which retailer to buy from? Typically, you visit a few sites and choose the one with the lowest price. Shopbotsshopping agents that automatically search the Internet to obtain information about prices and other attributes of goods and servicesare ideal helpers for such a task.1 The better ones can visit hundreds of sites, giving price-conscious consumers a powerful tool that could work to the detriment of some retailers.

The Emergence Of Language Among Autonomous Agents, Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, Michael N. Huhns

Faculty Publications

Suppose some autonomous shopbot agents had been representing us by dealing with a vendor's pricebot, and suppose they didn't share an agent communication language (ACL). What should they know at a fundamental level, what could each point to, and how could they establish a common language? Recent research at the University of Texas at Arlington has shown that agents first establish a common vocabulary, progress to a primitive language similar to human pidgin, then enrich the language's grammar to develop a creole, and eventually arrive at a full-blown ACL. During this process, the vocabulary and grammatical structures most important to …

Sensors + Agents + Networks = Aware Agents, Michael N. Huhns, Sreenath Seshadri

Faculty Publications

Software agents are being deployed in increasing numbers to help users find and manage information, particularly in open environments such as the Internet. For the most part, they operate independently and are typically designed to be aware only of their users and the environment in which they perform their tasks. Thus, they fail to take advantage of each other's abilities or results. For example, a shopping agent might periodically access several online databases to find the best price for a music CD and then purchase it if the price falls below its user's threshold. Other agents might be tracking prices …

Agent Teams: Building And Implementing Software, Michael N. Huhns

Faculty Publications

Agents will become fundamental building blocks for general-purpose Internet-based software. The software may not display any explicitly agent-like characteristics, but it will exhibit the benefits of tolerance to errors, ease of maintenance, adaptability to change, and speed of construction that agents provide. Moreover, an agent-based approach to software development can lead to new types of software solutions that might not otherwise be obvious. The author considers how an approach based on teams of active, cooperative, and persistent software components, that is agents, shows special promise in enabling the rapid construction of robust and reusable software.

A Constitutional And Statutory History Of The Telephone Business In South Carolina, William J. Quirk, Fred A. Walters

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Prince Hal: Reformation Or Calculated Education?, Jennifer Drouin

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.

The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 2 Fall 2000

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.