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E-tutorial support for collaborative online learning:
Computers & Education
Virtual learning continues to develop and expand into all educational environments, offering students a genuine learning experience. This paper...
Collaborative Learning (K.3.1...)
| Feb 1 12

Comparative experimental studies on spatial memory and learning in rats and robots:
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
Comparative cognition studies the behavior of different animals, focusing on differences between species. In this paper, the comparison is performed between rats...
Learning (I.2.6)
| Feb 1 12

Designing and implementing a measurement program for Scrum teams:
Agile software development relies on burn-down charts to track progress. Traditional process control, however, demands substantial measurement programs. So what are the needs and wants...
Software Development (K.6.3...)
| Feb 2 12

Depixelizing pixel art:
ACM Transactions on Graphics
Pixel art is a particular form of digital art where pixels are used to represent the different features in an image. Almost all arcade game graphics were done using pixel art. At the time they were...
Fine Arts (J.5...)
| Feb 2 12

List decodability at small radii:
Designs, Codes and Cryptography
In many cases, it is impossible for a decoding algorithm to specify a unique codeword closest to a received word; list decoding refers to the technique of producing...
Error Control Codes (E.4...)
| Feb 2 12

Social aspects of music and interactive technologies in facilitating face-to-face interactions in third places:
This short research paper concisely presents two studies aimed at understanding social factors related to music. More precisely, it explores the way...
Miscellaneous (H.5.m)
| Feb 3 12

Tempo induction from music recordings using ensemble empirical mode decomposition analysis:
Computer Music Journal
While many semantic analysis methods for text information exist, the vast majority of current data is of a multimedia nature, which...
Sound & Music Computing (H.5.5)
| Feb 3 12

Necessary and neglected?:
Agile programming is not known for favoring internal software documentation. Since internal documentation does not directly contribute to making clients happy, agile programmers exhibit little enthusiasm...
Methodologies (D.2.1...)
| Feb 3 12

Designing social videogames for educational uses:
Computers & Education
This paper is ostensibly a survey of “research into educational videogames.” In reality, it is more like a rambling talk, sometimes incoherent and sometimes insightful. It includes history, examples...
Computer Uses in Education (K.3.1)
| Feb 6 12

Sparse conjugate directions pursuit with application to fixed-size kernel models:
Machine Learning
While the conjugate gradient method is a popular iterative approach to solving large sparse linear systems, it is not biased to find good sparse solutions. This paper presents a variant called sparse...
Learning (I.2.6)
| Feb 6 12

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Software development

Nowadays, many human activities rely heavily on data analysis, production, and dissemination. Software, which makes all of this data processing possible, must be robust, dependable, and easy to use. Accordingly, people who develop software should use...
Software Process (K.6.3...)
| Feb 1 12

Multibiometrics for human identification

Multibiometrics-based identification provides greater security and higher accuracy. Since 2006, there have been Annual Biometrics Workshops at the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. This collection is...
General (I.5.0)
| Feb 1 12

Basic electronics for scientists and engineers

Eggleston argues that scientists and engineers often deal with measurement and experimental data in the form of electric signals obtained from some sort of electronic circuitry. In many cases, the circuitry is self-made because the desired electronic...
Electronics (J.2...)
| Feb 2 12

Designing mLearning

Mobile learning (mLearning) is finding application in a wide range of technological innovations, including geolocation; near field communication (NFC), which may help...
Computer Uses in Education (K.3.1)
| Feb 2 12

Privacy online

Although individuals know that online postings are widely accessible, posters act as though this information is private. This is the privacy paradox. Divided into three sections--“Approaches,” “Applications,” and “Audiences”--this book...
Web-Based Interaction (H.5.3...)
| Feb 3 12

Data architecture

The provocative title is misleading: the book has nothing to do with Zen or its relationship to data architecture, with the exception of vague, superficial, and cliched principles that fit any philosophical concept...
Data Storage Representations (E.2)
| Feb 3 12

Bayesian time series models

Time series data appear in many areas, such as economics, audio analysis, video streaming, and biomedicine. Probabilistic models are popular tools to describe the characteristics of time series because...
Time Series Analysis (G.3...)
| Feb 6 12

The secret war between downloading and uploading

Once in a while, a book comes along that you think might provide enough material to make one truly question the direction that technology is taking. I began reading this book with such an...
General (K.8.0)
| Feb 6 12

Proofs and algorithms

Mathematical logic is a challenging subject for many students. While its results are of critical importance to computer scientists, its experts often struggle to convey its main ideas to a lay audience....
General (F.1.0)
| Feb 6 12

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