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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 4 days ago
Making food, producing sustainability
Many contemporary approaches to environmental sustainability focus on the end-consumer. In this panel, we explore lessons from small food producers for future development of HCI a...
Tad Hirsch, Phoebe Sengers, Eli Blevis, Richard Be...
ANTSW
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Extending the Particle Swarm Algorithm to Model Animal Foraging Behaviour
The particle swarm algorithm contains elements which map fairly strongly to the foraging problem in behavioural ecology. In this paper, we show how some simple adaptions to the sta...
Cecilia Di Chio, Riccardo Poli, Paolo Di Chio
ECTEL
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Building Domain Ontologies from Text for Educational Purposes
—This paper presents a semiautomatic framework that aims to produce domain concept maps from text and then to derive domain ontologies from these concept maps. This methodology p...
Amal Zouaq, Roger Nkambou, Claude Frasson
JASSS
2002
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13 years 5 months ago
The power of commitment in cooperative social action
This project presents an agent-based simulation model of protest activity. Agents are located in a two dimensional grid and have limited ability to observe the behavior of other a...
David Brichoux, Paul E. Johnson
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Utility analysis for topically biased PageRank
PageRank is known to be an efficient metric for computing general document importance in the Web. While commonly used as a one-size-fits-all measure, the ability to produce topica...
Christian Kohlschütter, Paul-Alexandru Chirit...