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2. Shifting Beliefs in Computer Science: Change in CS Student Mindsets
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Flanigan, Abraham E., Peteranetz, Markeya S., Shell, Duane F., and Soh, Leen-Kiat
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Two studies investigated change in computer science (CS) students' implicit intelligence beliefs. Across both studies, we found that the strength of incremental and entity beliefs changed across time. In Study 1, we found that incremental beliefs decreased and entity beliefs increased across the semester. Change in implicit intelligence beliefs was similar for students taking introductory and upper-division courses. In Study 2, growth curve analysis revealed a small linear change in incremental beliefs across time but no change in entity beliefs--these trends were similar for students enrolled in introductory and upper-division CS courses. Across both studies, change in implicit intelligence beliefs was not associated with academic achievement in CS. Findings provide preliminary evidence that shifts in implicit intelligence beliefs occur as students progress through the CS curriculum. Finally, findings support that mindset interventions may be more effective if delivered at the beginning of the semester before shifts in beliefs occur.
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- 2022
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3. A spatially-aware algorithm for location extraction from structured documents
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Sharma, Praval, Samal, Ashok, Soh, Leen-Kiat, and Joshi, Deepti
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- 2022
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4. Motivation and Self-Regulated Learning in Computer Science: Lessons Learned From a Multiyear Program of Classroom Research
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Peteranetz, Markeya S., Soh, Leen-Kiat, Shell, Duane F., and Flanigan, Abraham E.
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Contribution: This article presents a synthesis of the findings and implications from the IC2Think program of research in undergraduate computer science (CS) courses examining student motivation and self-regulated learning (SRL). These studies illuminate both the difficulty and potential for motivating CS students, as well as the uniqueness of CS as a context for studying undergraduate motivation. Background: Computing disciplines are increasingly important in preparing the future workforce. It is imperative that CS educators understand how to motivate students and enhance student outcomes. Synthesizing findings across multiple studies allows for the emergence of new insights into student motivation and SRL. Research Questions: Which aspects of students' motivation and SRL are predictive of achievement and retention in CS and how can findings inform CS education? Methodology: The primary methodology is a comprehensive review of seven years of research on undergraduate CS education. Studies use a variety of analysis techniques, examine a range of constructs, and include multiple introductory and advanced CS courses. Studies of relationships between variables and change over time were conducted. Findings: The present synthesis of studies on motivation and SRL highlights the complex, counter-intuitive, and positive aspects of student motivation in CS.
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- 2021
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5. SSDTutor: A feedback-driven intelligent tutoring system for secure software development
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Newar, Dip Kiran Pradhan, Zhao, Rui, Siy, Harvey, Soh, Leen-Kiat, and Song, Myoungkyu
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- 2023
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6. Improving measurements of similarity judgments with machine-learning algorithms
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Stevens, Jeffrey R., Polzkill Saltzman, Alexis, Rasmussen, Tanner, and Soh, Leen-Kiat
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- 2021
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7. A Comparison of Educational Statistics and Data Mining Approaches to Identify Characteristics That Impact Online Learning
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Miller, L. Dee, Soh, Leen-Kiat, Samal, Ashok, Kupzyk, Kevin, and Nugent, Gwen
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Learning objects (LOs) are important online resources for both learners and instructors and usage for LOs is growing. Automatic LO tracking collects large amounts of metadata about individual students as well as data aggregated across courses, learning objects, and other demographic characteristics (e.g. gender). The challenge becomes identifying which of the many variables derived from tracked data are useful for predicting student learning. This challenge has prompted considerable research in the field of educational data mining and learning analytics. This work advances such research in four ways. First, we bring together two approaches for finding salient variables from separate research areas: hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) from education and Lasso feature selection from computer science. Second, we show that these two approaches have complimentary and synergistic results with some variables considers salient by both and others salient by only one. Third, and most importantly, we demonstrate the benefits of a combined approach that considers a variable salient when either HLM or Lasso consider that variable salient. This combined approach both improves model predictive accuracy and finds additional variables considered salient in previous datasets on student learning. Lastly, we use the results to provide insights into the salient variables to the learning outcome in undergraduate CS education. Overall, this work suggests a combined approach that improves the identification of salient variables in big data and also improves the design of LO tracking systems for learning management systems.
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- 2015
8. An information fusion approach for conflating labeled point-based time-series data
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Schell, Zion, Samal, Ashok, and Soh, Leen-Kiat
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- 2021
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9. Digital Histories for the Digital Age: Collaborative Writing in Large Lecture Courses
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Soh, Leen-Kiat, Khandaker, Nobel, and Thomas, William G.
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The digital environment has had an immense effect on American society, learning, and education: we have more sources available at our fingertips than any previous generation. Teaching and learning with these new sources, however, has been a challenging transition. Students are confronted with an ocean of digital objects and need skills to navigate the World Wide Web and numerous proprietary databases. Writing and disciplinary habits of mind are more important than ever in this environment, so how do we teach these in the digital age? This paper examines the current digital environment that humanities faculty face in their teaching and explores new tools that might support collaborative writing and digital skills development for students. In particular, this paper considers the effectiveness of a specially configured multi-agent wiki system for writing in a large lecture humanities course and explores the results of its deployment over two years. [For the full proceedings, see ED562127.]
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- 2013
10. Helping Engineering Students Learn in Introductory Computer Science (CS1) Using Computational Creativity Exercises (CCEs)
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Peteranetz, Markeya S., Flanigan, Abraham E., Shell, Duane F., and Soh, Leen-Kiat
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Contribution: This paper provides evidence that computational creativity exercises (CCEs) can increase engineering students' learning in introductory computer science (CS1) courses. Its main contribution is its more rigorous treatment/control group research design that allows testing for causal influences of CCEs on student learning and performance. Background: Computer science (CS) courses are critical foundational courses for engineering students. CCEs that merge computational and creative thinking have been shown to increase achievement and learning of engineering and nonengineering students in CS1 courses, but previous research has used quasi- and non-experimental designs. Intended Outcomes: CCEs are intended to improve students' learning of CS1 content and problem-solving ability by fostering computational creativity. Application Design: CCEs can improve student learning and can be used to supplement other evidence-based instructional practices. Findings: Propensity score matching was used to create equivalent treatment and control groups; results show that students in the CCE implementation section had higher scores on a CS knowledge test than students in the control section, but not higher self-efficacy for their CS knowledge. Focus group and open-ended survey questions indicated that students had mixed reactions to the CCEs, with about half the students seeing them as improving their learning, understanding, and ability to apply CS in their engineering field. Responses also reinforced the importance of fully incorporating CCEs in courses and aligning them with course topics.
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- 2018
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11. Computational Creativity Exercises: An Avenue for Promoting Learning in Computer Science
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Peteranetz, Markeya S., Flanigan, Abraham E., Shell, Duane F., and Soh, Leen-Kiat
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Computational thinking and creative thinking are valuable tools both within and outside of computer science (CS). The goal of the project discussed here is to increase students' achievement in CS courses through a series of computational creativity exercises (CCEs). In this paper, the framework of CCEs is described, and the results of two separate studies on their impact on student achievement are presented. Students in introductory CS courses completed CCEs as part of those courses. Students in Study 1 came from a variety of programs, and students in Study 2 were engineering majors. A profiling approach was used to test whether the impact of the CCEs could be accounted for by differences in students' motivated and self-regulated engagement. Overall, CCEs had positive impacts on students' grades and knowledge test scores, and although there were differences in achievement across the profiles, the impact of the CCEs was generally consistent across profiles. The CCEs appear to be a promising way to increase student achievement in introductory CS courses. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.
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- 2017
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12. Career aspirations, perceived instrumentality, and achievement in undergraduate computer science courses
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Peteranetz, Markeya S., Flanigan, Abraham E., Shell, Duane F., and Soh, Leen-Kiat
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- 2018
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13. Impact of Creative Competency Exercises on College Computer Science Students' Learning, Achievement, Self-Efficacy, and Creativity
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Wang, Shiyuan, Shell, Duane F., Flanigan, Abraham, Peteranetz, Markeya, and Soh, Leen-Kiat
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The purpose of the present study was to investigate how inclusion of computational creativity exercises (CCE) based on Epstein's Generativity Theory (1996, 2005; Epstein, Schmidt, & Warel, 2008) in post-secondary computer science [CS] courses affected students' class grades, learning of computational thinking and CS knowledge, self-efficacy, and creative competency. A propensity score matching technique was used to create two comparable groups (control/intervention). ANOVA results showed that the implementation of CCE in undergraduate computer science courses enhanced student class grades, long-term retention of core knowledge, and higher self-efficacy for creatively applying their CS knowledge. The effect of the CCEs was consistent across upper and lower division courses for all outcomes.
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- 2017
14. Implicit intelligence beliefs of computer science students: Exploring change across the semester
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Flanigan, Abraham E., Peteranetz, Markeya S., Shell, Duane F., and Soh, Leen-Kiat
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- 2017
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15. Decision making in open agent systems.
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Eck, Adam, Soh, Leen‐Kiat, and Doshi, Prashant
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DECISION making ,MULTIAGENT systems ,ARTIFICIAL intelligence ,CLASSROOM environment ,EVERYDAY life ,WILDFIRE prevention ,ROBOTIC exoskeletons - Abstract
In many real‐world applications of AI, the set of actors and tasks are not constant, but instead change over time. Robots tasked with suppressing wildfires eventually run out of limited suppressant resources and need to temporarily disengage from the collaborative work in order to recharge, or they might become damaged and leave the environment permanently. In a large business organization, objectives and goals change with the market, requiring workers to adapt to perform different sets of tasks across time. We call these multiagent systems (MAS) open agent systems (OASYS), and the openness of the sets of agents and tasks necessitates new capabilities and modeling for decision making compared to planning and learning in closed environments. In this article, we discuss three notions of openness: agent openness, task openness, and type openness. We also review the past and current research on addressing the novel challenges brought about by openness in OASYS. We share lessons learned from these efforts and suggest directions for promising future work in this area. We also encourage the community to engage and participate in this area of MAS research to address critical real‐world problems in the application of AI to enhance our daily lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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16. Predicting similarity judgments in intertemporal choice with machine learning
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Stevens, Jeffrey R. and Soh, Leen-Kiat
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- 2018
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17. Motivational and Self-Regulated Learning Profiles of Students Taking a Foundational Engineering Course
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Nelson, Katherine G., Shell, Duane F., Husman, Jenefer, Fishman, Evan J., and Soh, Leen-Kiat
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Background: Technical, nonengineering required courses taken at the onset of an engineering degree provide students a foundation for engineering coursework. Students who perform poorly in these foundational courses, even in those tailored to engineering, typically have limited success in engineering. A profile approach may explain why these courses are obstacles for engineering students. This approach examines the interaction among motivation and self-regulation constructs. Purpose (Hypothesis): This project sought to determine what motivational and self-regulated learning profiles engineering students adopt in foundational courses. We hypothesized that engineering students would adopt profiles associated with maladaptive motivational beliefs and self-regulated learning behaviors. The effects of profile adoption on learning and differences associated with student major, minor, and gender were analyzed. Design/Method: Five hundred and thirty-eight students, 332 of them engineering majors, were surveyed on motivation and self-regulation variables. Data were analyzed from a learner-centered profile approach using cluster analysis. Results: We obtained a five-cluster learning profile solution. Approximately 83% of engineering students enrolled in an engineering-tailored foundational computer science course adopted maladaptive profiles. These students learned less than those who adopted adaptive learning profiles. Profile adoption depended on whether a student was considering a major or minor in computer science or not. Conclusions: Findings indicate the motivational and self-regulated learning profiles that engineering students adopt in foundational courses, why they do so, and what profile adoption means for learning. Our findings can guide instructors in providing motivational beliefs and self-regulated learning scaffolds in the classroom.
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- 2015
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18. A spatially-aware algorithm for location extraction from structured documents.
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Sharma, Praval, Samal, Ashok, Soh, Leen-Kiat, and Joshi, Deepti
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GEOGRAPHIC names ,RANDOM fields ,LINGUISTIC context ,SPATIAL resolution ,ALGORITHMS - Abstract
Place names facilitate locating and distinguishing geographic space where human activities and natural phenomena occur. Extracting place names at multiple spatial resolutions from text is beneficial in several tasks such as identifying the location of events, enriching gazetteers, discovering connections between events and places, etc. Most modern place name extraction approaches generalize the linguistic rules and lexical features as a universal rule and ignore patterns inherent in place names in the geographic contexts. As a result, they lack spatial awareness to effectively identify place names from different geographic contexts, especially the lesser-known place names. In this research, we develop a novel Spatially-Aware Location Extraction (SALE) algorithm for place name extraction from structured documents that uses a hybrid approach comprising of knowledge-driven and data-driven methods. We build a custom named entity recognition (NER) system based on the conditional random field (CRF) and train/ fine-tune it using spatial features extracted from a dataset based on a given geographic region. SALE uses multiple pathways, including the use of the spatially tuned NER to enhance the efficacy in our place names extraction. The experimental results using a large geographic region show that our algorithm outperforms well-known state-of-the-art place name recognizers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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19. Applying Image Analysis and Machine Learning to Historical Newspaper Collections.
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Soh, Leen-Kiat, Lorang, Liz, Pack, Chulwoo, and Liu, Yi
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IMAGE analysis , *MACHINE learning , *NEWSPAPER collections in libraries , *NEWSPAPERS , *DIGITAL images , *DIGITAL libraries - Abstract
Diving below the surface has its challenges, however. For example, "noise effects" are especially widespread when digital images have been created from earlier microphotographic copies, as is common in historical newspaper collections. Noise effects introduce interference to the primary signals of the pages, both for human vision and computer vision and processing. Various types of noise effects (fig. 1) are common, including unevenly distributed luminosity (i.e. range effects), visible characters from the other side of the page (bleed-through), tilted document scans (skewed orientation), and markings on the newspaper that obscure text (blobs). 1 There is a wide range of severity for each of these effects, and images can range from very clean to very noisy within and across datasets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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20. Profiles of Motivated Self-Regulation in College Computer Science Courses: Differences in Major versus Required Non-Major Courses
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Shell, Duane F. and Soh, Leen-Kiat
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The goal of the present study was to utilize a profiling approach to understand differences in motivation and strategic self-regulation among post-secondary STEM students in major versus required non-major computer science courses. Participants were 233 students from required introductory computer science courses (194 men; 35 women; 4 unknown) at a large Midwestern state university. Cluster analysis identified five profiles: (1) a strategic profile of a highly motivated by-any-means good strategy user; (2) a knowledge-building profile of an intrinsically motivated autonomous, mastery-oriented student; (3) a surface learning profile of a utility motivated minimally engaged student; (4) an apathetic profile of an amotivational disengaged student; and (5) a learned helpless profile of a motivated but unable to effectively self-regulate student. Among CS majors and students in courses in their major field, the strategic and knowledge-building profiles were the most prevalent. Among non-CS majors and students in required non-major courses, the learned helpless, surface learning, and apathetic profiles were the most prevalent. Students in the strategic and knowledge-building profiles had significantly higher retention of computational thinking knowledge than students in other profiles. Students in the apathetic and surface learning profiles saw little instrumentality of the course for their future academic and career objectives. Findings show that students in STEM fields taking required computer science courses exhibit the same constellation of motivated strategic self-regulation profiles found in other post-secondary and K-12 settings.
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- 2013
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21. Multiagent study of smart grid customers with neighborhood electricity trading
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Kahrobaee, Salman, Rajabzadeh, Rasheed A., Soh, Leen-Kiat, and Asgarpoor, Sohrab
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- 2014
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22. Potential-based reward shaping for finite horizon online POMDP planning
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Eck, Adam, Soh, Leen-Kiat, Devlin, Sam, and Kudenko, Daniel
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- 2016
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23. iLOG: A Framework for Automatic Annotation of Learning Objects with Empirical Usage Metadata
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Miller, L. D., Soh, Leen-Kiat, and Samal, Ashok
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Learning objects (LOs) are digital or non-digital entities used for learning, education or training commonly stored in repositories searchable by their associated metadata. Unfortunately, based on the current standards, such metadata is often missing or incorrectly entered making search difficult or impossible. In this paper, we investigate automating metadata generation for SCORM-complaint LOs based on user interactions with the LO and static information about LOs and users. Our framework, called the Intelligent Learning Object Guide (iLOG), involves real-time tracking of each user sessions (an LO Wrapper), offline data mining to identify key attributes or patterns on how the LOs have been used as well as characteristics of the users (MetaGen), and the selection of these findings as metadata. Mechanisms used in the data mining include data imputation via clustering, association rule mining, and feature selection ensemble. This paper describes the methodology of automatic annotation, presents the results on the evaluation and validation of the algorithms, and discusses the resulting metadata. We have deployed our iLOG implementation for five LOs in introductory computer science topics and collected data for over 1400 sessions. We demonstrate that iLOG successfully tracks user interactions that can be used to automate the generation of meaningful empirical usage metadata for different stakeholder groups including learners and instructors, LO developers, and researchers. (Contains 2 figures and 5 tables.)
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- 2012
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24. Lessons Learned from Comprehensive Deployments of Multiagent CSCL Applications I-MINDS and ClassroomWiki
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Khandaker, N., Soh, Leen-Kiat, Miller, L. D., Eck, A., and Jiang, Hong
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Recent years have seen a surge in the use of intelligent computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) tools for improving student learning in traditional classrooms. However, adopting such a CSCL tool in a classroom still requires the teacher to develop (or decide on which to adopt) the CSCL tool and the CSCL script, design the relevant pedagogical aspects (i.e., the learning objectives, assessment method, etc.) to overcome the associated challenges (e.g., free riding, student assessment, forming student groups that improve student learning, etc). We have used a multiagent-based system to develop a CSCL application and multiagent-frameworks to form student groups that improve student collaborative learning. In this paper, we describe the contexts of our three generations of CSCL applications (i.e., I-MINDS and ClassroomWiki) and provide a set of lessons learned from our deployments in terms of the script, tool, and pedagogical aspects of using CSCL. We believe that our lessons would allow 1) the instructors and students to use intelligent CSCL applications more effectively and efficiently, and help to improve the design of such systems, and 2) the researchers to gain additional insights into the impact of collaborative learning theories when they are applied to real-world classrooms. (Contains 5 tables and 3 figures.)
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- 2011
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25. Improving Group Selection and Assessment in an Asynchronous Collaborative Writing Application
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Khandaker, Nobel and Soh, Leen-Kiat
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Two critical issues of the typical computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) systems are inappropriate selection of student groups and inaccurate assessment of individual contributions of the group members. Inappropriate selection of student groups often leads to ineffective and inefficient collaboration, while inaccurate assessment of individual contributions of the group members (1) hinders healthy working relationships among members and (2) prevents teachers from providing precise interventions to specific students. To address these issues, our proposed iHUCOFS framework forms student groups by balancing the students' competence (what the students know) and compatibility (whom they like as peers) for each group. The competence and compatibility are calculated using the assessment of student contributions derived from a newly implemented asynchronous collaborative writing module's detailed tracking information. Results suggest that: (1) the use iHUCOFS framework may improve: (a) the effectiveness and efficiency of the groups, (b) the perception of the students of their peers and their groups, and (c) the collaboration among students with low and high competence and (2) the teacher can use the detailed information tracked by the collaborative writing module to: (a) improve the design of the CSCL tools and (b) provide precise intervention to improve collaboration among the students. (Contains 14 figures and 6 tables.)
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- 2010
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26. A Comprehensive Survey on the Status of Social and Professional Issues in United States Undergraduate Computer Science Programs and Recommendations
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Spradling, Carol, Soh, Leen-Kiat, and Ansorge, Charles J.
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A national web-based survey was administered to 700 undergraduate computer science (CS) programs in the United States as part of a stratified random sample of 797 undergraduate CS programs. The 251 program responses (36% response rate) regarding social and professional issues are presented. This article describes the demographics of the respondents, presents results concerning whether programs teach social and professional issues, how social and professional issues are integrated, perceptions of CS faculty regarding the importance of social and professional issues, pedagogies used to teach social and professional issues, and what specific social and professional topics have been included in the CS curriculum. Additionally, we (a) provide suggestions for CS programs regarding the integration of social and professional issues into the CS curriculum, (b) suggest ways to encourage more social and professional coverage in CS programs, pedagogy, and (c) recommend what social and professional topics should be included in future CS curriculum reports. (Contains 8 tables and 10 figures.)
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- 2009
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27. The Impact of the Affinity Learning Authoring Tool on Student Learning
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Soh, Leen-Kiat, Fowler, David, and Zygielbaum, Art I.
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Affinity Learning is a system that allows the user to build a lesson on a subject matter by breaking it down into concepts, misconceptions, assessments, and remediation steps. Examples and questions can also used in these components. Affinity Learning has been found to be effective and can offer critical insights to student learning strategies. Authoring Affinity Learning lesson plans or hierarchies, however, is non-trivial. We have developed two authoring tools: the first tool provides an overall view of the hierarchy with a "graphical display" of the nodes and links; but the second tool does not. This article reports on a study conducted to test whether the graphical authoring tool can help produce better-quality hierarchies and also help the users learn about the subject matter better than the non-graphical authoring tool. Results show that while the graphical authoring tool can result in better-quality hierarchies, it does not result in better learning. (Contains 10 figures and 4 tables. Appended are: (1) TEAC 451P/851P Technology Project Description; (2) Handout on the Affinity Learning Project; (3) User Feedback; and (4) Test Used in the Study.)
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- 2008
28. An Integrated Framework for Improved Computer Science Education: Strategies, Implementations, and Results
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Soh, Leen-Kiat, Samal, Ashok, and Nugent, Gwen
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This paper describes the Reinventing Computer Science Curriculum Project at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Motivated by rapid and significant changes in the information technology and computing areas, high diversity in student aptitudes, and high dropout rates, the project designed and implemented an integrated instructional/research framework. The framework is based around 10 general design strategies that incorporated administrative, instructional, and research principles. The framework consists of a placement examination, three suites of structured laboratory assignments, multimedia learning objects, and educational evaluation and research designs. The results of implementing the framework in our introductory courses are encouraging and insightful. While validating some of our designs, our research also identified areas for further development and research. (Contains 2 figures and 4 tables.)
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- 2007
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29. A Placement Test for Computer Science: Design, Implementation, and Analysis
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Nugent, Gwen, Soh, Leen-Kiat, Samal, Ashok, and Lang, Jeff
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An introductory CS1 course presents problems for educators and students due to students' diverse background in programming knowledge and exposure. Students who enroll in CS1 also have different expectations and motivations. Prompted by the curricular guidelines for undergraduate programmes in computer science released in 2001 by the ACM/IEEE, and driven by a departmental project to reinvent the undergraduate computer science and computer engineering curricula at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, we are currently implementing a series of changes which will improve our introductory courses. One key component of our project is an online placement examination tied to the cognitive domain that assesses student knowledge and intellectual skills. Our placement test is also integrated into a comprehensive educational research design containing a pre- and post-test framework for assessing student learning and providing valuable feedback for needed instructional revisions. In this paper, we focus on the design and implementation of our placement exam and present an analysis of the data collected to date. (Contains 5 tables.)
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- 2006
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30. Design, Development, and Validation of Learning Objects
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Nugent, Gwen, Soh, Leen-Kiat, and Samal, Ashok
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A learning object is a small, stand-alone, mediated content resource that can be reused in multiple instructional contexts. In this article, we describe our approach to design, develop, and validate Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) compliant learning objects for undergraduate computer science education. We discuss the advantages of a learning object approach, including positive student response and achievement, extension to other settings and populations, and benefits to the instructor and developers. Results confirm our belief that the use of modular, Web-based learning objects can be used successfully for independent learning and are a viable option for distance delivery of course components. (Contains 2 figures and 2 tables.)
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- 2006
31. A dissimilarity function for geospatial polygons
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Joshi, Deepti, Soh, Leen-Kiat, Samal, Ashok, and Zhang, Jing
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- 2014
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32. Spatio-temporal polygonal clustering with space and time as first-class citizens
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Joshi, Deepti, Samal, Ashok, and Soh, Leen-Kiat
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- 2013
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33. Observer effect from stateful resources in agent sensing
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Eck, Adam and Soh, Leen-Kiat
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- 2013
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34. Techniques for Computing Fitness of Use (FoU) for Time Series Datasets with Applications in the Geospatial Domain
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Fu, Lei, Soh, Leen-Kiat, and Samal, Ashok
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- 2008
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35. Trend Analysis of Streamflow Drought Events in Nebraska
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Wu, Hong, Soh, Leen-Kiat, Samal, Ashok, and Chen, Xun-Hong
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- 2008
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36. A Real-Time Negotiation Model and A Multi-Agent Sensor Network Implementation
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Soh, Leen-Kiat and Tsatsoulis, Costas
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- 2005
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37. Implementing CS1 with embedded instructional research design in laboratories
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Lang, Jeff, Nugent, Gwen C., Samal, Ashok, and Soh, Leen-Kiat
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Computer science -- Study and teaching ,Group work in education -- Analysis ,Team learning approach in education -- Analysis ,Computer engineering -- Study and teaching ,Computation laboratories -- Forecasts and trends ,Market trend/market analysis ,Business ,Education ,Electronics ,Electronics and electrical industries - Abstract
Closed laboratories are becoming an increasingly popular approach to teaching introductory computer science courses. Unlike open laboratories that tend to be an informal environment provided for students to practice their skills with attendance optional, closed laboratories are structured meeting times that support the lecture component of the course, and attendance is required. This paper reports on an integrated approach to designing, implementing, and assessing laboratories with an embedded instructional research design. The activities reported here are parts of a departmentwide effort not only to improve student learning in computer science and computer engineering (CE) but also to improve the agility of the Computer Science and Engineering Department in adapting the curriculum to changing technologies, incorporate research, and validate the instructional strategies used. This paper presents the design and implementation of the laboratories and the results and analysis of student performance. Also described in this paper is cooperative learning in the laboratories and its impact on student learning. Index Terms--Computer science education, cooperative learning, instructional design, introductory computer science/computer engineering (CS/CE) courses, laboratories.
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- 2006
38. ARKTOS: an intelligent system for SAR sea ice image classification
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Soh, Leen-Kiat, Tsatsoulis, Costas, Gineris, Denise, and Bertoia, Cheryl
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Remote sensing -- Research ,Business ,Earth sciences ,Electronics and electrical industries - Abstract
We present an intelligent system for satellite sea ice image analysis named Advanced Reasoning using Knowledge for Typing Of Sea ice (ARKTOS). ARKTOS performs fully automated analysis of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sea ice images by mimicking the reasoning process of sea ice experts. ARKTOS automatically segments a SAR image of sea ice, generates descriptors for the segments of the image, and then uses expert system rules to classify these sea ice features. ARKTOS also utilizes multisource data fusion to improve classification and performs belief handling using Dempster-Shafer. As a software package, ARKTOS comprises components in image processing, rule-based classification, multisource data fusion, and graphical user interface-based knowledge engineering and modification. As a research project over the past ten years, ARKTOS has undergone phases such as knowledge acquisition, prototyping, refinement, evaluation, deployment, and operationalization at the U.S. National Ice Center. In this paper, we focus on the methodology, evaluations, and classification results of ARKTOS. Index Terms--Data fusion, Dempster-Shafer belief theory, intelligent image analysis, rule-based system, sea ice classification.
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- 2004
39. The workshop program at the Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
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Muslea, Ion, Dignum, Virginia, Corkill, Daniel, Jonker, Catholijn, Dignum, Frank, Coradeschi, Silvia, Saffiotti, Alessandro, Fu, Dan, Orkin, Jeff, Cheetham, William, Goebel, Kai, Bonissone, Piero, Soh, Leen-Kiat, Jones, Randolph M., Wray, Robert E., Scheutz, Matthias, de Farias, Daniela Pucci, Mannor, Shie, Theocharou, Georgios, Precup, Doina, Mobasher, Bamshad, Anand, Sarabjot Singh, Berendt, Bettina, Hotho, Andreas, Guesgen, Hans, Rosenstein, Michael T., and Ghavamzadeh, Mohammad
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Artificial intelligence ,Artificial intelligence -- Conferences, meetings and seminars ,Artificial intelligence -- 2004 AD - Abstract
AAAI presented the AAAI-04 workshop program on Sunday July 25 and Monday, July 26, 2004 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center and the adjacent headquarter hotel in San Jose, […], AAAI presented the AAAI-04 workshop program on July 25-26, 2004 in San Jose, California. This program included twelve workshops covering a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence. The titles of the workshops were as follows: (1) Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining; (2) Agent Organizations: Theory and Practice; (3) Anchoring Symbols to Sensor Data; (4) Challenges in Game AI; (5) Fielding Applications of Artificial Intelligence; (6) Forming and Maintaining Coalitions in Adaptive Multiagent Systems; (7) Intelligent Agent Architectures: Combining the Strengths of Software Engineering and Cognitive Systems; (8) Learning and Planning in Markov Processes--Advances and Challenges; (9) Semantic Web Personalization; (10) Sensor Networks; (11) Spatial and Temporal Reasoning; and (12) Supervisory Control of Learning and Adaptive Systems.
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40. AAAI 2002 workshops. (Workshop Reports)
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Blake, Brian, Haigh, Karen, Hexmoor, Henry, Falcone, Rino, Soh, Leen-Kiat, Baral, Chitta, McIlraith, Sheila, Gmytrasiewicz, Piotr, Parsons, Simon, Malaka, Rainer, Krueger, Antonio, Bouquet, Paolo, Smart, Bill, Kurumantani, Koichi, Pease, Adam, Brenner, Michael, desJardins, Marie, Junker, Ulrich, Delgrande, Jim, Doyle, Jon, Rossi, Francesca, Schaub, Torsten, Gomes, Carla, Walsh, Toby, Guo, Haipeng, Horvitz, Eric, Ide, Nancy, Welty, Chris, Anger, Frank D., Guegen, Hans W., and Ligozat, Gerald
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Artificial intelligence ,American Association for Artificial Intelligence -- Conferences, meetings and seminars ,Artificial intelligence -- Conferences, meetings and seminars - Abstract
The American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) presented the AAAI-02 Workshop Program on Sunday and Monday, 28-29 July 2002 at the Shaw Convention Center in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The AAAI-02 […], * The American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) presented the AAAI-02 Workshop Program on Sunday and Monday, 28-29 July 2002 at the Shaw Convention Center in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The AAAI-02 workshop program included 18 workshops covering a wide range of topics in AI. The workshops were Agent-Based Technologies for B2B Electronic-Commerce; Automation as a Caregiver: The Role of Intelligent Technology in Elder Care; Autonomy, Delegation, and Control: From Interagent to Groups; Coalition Formation in Dynamic Multiagent Environments; Cognitive Robotics; Game-Theoretic and Decision-Theoretic Agents; Intelligent Service Integration; Intelligent Situation-Aware Media and Presentations; Meaning Negotiation; Multiagent Modeling and Simulation of Economic Systems; Ontologies and the Semantic Web; Planning with and for Multiagent Systems; Preferences in AI and CP: Symbolic Approaches; Probabilistic Approaches in Search; Real-Time Decision Support and Diagnosis Systems; Semantic Web Meets Language Resources; and Spatial and Temporal Reasoning.
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41. A Framework for CS1 Closed Laboratories
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Soh, Leen-Kiat, Samal, Ashok, and Nugent, Gwen
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Closed laboratories are becoming an increasingly popular approach to teaching introductory computer science courses, as they facilitate structured problem-solving and cooperation. However, most closed laboratories have been designed and implemented without embedded instructional research components for constant evaluation of the laboratories' effectiveness. As a result, it is not convenient to maintain and improve the laboratories over time so that they adapt to changing CS topics, curricula, and student needs. This article reports on an integrated framework for designing, implementing, and maintaining laboratories with embedded instructional research design. Although the activities reported here are part of our department-wide effort to cover CS0, CS1, and CS2, we focus here on the design and implementation of the labs for CS1.
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42. ARKTOS: a knowledge engineering software tool for images
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SOH, LEEN-KIAT and TSATSOULIS, COSTAS
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- 2002
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43. Effects of a Government-Academic Partnership: Has the NSF-CENSUS Bureau Research Network Helped Improve the US Statistical System?
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Weinberg, Daniel H, Abowd, John M, Belli, Robert F, Cressie, Noel, Folch, David C, Holan, Scott H, Levenstein, Margaret C, Olson, Kristen M, Reiter, Jerome P, Shapiro, Matthew D, Smyth, Jolene D, Soh, Leen-Kiat, Spencer, Bruce D, Spielman, Seth E, Vilhuber, Lars, and Wikle, Christopher K
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SCIENTIFIC community ,INTERDISCIPLINARY research ,UNITED States census ,ACQUISITION of data ,STATISTICAL models ,CENSUS ,DATA privacy - Abstract
The National Science Foundation-Census Bureau Research Network (NCRN) was established in 2011 to create interdisciplinary research nodes on methodological questions of interest and significance to the broader research community and to the Federal Statistical System (FSS), particularly to the Census Bureau. The activities to date have covered both fundamental and applied statistical research and have focused at least in part on the training of current and future generations of researchers in skills of relevance to surveys and alternative measurement of economic units, households, and persons. This article focuses on some of the key research findings of the eight nodes, organized into six topics: (1) improving census and survey data-quality and data collection methods; (2) using alternative sources of data; (3) protecting privacy and confidentiality by improving disclosure avoidance; (4) using spatial and spatio-temporal statistical modeling to improve estimates; (5) assessing data cost and data-quality tradeoffs; and (6) combining information from multiple sources. The article concludes with an evaluation of the ability of the FSS to apply the NCRN's research outcomes, suggests some next steps, and discusses the implications of this research-network model for future federal government research initiatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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44. The Impact of Gender Inequality on Protests in India, 2010-2012.
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Ratcliff, Shawn, Werum, Regina, Joshi, Deepti, Samal, Ashok, Soh, Leen-Kiat, and Basnet, Sudeep
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GENDER inequality ,CHILD mortality ,SOCIAL unrest ,SOCIAL science research ,UNEMPLOYMENT ,SOCIAL movements - Abstract
In recent years, India has experienced heightened, yet locally variant, rates of social unrest. In light of this trend, shared with surrounding countries, we seek to answer the following question: Under what conditions do localities experience heightened protest counts? Specifically, to what extent is gender inequality related to the number of district-level protests? Our analysis examines the relationship between protests in India (2010-2012) and various gendered quality-of- life indicators related to employment, education, and mortality. Using district-level data (n=540) from multiple sources, we employ a series of negative-binomial regressions. Findings indicate the presence of strong linear and nonlinear dynamics: For example, districts reporting high female illiteracy, high female unemployment, and high child mortality experience exponentially higher protest counts. We link these findings to classic relative deprivation and contemporary grievance-based approaches used in social movements research and outline the implications of our findings for (non)governmental entities seeking to mitigate social unrest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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45. Analysis of Multifactorial Social Unrest Events with Spatio-Temporal k-Dimensional Tree-based DBSCAN.
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Basnet, Sudeep, Soh, Leen-Kiat, Samal, Ashok, and Joshi, Deepti
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- 2018
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46. Image Analysis for Archival Discovery (Aida)
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Lorang, Elizabeth and Soh, Leen-Kiat
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American literature ,Archaeology--Data processing ,Archives--Study and teaching ,Digital humanities - Abstract
Images created in the digitization of primary materials contain a wealth of machine-processable information for data mining and large-scale analysis, and this information should be leveraged both to connect researchers with the resources they need and to augment interpretation of human culture, as a complement to and extension of text-based approaches. The proposed project, "Image Analysis for Archival Discovery" (Aida), applies image processing and machine learning techniques from computer science to digitized materials to facilitate and promote archival discovery. Beginning with the automatic detection of poetic content in historic newspapers, this project will develop image processing as a methodology for humanities research and analysis. In doing so, it will advance work on two fronts: 1) it will contribute to the reevaluation of newspaper verse in American literary history; 2) it will assess the application of image analysis as a method for discovery in archival collections.
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47. Learning Through Computational Creativity.
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Soh, Leen-Kiat, Shell, Duane F., Ingraham, Elizabeth, Ramsay, Stephen, and Moore, Brian
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CREATIVE thinking education , *COMPUTER science education , *LEARNING strategies , *ACADEMIC achievement , *COGNITIVE science , *NEUROSCIENCES - Abstract
The article suggests to incorporate creative thinking into the cirriculum in order to improve learning and achievement in computer science. The Generativity Theory of R. Epstein breaks creative thinking down to four core competencies: broadening, challenging, surrounding and capturing. The representation of these competencies in cognitive and neuroscience research is described. Also discussed is the integration of computational and creative thinking to form computational creativity.
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48. Reinforcement Learning Approach for Optimal Distributed Energy Management in a Microgrid.
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Foruzan, Elham, Soh, Leen-Kiat, and Asgarpoor, Sohrab
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ELECTRIC power systems , *ELECTRIC power distribution grids , *ENERGY storage , *ELECTRICAL engineering ,ENERGY consumption management - Abstract
In this paper, a multiagent-based model is used to study distributed energy management in a microgrid (MG). The suppliers and consumers of electricity are modeled as autonomous agents, capable of making local decisions in order to maximize their own profit in a multiagent environment. For every supplier, a lack of information about customers and other suppliers creates challenges to optimal decision making in order to maximize its return. Similarly, customers face difficulty in scheduling their energy consumption without any information about suppliers and electricity prices. Additionally, there are several uncertainties involved in the nature of MGs due to variability in renewable generation output power and continuous fluctuation of customers’ consumption. In order to prevail over these challenges, a reinforcement learning algorithm was developed to allow generation resources, distributed storages, and customers to develop optimal strategies for energy management and load scheduling without prior information about each other and the MG system. Case studies are provided to show how the overall performance of all entities converges as an emergent behavior to the Nash equilibrium, benefiting all agents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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49. AAAI 2002 Workshops
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Blake, Brian, Haigh, Karen, Hexmoor, Henry, Falcone, Rino, Soh, Leen-Kiat, Baral, Chitta, McIlraith, Sheila, Gmytrasiewicz, Piotr, Parsons, Simon, Malaka, Rainer, Krueger, Antonio, Bouquet, Paolo, Smart, Bill, Kurumantani, Koichi, Pease, Adam, Brenner, Michael, desJardins, Marie, Junker, Ulrich, Delgrande, Jim, Doyle, Jon, Rossi, Francesca, Schaub, Torsten, Gomes, Carla, Walsh, Toby, Guo, Haipeng, Horvitz, Eric J., Ide, Nancy, Welty, Chris, Anger, Frank D., Guegen, Hans W., and Ligozat, Gerald
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The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) presented the AAAI-02 Workshop Program on Sunday and Monday, 28-29 July 2002 at the Shaw Convention Center in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The AAAI-02 workshop program included 18 workshops covering a wide range of topics in AI. The workshops were Agent-Based Technologies for B2B Electronic-Commerce; Automation as a Caregiver: The Role of Intelligent Technology in Elder Care; Autonomy, Delegation, and Control: From Interagent to Groups; Coalition Formation in Dynamic Multiagent Environments; Cognitive Robotics; Game-Theoretic and Decision-Theoretic Agents; Intelligent Service Integration; Intelligent Situation-Aware Media and Presentations; Meaning Negotiation; Multiagent Modeling and Simulation of Economic Systems; Ontologies and the Semantic Web; Planning with and for Multiagent Systems; Preferences in AI and CP: Symbolic Approaches; Probabilistic Approaches in Search; Real-Time Decision Support and Diagnosis Systems; Semantic Web Meets Language Resources; and Spatial and Temporal Reasoning.
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50. Using Data Mining to Predict the Occurrence of Respondent Retrieval Strategies in Calendar Interviewing: The Quality of Retrospective Reports.
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Belli, Robert F., Miller, L. Dee, Baghal, Tarek Al, and Soh, Leen-Kiat
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PANEL analysis ,DATA mining ,CORRESPONDENCE analysis (Communications) ,RESPONDENTS ,RETROSPECTIVE studies - Abstract
Determining which verbal behaviors of interviewers and respondents are dependent on one another is a complex problem that can be facilitated via data-mining approaches. Data are derived from the interviews of 153 respondents of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) who were interviewed about their life-course histories. Behavioral sequences of interviewer-respondent interactions that were most predictive of respondents spontaneously using parallel, timing, duration, and sequential retrieval strategies in their generation of answers were examined. We also examined which behavioral sequences were predictive of retrospective reporting data quality as shown by correspondence between calendar responses with responses collected in prior waves of the PSID. The verbal behaviors of immediately preceding interviewer and respondent turns of speech were assessed in terms of their co-occurrence with each respondent retrieval strategy. Interviewers' use of parallel probes is associated with poorer data quality, whereas interviewers' use of timing and duration probes, especially in tandem, is associated with better data quality. Respondents' use of timing and duration strategies is also associated with better data quality and both strategies are facilitated by interviewer timing probes. Data mining alongside regression techniques is valuable to examine which interviewer-respondent interactions will benefit data quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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