A dynamic analysis of the interplay between asynchronous and synchronous communication in online learning: The impact of motivation

With the increased affordances of synchronous communication tools, more opportunities for online learning to resemble face‐to‐face settings have recently become available. However, synchronous communication does not afford as much time for reflection as asynchronous communication. Therefore, a combination of synchronous and asynchronous communication in e‐learning would seem desirable to optimally support learner engagement and the quality of student learning. It is still an open question though, how to best design online learning with a blend of synchronous and asynchronous communication opportunities over time. Few studies have investigated the relationship between learners' actual use of synchronous and asynchronous communication over time. Therefore, this study addressed that relationship in an online course (N = 110), taking into account student motivation, and employing a dynamic inter‐temporal perspective. In line with our assumptions, we found some support for the expected association between autonomous motivation and engagement in asynchronous and synchronous communication, be it restricted primarily to the first course period. Also, positive relations between engagement in synchronous and asynchronous communication were found, with the strongest influence from using asynchronous to synchronous communication. This study adds to the knowledge base needed to develop guidelines on how synchronous communication can be combined with asynchronous learning.     

Self-scaling cooperative discovery of service compositions in unstructured P2P networks

We propose an efficient technique for improving the performance of automatic and cooperative compositions in unstructured Peer-to-Peer networks during service discovery. The technique exploits a probabilistic forwarding algorithm that uses different sources of knowledge, such as network density and service grouping, to reduce the amount of messages exchanged in the network. The technique, analysed in several network configurations by using a simulator to observe resolution time, recall and message overhead, presents good performance especially in dense and large-scale service networks.     

Language independent search in MediaEval's Spoken Web Search task

In this paper, we describe several approaches to language-independent spoken term detection and compare their performance on a common task, namely “Spoken Web Search”. The goal of this part of the MediaEval initiative is to perform low-resource language-independent audio search using audio as input. The data was taken from “spoken web” material collected over mobile phone connections by IBM India as well as from the LWAZI corpus of African languages. As part of the 2011 and 2012 MediaEval benchmark campaigns, a number of diverse systems were implemented by independent teams, and submitted to the “Spoken Web Search” task. This paper presents the 2011 and 2012 results, and compares the relative merits and weaknesses of approaches developed by participants, providing analysis and directions for future research, in order to improve voice access to spoken information in low resource settings.     

Text classification using genetic algorithm oriented latent semantic features

In this paper, genetic algorithm oriented latent semantic features (GALSF) are proposed to obtain better representation of documents in text classification. The proposed approach consists of feature selection and feature transformation stages. The first stage is carried out using the state-of-the-art filter-based methods. The second stage employs latent semantic indexing (LSI) empowered by genetic algorithm such that a better projection is attained using appropriate singular vectors, which are not limited to the ones corresponding to the largest singular values, unlike standard LSI approach. In this way, the singular vectors with small singular values may also be used for projection whereas the vectors with large singular values may be eliminated as well to obtain better discrimination. Experimental results demonstrate that GALSF outperforms both LSI and filter-based feature selection methods on benchmark datasets for various feature dimensions.     

基于随机词汇迭代模型的POI分类检索

从特征选择、局部区域划分和词汇语义相似性计算入手,利用随机词汇迭代模型(random terms iterativemodel,RTIM)进行海量兴趣点(point of interest,POI)文本分类.通过词汇频度、集中度和离散度方法筛选出特征词汇;依据文本与各POI类别间的相似度进行局部区域划分;在每个局部区域内基于词汇在文本中的排列顺序构建词频向量,基于词频向量中词频的随机删除和重构,获取特征映射矩阵;通过特征映射矩阵将文本转为特征向量,并采用SVM分类器进行POI文本分类.实验证明,该方法有效提升了POI文本分类准确性和覆盖率.     

基于知识库分割的多知识库整合方法

知识库是集团企业云制造平台中知识服务的重要基础,知识库的质量直接决定着知识服务的质量。目前单一分散的知识库不能提供统一的知识资源全局视图,不利于知识资源的共享。多知识库整合技术已经成为该领域的研究热点之一。提出一种基于知识库分割的多知识库整合方法,采用基于蚁群聚类的分割策略,将知识库有效划分为知识块集。在知识块间利用语义概念映射生成知识块间映射图,从而实现多知识库整合。通过对算法的时间复杂度进行分析,表明该方法在时间复杂度方面要优于基于最小概念集的多知识库整合方法;实验结果也表明该方法在运行性能方面明显优于已有的方法。     

主题搜索引擎中爬虫搜索策略的研究

为了解决传统主题爬虫效率偏低的问题,传统主题爬虫会选择最有价值的链接进行访问,仅简单地计算链接的相关性,却忽视待分析URL之间的相关性关系,致使主题爬虫爬取效率较低。提出一种基于链接模型的相关性判别算法,综合利用有标种子URL和无标的待判别URL实现对无标URL的相关性判别,并推导出迭代初值选取对结果的不敏感性。实验结果表明,与传统的网络爬虫算法相关性判别方法相比,提出的方法效率更高。     

一种基于OWL的语义网数据划分与并行加载方法

随着语义网数据规模的爆炸式增长,海量数据存储和检索面临越来越严峻的挑战,分布式数据库与并行计算已成为其主要解决方案。基于列存储分布式数据库HBase设计了一种多表语义网数据存储模型,实现从OWL本体定义到存储模型的映射。基于OWL本体定义信息对语义网数据实现按类划分,并将三元组存储于主体所属于的类的两张表里,采用MapReduce框架实现并行的数据划分和加载任务,最后在Hadoop集群环境下对方法进行了可行性验证。     

轴向冲击下波纹腹板梁的失稳控制和能量吸收

针对Sine波纹腹板梁结构,通过设计其初始振幅缺陷,控制不同波形阶数下波纹梁的失稳模态,引导上下翼板按预期渐进、稳定、可重复的压溃变形模式发展.采用Abaqus/Explicit中的显式动力学方法数值模拟初始振幅缺陷与比吸能(Specific Energy Absorption,SEA)的关系.通过对比低阶、中阶和高阶波形的载荷-位移曲线说明波形阶数对吸能特性和失稳控制的影响.结果表明:对于给定的波形阶数,存在初始振幅缺陷的临界值使Sine波纹腹板梁结构达到预期的临界失稳状态,同时SEA最大;初始振幅缺陷越大,失稳控制越容易,但吸能效果随之降低.     

基于语义的数据库关键词检索系统

数据库关键词检索技术是当前的一个重要研究方向,它结合了传统数据库结构化数据存储效率高和信息检索系统非结构化数据检索方便高效的优点。本文介绍一种基于语义的数据库关键词检索系统的设计与实现,该系统以企业级应用开发标准J 2EE为基础,结合数据库技术、语义Web技术和关键词检索技术,可实现关系数据库的语义理解和关键词检索。对系统实现涉及的主要技术点：倒排索引、概念相似度和语义计分公式进行了深入分析,提出一种改进的倒排索引结构和一个新的基于语义的信息检索计分公式。