高校毕业生教学质量信息反馈系统的研究

将毕业生在校学习期间的教学质量与工作后的素质评价相关联，运用抽样调查的有关理论及系统分析技术，通过构建数学模型，对影响教学质量的因素进行在线分析，对教学质量进行评判，从而建立适应我国市场经济发展的较为完善的高等学校毕业生教学质量信息反馈系统。     

Automated Negotiation from Declarative Contract Descriptions

Our approach for automating the negotiation of business contracts proceeds in three broad steps. First, determine the structure of the negotiation process by applying general knowledge about auctions and domain–specific knowledge about the contract subject along with preferences from potential buyers and sellers. Second, translate the determined negotiation structure into an operational specification for an auction platform. Third, after the negotiation has completed, map the negotiation results to a final contract. We have implemented a prototype which supports these steps by employing a declarative specification (in courteous logic programs) of (1) high–level knowledge about alternative negotiation structures, (2) general–case rules about auction parameters, (3) rules to map the auction parameters to a specific auction platform, and (4) special–case rules for subject domains. We demonstrate the flexibility of this approach by automatically generating several alternative negotiation structures for the domain of travel shopping in a trading agent competition.     

A Full Formalization of SLD-Resolution in the Calculus of Inductive Constructions

This paper presents a full formalization of the semantics of definite programs, in the calculus of inductive constructions. First, we describe a formalization of the proof of first-order terms unification: this proof is obtained from a similar proof dealing with quasi-terms, thus showing how to relate an inductive set with a subset defined by a predicate. Then, SLD-resolution is explicitely defined: the renaming process used in SLD-derivations is made explicit, thus introducing complications, usually overlooked, during the proofs of classical results. Last, switching and lifting lemmas and soundness and completeness theorems are formalized. For this, we present two lemmas, usually omitted, which are needed. This development also contains a formalization of basic results on operators and their fixpoints in a general setting. All the proofs of the results, presented here, have been checked with the proof assistant Coq.     

Why not Artificial Consciousness or Thought?

The purpose of this article is to show why consciousness and thought are not manifested in digital computers. Analyzing the rationale for claiming that the formal manipulation of physical symbols in Turing machines would emulate human thought, the article attempts to show why this proved false. This is because the reinterpretation of designation and meaning to accommodate physical symbol manipulation eliminated their crucial functions in human discourse. Words have denotations and intensional meanings because the brain transforms the physical stimuli received from the microworld into a qualitative, macroscopic representation for consciousness. Lacking this capacity as programmed machines, computers have no representations for their symbols to designate and mean. Unlike human beings in which consciousness and thought, with their inherent content, have emerged because of their organic natures, serial processing computers or parallel distributed processing systems, as programmed electrical machines, lack these causal capacities.     

Inductive Learning with a Computational Network

This paper introduces a computational network which combines heterogeneous rule-extraction algorithms for intelligent data analysis. Combining induction programs may alleviate the possible negative effects of data set representation and individual program's influences, such as inductive bias. The application of the computational network to a diabetes data set shows that, when combining the various programs, an increase in rule set accuracy and comprehensibility are obtained.     

Modeling multi-rate DSP specification semantics for formal transformational design in HOL

The CATHEDRAL Silicon Compilers synthesize hardware for DSP algorithms specified in Silage, a high level applicative language. In order to optimize the results of the silicon compilation in terms of chip-area and/or throughput, the user often massages the specification applying transformations to the Silage code. To guarantee that the transformations preserve the behavior of the specified algorithm, the formal semantics of the specification language had to be defined. The semantics has been used to prove in HOL the correctness of the transformations and to prove properties of the specification. We are currently building a system where a menu of useful andcorrectness preserving transformations will be available to the user. In this system the user could choose appropriate transformations from the menu taking advantage of his creativity and expertise to interactively guide the silicon compiler, without the risk of introducing inconsistencies. This article describes the formalmulti-rate semantics of a substantial subset of Silage and illustrates some formally verified transformations.     

Perspectives on bilingual education in canada.

Bilingual education is considered in the context of education as a whole and of communication between people of different languages. It is argued that bilingualism cannot be legislated and that the importance of language in the Canadian French-English question has been overestimated. The schools, teachers, and students are considered in relation to an educational programme for bilingualism. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Doctoral dissertations in clinical training programs: 1948-1953.

An analysis of the distributions of doctoral dissertations by school as well as a breakdown in terms of area of study, e.g., general, experimental, theoretical, or personality and social processes, etc. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Psychological testing and the public service.

The author, Chairman of the Untied States Civil Service Commission, argues that the necessity to measure characteristics of people that are related to job performance is at the very root of the merit system, which is the basis for entry into the career services of the Federal Government. Thus, over the years, the public service has had a vital interest in the development and application of psychological testing methods. He has no doubt that the widespread public confidence in the objectivity of hiring procedures has in large part been nurtured by the public's perception of the fairness, the practicality, and the integrity of the appraisal methods they must submit to. Sound testing methods are absolutely essential if there is to be real meaning to the concept of equal opportunity. He is concerned, therefore, that the current outcry against the use of personality tests should not endanger this hard-won confidence, nor inhibit our use of tests in carrying out the vital personnel management programs of the President. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Supplement to listing of APA-approved doctoral and internship training programs.

Announces changes in the list of APA-Approved Doctoral Programs in Professional (Clinical, Counseling, and School) Psychology and Predoctoral Internship Programs in Psychology. These changes update the listings published in the December 1980 American Psychologist (pp. 1111- 1118). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)