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IFIP
2009
Springer
16 years 20 days ago
Contextual Inquiry in Signal Boxes of a Railway Organization
A number of selected field-study techniques have been validated in a case study in the domain of railway signal boxes. The context of this work is the endeavour of a human-centred ...
Joke Van Kerckhoven, Sabine Geldof, Bart Vermeersc...
GECCO
2006
Springer
186views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
15 years 9 months ago
Comparison of multi-modal optimization algorithms based on evolutionary algorithms
Many engineering optimization tasks involve finding more than one optimum solution. The present study provides a comprehensive review of the existing work done in the field of mul...
Gulshan Singh, Kalyanmoy Deb
MANSCI
2006
180views more  MANSCI 2006»
15 years 6 months ago
Selectively Acquiring Customer Information: A New Data Acquisition Problem and an Active Learning-Based Solution
This paper presents a new information acquisition problem motivated by business applications where customer data has to be acquired with a specific modeling objective in mind. In ...
Zhiqiang Zheng, Balaji Padmanabhan
SIGCSE
2005
ACM
123views Education» more  SIGCSE 2005»
15 years 11 months ago
Diversifying the images of computer science: undergraduate women take on the challenge!
This paper tells the story of a student initiative, driven by a desire to diversify the images that surround the field of computer science and those who work in it. Categories and...
Carol Frieze
AI
2003
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
The Importance of Fine-Grained Cue Phrases in Scientific Citations
Abstract. Scientific citations play a crucial role in maintaining the network of relationships among mutually relevant articles within a research field. Customarily, authors includ...
Robert E. Mercer, Chrysanne DiMarco