“Everything”: Towards an Ecology of Land Utilization

Towards an Information Retrieval Theory of Everything

I present three well-known probabilistic models of information retrieval in tutorial style: The binary independence probabilistic model, the language modeling approach, and Google’s page rank. Although all three models are based on probability theory, they are very different in nature. Each model seems well-suited for solving certain information retrieval problems, but not so useful for solving...

Efficient Resource Utilization in Shared-Everything Environments

E cient resource usage is a key to achieve better performance in parallel database systems. Up to now, most research has focussed on balancing the load on several resources of the same type, i.e. balancing either CPU load or I/O load. In this paper, we present oating probe, a strategy for parallel evaluation of pipelining segments in a shared-everything environment that provides dynamic load ba...

Towards an ecology minded public health?

The evolutionary ecology of testicular function: size isn't everything.

Larger testes are considered the quintessential adaptation to sperm competition. However, the strong focus on testis size in evolutionary research risks ignoring other potentially adaptive features of testicular function, many of which will also be shaped by post-mating sexual selection. Here we advocate a more integrated research programme that simultaneously takes into account the development...

Virtual Storytelling as Narrative Potential: Towards an Ecology of Narrative

In this paper virtual storytelling is considered as narrative potential – the integration of agency and narrative. To facilitate this, an aesthetics of VEs is introduced as the context for the analysis of a popular computer role playing game. The game is analysed in terms of Perceptual Opportunities – a content model for virtual environments. From this analysis some inferences are drawn concern...