Is New Platform Work Different from Other Freelancing?

Is Designing Software Different From Designing Other Things?*

This paper explores the question of whether designing software is different from designing other things (we believe it is). We discuss several key distinctions that are largely missing from the discourse on software design yet which are vital to the success of software designs. These distinctions are increasingly important as software becomes prevalent in the design tools and products of other ...

A Machine Learning approach to Classify web documents of freelancing and remote work in IT field

Vertical Search Engine (VSE) indexes only those pages which are relevant to the predefined subject. It is necessary to determine which kind of information in a web page is relevant. This paper addresses the issue of relevancy of a web page which has the content of freelance and remote work postings. For this, we propose a machine learning approach which checks the content of the web page. It ex...

Is wiki an effective platform for group course work?

This study reports on students’ and lecturers’ perceptions of using wikis as a platform for conducting assessed group projects in two postgraduate Master’s level university courses. The results highlight the fact that student attitudes to group work, in general, are mixed, and that the use of wikis per se is not enough to improve these attitudes. On the positive side, students found wikis usefu...

How Different Is New Luxury From Old Luxury ?

6 Other Related Work

This paper addresses the problem of computing the minimal models of a given CNF propositional theory. We present two groups of algorithms. Algorithms in the rst group are e cient when the theory is almost Horn, that is, when there are few non-Horn clauses and/or when the set of all literals that appear positive in any non-Horn clause is small. Algorithms in the other group are e cient when the ...