Keeping Them Honest: Fighting Fraud in Academic Publishing

Keeping Peers Honest in EigenTrust

A fundamental consideration in designing successful trust scores in a peer-to-peer system is the self-interest of individual peers. We propose a strategyproof partition mechanism that provides incentives for peers to share files, is non-manipulable by selfish interests, and approximates trust scores based on EigenTrust[5]. The basic idea behind the partition mechanism is that the peers are part...

Open online assessment: keeping the tutors honest!

Tutors often find it difficult to mark consistently across all students in their classes. Students will occasionally complain about marking inconsistencies noticed when they compare assignments. The task of maintaining consistency in marking becomes much more difficult when all students can openly see everybody’s solutions, marks and tutors’ comments. This task becomes even more difficult when ...

Academic publishing is electronic publishing

Derk Haank began by saying that he wanted to keep his presentation simple and would make only a few statements. The first of these was to say that, although it might be stating the obvious, academic publishing is electronic publishing. It has been remarkable how quickly things have progressed since the invention of the Web, and an EC study recently recognised that the revolution in electronic p...

Artificial livers--what's keeping them?

Keeping Them on the Field

M usculoskeletal injuries are an integral part of many sports. Contact sports seem to produce the most, with football, hockey, soccer, and basketball leading the way. As athletes compete and push themselves to improve, sprains, strains, contusions, and other injuries become part of the daily routine. Those often attending to these athletes with regular aches and pains are athletic trainers, phy...