Smaller, cheaper, leaner

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Leaner Model Ontology and leaner Model Agent

In this paper we describe the learner model ontology and learner model agent in a multi-agent architecture of learning support systems. The learner model ontology facilitates 1) sharable specification of the functionalities of learner model agent; 2) fluent communication between the learner model agent and other agents. The example of a learner model ontology and learner model agent shows that ...

Smaller, quicker, cheaper: alternative strategies for literacy assessment in the UN Literacy Decade

In the context of the UN Literacy Decade (declared in February 2003), the present paper suggests three parameters that should be considered when new tools for assessment are considered in less developed countries (LDCs), each of which poses a special challenge to international comparative literacy assessment, such as in the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS): * Smaller: Assessment metho...

Bio4j: bigger, faster, leaner

Bio4j (http://bio4j.com) is a high-performance cloud-enabled graphbased bi oinformatics da ta pl atform. I t i s one of t he first a nd most i mportant graph databases for biological data, specially designed to cope with and manage the huge amount of data brought by NGS technologies: it i ntegrates most data available in UniProt KB (SwissProt + Trembl), Gene Ontology (GO), UniRef (50, 90, 100),...

Programming cheaper dependable systems

Services must be dependable if they are to deliver the benefit that justifies the cost of deploying them. Services must be sufficiently dependable for their purpose, but no more costly than is necessary to achieve that level of dependability. This document describes some work on identifying programming concepts that can be exploited to reduce the cost of dependable systems. This includes both t...