Purpose – The CIBER group at University College London are currently evaluating a distance education initiative funded by the Department of Health, providing in-service training to NHS staff via DiTV and satellite to PC systems. This paper aims to provide the context for the project by outlining a short history of distance education, describing the media used in providing remote education, and ...

In this article, we present a new approach for the automatic acquisition and cross-linking of textual cases from heterogeneous knowledge sources like manuals, articles, and mailing lists. We develop a case generation strategy including basic transformation processes, a shallow feature extraction, and the automatic creation of cross-references. We discuss how to compute similarity and how to org...

1. The University of Ljubljana is the largest university in Slovenia. It consists of 26 member institutions (20 faculties, 3 academies, and 3 colleges) and has more than 40,000 students. In the past, the member institutions had substantial autonomy regarding the usage of information technologies, which led to uncoordinated development of their information systems. Different applications were de...

-This paper presents several combined agricultural data disaggregation models in order to recover the farms’ land uses, the livestock numbers and main crops’ productions. The proposed approach estimates incomplete information at disaggregated level through entropy, using an information prior, and generating information for a combined calculation use of data in the estimation of other variables....

Bispectral analysis is a signal processing technique that makes it possible to capture the non-linear and non-Gaussian properties of the EEG signals. It has found various applications in EEG research and clinical practice, including the assessment of anesthetic depth, the identification of epileptic seizures, and more recently, the evaluation of non-linear cross-frequency brain functional conne...