Many systems that learn from examples express the learned concept as a disjunction. Those disjuncts that cover only a few examples are referred to as small disjuncts. The problem with small disjuncts is that they have a much higher error rate than large disjuncts but are necessary to achieve a high level of predictive accuracy. This paper investigates the effect of noise on small disjuncts. In ...

This thesis focuses on the role of design patterns in the design of the online newspaper genre. The research question put forth here is: How can design patterns be used to improve the online newspaper design process? Genre theory was applied to revile the structure and visual pattern of online newspaper design in an analysis of 85 Swedish online newspapers. Based on the results from the genre a...

This paper reports the development and running of the first Games Development and Programming unit at Murdoch University, Western Australia. Unlike other Games courses which have been repackaged or re-modeled from existing multimedia courses, the proposed course and units are focused on meeting the needs of the industry and high level of academic standard. As such, great demands have been place...

The outcomes of any learning activity are significantly enhanced if this learning involves the application of knowledge related to projects from the learners' work situation. Such work-based learning deals with solving interdisciplinary "real-world" problems and requires a high level of communication and interaction between learners and experts. The following paper demonstrates how to design an...

This paper describes a mechanical assembly system, L A M A , that transforms high level assembly descriptions into programs for a computer controlled manipulator.

In this paper, a real-time analysis system to automatically record, analyze and visualize high level aggregated information of Twitter messages is described, designed to provide public administrations with a powerful tool to easily understand what the citizen behaviour trends are, their opinion about city services, their perception of the city, events of interest, etc. Moreover, it can used as ...

This paper proposes a unique computational approach to extraction of expressive elements of motion pictures for deriving high level semantics of stories portrayed, thus enabling better video annotation and interpretation systems. This approach, motivated and directed by the existing cinematic conventions known as film grammar, as a first step towards demonstrating its effectiveness, uses the at...

We describe an automated reproof generator for upbraiding effectiveness (ARGUE) 2 . When reproving infractions, effectiveness is improved by comprehensive, well-organised coverage of the arguments. The search for a forceful well-expressed reproof is controlled by reproof plans, which are descriptions of the high level structure of reproofs. We have extended the concept of proof plans to the str...

Nowadays, aspect-oriented techniques are widely used to better modularize object-oriented programs by introducing crosscutting concerns in a safe and non invasive way, i.e., aspect-oriented mechanisms better address the modularization of functionality that orthogonally crosscut the implementation of the application. The high modularization is done by three main concepts: encapsulation of crossc...