We have constructed a set of ontologies modelled on conceptual structures elicited from several domain experts. Protocols were collected from various experts who advise on the selection/ specification and purchase of PCs. These protocols were analysed from the perspective of both the processes and the domain knowledge to reflect each expert’s inherent conceptualisation of the domain. We are par...

The iltur system features a novel method of interaction between expert and novice musicians through a set of musical controllers called Beatbugs. Beatbug players can record live musical input from MIDI and acoustic instruments and respond by transforming the recorded material in real-time, creating motif-and-variation call-and-response routines on the fly. A central computer system analyzes MID...

In order to find experts, different approaches build rankings of people, assuming that they are ranked by level of expertise, and use typical Information Retrieval (IR) measures to evaluate their effectiveness. However, we figured out that expert rankings (i) tend to be partially ordered, (ii) incomplete, and (iii) consequently provide more an order rather than absolute ranks, which is not what...

Given the importance of IT investments in today’s organization, firms tend to spend increasing amounts of time and resources to better manage IT projects. However these projects continue to have high failure rates thus highlighting the need for improved risk management. A stream of IS research has focused on identifying several causes of managerial risks. The theory base that has been used in t...

the main purpose of this research was to analyze agricultural water management problems (awmp) in three contexts of: water source, water conveyance and at the farm level, in zarrindasht county, fars province. the research was carried out based on a survey method with a questionnaire compiled for collection of data. questionnaire's reliability was confirmed through a computation of cronbach...

The problem of expert finding has been explored for many structured question and answer-based social networks. Less explored is the problem of finding trusted individuals in an unstructured social setting. We explore the issue of finding experts in Reddit’s /r/programming, /r/CFB and /r/cars Subreddit – each of which is either unstructured or semi-structured – using a machine learning approach ...

In this paper we attempt to unpack the meanings of “expert” and “novice” in games research. A literature review reveals unreliable definitions and inadequate operationalization of these concepts. Nonetheless, researchers default to recruiting experienced players for games research projects to the exclusion of novices. We take an interactionist approach to argue for reframing the expert/novice d...