The aim of the tranScriptorium project is to produce software applications that will ‘read’ historical handwritten documents and will produce transcripts for these documents. There are many millions of pages of handwritten documents, the basis for much research in the arts and humanities, and yet the vast majority of this material—including manuscripts that have been digitized—remains inaccessi...

This study investigated utilization of electronic learning facilities among Agricultural students in Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike. One hundred and twenty (120) students undergoing training in different agricultural courses in the university were randomly selected. Data were collected with a structured questionnaire and analyzed with descriptive statistics such as frequency ...

Formal Verification of Distributed Algorithms (Dagstuhl Seminar 13141) Bernadette Charron-Bost, Stepahn Merz, Andrey Rybalchenko, and Josef Widder 1 Correct and Efficient Accelerator Programming (Dagstuhl Seminar 13142) Albert Cohen, Alastair F. Donaldson, Marieke Huisman, and Joost-Pieter Katoen 17 Drawing Graphs and Maps with Curves (Dagstuhl Seminar 13151) Stephen Kobourov, Martin Nöllenburg...

From 15.07.12 to 20.07.12, the Dagstuhl Seminar 12291 “Structure Discovery in Biology: Motifs, Networks & Phylogenies” was held in Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics. The seminar was in part a follow-up to Dagstuhl Seminar 10231, held in June 2010, this time with a strong emphasis on large data. Both veterans and new participants took part in this edition. During the seminar, sev...

Abstract In addition to the ability think, students need a thinking disposition succeed in learning. However, results of preliminary research indicate that knowledge prospective teachers, and lecturers is still low on dispositions. Therefore, this problem can be solved by conducting national webinar dispositions thinking. Thus, purpose service provide participants with an understanding philosop...

Introduction: Experiential learning, followed by debriefing, isat the heart of Simulation-Based Medical Education (SBME) andhas been proven effective to help master several medical skills.We investigated the impact of an educational intervention, basedon high-fidelity SBME, on the debriefing competence of novicesimulation instructors.Methods: This is a prospe...

BACKGROUND Many medical schools have embraced small group learning methods in their undergraduate curricula. Given increasing financial constraints on universities, active learning groups like seminars (with 25 students a group) are gaining popularity. To enhance the understanding of seminar learning and to determine how seminar learning can be optimised it is important to investigate stakehold...

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 11131 “Exploration and Curiosity in Robot Learning and Inference”. This seminar was concerned with answering the question: how should a robot choose its actions and experiences so as to maximise the effectiveness of its learning?. The seminar brought together workers from three fields: machine learning, robotics and computat...

Science and Engineering of Cyber-Physical Systems (Dagstuhl Seminar 11441) Holger Giese, Bernhard Rumpe, Bernhard Schätz, and Janos Sztipanovits . . . . . . . . 1 Data Mining, Networks and Dynamics (Dagstuhl Seminar 11451) Lars Elden and Andreas Frommer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Analysis of Dynamic Social and Technological N...

This report documents the program and outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 16162, “Managing Technical Debt in Software Engineering.” We summarize the goals and format of the seminar, results from the breakout groups, a definition for technical debt, a draft conceptual model, and a research road map that culminated from the discussions during the seminar. The report also includes the abstracts of the ta...