A course generator automatically assembles learning objects retrieved from one or several repositories to a greater unit. Different frameworks for course generation exists, but only a few allow the representation of sophisticated pedagogical knowledge. In this paper, we describe course generation based on pedagogical tasks and methods, formalized in a hierarchical task network (HTN) planner. We...

Workflow management systems (WFMS) support the modeling and coordinated execution of processes within an organization. To coordinate the execution of the various activities (or tasks) in a workflow, task dependencies are specified among them. In a multilevel secure (MLS) workflow, tasks may belong to different security levels. Ensuring the task dependencies from the tasks at higher security lev...

This short memo aims at explaining our approach for the challenge IEEE-ISBI on Bone Texture Characterization. In this work, we focus on the use of covariance matrices and wavelet marginals in an SVM classifier.

A behavioral measure of approach (performance on a resource gathering task) in combination with sympathetic nervous system (SNS) reactivity was used to predict substance use in a sample of young adults (n=93). Pre-ejection period reactivity (PEP-R), a cardiac index of SNS reactivity, was recorded during the resource gathering task (task PEP - resting PEP). Higher levels of approach behaviors on...

We present a new spatial index belonging to R-tree family. Since our new index comes out from the R-tree and holds the concept of nonoverlapping nodes we call it R-tree. The original R-tree was designed for both point and spatial data. Using R-tree for indexing spatial data is very inefficient. In our research we face the problem of indexing product catalogues data that can be represented as po...

R-tree based access methods for moving objects are hardly applicable in practice, due mainly to excessive space requirements and high management costs. To overcome the limitations of such R-tree based access methods, we propose a new index structure called AIM (Adaptive cell-based Index for Moving objects). The AIM is a cell-based multiversion access structure adopting an overlapping technique....