Project DIAPLASIS (Greek Acronym for “Online Platform for School – Family Collaboration”) is a Doctoral Thesis aiming to develop an online system that allows collaboration between school and family, and to evaluate possible learning results in a two-year intervention with at-risk students. At least 9% of students in Cyprus are found to be at risk of failure in Language and Mathematics. Research...

This paper describes the process used to develop and implement an assessment plan from the ground up for a new Master of Information Systems program. The mapping of learning goals to objectives to specific courses is illustrated with direct and indirect measures. The program was first offered January 2008, and the second cohort of completed January, 2010. Assessment results from the first two c...

In this paper, a planning problem is analysed for a consolidation transportation system in order to serve different transportation requests (i.e., orders) with different origins and destinations and different characteristics. The considered transportation system is a railway network provided with innovative terminals (where handling operations are realized very much faster than in traditional t...

We propose a modular approach to development of a computerized adaptive practice system for learning of facts in areas with widely varying prior knowledge: decomposing the system into estimation of prior knowledge, estimation of current knowledge, and selection of questions. We describe specific realization of the system for geography learning and use data from the developed system for evaluati...

Integrable equations in (1 + 1) dimensions have their own higher order integrable equations, like the KdV, mKdV and NLS hierarchies etc. In this paper we consider whether integrable equations in (2 + 1) dimensions have also the analogous hierarchies to those in (1 + 1) dimensions. Explicitly is discussed the Bogoyavlenskii-Schiff(BS) equation. For the BS hierarchy, there appears an ambiguity in...

Fermat's Last Theorem—which we shall abbreviate to FLT—is the (as yet unproved) assertion that the Diophantine equation x" + y" — z" has no solutions in positive integers if 11 ^ 3. It would suffice to deal with the case in which n is prime, and this is where the most significant work has been done. None the less it is not yet known even whether FLT is true for infinitely many prime exponents. ...

Traditional motion planning methods rely on precise kinematic models to either compute the goal trajectory off-line, or to make on-line decisions based on current observations from a dynamic environment. With the increasing use of qualitative modeling in cognitive robotics, different planning approaches are needed to handle the lack of numerical data in manually constructed or autonomously lear...

information and communication technology (ict) has transformed how we live our lives and the way we interact in different contexts. benefits of ict and its upcoming efficiencies (i.e. energy efficiency) are becoming the heart of many public services’ reforms which have influenced the time, distance and space concepts. at present, not only there is a lack of clarity about what high-quality ictba...