In a field study (148 participants organized in 38 groups) we tested the effect of group synergy and one's position in relation to the collaborative zone of proximal development (CZPD) on the change of individual decision-making competencies. We used two parallel sets of decision tasks reported in previous research to test rationality and we evaluated individual decision-making competencies in ...

22 Abstract—Project-Based Learning (PBL) has become a necessity for the Moroccan higher education reform. PBL is an approach that transforms teaching from "teachers telling" to "students doing". However, implementing PBLs brings new challenges to higher education. In this paper, we present a set of Technology-enhanced Learning environments integrating the needed aspects in a synergetic way to f...

This paper develops and empirically validates customer shopping motives taking account of customer channel selection in multichannel systems. As each channel is associated with certain advantages and disadvantages from a customer’s perspective, we develop – based on behavioral considerations – a customer typology to classify different segments of customers. This enables us to empirically analyz...

Derived from semi-supervised learning and active learning approaches, self-learning (SL) was recently developed for the synergetic classification of hyperspectral (HS) and panchromatic (PAN) images. Combining the image segmentation and active learning techniques, SL aims at selecting and labeling the informative unlabeled samples automatically, thereby improving the classification accuracy unde...

The collaboration of the network and optical character recognition (OCR) is expected to be useful for extending the applications of OCR, and it has a potential to open up new vistas in future services using OCR. We presented the basic ideas of the synergetic OCR system in 2004, and developed a platform called WeOCR to realize the web-based OCR services. The number of accesses has been increasin...