In qualitative projects on ICALL (Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning), research and development always go hand in hand: development both depends upon the research results and dictates the research agenda. Likewise, in the development of the Swedish ICALL platform Lärka, the practical issues of development have dictated its research agenda. With NLP approaches, sooner or later, the ...

We use reinforcement learning (RL) to learn a multi-issue negotiation dialogue policy. For training and evaluation, we build a hand-crafted agenda-based policy, which serves as the negotiation partner of the RL policy. Both the agendabased and the RL policies are designed to work for a large variety of negotiation settings, and perform well against negotiation partners whose behavior has not be...

Replacing the project manager (RPM) during IT project is a known phenomenon, but surprisingly, few studies have investigated the issue. To improve understanding of the situation in the IT field, we propose a research agenda that aims to provide IT professionals the means to sustainably manage RPM in IT projects. The research agenda is structured in line with the goals of theories in Gregor’s ta...

We model a competition between two debaters trying to capture the attention of a decision maker. In the model, the decision maker can only choose alternatives that are on the agenda and the agenda is endogenous. The debaters compete to put their alternatives on the agenda by participating in all-pay-auctions for a …nite number of attention slots. We compare simultaneous debates, in which all in...

The main contribution of this study to the understanding of agenda-setting and priming effects is its focus on the role of evaluative tone in all stages of the agenda setting/ priming process. First, the public’s evaluation of issue importance, which is the dependent variable in most agenda-setting studies, is influenced by the issue saliency in the news and by the evaluative tone of media cove...

BACKGROUND The foundation of best practice in health promotion is a robust theoretical base that informs design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions that promote the public's health. This study provides a novel contribution to health promotion through the adaptation of the agenda-setting approach in response to the contribution of social media. This exploration and proposed adaptati...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com us call them collectively the “liberty and equality paradigm1”are incapable of this, and the postcolonialist bellyaching that has accompanied them in recent decades do not allow such steps to be taken proudly and resolutely. The hesitancy, reluctance, and contrition that characterize the actions of Europeans are largely rooted in these approaches. W...