Several theoretical and practical issues in cognitive neuroscience motivate research into the relations of language and music in the brain. Such research faces a puzzle. Currently, evidence for striking dissociations between language and music coexists with evidence for similar processing mechanisms (e.g., Peretz 2006; Patel 2008). The intent of this chapter is to initiate a dialog about how su...

Cooperative peer-to-peer applications are designed to share the resources of each computer in an overlay network for the common good of everyone. However, users do not necessarily have an incentive to donate resources to the system if they can get the system’s resources for free. This paper presents architectures for fair sharing of storage resources that are robust against collusions among nod...

Many mature systems for parsing unification-based grammars have been developed over the last two decades. They incorporate a variety of design decisions both in implementation and in the representations they use for grammatical information. The Leo project aims to provide an architecture for automating the sharing of grammatical resources among various systems so that one system can take advant...

Language resources have become a key factor in the development cycle of language technology. The current prevailing methodologies, the sheer number of languages and the vast volumes of digital content together with the wide palette of useful content processing applications, render new models for managing the underlying language resources indispensable. This paper presents META-SHARE, an open re...

Many computational solutions can be expressed as workflows. A Cluster of processors is a shared resource among several users and hence the need for a scheduler which deals with multi-user jobs presented as workflows. The scheduler must find the number of processors to be allotted for each workflow and schedule tasks on allotted processors. In this work, a new method to find optimal and maximum ...

MERIT IS A KEY PRINCIPLE OF FAIRNESS: rewards should be distributed according to how much someone contributed to a task. Previous research suggests that children have an early ability to take merit into account in third-party situations but that merit-based sharing in first-party contexts does not emerge until school-age. Here we provide evidence that three- and five-year-old children already u...

Virtual Reality is becoming a major candidate for embodying immersive learning environments. Whereas in the two preceding decades learning has been conceptualized as situations where students are guided rather than elicited to undertake actions, it is now the right time to explore the other side or the continuum. The tradition of instruction starts from the idea that knowledge and skills need a...

This paper is a contribution to a challenging problem of the global design and standardisation of industrial robotic systems using new possibilities provided by modern information technologies and Internet. The main idea is to create an international network (consortium) of different national teams of robot designers in academia and industry in Europe, Japan and Israel, each team being responsi...

We present a novel controlled vocabulary for the classification of Educational Resource Type and Media type that has been developed within the mEducator Best Practice Network, and discuss the rationale behind its design and its SKOS implementation. Several available controlled vocabularies were analyzed, but none was found entirely satisfactory for the project's purposes. Although the driving m...

Web 2.0 has an architecture for participation and sharing, thus encouraging users to add value to an application. This study proposes a refined Collaborative Content Sharing Module that better equips the LCMS to enhance the user experience on content sharing. Within this module, a concept space that brings both functions of tag recommendation and concept based search is generated using the alli...