In this report, I first introduced the three areas that of interest to collaborative filtering researchers are interested in and challenged by, namely: (a) how to solve the sparsity and scalability problems in recommendation systems; (b) how to synthesize variousrapidly develop and test collaborative filtering algorithms; and (c) how to apply collaborative filtering to implicit preference datau...

recently proposed the h index to quantify the research output of individual scientists. The new index has attracted a lot of attention in the scientific community. The claim that the h index in a single number provides a good representation of the scientific lifetime achievement of a scientist as well as the (supposed) simple calculation of the h index using common literature databases lead to ...

To some naturalists, Mastigias medusae in marine lakes, Palau, symbolize the evolutionary process (Faulkner, 1974). In the first scientific publication on marine lake Mastigias, Hamner & Hauri (1981) suggested that different long-distance horizontal migrations and different morphologies among populations isolated in three different lakes ‘might be considered of specific or subspecific importanc...

This paper is an abbreviated version of a lecture given at the Snowmass meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the APS. Included here are SLAC's plans for the Stanford Linear Collider and my own + speculation on the development of the e e machines beyond the SLC or LEP that will be required to further advance the state of particle physics.

Statement Hereby I confirm that this thesis is my own work and that I have documented all sources used. Declaration of Consent Herewith I agree that my thesis will be made available through the library of the 2 Acknowledgement I'm indebted to my supervisor Dr. Erica Melis and Prof. Dr. Siekmann, who recommended me to visit the Parsing and Semantics group in Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE), ...

From my personal experience as a therapist employed in a nontraditional setting, I have identified the skills and abilities of experienced occupational therapists that are germane to work in nontraditional settings or beyond the clinic walls. Our profession can benefit from therapists working in nontraditional settings by gaining recognition and influencing decision makers in ways that will ben...

vided the structural mechanics computations in the joint paper [135]. Beyond the fruitful cooperation, my special thanks go to Sebastian for helping out many times in any kind of issue related to this dissertation. I also appreciate the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for financial support in the Graduiertenkolleg 853 " Modellierung, Simulation und Optimierung von Ingenieuranwen-dungen " .

In this paper I will review my work on disordered systems -spin glass model with two body and p > 2 body interactionswith long but finite interaction range R. I will describe the relation of these model with Mean Field Theory in the Kac limit and some attempts to go beyond mean field. PACS. 0 5.20.-y,75.10Nr

study of international affairs by incorporating Behavioral concepts and factors into IR research (Mintz 2005a). Six characteristics of Behavioral IR were introduced as well as relevant concepts, units of analysis, methods, and potential research questions. Behavioral IR is concerned with how cognitive limitations, psychological factors, and susceptibility to biases affect IR. The goal of Behavi...

In a work of van Gaans (2005a) stochastic integrals are regarded as L2-curves. In Filipović and Tappe (2008) we have shown the connection to the usual Itô-integral for càdlàg-integrands. The goal of this note is to complete this result and to provide the full connection to the Itô-integral. We also sketch an application to stochastic partial differential equations.