ABSTRACT This paper describes a detailed analysis of a student-centered problem-based learning group. The focus of this analysis is to understand the goals and strategies of an expert facilitator. This was accomplished by examining the questions and statements that the students and facilitators generated and inferring the facilitator’s goals and strategies. Studying facilitation in a face to fa...

I recent years, the issue of copyright protection for intellectual properties such as computer software, music CDs, and videos has become increasingly important. It is often claimed that illegal copying of intellectual property costs companies billions of dollars in lost revenues and reduces firms’ incentives to innovate. Some researchers have shown that copying can be beneficial to firms when ...

It is well-known that the size of the model is a bottleneck when using model-based approaches to diagnose complex systems. To answer this problem, decentralised/distributed approaches have been proposed. Another problem, which is far less considered, is the size of the diagnosis itself. However, it can be huge enough, especially in the case of on-line monitoring and when dealing with uncertain ...

The ComeRideWithMe Project set out to share online the experience of a real-life adventure in this case a world motorbike tour. The paper discusses aspects of both the system design model, and the online community that formed around the project. The project website can be found at http://www.comeridewithme.com.

In this article cheating in network and specifically online computer games is looked into as a moral offence. Reasons for the public ignoring the issue are brought forth. We present what could be considered as cheating in generic terms and in context. Different kinds of cheating are delineated, and remedies proposed. We also identify what is not cheating.

We propose a generic web shop system which adapts online to the preferences of a user by observing the user’s behavior and applying machine learning algorithms. We specify the system architecture, identify basic research problems and discuss the current state of our system.