Introduction. This paper discusses an 'information in context' design project at Auraria Library in Denver, Colorado which aims to collaboratively create organizational structures and communication systems with and for library employees. Method. This action research project is founded within shared leadership, informed learning and organizational learning principles and implemented using partic...

The status of research methodology employed by studies on the application of AI techniques to solving problems in engineering design, analysis, and manufacturing is poor. There may be many reasons for this status including: unfortunate heritage from AI, poor educational system, and researchers' sloppiness. Understanding this status is a prerequisite for improvement. The study of research method...

As with the AAAI itself, the Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence conference (IAAI) was the brainchild of Raj Reddy. Howie Shrobe summarized the context: “... the emergence of scientific achievements had triggered opportunities to tackle new problems ... The point of the conference was to exchange information about what really works and what the real problems are. The goal was to ...

WINTER 2015 5 As George Bernard Shaw once observed, being slandered is better than being ignored. So maybe AI researchers should be happy about what’s been happening lately. After decades of pundits and philosophers arguing that AI is provably impossible, suddenly that argument has been replaced with the assertion that not only is it possible, but superhuman AI is so inevitable that it is the g...

This investigation examines the motivating factors associated with voluntary turnover decisions of information systems (IS) professionals within the context of two different cultures—Singapore and New Zealand. The narrative inquiry approach was employed to interview 35 IS professionals. Ninety-seven turnover episodes were identified, including 42 in Singapore and 55 in New Zealand. The findings...

A sequential investment is a vector of payments over time, (a0, a1, . . . , an), where a payment is made to or by the investor according as ai is positive or negative. Given a collection of such investments it may be possible to assemble a portfolio from which an investor can get “something for nothing,” meaning that without investing any money of his own he can receive a positive return after ...

This exploratory study examines the use of integrated and complementary technology systems including mobile devices to explore an instructional experience designed to provoke observational inquiry and geological reasoning with upper elementary and middle school students. Mobile devices combined with classroom-based computer technology loaded with Google EarthTM software provided enhanced and va...

This paper complements the article elsewhere in journal by Mick Waters. It traces origins of present focus within UK on school leadership, outlines importance applying well-judged approaches to Appreciative Inquiry, Problem Solving and Ensuring Compliance leadership practices establishing organisational cultures managing complex change briefly suggests a re-setting schooling purposes aims for n...

In (McCarthy and Hayes 1969), we proposed dividing the artificial intelligence problem into two parts—an epistemological part and a heuristic part. This lecture further explains this division, explains some of the epistemological problems, and presents some new results and approaches. The epistemological part of AI studies what kinds of facts about the world are available to an observer with gi...