TRACES are what evaluators left behind—discoveries, records, tracks—which made marks on the profession of program evaluation. Published here are excerpts from our past (e.g., articles, passages from books, speeches) that show where we have been or affected where we are g(r)o(w)ing. Suggestions for inclusion should be sent to the Editor, along with rationale for their import. Photoco...

A procedure is described to gather corpora of academic writing from the web using BootCaT. The procedure uses terms distinctive of different registers and disciplines in COCA to locate and gather web pages containing them.

The study of paraconsistent reasoning with ontologies is especially important for the Semantic Web since knowledge is not always perfect within it. Quasi-classical semantics is proven to rationally draw more meaningful conclusions even from an inconsistent ontology with the stronger inference power of paraconsistent reasoning. In our previous work, we have conceived a quasi-classical framework ...

\Prose rhythm" is a widely observed but scarcely quantiied phenomenon. We describe an information-theoretic model for measuring the regularity of lexical stress in English texts, and use it in combination with trigram language models to demonstrate a relationship between the probability of word sequences in English and the amount of rhythm present in them. We nd that the stream of lexical stres...

An obvious prerequisite for both fixed and mobile computing is the ability to adapt (i) to different computing environments or (ii) to external changes occurred in their current computing environment. Otherwise the services are forced to be foreseen with everything they may possibly need during their operationallife time. This is neither desirable nor feasible, thereby hinting at the need for d...