Research in self-regulated learning environments has focused on student motivation, development of metacognitive skills, learning strategies, and individual differences. Equally important is the modeling of domain-specific concepts and the ability for students to learn them under their preferred environment. In this paper, we present a general framework for modeling domain-specific concepts tha...

This paper revisits three important concepts in fractal type network traffic, namely, self-similarity (SS), long-range dependence (LRD), and local self-similarity (LSS). Based on those concepts, we address the reason why the local properties of fractional Gaussian noise (fGn) are contained in the global properties of fGn and vice versa, which may be a limitation of fGn in data traffic modeling....

The book consists of an introductory chapter followed by eight original papers on self-refence. The full table of contents is given in Figure 1. Below we will give a short introduction to each of the contributing papers in the anthology. The descriptions below assume familiarity with the basic concepts and ideas of self-reference. These basic concepts and ideas are described thoroughly in the f...