KI 2008 is the 31st edition of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, which traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI. The technical programme of KI 2008 will comprise paper and poster presentations and a variety of workshops and tutorials. The tutorials will be held the day before the technical program starts. Tutorials will be free of ch...

We have implemented several research-based transformations in our introductory calculus-based physics course at CU Boulder. These include Peer Instruction with student response system in lecture, Tutorials with trained undergraduate learning assistants in recitations, and personalized computer assignments. In an effort to distinguish the effects of instructor, TA preparation, and particular res...

The better developers can learn software tools, the faster they can start using them and the more efficiently they can later work with them. Tutorials are supposed to help here. While in the early days of computing, mostly text tutorials were available, nowadays software developers can choose among a huge number of tutorials for almost any popular software tool. However, only little research wa...

is a co-author of NEURON, a powerful simulation environment that models neurons based on the equations that describe their behavior. Using NEURON, Moore and Stuart created the seventeen tutorials that make up Neurons in Action. These tutorials vary in their level of complexity and can be used to teach neurophysiology to students at the undergraduate through graduate level. The first tutorial, T...

We describe the new tutorial article type in detail and give some background on the reasons for its introduction.

This article offers a user's view of the New Font Selection Scheme, version 2. It describes the reasons for using the NFSS; the differences a user will encounter between NFSS and old I P' ; what it will be like installing and using NFSS2; some special situations in mathematics; and an overview of the advanced NFSS2 commands for describing new fonts.

In this paper we identify roles and uses of web-based tutorials through an examination of tutorials’ comments sections. Through this analytical lens, we find that web tutorials serve a variety of needs, providing: in-task help for users with an immediate, specific goal to accomplish; a means for users to proactively expand their repertoire of skills; and an opportunity for novices to shadow and...

CCMTutorials.com is a comprehensive, interactive website that introduces the reader to the field of critical care medicine. It includes both information in lecture format and clinical scenarios covering a variety of conditions that are commonly encountered in intensive care units. The website has six main subjects (introduction, problem oriented approach, respiratory failure, shock, renal failu...

Singularly perturbed systems of ordinary differential equations arise in many biological, physical and chemical systems. We present an example of a singularly perturbed system of ordinary differential equations that arises as a model of the electrical potential across the cell membrane of a neuron. We describe two periodic solutions of this example that were numerically computed using continuat...

Topics of Information Systems lectures and tutorials are dynamic systems, such as business models and development processes, requirements specification formulation, and system architectures and designs. Using simulations in lectures, tutorials and for distance learning can significantly increase students’ understanding of topics, teamwork skills and enjoyment of their learning experience. The c...