Today, when searching for information on the WWW, one usually performs a query through a term-based search engine. These engines return, as the query's result, a list of Web sites whose contents matches the query. For broad topic queries, such searches often result in a huge set of retrieved documents, many of which are irrelevant to the user. However, much information is contained in the link-...

Sixteen large-scale reinforced concrete specimens without web reinforcements were tested to study the behavior of typical bridge piers subjected to deflection reversals that were large enough to cause extensive yielding of the longitudinal reinforcement. The different parameters considered included shear spanto-depth ratio, percentage of longitudinal reinforcement, frequency of the applied load...

This paper presents a little crawling robot as a didactic instrument for teaching reinforcement learning. The robot learns a forwardwalking policy from scratch in less than 20 seconds of reinforced sensorimotor interactions. The state space consists of two discretized dimensions, where the behavior is visualizable and comprehensible. In laboratory tutorials, students conduct experiments with a ...

While the health benefits of regular physical activity are well-established, many people exercise much less than is recommended by established guidelines. Music has been shown to have a motivational effect that can encourage people to exercise more strenuously or for longer periods of time, but the determination of which songs should be provided to which exercisers is an unsolved problem. We pr...

Web page clustering is a fundamental technique to offer a solution for data management, information locating and its interpretation of Web data and to facilitate users for navigation, discrimination and understanding. Most existing clustering algorithms cannot adapt well to Web clustering directly in terms of efficiency and effectiveness. Combining contents analysis and hyperlink structure anal...

We contribute MobileVisFixer, a new method to make visualizations more mobile-friendly. Although mobile devices have become the primary means of accessing information on web, many existing are not optimized for small screens and can lead frustrating user experience. Currently, practitioners researchers engage in tedious time-consuming process ensure that their designs scale different sizes, too...