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Online systems that help users select the most preferential item from a large electronic catalog are known as product search and recommender systems. Evaluation of various proposed technologies is essential for further development in this area. This paper describes the design and implementation of two user studies in which a particular product search tool, known as example critiquing, was evalu...

As intelligent systems become larger and work in increasingly more complex and knowledge intensive environments, it becomes impractical to develop knowledge bases from scratch. A practical alternative is to develop knowledge bases out of reusable components, either ontologies or domain-independent problem solving methods. This paper describes a reusable knowledge base of general principles abou...

9 Can be done by an individual or in a group. Working in a group can be very motivating, as group members are able to discuss various aspects of the paper and put forward why they think it is valuable or not valuable. Also discussions about the paper's potential contribution to practice can be developed within a group. 9 Should not be thought of as a means of deciding what is wrong with the pap...

Daniel Low-Beer and colleagues provide a response from The Global Fund on the PLOS Medicine article by David McCoy and colleagues critiquing their lives saved assessment models. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.

This paper describes RaPiD, a computer-aided assistant for the design of dental prostheses called removable partial dentures. The user manipulates icons directly to indicate the desired design solution to a given clinical situation. A developing design is represented as a logic database of components in a design; expert rules are applied as integrity constraints governing valid database transac...

Data were gathered from 45 doctoral students through focus groups, observations, and written and oral re ̄ ections to ascertain their perceptions of a speci® c teaching process (the Scholarly Writing Project), which was designed to assist these students in learning how to do academic writing. It was found that preparing and receiving critiques from professors and peers was perceived to be the mo...

Many approaches have been proposed for consistency management of software engineering documents and specifications. A few others have been proposed to check consistency among software engineering models. For example, abstract state machines, knowledge-based approaches and so on. In this paper, we apply a different technique that uses critiquing systems. A critiquing system monitors user's actio...