eBay Motors is the largest automotive site on the Internet with an annual revenue of more than $21 billion for 2009 and a sell-through rate of about 20 percent. eBay Motors lists over 100,000 cars for sale, and gets over 1 million visits from buyers each month. The listing fee for a car is $40, which allows the seller to list a car using software tools available from eBay Motors. Figure A1 show...

In this paper, the specification of Verity, a webbased instructional tool, is presented. Verity is intended to be used as a learning assistant and self-assessment tool, more than a web-based testing system. This represents a new approach to web-based instruction. Specifically, the purpose of the Verity software tool is twofold: first, to assist the students in their study by providing supportin...

Automatic verbatim coding technology is essential in many contexts in which, either because of the sheer size of the dataset we need to code, or because of demanding time constraints, or because of cost-effectiveness issues, manual coding is not a viable option. However, in some of these contexts the accuracy standards imposed by the customer may be too high for today’s automated verbatim codin...

Creation and improvement of tools for digital preservation is a difficult task without an established way to assess any progress in their quality. This happens due to low presence of solid evidence and a lack of accessible approaches to create such evidence. Software benchmarking, as an empirical method, is used in various fields to provide objective evidence about the quality of software tools...

ExamGen is a software application developed at Queensland University of Technology to assist instructors with assessment in large classes (250+). The ExamGen program was developed for the Faculty of Information Technology in response to an investigation into appropriate assessment alternatives designed to cope with the ever increasing enrolment numbers in tertiary institutions, in particular in...

Cell invasiveness quantification is of paramount importance in cancer research and is often evaluated in vitro through scratch wound healing assays that determine the rate at which a population of cells fills a gap created in a confluent 2D culture. The quantification of the results of this experiment, however, lacks standardization and is often highly time consuming and user dependent. To over...

There are many concerns about the spread and establishment of exotic mosquito species in Europe, some of which are highly competent to transmit pathogens. The fast spread of some invasive mosquito species, e.g. the Asian bush mosquito, might be explained by a combination of natural dispersal and human transport. Therefore, the aim of this study was the development of a software tool that is cap...

After years of constant progress in developing software tools to support education and training, the focus in eLearning has recently been shifted from the supporting tools towards the learning person. It has turned out that the learning success can significantly be improved if the learning content is specifically adapted to individual learners’ preferences, learning progress and needs. Personal...

In this paper we describe a framework dedicated to studies and experimentations upon the nature of the relationships between the rational reasoning process of an artificial agent and its psychological counterpart, namely its behavioral reasoning process. This study is focused on the domain of Conversational Assistant Agents, which are software tools providing various kinds of assistance to peop...

Space and movement through space play an important role in many collective adaptive systems (CAS). CAS consist of multiple components interacting to achieve some goal in a system or environment that can change over time. When these components operate in space, then their behaviour can be affected by where they are located in that space. Examples include the possibility of communication between ...