Adaptive intelligent agent approach to guide the web navigation on the PLAN-G distance learning platform

Hypermedia systems based on the Web for open distance education are becoming increasinglypopular as tools for user-driven access learning information. Adaptive hypermedia is a new direction in research within the area of user-adaptive systems, to increase its functionality by making it personalized [Eklu 961. This paper sketches a general agents architecture to include navigationaladaptability and user-friendly processes which would guide and accompany the student during hislher learning on the PLAN-G hypermedia system (New Generation Telematics Platform to Support Open and Distance Learning), with the aid of computer networks and specifically WWW technology [Marz 98-1] [Marz 98-2]. The PLAN-G actual prototype is successfully used with some informatics courses (the current version has no agents yet). The propased multi-agent system, contains two different types of adaptive autonomous software agents: Personal Digital Agents {Interface), to interacl directly with the student when necessary; and Information Agents (Intermediaries), to filtrate and discover information to learn and to adapt navigation space to a specific student

Adaption of Courses and Learning Environment to the User Context in dotLRN

The explosive growth of Internet during the last years has been reflected in the ever-increasing amount of the diversity and heterogeneity of user preferences, types and features of devices and access networks. Usually the heterogeneity in the context of the users which request Web contents is not taken into account by the servers that deliver them implying that these contents will not always suit their needs. In the particular case of e-learning platforms this issue is especially critical due to the fact that it puts at stake the knowledge acquired by their users. In the following paper we present a system that aims to provide the dotLRN e-learning platform with the capability to adapt to its users context. By integrating dotLRN with a multi-agent hypermedia system, online courses being undertaken by students as well as their learning environment are adapted in real time

On concentrators and related approximation constants

Pippenger [Pi77] showed the existence of (6m,4m,3m,6)-concentrator for each positive integer m using a probabilistic method. We generalize his approach and prove existence of (6m,4m,3m,5.05)-concentrator (which is no longer regular, but has fewer edges). We apply this result to improve the constant of approximation of almost additive set functions by additive set functions from 44.5 (established by Kalton and Roberts in [KaRo83] to 39. We show a more direct connection of the latter problem to the Whitney type estimate for approximation of continuous functions on a cube in &b&R&/b&&sup&d&/sup& by linear functions, and improve the estimate of this Whitney constant from 802 (proved by Brudnyi and Kalton in [BrKa00] to 73.

La teoría de los códigos: una entrevista a Basil Bernstein

En el contexto de esta monografía dedicada a la obra del profesor Bernstein pareció oportuno contar con alguna aportación Original del propio autor. Su obra clásica principal estando a punto de publicarse en castellano (ya aparecida al editarse este número de Temps d'Educació), surgió la idea de una entrevista -de una entrevista 'epistolar' en este caso.

Matching stages of heavy-ion collision models

Heavy-ion reactions and other collective dynamical processes are frequently described by different theoretical approaches for the different stages of the process, like initial equilibration stage, intermediate locally equilibrated fluid dynamical stage, and final freeze-out stage. For the last stage, the best known is the Cooper-Frye description used to generate the phase space distribution of emitted, noninteracting particles from a fluid dynamical expansion or explosion, assuming a final ideal gas distribution, or (less frequently) an out-of-equilibrium distribution. In this work we do not want to replace the Cooper-Frye description, but rather clarify the ways of using it and how to choose the parameters of the distribution and, eventually, how to choose the form of the phase space distribution used in the Cooper-Frye formula. Moreover, the Cooper-Frye formula is used in connection with the freeze-out problem, while the discussion of transition between different stages of the collision is applicable to other transitions also. More recently, hadronization and molecular dynamics models have been matched to the end of a fluid dynamical stage to describe hadronization and freeze-out. The stages of the model description can be matched to each other on space-time hypersurfaces (just like through the frequently used freeze-out hypersurface). This work presents a generalized description of how to match the stages of the description of a reaction to each other, extending the methodology used at freeze-out, in simple covariant form which is easily applicable in its simplest version for most applications.

Notas floristicas, III

Isoetes Durieui Bory. La Selva : Santa Cristina d'Aro, hacia el Torrent de Plana Basarda, Isoelion (A. Bolos, O. Bolos, B r . - B L , F . Q., etc.) ; Sils, al S. de Sant Maurici, 100 m. alt., Isoelicm (leg. Batalla, O. Bolos et Lapraz).

Estudio Gravimétrico del Pirineo Oriental

El Pirineo Oriental ha sido desde hace tiempo una zona en la que se han realizado gran cantidad de trabajos de investigación geológica y geofísica. Estos trabajos se han realizado con objetivos académicos (Tesis y Tesinas), como trabajos de investigación de instituciones (el I.T.G.E., el I.G.N., cl Servei Geolbgic de la Generalitat de Catalunya, el B.R.G.M., etc ...) o bien, realizados por diversas compañías petroleras para localizar reservas de hidrocarburos...

Basil Bernstein: Societat, llenguatge i educació

Si haguéssim de trobar un fil conductor del conjunt de l'obra de Basil Bernstein, no hi ha cap mena de dubte que seria la referencia al llenguatge: com el llenguatge estructura els éssers humans en el procés de socialització, com constitueix la seva principal eina per copsar el món, com els contextos en els quals es produeix la socialització i l' educació es caracteritzen per les maneres d'usar el llenguatge, com el llenguatge és alhora ' jutge i part ': de quina manera possibilita, com marca les categories socials ( classe social, sexe, raça, etc. ) en la mateixa essència del procés de socialització, com, en fi, el llenguatge se subordina, alhora que encarna i constitueix un principi més ampli i general que no és sinó la mateixa trama d'allò que és social: les formes de divisió del treball, el repartiment i la constitució del poder, les formes de control.

Basil Bernstein: sociedad, lenguaje, educación

Si tuviésemos que encontrar un hilo conductor del conjunto de la obra de Basil Bernstein no cabe duda que sería la referencia al lenguaje. A cómo el lenguaje estructura a los seres humanos en el proceso de socialización, a cómo constituye su principal herramienta para aprehender el mundo, a cómo los contextos en los que se produce la socialización y la educación se caracterizan por...