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Title: AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF INTELLIGENT TUTORING CAPABILITIES VIA EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING
Author: Stamper, John
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information science, Educational technology
Description: Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) that adapt to an individual student's needs have shown significant improvement in achievement over non-adaptive instruction. This improvement occurs due to the individualized instruction and feedback that an ITS...

Title: COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS AND THE THRESHOLD EFFECT: TOWARDS A GENERAL TOOL FOR STUDYING DYNAMIC PHENOMENA ACROSS DIVERSE DOMAINS
Author: Carmichael, Theodore
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Social structure, Cytology
Description: Most interesting phenomena in natural and social systems include transitions and oscillations among their various phases. A new phase begins when the system reaches a threshold that marks a qualitative change in system characteristics. These thres...

Title: Evaluating and extending the concept of wisdom of crowds in the context of problem solving
Author: Sun, Min
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: James Surowiecki in his book on the wisdom of crowds wrote about the decisions made based on the aggregation of information in groups. Knowing the many case studies and anecdotes which show the success of wisdom of crowds, he argues that under cer...

Title: MONTE-CARLO TREE SEARCH WITH HEURISTIC KNOWLEDGE: A NOVEL WAY IN SOLVING CAPTURING AND LIFE AND DEATH PROBLEMS IN GO
Author: Zhang, Peigang
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Artificial intelligence
Description: Monte-Carlo (MC) tree search is a new research field. Its effectiveness in searching large state spaces, such as the Go game tree, is well recognized in the computer Go community. Go domain-specific heuristics and techniques as well as domain-inde...