PRIMA 2015: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems
18th International Conference, Bertinoro, Italy, October 26-30, 2015, Proceedings
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While large-scale pre-trained language models like BERT have advanced the state-of-the-art in IR, its application in query performance prediction (QPP) is so far based on pointwise modeling of individual queri...
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Ranking context has been shown crucial for the performance of learning to rank. Its use for the BERT-based re-rankers, however, has not been fully explored. In this work, an end-to-end BERT-based ranking model...
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Drug abuse causes serious problems around the world. Thus, anti-drug material has been increasingly developed and used. However, conventional anti-drug material has until today shown insufficient effects on pr...
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This study addresses whether augmented reality (AR)-based online wearable guides are better at improving learners’ situational interest (with regard to the fields of novelty, challenge, attention demand, explo...
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Human speakers do not create metaphors in a vacuum. Our rhetorical urges are tempered by a variety of contextual factors, such as ethos (does a metaphor reflect my values?), relevance (does a metaphor speak to my...
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The present study aims to identify the influence of the display of numerical data on human performance in the manually controlled rendezvous and docking (manual RVD) task. Two display schemes were designed and...
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Under the standard of mass production, how to apply different elements to the apparel in customized space is an issue concerned by the designer. The energy from the artist is inexhaustible. If it can be extend...
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Objective: This experimental study was designed to measure discrimination thresholds for haptic perception of size in manual operation. Methods: Common manual operation modes with finger pressing or pulling, t...
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The purpose of this study was to survey the usage problems and needs of the traditional UERE and commercial digital videogames applied in rehabilitation, and summarize a guideline for improvement design of the...
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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are successful in delivering educational resources to the masses, however, the current retention rates—well below 10 %—indicate that they fall short in hel** their audience b...
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18th International Conference, Bertinoro, Italy, October 26-30, 2015, Proceedings
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Increasing popularity of event-based social networks (EBSNs) calls for the developments in event recommendation techniques. However, events are uniquely different from conventional recommended items because ev...
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Improper design for the grip structure will lead to inefficient operation or work injuries. The study purpose was to simulate the shape, size, and position of a grip** structure by using a 30 kg rectangular ...
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Digital games have been proven effective in upper extremity rehabilitation for stroke patients in addition to arousing higher motivation and feelings of pleasure. A well designed upper extremity rehabilitation...
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With the rapid growth of mobile devices, mobile websites become an important channel of library resources and services. The mobile catalog is often significantly different from its desktop version in interface...
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While network become one of the major sources of student access to knowledge, on which also build community relations? Students can search the Web for scholarly information, or use the Internet to discuss the ...
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Experiential approaches to technology create opportunities for facilitating a wider range of in-car user experiences, however holistic knowledge regarding experiences that car users find enjoyable is lacking. ...
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Context has been recognized as an important factor in constructing personalized recommender systems. However, most context-aware recommendation techniques mainly aim at exploiting item-level contextual informa...
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Human performance modeling has become more and more popular in cognitive science recently. This paper applies a time-fuel optimal control model to model the human control strategies in a simplified RVD task. P...
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Being a novel research aspect following the recent new round of lunar explorations, content-based lunar image retrieval provides a convenient and efficient way for accessing relevant lunar remote sensing image...