Part I. Experimental Studies: 2. Experiment in psychology 3. Experiments on perceiving III Experiments on imaging 4-8. Experiments on remembering: (a) The method of description (b) The method of repeated reproduction (c) The method of picture writing (d) The method of serial reproduction (e) The method of serial reproduction picture material 9. Perceiving, recognizing, remembering 10. A theory of remembering 11. Images and their functions 12. Meaning Part II. Remembering as a Study in Social Psychology: 13. Social psychology 14. Social psychology and the matter of recall 15. Social psychology and the manner of recall 16. Conventionalism 17. The notion of a collective unconscious 18. The basis of social recall 19. A summary and some conclusions.

Remembering. A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology, Cambridge (University Press) 1964.

by J. Biggs and C. Tang, Maidenhead, England,
Open University Press, 2007, 360 pp., £29.99, ISBN-13: 978-0-335-22126-4

Teaching for quality learning at university

Rapid advances in industrial information integration methods have spurred tremendous growth in the use of enterprise systems. Consequently, a variety of techniques have been used for probing enterprise systems. These techniques include business process management, workflow management, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), grid computing, and others. Many applications require a combination of these techniques, which is giving rise to the emergence of enterprise systems. Development of the techniques has originated from different disciplines and has the potential to significantly improve the performance of enterprise systems. However, the lack of powerful tools still poses a major hindrance to exploiting the full potential of enterprise systems. In particular, formal methods and systems methods are crucial for modeling complex enterprise systems, which poses unique challenges. In this paper, we briefly survey the state of the art in the area of enterprise systems as they relate to industrial informatics.

Enterprise Systems: State-of-the-Art and Future Trends

Though research on the Semantic Web has progressed at a steady pace, its promise has yet to be realized. One major difficulty is that, by its very nature, the Semantic Web is a large, uncensored system to which anyone may contribute. This raises the question of how much credence to give each source. We cannot expect each user to know the trustworthiness of each source, nor would we want to assign top-down or global credibility values due to the subjective nature of trust. We tackle this problem by employing a web of trust, in which each user maintains trusts in a small number of other users. We then compose these trusts into trust values for all other users. The result of our computation is not an agglomerate "trustworthiness" of each user. Instead, each user receives a personalized set of trusts, which may vary widely from person to person. We define properties for combination functions which merge such trusts, and define a class of functions for which merging may be done locally while maintaining these properties. We give examples of specific functions and apply them to data from Epinions and our BibServ bibliography server. Experiments confirm that the methods are robust to noise, and do not put unreasonable expectations on users. We hope that these methods will help move the Semantic Web closer to fulfilling its promise.

Trust management for the Semantic Web

Arthur Chickering is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at Memphis State University. On leave from the Directorship of the Center for the Study of Higher Education at Memphis State, he is Visiting Professor at George Mason University. Zelda Gamson is a sociologist who holds appointments at the John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan.

Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education: Faculty Inventory. Institutional Inventory.

Multi-Player Online Games (MPOGs) have attracted enormous users in recent years. In contrast to the large number of low interactive MPOGs, the choices of highly interactive MPOGs are limited and most of them do not accept players whose network connections are slow due to the complexity involved in consistency maintenance. Most MPOGs adopt a data-centric consistency maintenance mechanism that only ensures the consistency of the final states, which however does not work well for highly interactive MPOGs because consistent views of incremental state changes are also important in those games. Instead of striving for a general solution for all highly interactive MPOGs, we advocate tailored solutions for different kinds of games by exploiting their semantics. To showcase this idea, we present the critical consistency model for highly interactive two-player online ball games, which only requires consistent views to be reached at critical states. We further contribute the progressive slowdown latency compensation technique to achieve critical consistency, which is demonstrated by an online table tennis game P2T2 (Peer-to- Peer Table Tennis).

Achieving critical consistency through progressive slowdown in highly interactive Multi-Player Online Games

IM (Instant Messenger) offers real-time interactivity between two or more geographically dispersed parties through the exchange of text or multimedia messages. In IM conversations, people feel emancipated to express their ideas or views. However, such a free and casual style of dialogue could form dissimilar views and may even cause confusions among individuals, making it unsuitable to be used in corporate environments, particularly for conducting group online meetings that involve multiple parties and span a variety of topics. This paper presents a solution of integrating topic-centric thread-based organized chat into enterprise instant messengers, with which multiple users can participate in diverse topics simultaneously for a large interactive business meeting over the Internet. This solution has been implemented in a prototype system and preliminary usability testing has shown that it is effective to support simultaneous group conversations.

Integrating Topic-centric Thread-Based Organized Chat into Web-Based Enterprise Instant Messengers

Formulating proper keywords and evaluating search results are common difficulties in exploratory information seeking. Reusing and refining others' successful searches are pragmatic directions to tackle these difficulties. In this paper, we present a novel epistemology-based social search solution, where search epistemologies are effectively shared, reused, and refined by others with the same or similar search interests through novel user interfaces. We have developed a prototype system Baijia and experimental results show that an epistemology-based social search system outperforms a conventional search engine in supporting exploratory information seeking.

Supporting exploratory information seeking by epistemology-based social search

Social search empowers seekers to help each other find the information they need by sharing their domain knowledge and search efforts. Current social search activities are primarily voluntary, acted on the goodwill to help others or the purpose for self-promotion and the contributed content is mostly retrievable free of charge to the public. However, the voluntary nature of social search compromises its long-term sustainability as participants are not offered intrinsic incentives to contribute and share information, and free information presents intricate ramifications on the its quality. In this paper, we present the idea of knowledge bartering, where one can barter a knowledge item they have for another item they wish to have. To make the idea viable, we propose the online silk road solution to automate a knowledge bartering process that can maximise the social welfare within a community.

Online silk road: nurturing social search through knowledge bartering

The Web is advancing toward essentially a social network that transforms the Internet into a locus for all things social-data and applications. The Web is becoming a platform where people work, interact, share, and collaborate beyond the reach of office and desktop applications. This trend demands innovative technologies and applications that support people to work and collaborate seamlessly in both single-user desktop and multiuser Web environments. Such technologies make desktop applications Web-aware in that they can talk to Web servers using standard Web protocols

Haifeng Shen

Papers

Achieving critical consistency through progressive slowdown in highly interactive Multi-Player Online Games

Integrating Topic-centric Thread-Based Organized Chat into Web-Based Enterprise Instant Messengers

Supporting exploratory information seeking by epistemology-based social search

Online silk road: nurturing social search through knowledge bartering

Collaborative Web Computing: From Desktops to Webtops