Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

THE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENTS. By Oscar Kempthorne. New York, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1952. 631 pp. $8.50. This book by a teacher of statistics (as well as a consultant for \"experimenters\") is a comprehensive study of the philosophical background for the statistical design of experiment. It is necessary to have some facility with algebraic notation and manipulation to be able to use the volume intelligently. The problems are presented from the theoretical point of view, without such practical examples as would be helpful for those not acquainted with mathematics. The mathematical justification for the techniques is given. As a somewhat advanced treatment of the design and analysis of experiments, this volume will be interesting and helpful for many who approach statistics theoretically as well as practically. With emphasis on the \"why,\" and with description given broadly, the author relates the subject matter to the general theory of statistics and to the general problem of experimental inference. MARGARET J. ROBERTSON

The Design and Analysis of Experiments

This paper presents an overview of the field of recommender systems and describes the current generation of recommendation methods that are usually classified into the following three main categories: content-based, collaborative, and hybrid recommendation approaches. This paper also describes various limitations of current recommendation methods and discusses possible extensions that can improve recommendation capabilities and make recommender systems applicable to an even broader range of applications. These extensions include, among others, an improvement of understanding of users and items, incorporation of the contextual information into the recommendation process, support for multicriteria ratings, and a provision of more flexible and less intrusive types of recommendations.

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Toward the next generation of recommender systems: a survey of the state-of-the-art and possible extensions

We will review some of the major results in random graphs and some of the more challenging open problems. We will cover algorithmic and structural questions. We will touch on newer models, including those related to the WWW.

Random graphs

http://tinf2.vub.ac.be/~dvermeir/courses/thesis/argumentation_frameworks.pdf

On the acceptability of arguments and its fundamental role in nonmonotonic reasoning, logic programming and n -person games

Global Diasporas, an Introduction

An introduction to the concept of diaspora which provides the basic building blocks of comparative and theoretical analysis. It explores the relationship between migration, homeland and identity for both traditionally recognized and newer diasporas.

Global Diasporas: An Introduction

1. Introduction: conceiving cosmopolitanism PART 1 WINDOWS ON COSMOPOLITANISM 2. Political belonging in a world of multiple identities 3. Middle Eastern experiences of cosmopolitanism 4. Cosmopolitanism and the social experience of cities 5. Building cosmopolitanism for another age PART 2 THEORIES OF COSMOPOLITANISM 6. The cosmopolitan perspective: sociology in the second age of modernity 7. The class consciousness of frequent travellers: towards a critique of actually existing cosmopolitanism 8. Political community beyond the sovereign state, supranational federalism and transnational minorities 9. Four cosmopolitanism moments PART 3 CONTEXTS OF COSMOPOLITANISM 10. Colonial cosmopolitanism 11. Media corporatism and cosmopolitanism 12. Both sides now: culture contact, hybridisation and cosmopolitanism 13. Cosmopolitanism at the local level: the development of transnational neighbourhoods PART 4 PRACTICES OF COSMOPOLITANISM 14. Not universalists, not pluralists: the new cosmopolitans find their own way 15. Interests and identities in cosmopolitan politics 16. Cosmopolitan harm conventions 17. Cosmopolitanism and organised violence

Conceiving cosmopolitanism : theory, context and practice

User models have recently attracted much research interest in the field of artificial intelligence dialog systems. It has become evident that a flexible user-oriented dialog behavior of such systems can be realized only if the system disposes of a model of the user, containing assumptions about the user`s background knowledge as well as the user`s goals and plans in consulting the system. Research in the field of user models investigates how such assumptions can be automatically created, represented and exploited by the system in the course of an interaction with the user. This volume is the first survey pertaining to the field of user modeling. Most of the prominent international researchers in this area have contributed to this volume. Their papers are grouped into four sections: The introductory section contains a general view of the field as a whole, and a number of surveys of specific problems and techniques in user modeling. Sections two and three describe eight user modeling systems, with the focus lying on the automatic creation and exploitation of assumptions about the user respectively. The final section discusses several limits of current systems, and proposes solutions as to how some of the shortcomings might be overcome. In order to increase the quality and the coherency of the volume, each paper has been reviewed by all other contributors. Cross-references have been integrated wherever appropriate. All contributions are introduced in editorial prefaces pertaining to each section. A subject index and an extensive bibliography supplement the book.

http://www.dfki.de/wwdata/Publications/User_Models_in_Dialog_Systems.pdf

User Models in Dialog Systems

l. Prologue 2. European colonisation and settlement 3. Asian indentured and colonial migration 4. The great Atlantic migration to North America 5. Migration in Europe, l800-l950 6. Migration in Europe, l800-l950 6. Migration in Africa 7. Latin and Central American migration. 8. Migration to North America after l945 9. Labour migration to Western Europe after l945 l0. Repatriates and colonial auxiliaries ll. Migration in Asia and Oceania l2. Migration in the Middle East l3. Refugees from political conflict l4. Migrants and asylum-seekers in contemporary Europe l5. Emerging trends.

http://www.gbv.de/dms/goettingen/186159552.pdf

Robin Cohen

Papers

Global Diasporas, an Introduction

Global Diasporas: An Introduction

Conceiving cosmopolitanism : theory, context and practice

User Models in Dialog Systems

The Cambridge survey of world migration