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New Forms of Reasoning for the Semantic Web: Scalable, T...
Proceedings of the First International Workshop Workshop ...
Busan, Korea, November 11th, 2007.
Edited by
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Trajectory-based interactions, such as navigating throug...
moving in 3D worlds, are becoming common tasks in modern ...
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Critical Values for the Chi-Squared Distribution

(Reuters) - China must boost its cyber-warfare strength ... Pentagon push, the country's top military newspaper said... weeks of friction over accusations that Beijing may have... of Internet hacking attacks.

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Single-loop and double-loop learning
For Argyris and Schön (1978: 2) learning involves the d ...

An attempt to understand the notion better led Robin Gan... student and friend) in 1980 to analyze machine computati... human-computation acted out by a Turing machine). Gandy'... and analysis of, "cellular automata", "Conway's game of ... "parallelis

Scholarly impact has long been an intriguing research to... 2010; Sternberg, 2003) as well as a crucial factor in ma... decisions (e.g., hiring, tenure, promotion, research sup... honors).  As decision makers ramp up their reliance on ... (Abbott, Cy

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Usage patterns of collaborative tagging systems
J. Inf. Sci., Vol. 32, No. 2. (April 2006), pp. 198-208.
Authors
* Golder SA, Huberman BA
... * HighWire: View article online

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Climate change is creating problems for American citizen... and costing the economy billions of dollars, as extreme ... flooding, droughts and other disasters to every region o... federal advisory panel concluded in a report released Tu...
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The Closure Compiler compiles JavaScript into compact, h... code. The compiler removes dead code and rewrites and mi... left so that it downloads and runs quickly. It also also... variable references, and types, and warns about common J... pitfalls. T

Scaling phenomena permeate modern communication networks... there is considerable data to support the hypothesis tha... exhibits multi-scalar behavior, with correlations at mul... There is even evidence that traffic may be self-similar ...
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