733 research outputs found
Supplemental Material, Appendix - Spending the pupil premium: What influences leaders’ decision-making?
No full textSupplemental Material, Appendix for Spending the pupil premium: What influences leaders’ decision-making? by Rebecca Morris and Graeme Dobson in Educational Management Administration & Leadership</p
An approach to situation recognition based on learned semantic models
No full textA key enabler of pervasive computing is the ability to drive service delivery through the analysis of situations: Semantically meaningful classifications of system state, identified through analysing the readings from sensors attached to the everyday objects that people interact with.
Situation recognition is a mature area of research, with techniques primarily falling into two categories. Knowledge-based techniques use inference rules crafted by experts; however often they compensate poorly for sensing peculiarities. Learning-based approaches excel at extracting patterns from noisy training data, however their lack of transparency can make it difficult to diagnose errors.
In this thesis we propose a novel hybrid approach to situation recognition that combines both techniques. This offers improvements over each used individually, through not sacrificing the intelligibility of the decision processes that the use of machine learning alone often implies, and through providing better recognition accuracy through robustness to noise typically unattainable when developers use knowledge-based techniques in isolation.
We present an ontology model and reasoning framework that supports the uniform modelling of pervasive environments, and infers additional knowledge from that which is specified, in a principled way. We use this as a basis from which to learn situation recognition models that exhibit comparable performance with more complex machine learning techniques, while retaining intelligibility. Finally, we extend the approach to construct ensemble classifiers with either improved recognition accuracy, intelligibility or both.
To validate our approach, we apply the techniques to real-world data sets collected in smart-office and smart-home environments. We analyse the situation recognition performance and intelligibility of the decision processes, and compare the results to standard machine learning techniques and results published in the literature
Interview with Graeme Hugo
No full textGraeme Hugo is Federation Fellow, Professor of the Discipline of Geographical and Environmental Studies and Director of the National Centre for Social Applications of Geographical Information Systems at the University of Adelaide. He is the author of over 200 books, articles in scholarly journals and chapters in books, as well as a large number of conference papers and reports
From SOA to Pervasive Service Ecosystems: an approach based on Semantic Web technologies
No full textEmerging pervasive computing scenarios require open service frameworks promoting situated adaptive behaviors and supporting diversity in services and long-term ability to evolve. The authors argue that this calls for a nature-inspired approach in which pervasive services are modeled and deployed as autonomous individuals in an ecosystem of other services, data sources, and pervasive devices. They discuss how standard service-oriented architectures have to evolve to tackle the above issues, present
a general architecture based on a shared spatial substrate mediating interactions of all the individual services of the pervasive computing system, and finally show that this architecture can be implemented relying primarily on standard W3C Semantic Web technologies, like RDF and SPARQL. A use case of adaptive pervasive displays for crowd steering applications is exploited as reference example
Graeme Base, 1983
No full textPhotograph originally appeared in the 'Swinburne News', May 1983. Graeme Base, children's author and illustrator. Swinburne Alumnus (Diploma of Art and Graphic Design 1978)
Baker, Graeme L. - Biology Professor
No full textDr. Graeme L. Baker, Professor of Biology, wearing a suit. He was the co-author of Biology, Ecology and Systematics of Australian Scelio: Wasp Parasitoids of Locust and Grasshopper Eggs with Paul Dangerfield and Andrew Austin.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/univphotocollection/1237/thumbnail.jp
Self-organising semantic resource discovery for pervasive systems
No full textAbstract—The pervasive computing vision encompasses sce-narios where services are delivered to users as a result of oppor-tunistic encounters between their personal devices and compu-tational resources embedded in their surrounding environment. The decentralised and dynamic nature of such environments complicates service provision, providing no setting for a con-ventional orchestrator to manage the resource discovery process. This paper proposes a novel approach to resource discovery, employing nature-inspired patterns to manage the search for and retrieval of information across a dynamic arrangement of devices. We show how the results of fuzzy matching based on semantic resource descriptions can be incorporated at the pattern level to route only the best matched resources to a requestor, and how application context extrinsic to the matching algorithm may augment this process. I
Personal relations in Russian politics
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Date: 18 October 2013
Author: Graeme Gill
Publisher: Australian Review of Public Affairs (ARPA)
Owning Institution(s): The University of Sydney
Book Details
Title: Can Russia Modernise? Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2013
Author/s: Alena V. Ledeneva
In all societies there is tension between the formal rules governing all aspects of life and the informal norms, practices and principles that contribute to the structuring of that life.
In Russia, informal norms and personal relationships dominate social organisation, and cohere into a \u27sistema\u27 that structures life at the top.
A recent book \u27Can Russia Modernise? Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance\u27 by Alena V. Ledeneva explores the culture of \u27sistema\u27 and argues that it stands in the way of Russian political and economic development.
Read Graeme Gill’s full article in the Australian Review of Public Affairs.
 
The Rosie Project: Discussions with Graeme Simsion on reverse adaptation
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Graeme Simsion’s internationally best-selling novel, The Rosie Project (2013a), began life as a romantic comedy script that nobody wanted. One year later, having ‘reverse adapted’ his screenplay into a novel, The Rosie Project (2013a) was on the New York Times best-selling list and swiftly sold to 40 territories around the world. This article, based on my discussions with screenwriter and author Graeme Simsion, and informed by my own practice-led research into ‘reverse adaptation’, will examine this little discussed manifestation of screen adaptation. What are the creative challenges facing the screenwriter in taking on the ‘opposite’ of a traditional adaptation? How do professional and industrial conditions differ for the screenwriter undertaking a reverse adaptation? Why even begin a reverse adaptation? This article also briefly contextualizes reverse adaptation as belonging to the greater contemporary ‘ecology’ of transmedia adaption, and places it in relation to the commercial novelization
HMS Stirling Castle, Kent: the Stirling Castle Wood Recording Project: a pilot study to compare traditional and innovative recording techniques for waterlogged wood: archaeological conservation report
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