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This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the
20th International Conference on Principles and Practice of
Constraint Programming, CP 2014, held in Lyon, France, in September
2014. The 65 revised papers presented together with 4 invited talks
were carefully selected from 108 submissions. The scope of CP 2014
includes all aspects of computing with constraints, including
theory, algorithms, environments, languages, models, systems, and
applications such as decision making, resource allocation, and
agreement technologies.
Aimed at researchers and students interested in language testing
theory and practice, the chapters in this book vary in style and
content and are both stimulating and robust. The book brings
together a fascinating group of authors from the established to the
new, presenting new ideas and challenging current orthodoxies.
Aimed at researchers and students interested in language testing
theory and practice, the chapters in this book vary in style and
content and are both stimulating and robust. The book brings
together a fascinating group of authors from the established to the
new, presenting new ideas and challenging current orthodoxies.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of
the 14th Annual ERCIM International Workshop on Constraint Solving
and Constraint Logic Programming, CSCLP 2009, held in Barcelona,
Spain, in June 2009. The 9 revised full papers presented were
carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this
post-proceedings. The papers in this volume present original
research results and applications of constraint solving and
constraint logic programming in several domains. Among the issues
addressed are solving argumentation frameworks, software
consistency, modeling languages, static design routing, dynamic
constraint satisfaction, and constraint-based modeling.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Joint ERCIM/CologNet International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming, held in Cork, Ireland in June 2002. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully selected for inclusion in the book during two rounds of reviewing and revision. Among the topics addressed are verification and debugging of constraint logic programs, modeling and solving CSPs, explanation generation, inference and inconsistency processing, SAT and 0/1 encodings of CSPs, soft constraints and constraint relaxation, real-world applications, and distributed constraint solving.
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Trustworthy AI - Integrating Learning, Optimization and Reasoning - First International Workshop, TAILOR 2020, Virtual Event, September 4-5, 2020, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Fredrik Heintz, Michela Milano, Barry O'Sullivan
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference
proceedings of the First International Workshop on the Foundation
of Trustworthy AI - Integrating Learning, Optimization and
Reasoning, TAILOR 2020, held virtually in September 2020,
associated with ECAI 2020, the 24th European Conference on
Artificial Intelligence. The 11 revised full papers presented
together with 6 short papers and 6 position papers were reviewed
and selected from 52 submissions. The contributions address various
issues for Trustworthiness, Learning, reasoning, and optimization,
Deciding and Learning How to Act, AutoAI, and Reasoning and
Learning in Social Contexts.
A successful integration of constraint programming and data mining
has the potential to lead to a new ICT paradigm with far reaching
implications. It could change the face of data mining and machine
learning, as well as constraint programming technology. It would
not only allow one to use data mining techniques in constraint
programming to identify and update constraints and optimization
criteria, but also to employ constraints and criteria in data
mining and machine learning in order to discover models compatible
with prior knowledge. This book reports on some key results
obtained on this integrated and cross- disciplinary approach within
the European FP7 FET Open project no. 284715 on "Inductive
Constraint Programming" and a number of associated workshops and
Dagstuhl seminars. The book is structured in five parts:
background; learning to model; learning to solve; constraint
programming for data mining; and showcases.
Validity: Theoretical Development and Integrated Arguments provides
a historical overview of validity, targeting developments in both
the UK and the US. It explores theoretical notions of validity as
well as pragmatic validation practices and expands the arguments
that need to be attended to document quality. The authors examine
the need to consider, in addition to the psychometric evidence,
which has continued to prevail especially in the US, other critical
sources of quality evidence. They call attention to principled
design and the evidence accumulated from various departments/groups
involved in test design and development. They also promote the
concept of impact by design, which places consequences at the top
of the evidence chain to guide all testing efforts and quality
documentation. They envision validity scholarship to attend to
consequences at the individual, aggregate/group, and larger
educational/organisational/societal levels. Concomitant with this
attention to consequences are considerations of stakeholders and
the tailoring of communication to engage intended groups. Such an
approach yields a more convincing validity argument. The monograph
ends by calling on professionals in the field to publish case
studies which showcase localised validity arguments in practice.
Local case studies represent critical endeavours to illustrate how
evidence and arguments are pulled together to support the quality
of a testing programme and all that it entails.
Validity: Theoretical Development and Integrated Arguments provides
a historical overview of validity, targeting developments in both
the UK and the US. It explores theoretical notions of validity as
well as pragmatic validation practices and expands the arguments
that need to be attended to document quality. The authors examine
the need to consider, in addition to the psychometric evidence,
which has continued to prevail especially in the US, other critical
sources of quality evidence. They call attention to principled
design and the evidence accumulated from various departments/groups
involved in test design and development. They also promote the
concept of impact by design, which places consequences at the top
of the evidence chain to guide all testing efforts and quality
documentation. They envision validity scholarship to attend to
consequences at the individual, aggregate/group, and larger
educational/organisational/societal levels. Concomitant with this
attention to consequences are considerations of stakeholders and
the tailoring of communication to engage intended groups. Such an
approach yields a more convincing validity argument. The monograph
ends by calling on professionals in the field to publish case
studies which showcase localised validity arguments in practice.
Local case studies represent critical endeavours to illustrate how
evidence and arguments are pulled together to support the quality
of a testing programme and all that it entails.
In 1939 more than 140,000 New Zealanders enlisted to fight overseas
during World War II. Of these, 104,000 served in the Second New
Zealand Expeditionary Force. Initially thrown into the doomed
campaign to halt the German blitzkrieg on Greece and Crete (1941),
the division was rebuilt under the leadership of MajGen Sir Bernard
Freyberg, and became the elite corps within Montgomery's Eighth
Army in the desert. After playing a vital role in the victory at El
Alamein (1942) the 'Kiwis' were the vanguard of the pursuit to
Tunisia. In 1943-45 the division was heavily engaged in the Italian
mountains, especially at Cassino (1944); it ended the war in
Trieste. Meanwhile, a smaller NZ force supported US forces against
the Japanese in the Solomons and New Guinea (1942-44). Fully
illustrated with specially commissioned colour plates, this is the
story of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force's vital
contribution to Allied victory in World War II.
This collection of original articles provides language teachers
with a theoretical background of key issues associated with
language testing as well as practical advice on how to improve the
effectiveness of the tests they develop and implement. Written by
internationally prominent researchers and educators, the chapters
are organized into five sections: key issues in the field,
assessment purposes and approaches, assessment of second language
skills, technology in assessment, and administrative issues.
Chapters assume no particular background knowledge and are written
in an accessible style.
Demand is steadily growing for language tests with a specialized
focus which will suit the needs of key professional domains as
diverse as business, law, the airline industry, and teacher
education. This book explores the testing of language for sepcific
purposes (LSP) from a theoretical and a practical perspective, with
a particular focus on the testing of English for business purposes.
A range of tests - both past and present - is reviewed, and the
development of business English testing at Cambridge ESOL is
discussed. The description of the revision of the Business English
Certificates (BEC) forms a major part of the book and offers a
unique insight into an approach to large-scale ESP test development
and revision.
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