Description: This paper discusses learning to identify educational materials. Abstract: In this paper, we explore the task of automatically identifying educational materials, by classifying documents with respect to their educative value. Through experiments carried out on a data set of manually annotated documents, we show that the generally accepted notion of a learning object's "educativeness" is indeed a property that can be reliably assigned through automatic classification.

Description: This paper presents a non-uniform grid-based coordinated routing design in wireless sensor networks. The conditions leading to network partition and analysis of energy consumption that prolongs the network lifetime are studied. The authors focus on implementing routing in densely populated sensor networks. By maintaining constant values for parameters such as path loss exponent, receiver sensitivity and transmit power, and varying between uniform and non-uniform grids, we observe energy consumption patterns for each of the grid structures and infer from the network lifetime the better suited grids for uniformly and randomly deployed sensor nodes.

Description: This article discusses a user-based channel assignment algorithm in a load-balanced IEEE 802.11 WLAN. A new load balancing algorithm is presented based on power management of Access Points (APs) to reduce congestion at hot spots in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) and to assign channels to APs. The algorithm first finds the Most Congested Access Point (MCAP), then decreases its transmitted power in discrete steps, and the process continues until the users' assignment which leads to a high balance index is reached. A new mathematical programming formulation is then applied to assign channels to the APs such that the Signal-to-Interference Ratio (SIR) at the users' level is maximized. Results show that the algorithm is capable of reducing the overall congestion at hot spots in a WLAN and increases the SIR significantly for cases involving relatively large WLANs. In the process, network throughput is increased.

Description: This paper describes the efforts and results of a plan for actively recruiting students to undergraduate computer science and engineering programs at the University of North Texas (UNT). Such recruitment of students is critical to the country's efforts to increase the number of engineering professionals, and is a priority for the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department at UNT.

Description: In this paper, the authors evaluate the extent to which human-written book summaries can be obtained through cut-and-paste operations from the original book. The authors analyze the effect of the parameters involved in the decomposition algorithm, and highlight the distinctions in coverage obtained for different summary types.