presente trabalho teve como objetivo investigar os efeitos de um programa de ensino de futsal, baseado em uma perspectiva tática do jogo, sobre o desempenho tático. Nessa perspectiva, a ação tática é colocada no centro do processo de ensino-aprendizagem, e a atividade de ensino central são os exercícios táticos, contextualizados o mais próximo possível da situação real de jogo. Os alunos são incentivados a tomarem decisões e a refletirem sobre as ações em relação aos problemas que emergem no contexto (confronto) de jogo. Os adeptos dessa perspectiva de ensino defendem que, assim, estimulariam a formação de alunos/jogadores inteligentes e criativos. Para auxiliar a construção do programa foi elaborado um modelo do jogo de futsal. A construção da representação ocorreu a partir de um diálogo entre uma concepção empírica da modalidade, construída por treinadores experientes, e concepções de Modalidades Esportivas Coletivas existentes na literatura. Optou-se por um recorte sistêmico do fenômeno com o intuito de superar a perspectiva tecnicista, em que a ação no jogo é vista como a justaposição de gestos técnicos, e realçar a importância da tomada de decisão. Após a construção do modelo e a avaliação do desempenho tático dos selecionados a participar do estudo, partiu-se para construção do programa a ser investigado. Participaram do estudo oito alunos, com idade entre sete e oito anos, integrantes de um curso-extracurricular de futsal de uma escola particular de São Paulo. O programa teve duração de oito semanas, sendo realizadas duas aulas de uma hora por semana, totalizando 16 aulas. Os dados indicaram uma melhora significante no desempenho tático dos participantes após 16 sessões de treinamento. A despeito de o programa ter sido aplicado em apenas uma amostra (com características peculiares) com número reduzido de participantes, tais evidências contribuem para o avanço nas discussões sobre perspectiva tática e respectivas estratégias de ensino, assim como para o fortalecimento da modelação do jogo construída / The objective of the current research was to investigate the impacts of a futsal unit, based on a tactical approach, on tactical performance. Under this approach, tactic is considered the center of teaching-learning process, and the main activities are tactical exercises. Pupils are stimulated to take part in the decisions and reflect on their actions related to problems that emerge from the game. The adepts of this approach defend that, thereby, pupils would become more intelligent and creative players. In order to support the unit design, a model of the futsal game was created. The representation was made throughout discussions among experienced coaches. A systemic approach was used in order to overcome a technical perspective, in which the action in a game is seen as a mere juxtaposition of technical gestures, and emphasize the importance of decision-making. After the creation of the model and pupils assessment, the unit was designed. Eight 7 to 8 year-old pupils, members of an extra-curricular activity in a private school, took part in the research. The unit was composed by 16 lessons (2 lessons a week) of one hour each. Results demonstrated that tactical performance has improved significantly after 16 lessons. In despite of the reduced number of participants, these evidences contribute to the progress of the teaching-learning process of futsal, as well as to fortify the model of the game created

Práce se zabývá empirickým ověřením platnosti efektu biče u reálného dodavatelského řetězce. Zároveň na reálných datech ukazuje rozdíl mezi optimalizací zásob každého dílčího článku řetězce a optimalizací zásob podél celého řetězce. Součástí práce je vytvořená učební pomůcka pro ukázku optimalizace zásob (model EOQ) a Pivní hra pro demonstraci platnosti efektu biče.

presente trabalho teve como objetivo investigar os efeitos de um programa de ensino de futsal, baseado em uma perspectiva tática do jogo, sobre o desempenho tático. Nessa perspectiva, a ação tática é colocada no centro do processo de ensino-aprendizagem, e a atividade de ensino central são os exercícios táticos, contextualizados o mais próximo possível da situação real de jogo. Os alunos são incentivados a tomarem decisões e a refletirem sobre as ações em relação aos problemas que emergem no contexto (confronto) de jogo. Os adeptos dessa perspectiva de ensino defendem que, assim, estimulariam a formação de alunos/jogadores inteligentes e criativos. Para auxiliar a construção do programa foi elaborado um modelo do jogo de futsal. A construção da representação ocorreu a partir de um diálogo entre uma concepção empírica da modalidade, construída por treinadores experientes, e concepções de Modalidades Esportivas Coletivas existentes na literatura. Optou-se por um recorte sistêmico do fenômeno com o intuito de superar a perspectiva tecnicista, em que a ação no jogo é vista como a justaposição de gestos técnicos, e realçar a importância da tomada de decisão. Após a construção do modelo e a avaliação do desempenho tático dos selecionados a participar do estudo, partiu-se para construção do programa a ser investigado. Participaram do estudo oito alunos, com idade entre sete e oito anos, integrantes de um curso-extracurricular de futsal de uma escola particular de São Paulo. O programa teve duração de oito semanas, sendo realizadas duas aulas de uma hora por semana, totalizando 16 aulas. Os dados indicaram uma melhora significante no desempenho tático dos participantes após 16 sessões de treinamento. A despeito de o programa ter sido aplicado em apenas uma amostra (com características peculiares) com número reduzido de participantes, tais evidências contribuem para o avanço nas discussões sobre perspectiva tática e respectivas estratégias de ensino, assim como para o fortalecimento da modelação do jogo construída / The objective of the current research was to investigate the impacts of a futsal unit, based on a tactical approach, on tactical performance. Under this approach, tactic is considered the center of teaching-learning process, and the main activities are tactical exercises. Pupils are stimulated to take part in the decisions and reflect on their actions related to problems that emerge from the game. The adepts of this approach defend that, thereby, pupils would become more intelligent and creative players. In order to support the unit design, a model of the futsal game was created. The representation was made throughout discussions among experienced coaches. A systemic approach was used in order to overcome a technical perspective, in which the action in a game is seen as a mere juxtaposition of technical gestures, and emphasize the importance of decision-making. After the creation of the model and pupils assessment, the unit was designed. Eight 7 to 8 year-old pupils, members of an extra-curricular activity in a private school, took part in the research. The unit was composed by 16 lessons (2 lessons a week) of one hour each. Results demonstrated that tactical performance has improved significantly after 16 lessons. In despite of the reduced number of participants, these evidences contribute to the progress of the teaching-learning process of futsal, as well as to fortify the model of the game created

Anxiety has become one of the common problems in society in recent years. As an emerging interactive medium, games can create a first-hand experience for players. Therefore, it is possible to guide the player through behavioral experiments implemented with the game. But in order to reduce the direct damage to the player and make the problem more obvious, metaphorical game is one of the good choices.   In order to design and make such a metaphorical game, I firstly need to collect anxiety triggers and game design related theories into an initial design framework. These theories mainly include metaphorical game, experiential game model and reflection game design. After two iterations of game design core development, I'll be doing demos and interviews with several players. After that, I will summarize these data into several themes. These themes will extend the original design framework, which will also serve as an outcome of this paper. The two most prominent points in the expansion are beat chart and reward.

La creatividad es una habilidad de especial interés para el desarrollo humano dado que es una de las dimensiones que permite al individuo y en última instancia a la sociedad enfrentarse a nuevos problemas y retos de forma satisfactoria. Además de entender la creatividad como una serie de factores relativos al individuo creativo, debe tenerse en cuenta que el grado de motivación intrínseca, el entorno y otros factores sociales pueden tener un efecto relevante sobre el desarrollo de esta importante habilidad, por lo que resulta de interés explorarla en el contexto de utilización de tecnologías de la información. En particular, dado que los procesos comunicativos, el intercambio de ideas y la interacción colaborativa entre individuos son un pilar fundamental en los procesos creativos, y también que en gran medida todas ellas son características mayormente facilitadas por las mesas interactivas, una de las principales contribuciones de esta tesis consiste precisamente en la exploración de la idoneidad de las superficies interactivas en tareas creativas colaborativas de construcción en estudiantes adolescentes. Partiendo del estudio realizado, que aporta evidencia empírica acerca de la adecuación de las superficies interactivas como tecnología de potencial para el fomento de la creatividad, esta tesis presenta AGORAS: un middleware para la construcción de ecosistemas de juegos 2D para mesas interactivas, y cuya idea final es entender actividades de aprendizaje más enriquecedoras como aquellas que permiten la propia creación de juegos y su posterior consumo. En el contexto de esta tesis también se ha desarrollado un toolkit básico para construcción de interfaces de usuario para superficies interactivas, se ha desarrollado un modelo de ecosistema basado en entidades que son simulables de acuerdo a leyes físicas; y se ha dotado al modelo de aproximación basada en reglas de comportamiento enriquecidas con expresiones dataflows y de su correspondiente editor para superficies. / Catalá Bolós, A. (2012). AGORAS: Augmented Generation of Reactive Ambients on Surfaces. Towards educational places for action, discussion and reflection to support creative learning on interactive surfaces [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/16695 / Palancia

Concept of Two-level games is one of the most sophisticated approach for analysis of the process of international bargaining. Moreover, many research papers focused either on prediction of the outcome of international negotiations or on explanation of the outcomes of former negotiations are based on premises of this concept. However, its application on real example of the negotiation, specifically, on the SALT I talks between the Soviet Union and the United States shows that the Two-level games is not universally valid since many of its predictions have not been verified. There are certain limitations within crucial independent variables (defined by the concept) connected with domestic institutions and domestic preferences and their influence on the size of win-set which has direct impact on the results of the bargaining process. These limitations must be considered in the research. The analysis of the SALT I explores that heterogeneous preferences as well as relatively strong domestic institutions do not have to result in smaller win-set; that presence of no-agreement costs can reduce an influence of other variables, and; that presence of those non-expected (from the view of the original concept) consequences caused by the adjustment of the independent variables occurs within the negotiations...

A recent study using reinforcement learning with a Q-functions to quantify the impact of individual player actions in ice hockey has shown promising results. The model takes into account the context of the actions and captures internal dynamic features of the play which simple common metrics e.g., counting goals or assists, do not. It also performs look ahead which is important in a low scoring game like ice hockey. However, it does not capture the chemistry between the players i.e., how well the players play together which is important in a team sport like ice hockey. In this paper, we, therefore, extend this earlier work on individual player performance with new metrics on player pairs impact when on ice together. Our resulting top pairings are compared to NHL’s official statistics and extended analysis is performed that investigate the relationship with time on ice which provides insights that could be of relevance to coaches.

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This master thesis deals with design and implementation of betting agent. It covers issues such as theoretical background of an online betting, probability and statistics. In its first part it is focused on data mining and explains the principle of knowledge mining form data warehouses and certain methods suitable for different types of tasks. Second, it is concerned with neural networks and algorithm of back-propagation. All the findings are demonstrated on and supported by graphs and histograms of data analysis, made via SAS Enterprise Miner program. In conclusion, the thesis summarizes all the results and offers specific methods of extension of the agent.