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  • Out of the Mouths of Users : Examining User-Developer Feedback Loops Facilitated by App Stores

    Creator:
    Bailey, Kendall
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    Application Stores, such as the iTunes App Store, give developers access to their users’ complaints and requests in the form of application reviews. However, little is known about how developers are responding to application reviews. Without such knowledge developers, users, Application Stores, and researchers could make incorrect assumptions. To address...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Understanding Software Development and Testing Practices

    Creator:
    Hilton, Michael
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    A bad software development process leads to wasted effort and inferior products. In order to improve a software process, it must be first understood. In this work I focus on understanding software processes. The first process we seek to understand is Continuous Integration (CI). CI systems automate the compilation, building,...
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    Dissertation
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    Software Development and Testing Practices Abstract approved: Daniel Dig A bad software development

  • Automatic Classification of Ultrasonic Harbor Porpoise Clicks in a Varying Noise Environment

    Creator:
    De Leon, Daniel
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    This study compares three approaches in the design of an autonomous machine listening agent that predicts harbor porpoise ultrasonic echolocation clicks in diverse noise environments. Considering the temporal variations of noisy coastal ocean soundscapes which the harbor porpoises inhabit, we propose a leave-one-day-out (LODO) cross-validation strategy in the training of...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Daniel De Leon for

  • Involving older adults in the design and development of free/open source software

    Creator:
    Davidson, Jennifer L.
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    An age-wave is upon us where many older adults are reaching retirement. Technically experienced older adults have skills that could be directly applied to free/open source software (FOSS) communities, such as project management, programming, and/or knowledge of a rapidly growing end-user population. FOSS is a widely popular, low-cost way to...
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    .                                                                                                                                                                                                                           8 6. Ghosh,  R.A.,  Glott,  R., Krieger,  B.,  and Robles,  G.  Free/Libre and  Open Source

  • New Directions in Search-based Structured Prediction: Multi-Task Learning and Integration of Deep Models

    Creator:
    Ma, Chao
    Abstract:
    This thesis studies the problem of structured prediction (SP), where the agent needs to predict a structured output for a given structured input (e.g., Part-of-Speech tagging sequence for an input sentence). Many important applications including machine translation in natural language processing (NLP) and image interpretation in computer vision can be...
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    structured outputs Y , and a non-negative output loss function l : X × Y × Y → R+. Each structured input x

  • Motivating programmers through karma systems

    Creator:
    Cedeno, Jose
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    Keeping FOSS developers motivated is a challenging problem, and their motivation levels can affect the team's productivity and satisfaction, leading to higher or lower productivity. Using reputation systems as a motivator has become the de-facto standard for many online communities, rewarding user's activity through badges of honor or achievement levels....
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    Masters Thesis

  • Mental Models of Mere Mortals with Explanations of Reinforcement Learning

    Creator:
    Anderson, Andrew A.
    Abstract:
    How should reinforcement learning (RL) agents explain themselves to humans not trained in AI? To gain insights into this question, we conducted a 124 participant, four-treatment experiment to compare participants’ mental models of an RL agent in the context of a simple Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game. The four treatments isolated...
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    vector ~R(s, a), which gives the reward for each type. The total scalar reward is the sum across types

  • Distributed OpenCL : a platform for distributed, heterogeneous computing for domain scientists

    Creator:
    Dillon, William H.
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    It is possible to purchase, for as little as $10,000, a cluster of computers with the capability to rival the supercomputers of only a few years ago. Now, users that have little to no experience developing distributed applications or managing a cluster are in a position to do so. To...
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    @us.ibm.com Daniel A. Brokenshire IBM Corporation 11501 Burnet Road Austin, TX 78758 brokensh

  • Machine Learning for Precision Medicine: Application to Cancer Chemotherapy Response Prediction and Wound Healing Status Assessment

    Creator:
    Wei, Qi
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    Ph.D. candidate Qi Wei's thesis consists of two projects: Chemotherapy Project: a study based on the research paper "Predicting chemotherapy response of various cancer types using a variational auto-encoder approach" submitted to the bioRxiv preprint archive and accepted by the BMC bioinformatics; and Wound Monitor Project: implementing and assessing analytics...
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    Dissertation

  • Visual object discovery and understanding

    Creator:
    Yuan, Jialin
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    Learning to recognize objects is a fundamental and essential step in human perception and understanding of the world. Accordingly, research of object discovery across diverse modalities plays a pivotal role in the context of computer vision. This field not only contributes significantly to enhancing our understanding of visual information but...
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    almost as good as mask R-CNN without depending on a two-stage framework. Note that the training of the