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Update programming -- a safe approach to software maintenance

Creator:: Ren, Deling
Abstract:: Software maintenance accounts for a large portion of the software development cost, particularly the process of updating programs either to adapt for requirement change or to enhance design or efficiency. Currently, program updates are generally performed manually by programmers using text editors. This is an unreliable method because syntax and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The commentator information system : understanding journalists' needs to overcome cognitive load and navigation issues

Creator:: Midy, Marie-Anne
Abstract:: Nowadays, sports events are a significant part of the every-day entertainment with local, national, and international championships. A lot of money is invested by broadcasting companies to attract new and more viewers, acquire broadcasting rights, or send entire crews on site to cover such events. Journalists are among the few...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Supporting the learning process of open source novices : an evaluation of code and project history visualization tools

Creator:: Park, Yunrim
Abstract:: Active participation and collaboration of community members are crucial to the continuation and expansion of open source software projects. Researchers have recognized the value of community in open source development and studied various aspects of it including structure of communities, motivations for participation, and collaboration among members. However, the majority...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Model-based approximation methods for reinforcement learning

Creator:: Wang, Xin
Abstract:: The thesis focuses on model-based approximation methods for reinforcement learning with large scale applications such as combinatorial optimization problems. First, the thesis proposes two new model-based methods to stablize the value–function approximation for reinforcement learning. The first one is the BFBP algorithm, a batch-like reinforcement learning process which iterates between...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Interactive football playbook

Creator:: Neumann, Christoph
Abstract:: This thesis presents a domain specific visual language designed to allow coaches to create content that exhibits the complex 2D interactions observed in the game of American football. Coaches can visually program the content by using symbols and drawing primitives similar to those that they currently use to design static...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

End-user software engineering in the spreadsheet paradigm

Creator:: Abraham, Robin
Abstract:: Spreadsheets are among the most widely used end-user programming systems. Unfortunately, there is a high incidence of errors in end-user spreadsheets, and some of these errors have high impact. In this dissertation, we describe techniques we have developed to help end users develop safer spreadsheets. As part of our research,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Automatic program generation for scientific computing

Creator:: Fu, Zhe
Abstract:: The code reuse problem is a common software engineering problem in scientific computing. As a prevailing programming language in many scientific fields, Fortran does not provide support to address this problem. One particular reason is that Fortran lacks the support for generic programming. By applying program-generation techniques, we developed two...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

An automated web crawl methodology to analyze the online privacy landscape

Creator:: Sarkar, Chandan
Abstract:: Protecting end-users privacy and building trust are the two most important factors needed to support the growth of ecommerce. The increased dependence on the Internet for a wide variety of daily transactions causes a corresponding loss in privacy for many users, as virtually all websites collect data from users directly...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A domain-specific embedded language for probabilistic programming

Creator:: Kollmansberger, Steven
Abstract:: Functional programming is concerned with referential transparency, that is, given a certain function and its parameter, that the result will always be the same. However, it seems that this is violated in applications involving uncertainty, such as rolling a dice. This thesis defines the background of probabilistic programming and domain-specific...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Update programming -- a safe approach to software maintenance

The commentator information system : understanding journalists' needs to overcome cognitive load and navigation issues

Supporting the learning process of open source novices : an evaluation of code and project history visualization tools

Model-based approximation methods for reinforcement learning

Interactive football playbook

End-user software engineering in the spreadsheet paradigm

Automatic program generation for scientific computing

An automated web crawl methodology to analyze the online privacy landscape

A domain-specific embedded language for probabilistic programming

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