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  • On feature relevance feedback methods : incorporating labeled user features

    Creator:
    Oberst, Ian
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    In text classification, labeling features is often less time consuming than labeling entire documents. In situations where very little labeled training data is available, feature relevance feedback has the potential to dramatically increase classification performance. We review previous work on incorporating feature relevance feedback in the form of labeled features...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ,xi, yi,R) = W (xq,xi,Y \ yi,R) ∗ C(xq,xi,Y \ yi,R). W (xq,x,S,R) is a function that computes the

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

    Creator:
    Park, Yunrim
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Margaret Burnett, Dr. Timothy Budd, and Dr. Peter Lachenbruch for reviewing this thesis and providing

  • The Analysis of First Year Computer Science Design Documents

    Creator:
    Ernst, Shannon S.
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    Computer science is, at its core, about solving problems. The "Carry out the Plan" portion of problem solving is often examined and emphasized in CS 1 and CS 2, forgetting to emphasize the other important aspects of the problem solving process. This study focuses on the other problem-solving steps, which...
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    Masters Thesis
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    function and/or classes relate(s) to each other Logic (L) Provided details for each function and/or

  • Novel approaches to promoting end-user programming

    Creator:
    Bahmani, Faezeh
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    End-user programming has become widespread. The increasing size of this population and the prevalence of barriers that they face has sparked the development of approaches that promote end-user programing by helping them overcome barriers and teaching them programming. Despite the fact that these approaches have done well in achieving those...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Metoyer, Carlos Jensen, and Peter Lachenbruch for taking the time to read my thesis and for attending my

  • Diagramming practices in open source software development

    Creator:
    Chung, Eunyoung
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    Visual information presented in diagrams promotes information processing both in an individual and in collaborative work. Previous literature has identified the role of diagrams in understanding information processing in a variety of disciplines. In software engineering, diagrams are a prevalent method involved in process development: diagrams are used for system...
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    Masters Thesis
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    cope with these problems. Gutwin et al.’s examination of group awareness within OSS projects revealed

  • Use-case-based generation of forms from a class diagram

    Creator:
    Choodamani, Mohan
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    Forms are an easy-to-use interface to access a database, including a remote database on the Internet. An entity-relationship (ER} diagram, which is a picto­rial representation of a database schema, is widely used in designing a database. A class diagram, which shows set of classes, relationships among them, and associa­tions, are...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    Introduction The ER approach was first proposed by Peter Chen in 1976. Since then it has been extensively

  • A domain-specific embedded language for probabilistic programming

    Creator:
    Kollmansberger, Steven
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    behind. hide :: Trans State hide s = uniform [s{prize=d} | d <- doors] The function hide uses another

  • Machine learning methods for public policy : simulation, optimization, and visualization

    Creator:
    McGregor, Sean
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    Society faces many complex management problems, particularly in the area of shared public resources such as ecosystems. Existing decision making processes are often guided by personal experience and political ideology rather than state-of-the-art scientific understanding. This dissertation envisions a future in which multiple stakeholders are provided with computational tools for...
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    Dissertation
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    designated start state distribution [7, 48] M = 〈S,A, P,R, γ, P0〉. S is a finite set of states of the world

  • Leyline : a provenance-based desktop search system using graphical sketchpad user interface

    Creator:
    Ghorashi, Seyed Soroush
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    While there are powerful keyword search systems that index all kinds of resources including emails and web pages, people have trouble recalling semantic facts such as the name, location, edit dates and keywords that uniquely identifies resources in their personal repositories. Reusing information exasperates this problem. A rarely used approach...
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    Masters Thesis
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    & Peter 2009) (Kidd et al. 1994). Therefore, a growing body of work has focused on helping them deal

  • Structured representation of composite software changes

    Creator:
    Chabra, Aarti
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    In a software development cycle, programs go through many iterations. Identifying and understanding program changes is a tedious but necessary task for programmers, especially when software is developed in a collaborative environment. Existing tools used by the programmers either lack in finding the structural differences, or report the differences as...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . For cases where functions are renamed between two versions, S. Kim et al. [24] propose an automated