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  • Learning Topical Social Media Sensors for Twitter

    Creator:
    Iman, Zahra
    Abstract:
    Social media sources such as Twitter represent a massively distributed social sensor over diverse topics ranging from social and political events to entertainment and sports news. However, due to the overwhelming volume of content, it can be difficult to identify novel and significant content within a broad topic in a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Media Sensors for Twitter Abstract approved: Scott P. Sanner Social media sources such as Twitter

  • Modeling programmer navigation : an empirical evaluation of predictive models

    Creator:
    Piorkowski, David
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    Software developers frequently need to perform code maintenance tasks, but doing so requires time-consuming navigation through code. A variety of tools are aimed at easing this navigation by using models to predict places in the code that a developer might want to visit, and then providing shortcuts so that the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Empirical Evaluation of Predictive Models Abstract approved: Margaret M. Burnett Software

  • Information Foraging Theory as a Unifying Foundation for Software Engineering Research : Connecting the Dots

    Creator:
    Piorkowski, David
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    Empirical studies have shown that programmers spend up to one-third of their time navigating through code during debugging. Although researchers have conducted empirical studies to understand programmers’ navigation difficulties and developed tools to address those difficulties, the resulting findings tend to be loosely connected to each other. To address this...
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    Dissertation
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    : ______________________________________________________ Margaret M. Burnett Empirical studies have shown that programmers spend up to one

  • Joining open source software communities: an analysis of newbies’ first interactions on project mailing lists

    Creator:
    King, Scott T.
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    Open source software has become a powerful force in the world of computing. While once confined to the domain of technical specialists, people of all types have begun to adopt this software – from the casual web-surfer who uses Firefox, to the professional web developer who codes in PHP or...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Scott T. King for the degree of Master of Science in Computer

  • Robotic path-planning through dynamic maps

    Creator:
    Bowie, Cameron Scott
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    Robotic global navigation is often based on the assumption that the world is static. It assumes that obstacles present in maps will be there later and new obstacles will be dealt with by a local planning algorithm. When robots interact in an environment inhabited by people, this assumption does not...
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis
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    Robotic Path-Planning Through Dynamic Maps By Cameron Scott

  • Scaling multiagent reinforcement learning

    Creator:
    Proper, Scott
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    Reinforcement learning in real-world domains suffers from three curses of dimensionality: explosions in state and action spaces, and high stochasticity or "outcome space" explosion. Multiagent domains are particularly susceptible to these problems. This thesis describes ways to mitigate these curses in several different multiagent domains, including real-time delivery of products...
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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Scott Proper for the

  • Analysis of Bayesian anytime inference algorithms

    Creator:
    Burgess, Scott Alan
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    This dissertation explores and analyzes the performance of several Bayesian anytime inference algorithms for dynamic influence diagrams. These algorithms are compared on the On-Line Maintenance Agent testbed, a software artifact permitting comparison of dynamic reasoning algorithms used by an agent on a variety of simulated maintenance and monitoring tasks. Analysis...
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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Scott Alan Burgess for the

  • An editor for message passing programs

    Creator:
    Pai, Akash L.
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    Preparing code for parallelization is one of the most time consuming programming tasks; approximately 24% of the program development activity is spend in this phase. In message passing systems, this is usually achieved by the addition of run-time message-passing library calls. The primitives provided by different message-passing libraries are similar,...
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    Capstone Project
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    ) An Editor for Message Passing Programs by Akash L

  • 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
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    application reviews. I thank my committee members Mike Bailey and Scott Sanner for providing con- structive

  • Improving the accuracy and efficiency of bird song analysis with machine learning based event detection

    Creator:
    Mathew, Anju
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    Ornithology is an exciting field with novel research emerging everyday. Researchers in bioacoustics often spend hours within the wilderness recording bird calls to analyze later in their lab. The burden of sifting through hours of audio recordings from the field continues to remain a time-consuming and manual task, despite the...
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis
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    of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Hannah Scott, Committee Member, representing School