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  • An attributed-based database structure for small computers

    Creator:
    Elton, Terry J.
    Abstract:
    Contemporary database systems are used in a variety of business applications requiring rapid retrieval of on­line data. When records contain unique information indexed by a single key, the retrieval operation can be simplified. However, when added generality and flexibil­ity is needed, inverted files and sophisticated data models result in a...
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    Capstone Project
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    by Terry J. Elton Submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the

  • How do Programmers Forage through Variants? Modeling Hierarchical Foraging and Changelogs

    Creator:
    Pandya, Bhargav Chandravadan
    Abstract:
    Complex information environments are often organized as hierarchies. However, computational models of Information Foraging Theory (IFT) have almost entirely ignored this fact. Models and tools for predicting programmer navigations have ignored people’s foraging behavior across hierarchies —called hierarchical foraging. Without modeling hierarchical foraging, our ability to build tools to support...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    (e.g., IDE shortcut, ctrl + click to go to the method definition from the call site). A link has some

  • Variations Foraging

    Creator:
    Srinivasa Ragavan, Sruti
    Abstract:
    Information Foraging Theory (IFT) has successfully explained how people seek information in various domains, in turn, informing the design of several tools and information-intensive environments. However, prior research has not explored foraging in the presence of several, very similar variants of the same artifact. Such variants are commonplace in several...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    exploratory variants in several ways. Two researchers, Terry et al. and Lunzer et al. have independently

  • A conceptual framework for web-based collaborative design

    Creator:
    Gottfried, Shikha Ghosh
    Abstract:
    Although much effort has been invested to build applications that support group work, collaborative applications have not found easy success. The cost of adopting and maintaining collaborative applications has prevented their widespread use, especially among small distributed groups. Application developers have had difficulties recognizing the extra effort required by groups...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Helping end-user programmers help themselves : the idea garden approach

    Creator:
    Cao, Chen
    Abstract:
    End-user programmers face many barriers in programming. Research has seen many programming environments that attempted to lower or remove the barriers but despite these efforts, empirical studies continue to report barriers users face. To investigate this issue, we took a theory-informed approach. Using theories from design, creativity, and problem solving...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Duality and the bounded-buffer problem

    Creator:
    James, Mark Allen
    Abstract:
    The paper, "On the Duality of Operating System Structures," by Lauer and Needham [21], claims that operating systems can be modeled as procedure-oriented or message-oriented, and that the two models are duals of each other. Duality, in this case, means that the models are logically and functionally equivalent, and have...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Lewis, Oregon State University. Fred Tonge, Oregon State University. Terry Hamm, Tektronix, Inc

  • Collaborative filtering with probability and collaborative filtering with privacy

    Creator:
    Yang, Min
    Abstract:
    "Collaborative filtering has seen considerable success in the areas regarding information overload and e-commerce, while the current developed systems are flawed in several respects. Two approaches, the distribution-based algorithm and the blurring profile solution, are proposed to address several outstanding issues. The main findings of this research include: • The...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project

  • Path-based dynamic impact analysis

    Creator:
    Law, James (James Bruce)
    Abstract:
    Successful software systems evolve over their lifetimes through the cumulative changes made by software maintainers. As software evolves, the problems resulting from software change worsen, exacerbated by increased system size and complexity, lack of program understanding, amount of effort required to make changes, and number of personnel involved. Experience shows...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Enhancing Instructors’ Teaching Experience through Virtualization

    Creator:
    Patil, Ajinkya
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    In the current education environment, many instructors make use of some type of software, such as Visual Studio or a software library like OpenGL, in the classroom. Incorrect setup and configuration on an individual’s own system is a common problem when using these software tools. This thesis explores the difficulty...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Parsing with Recurrent Neural Networks

    Creator:
    Cross, James Henry, III
    Abstract:
    Machine learning models for natural language processing have traditionally relied on large numbers of discrete features, built up from atomic categories such as word forms and part-of-speech labels, which are considered completely distinct from each other. Recently however, the advent of dense feature representations coupled with deep learning techniques has...
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    Dissertation
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    link pairs of words and designate a head-modifier relationship between the words, with one word (the