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  • Identifying Design Discussion Topics in Open Source Software

    Creator:
    Chatterjee, Amreeta
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    When contributing to a software system, developers need to understand the rationale for previous design decisions so that they can adhere to the system’s design. Not doing so can lead to erosion of the overall design quality of the system. However, discussions embedded in a large volume of communication on...
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    Masters Thesis
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    the following research questions: 1. What are the topics of design discussions and how are they

  • An Analysis of Students’ Self-efficacy and the Effectiveness of Peer Review in First-year CS Courses

    Creator:
    Jen, Funfay
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    Students’ success is one of the foremost objectives in higher education, and their self-efficacy plays a prominent role in students’ achieving their full potentials. It is especially important in STEM fields, which often suffer from higher attrition rates. Therefore, it is important to understand students’ self-efficacy levels at an early...
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    Masters Thesis
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    more research due to limited data. Since we decided to adopt it as the peer review platform for CS 160

  • The Emergent Qualities of Diversity in Free and Open Source Software Communities: A Critical Review and Theoretical Discussion

    Creator:
    Kuechler, J. Victor
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    Free and open source software (FOSS) projects primarily rely on the efforts of volunteer contributors from around the world. For this reason, recruiting and retaining contributor is vital to the sustainability and growth of FOSS projects. This notion became the jumping-off point for this three-part investigation into the cultural structure...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Software: A Critical Review and Theoretical Discussion

  • Assessment Tool for CAC Self-Study Report

    Creator:
    Mathur, Pankaj
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    Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET) is the primary organization responsible for monitoring, evaluating and certifying the quality of engineering, engineering technology, computing and applied sciences education in the United States. In 2000, ABET changed the way computer science (and engineering) programs are accredited from a ‘checklist’ approach...
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    Capstone Project
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    Contents Topic Page Acknowledgement 4 Abstract 5 1. Introduction 6 1.1 Background 6 1.2

  • 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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    Foundation for Software Engineer- ing Research: Connecting the Dots. Abstract approved

  • Reasons Behind the Low Enrollment of Women in Computer Science

    Creator:
    Schneider, Ashley R.
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    Over the past few decades, the ratio of women to men in many traditionally maledominated fields has become much more equal. However, in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields the ratio has not improved at the same rate. In computer science the ratio is still very uneven. Today women...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    . A special thanks to Dr. Jennifer Parham-Mocello, whose help throughout the entire process was

  • 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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ Carlos Jensen In the current education environment, many instructors make use of some type

  • Learning Topical Social Media Sensors for Twitter

    Creator:
    Iman, Zahra
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    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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    different topics that reveals, for example, that (1) largely independent of topic, simple terms are the

  • 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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    research. A special thank you goes to Hongyan Yi, who annotated the release notes with me, and helped spark

  • Fluid flow on interacting, deformable surfaces

    Creator:
    Neill, Patrick
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    Fluid simulation is an interesting research problem with a wide range of applications including mechanical engineering, special effects in movies and games, and scientific simulation. Due to the complex nature of typical fluid flow equations, there are circumstances where a full volumetric fluid simulation may not be necessary to generate...
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    Masters Thesis
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    became especially excited about a math topic. Chapter 1 – Introduction The physical simulation of