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Performance Evaluation of a Binary Exponential Code Backoff Algorithm for IEEE 802.11
(2014-03-31)
IEEE 802.11 is the most widely deployed medium access control (MAC) protocol for
wireless access. Simple and efficient, this MAC protocol works well as the last wireless hop
and is a key enabler of the widespread success ...
Repatterning: Improving the Reliability of Android Applications with an Adaptation of Refactoring
(2014-07-02)
Studies of Android applications show that NullPointerException, OutofMemoryError, and BadTokenException account for a majority of errors observed in the real world. The technical debt being born by Android developers from ...
A Low-Effort Animated Data Structure Visualization Creation System
(2014-07-09)
Algorithm animations and high level data structure visualizations are not widely used, in part because producing them is difficult and time consuming. Algorithm animation and data structure visualization systems attempt ...
Secdoop: A Confidentiality Service for Hadoop Clusters
(2011-04-07)
The MapReduce model has proven to be an effective way to demonstrate academic research while using distributed file-systems. The MapReduce programming model was introduced by Google in 2004. MapReduce has proven to be a ...
A Cognitive Model and Gaze-Based Evaluation of Multiple Representation use during Program Comprehension and Debugging
(2011-11-28)
Integrated Development Environments (IDE) for software development offer a wide variety of software visualization tools, which facilitate navigation and analysis, and generate multiple graphical presentations of program ...
SciBrowser: Exploration and Analysis of the Complexity, Structure, and Activity Dynamics of Open Source Science Communities
(2011-03-30)
Open Biomedical Ontology (OBO) is a socio-technical community that is comprised of individuals dispersed geographically, but function as a coherent unit through the use of cyber-infrastructure. This study explores dynamics ...
A Knowledge Base and Question Answering System Based on Loglan and English
(2011-03-31)
One of the "holy grails" of computational linguistics has been to have a machine carry out a conversation, and to have some idea of what it is talking about. Loglan's machine grammar was a first attempt to carry out such ...
ColorScape: A Creative Artificial Ecosystem Model of Communication and Collective Creativity in Global Participatory Science
(2012-01-31)
With the increasing use of cyberinfrastructure and popularity of e-Science initiatives, science is becoming truly globalized, reducing barriers to entry and enabling formation of open and global networked innovation ...
Add It Up: FYFL A Financial Literacy Tool for K-12 Eduation
(2011-08-04)
There are different ways used to engage learners through online learning environments. Especially for kids the online learning environment must be more interactive, fun, colorful, and must have good usability techniques ...
Situated Socio-Cognitive and Ecological Simulation of the Triple-Helix Theory of Regional Innovation Dynamics
(2014-05-14)
This dissertation focuses on applying the concept of agent-based ecological simulation
to the problem of developing and maintaining regional innovation economies. A simulation
model based on a popular model of innovation, ...