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Preserving The Quality Of Architectural Tactics In Source Code, Mehdi Mirakhorli
Preserving The Quality Of Architectural Tactics In Source Code, Mehdi Mirakhorli
College of Computing and Digital Media Dissertations
In any complex software system, strong interdependencies exist between requirements and software architecture. Requirements drive architectural choices while also being constrained by the existing architecture and by what is economically feasible. This makes it advisable to concurrently specify the requirements, to devise and compare alternative architectural design solutions, and ultimately to make a series of design decisions in order to satisfy each of the quality concerns.
Unfortunately, anecdotal evidence has shown that architectural knowledge tends to be tacit in nature, stored in the heads of people, and lost over time. Therefore, developers often lack comprehensive knowledge of underlying architectural design …
Improving Deaf Accessibility To Web-Based Multimedia, Brent N. Shiver
Improving Deaf Accessibility To Web-Based Multimedia, Brent N. Shiver
College of Computing and Digital Media Dissertations
Internet technologies have expanded rapidly over the past two decades, making information of all sorts more readily available. Not only are they more cost-effective than traditional media, these new media have contributed to quality and convenience. However, proliferation of video and audio media on the internet creates an inadvertent disadvantage for deaf Internet users. Despite technological and legislative milestones in recent decades in making television and movies more accessible, there has been little progress with online access. A major obstacle to providing captions for internet media is the high cost of captioning and transcribing services.
To respond to this problem, …