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Discovering A Research Agenda For Using Design Rationale In Software Maintenance, Janet Burge, David Brown
Discovering A Research Agenda For Using Design Rationale In Software Maintenance, Janet Burge, David Brown
David C. Brown
Design Rationale consists of the reasons behind decisions made while designing. This information would be particularly useful during software maintenance. In this paper, we describe a study performed to investigate the content, structure, and use of design rationale during maintenance. The major goal of this study was to discover an agenda for further research into the use of design rationale for software maintenance.
Reasoning With Design Rationale, Janet Burge, David Brown
Reasoning With Design Rationale, Janet Burge, David Brown
David C. Brown
Design Rationale (DR) consists of the decisions made during the design process and the reasons behind them. Because it offers more than just a “snapshot” of the final design decisions, DR is invaluable as an aid for revising, maintaining, documenting, evaluating, and learning the design. Much work has been performed on how DR can be captured and represented but not as much on how it can be used. In this paper, we investigate the use of DR by building InfoRat, a system that inferences over a design’s rationale in order to detect inconsistencies and to assess the impact of changes.
Mapping Nominal Values To Numbers For Effective Visualization, Geraldine Rosario, Elke Rundensteiner, David Brown, Matthew Ward
Mapping Nominal Values To Numbers For Effective Visualization, Geraldine Rosario, Elke Rundensteiner, David Brown, Matthew Ward
David C. Brown
Data sets with a large number of nominal variables, some with high cardinality, are becoming increasingly common and need to be explored. Unfortunately, most existing visual exploration displays are designed to handle numeric variables only. When importing data sets with nominal values into such visualization tools, most solutions to date are rather simplistic. Often, techniques that map nominal values to numbers do not assign order or spacing among the values in a manner that conveys semantic relationships. Moreover, displays designed for nominal variables usually cannot handle high cardinality variables well. This paper addresses the problem of how to display nominal …
Implicit Interest Indicators, Mark Claypool, Phong Le, Makoto Waseda, David Brown
Implicit Interest Indicators, Mark Claypool, Phong Le, Makoto Waseda, David Brown
David C. Brown
Recommender systems provide personalized suggestions about items that users will find interesting. Typically, recommender systems require a user interface that can "intelligently" determine the interest of a user and use this information to make suggestions. The common solution, "explicit ratings", where users tell the system what they think about a piece of information, is well-understood and fairly precise. However, having to stop to enter explicit ratings can alter normal patterns of browsing and reading. A more "intelligent" method is to use implicit ratings, where a rating is obtained by a method other than obtaining it directly from the users. These …
Expectation Formation In Multi-Agent Design Systems, Dan Grecu, David Brown
Expectation Formation In Multi-Agent Design Systems, Dan Grecu, David Brown
David C. Brown
No abstract provided.
Some Reactions To Presentations At The 2007 Computational Creativity Workshop, David Brown
Some Reactions To Presentations At The 2007 Computational Creativity Workshop, David Brown
David C. Brown
No abstract provided.
Nfrs: Fact Or Fiction, Janet Burge, David Brown