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Assessment And Recommendation Of Requirement Management Tool Based On User Needs, Aditi Mohpal Jan 2012

Assessment And Recommendation Of Requirement Management Tool Based On User Needs, Aditi Mohpal

Computer Science

Over recent years, requirement management has played a very vital role in materializing IT projects. Whether it is the healthcare sector, finance sector, banking sector, or any other industrial sector, requirement management is crucial for the successful completion of IT projects. Due to a tight time to market and severe competition, requirement management becomes one of the most critical activities for the software-development lifecycle process [1]. Requirements change all the time during the software-development lifecycle. Unmanaged changes lead to project overruns. Most companies are using requirement-management tools to manage requirements. However, many companies end up choosing a requirement-management tool that …

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A User Interface Prototype Of Test Support As-A-Service, Neha Kale Jan 2012

A User Interface Prototype Of Test Support As-A-Service, Neha Kale

Computer Science

Cloud computing provides software as a service over the internet. With the increasing popularity of cloud applications, the development of error-free cloud-based applications that function reliably is necessary. Software development under the cloud computing model brings the advantage that new applications can be rapidly constructed by tailoring existing services. However, such a development model reduces the testability of the application. To address this problem the approach of Test Support as-a-Service (TSaaS) is proposed. This paper presents a user interface prototype for the TSaaS approach to investigate the feasibility of the proposed TSaaS approach. The paper presents the user interface design …

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Fuzzy Decision Model For A Smart Grid, Muhammad Niamul Baqui Jan 2012

Fuzzy Decision Model For A Smart Grid, Muhammad Niamul Baqui

Computer Science

Electricity is vital for U.S. economy. Over the years, the demand and the usage of electricity have skyrocketed, but the electric transmission and distribution processes have been manual. The current work formulates an automated decision-making model for electric-grid resource allocation. Resource allocation is primarily in the form of assigning the best power source to a sink. The model is built in Fuzzy Logic. The input parameters for the model are the power capacity, the price and the distance. A rule base has been created by domain knowledge and analyzing an operator decision making activity. The Mamdani Min-Max approach of is …

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Investigation Of The Effect Of The Number Of Inspectors On The Software Defect Estimates, Kaustubh Saxena Jan 2012

Investigation Of The Effect Of The Number Of Inspectors On The Software Defect Estimates, Kaustubh Saxena

Computer Science

Capture-recapture models help software managers by providing post-inspection defect estimate remaining in a software artifact to determine if a re-inspection in necessary. These estimates are calculated using the number of unique faults per inspector and the overlap of faults found by inspectors during an inspection cycle. A common belief is that the accuracy of the capture-recapture estimates improves with the inspection team size. This however, has not been empirically studied. This paper empirically investigates the effect of the number of inspectors on the estimates produced by capture-recapture models, by using inspection data with varying number and types of inspectors. The …

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Energy Data Analyzer System, Basudha Pradhan Jan 2012

Energy Data Analyzer System, Basudha Pradhan

Computer Science

Analyzing the electrical energy load and pricing data is important to make informed decisions about energy needs and regulations. Data from over a decade are publicly available online for many Independent System Operators (ISOs). To analyze such a vast data collection demands efficiency, automation, and querying capabilities. The Energy Data Analyzer System is a Graphical User Interface (GUI)-based application program specific to the New York ISO (NYISO). The analyzer downloads the data files from NYISO’s website and stores their contents in MySQL database tables for querying. The analyzer can also dynamically create certain custom queries to extract information from the …

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Application Of The Kusumoto Cost-Metric To Evaluate The Cost-Effectiveness Of Software Inspections, Narendar Reddy Mandala Jan 2012

Application Of The Kusumoto Cost-Metric To Evaluate The Cost-Effectiveness Of Software Inspections, Narendar Reddy Mandala

Computer Science

Inspection and testing are two widely recommended techniques for software quality improvement with a common goal of defect detection and removal in software products. While testing cannot be conducted until software is implemented, inspections can be applied in early stages of software development. In this way inspection enables saving of testing cost and time. To manage the quality of their software, project managers need objective information to make a trade-off between the testing costs saved by performing inspections against the testing cost that would otherwise be spent if no inspections were performed. Project managers also need to decide on the …

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Mining For Significant Information From Unstructured And Structured Biological Data And Its Applications, Omar Ghazi Al-Azzam Jan 2012

Mining For Significant Information From Unstructured And Structured Biological Data And Its Applications, Omar Ghazi Al-Azzam

Computer Science

Massive amounts of biological data are being accumulated in science. Searching for significant meaningful information and patterns from different types of data is necessary towards gaining knowledge from these large amounts of data available to users. However, data mining techniques do not normally deal with significance. Integrating data mining techniques with standard statistical procedures provides a way for mining statistically signi- ficant, interesting information from both structured and unstructured data. In this dissertation, different algorithms for mining significant biological information from both unstructured and structured data are proposed. A weighted-density-based approach is presented for mining item data from unstructured textual …

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An Investigation Of Integration And Performance Issues Related To The Use Of Extended Page Sizes In Computationally Intensive Applications, Matthew James Piehl Jan 2012

An Investigation Of Integration And Performance Issues Related To The Use Of Extended Page Sizes In Computationally Intensive Applications, Matthew James Piehl

Computer Science

The combination of increasing fabrication density and corresponding decrease in price has resulted in the ability of commodity platforms to support large memory capacities. Processor designers have introduced support for extended hardware page sizes to assist operating systems with efficiently scaling to these memory capacities. This paper will explore integration strategies the designers of the Linux operating system have used to access this hardware support and the practical performance impact of using this support. This paper also provides a review of common strategies for adding support for this functionality at the application level. These strategies are applied to a sampling …

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Using Information Retrieval To Improve Integration Testing, Iyad Alazzam Jan 2012

Using Information Retrieval To Improve Integration Testing, Iyad Alazzam

Computer Science

Software testing is an important factor of the software development process. Integration testing is an important and expensive level of the software testing process. Unfortunately, since the developers have limited time to perform integration testing and debugging and integration testing becomes very hard as the combinations grow in size, the chain of calls from one module to another grow in number, length, and complexity. This research is about providing new methodology for integration testing to reduce the number of test cases needed to a significant degree while returning as much of its effectiveness as possible. The proposed approach shows the …

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Mining Association Rules In Cloud, Pallavi Roy Jan 2012

Mining Association Rules In Cloud, Pallavi Roy

Computer Science

The association rule mining was implemented in Hadoop. An association rule mining helps in finding relation between the items or item sets in the given data. The performance of the algorithm was evaluated by testing it in the cloud (EC2) by increasing the number of nodes in the testing set up. The association rules are developed on the basis of the frequent item set generated from the data. The frequent item set were generated following the Apriori algorithm. As the input data and number of distinct items in the data set is large, lots of space and memory is required, …

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A Package Tracking Application Based On Software Agents, Vindhya Jonnalagadda Jan 2012

A Package Tracking Application Based On Software Agents, Vindhya Jonnalagadda

Computer Science

JADE (Java Agent Development Framework) is a software environment, which is fully developed in the Java language. It supports multi-agent systems using an extensible agent model and predefined program classes. This software environment built agent systems in compliance with the FIPA specifications for interoperable multi-agent systems. The goal of JADE is to simplify development while ensuring standard compliance through a set of system services and agents. In this project I propose and implement a multi-agent application. The objective of the application is to track packages on a real-time basis using a Multi-agent System, from when the package moves from one …

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Social And Ethical Dimensions Of Electronic Medical Records, Phani Tirupathi Jan 2012

Social And Ethical Dimensions Of Electronic Medical Records, Phani Tirupathi

Computer Science

Electronic Medical Records are a digital or computerized medical record created in an organization which delivers care as part of a health information system that allows the storage, retrieval, and modification of records. The present project explains the social and ethical dimensions of Electronic Medical Records and also the learning process for students by making a movie to identify different viewpoints.

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Software Inspection Team Formation Based On The Learning Style Of Individual Inspectors, Haribabu Bavanari Jan 2012

Software Inspection Team Formation Based On The Learning Style Of Individual Inspectors, Haribabu Bavanari

Computer Science

To improve the software quality, researchers have focused their effort on developing and validating effective methods of finding and fixing defects early in the development process. Software inspections are most widely used defect detection method. Also, researchers showed that the overall effectiveness of an inspection team is affected by the effectiveness of individual inspectors. But researchers have not been able to completely understand the inherent characteristic that makes an individual inspector effective. This paper investigates this problem by analyzing the learning style (LS) preferences of individuals who make up inspection team. Also presents a tool that provides ability to researchers …

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Comparison Of Particle Swarm Optimization Variants, Satyanarayana Daggubati Jan 2012

Comparison Of Particle Swarm Optimization Variants, Satyanarayana Daggubati

Computer Science

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a heuristic global optimization method, which is based on swarm intelligence. It is inspired by the research on the bird and fish flock movement behavior. The algorithm is widely used and can rapidly be implemented with a few parameters to be tuned. In PSO, individuals, referred to as particles, are “flown” through a hyper-dimensional search space. Changes to the position of particles within the search space are based on the social-psychological tendency of individuals to emulate the success of other individuals. The changes to a particle within the swarm are therefore influenced by the experience, …

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Document Management System, Aman Sharma Jan 2012

Document Management System, Aman Sharma

Computer Science

The debate of using paper documents over computer documents has been a long topic of interest, there has been a lot of research done on the topic. Also, experiments have been done to evaluate the performance of users working with computers v/s working manually with no definitive conclusions (Chris Anderson, 2010) (Askwal, 1985) (Noyes and Graland, 2008). However, one cannot deny the time it takes to store and go through papers manually. Every year, new policies help the user understand the guidelines and operational procedures that they have to follow while being employed by a company. Keeping track of such …

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Capacitated Transshipment Models For Predicting Signaling Pathways, Ritika Sahni Jan 2012

Capacitated Transshipment Models For Predicting Signaling Pathways, Ritika Sahni

Computer Science

Signal transduction is a process of transmitting signals for controlling biological responses. The protein-protein interaction (PPI) data, containing signal transduction proteins, can be considered as a bi-directional, weighted network with the proteins as nodes, the interactions between them as edges, and the confidence score of the interaction as weights on edges. If the edges of this network are given a capacity of one, and if the starting and ending proteins are the supply and demand nodes, then this problem can be modeled as a capacitated transshipment model with pathways as the solutions. Our application concerns finding the signaling pathways for …

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Application For Capturing Potential Tardiness In Operating Room Suites, Bethlehem Abera Gronneberg Jan 2012

Application For Capturing Potential Tardiness In Operating Room Suites, Bethlehem Abera Gronneberg

Computer Science

This paper describes the design, architecture and implementation of a Dashboard Application, a tool developed to capture the potential tardiness in Operating Room (OR) Suites. The paper is focused on developing an automated application which is intended to monitor and display the progress of multiple out-patients on the day of their elective surgery as they advance from admission to the pre-operative stages leading up to their final destination of the operating room. The application will display OR patients’ real-time location, the time they entered at that location and the time remaining for their scheduled surgery once they arrive at the …

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Modeling Of Consumer Responses To Dynamic Pricing In A Smart Grid, Md Mahbubur Rahman Khan Jan 2012

Modeling Of Consumer Responses To Dynamic Pricing In A Smart Grid, Md Mahbubur Rahman Khan

Computer Science

This paper models the responses of three different types of consumers based on their sensitivity to dynamic price. Simulated household demand data is used to model the dynamic price of electricity. These prices are then used to experiment responses of consumers in a centralized dynamically priced power market. It is taken into consideration that some consumers will only have access to imperfect information but they can still alter their usage and benefit from the associated cost savings. Analysis based on a developed software system found that sensitive consumers, given full information and control with tools such as a Home Area …

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A Distributed Power Market For The Smart Grid, Ryan James Mcculloch Jan 2012

A Distributed Power Market For The Smart Grid, Ryan James Mcculloch

Computer Science

To address the challenges of resource allocation in the Smart Electrical Grid a new power market is proposed. A distributed and autonomous contract net based market system in which participants, represented by the agents, engage in two distinct yet interconnected markets in order to determine resource allocation. Key to this proposed design is the 2 market structure which separates negotiations between consumers and reliable generation from negotiations between consumers and intermittent energy resources. The first or primary market operates as a first price sealed bid reverse auction while the second or secondary market utilizes a uniform price auction. In order …

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A Tutorial Approach For Teaching Database Concepts, Susbi Sharma Jan 2012

A Tutorial Approach For Teaching Database Concepts, Susbi Sharma

Computer Science

Experts in the education and psychology fields have undertaken immense research in order to find better learning approaches. Educators, teachers, cognitive psychologists, and researchers eventually accepted and developed a two-dimensional framework, focusing on both knowledge as well as cognitive processes. In combination, this two-dimensional framework clearly defines what a student is expected to learn in school. This framework is well described as well as addressed in the six different levels of the Cognitive approach in the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy. Taking into account one of the most commonly used learning approaches in the field of education and psychology, i.e., Bloom's Taxonomy, …

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Semantics-Enhanced Privacy Recommendation For Social Networking Sites, Qingrui Li Jan 2012

Semantics-Enhanced Privacy Recommendation For Social Networking Sites, Qingrui Li

Computer Science

Privacy protection is a vital issue for safe social interactions within social networking sites (SNS). Although SNSs such as MySpace and Facebook allow users to configure their privacy settings, the task is difficult for normal users with hundreds of online friends. In this paper, I propose an intelligent semantics-based privacy configuration system, named SPAC, to automatically recommend privacy settings for SNS users. SPAC learns users’ privacy configuration patterns and make predictions by utilizing machine learning techniques on users’ profiles and privacy setting history. To increase the accuracy of the predicted privacy settings, especially in the context of heterogeneous user profiles, …

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Evaluating The Gap Between The Skills And Abilities Of Senior Undergraduate Computer Science Students And The Expectations Of Industry, Alex Radermacher Jan 2012

Evaluating The Gap Between The Skills And Abilities Of Senior Undergraduate Computer Science Students And The Expectations Of Industry, Alex Radermacher

Computer Science

A large emphasis is placed on improving student education. Every year researchers propose new teaching methods and suggest improvements to existing methods. However, recent computer science and software engineering graduates continue to face difficulties when beginning their professional careers. This thesis reports the results of a systematic literature review that examined the knowledge deficiency among graduating students beginning work in the software industry. Following the literature review, interviews with industry managers and surveys of graduating students were undertaken to examine additional knowledge deficiencies among graduating students. The results from the literature review and the additional studies show that students lack …

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Adaptive Regression Testing Strategy: An Empirical Study, Md. Junaid Arafeen Jan 2012

Adaptive Regression Testing Strategy: An Empirical Study, Md. Junaid Arafeen

Computer Science

When software systems evolve, different amounts of code modifications can be involved in different versions. These factors can affect the costs and benefits of regression testing techniques, and thus, there may be no single regression testing technique that is the most cost-effective technique to use on every version. To date, many regression testing techniques have been proposed, but no research has been done on the problem of helping practitioners systematically choose appropriate techniques on new versions as systems evolve. To address this problem, we propose adaptive regression testing (ART) strategies that attempt to identify the regression testing techniques that will …

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Beth Simmons's Mobilizing For Human Rights: A Beyond Compliance Perspective, Robert Howse, Ruti Teitel Jan 2012

Beth Simmons's Mobilizing For Human Rights: A Beyond Compliance Perspective, Robert Howse, Ruti Teitel

Articles & Chapters

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An Immense New Power To Heal: The Promise Of Personalized Medicine, Lee Gutkind, Pagan Kennedy Jan 2012

An Immense New Power To Heal: The Promise Of Personalized Medicine, Lee Gutkind, Pagan Kennedy

Books

There is no denying that new technology, which has triggered an explosion of scientific information, is ushering in a revolution in medicine. Through intimate patient stories as well as profiles of leading-edge doctors and scientists, this clear-eyed, lively, and highly engaging book explores one of the most significant scientific breakthroughs of our time: the sequencing of the human genome and the subsequent development of personalized medicine.

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Examining Portfolio-Based Assessment In An Upper-Level Biology Course, Brittany Ziegler Jan 2012

Examining Portfolio-Based Assessment In An Upper-Level Biology Course, Brittany Ziegler

Education STEM

Historically, students have been viewed as empty vessels and passive participants in the learning process but students actually are active forming their own conceptions. One way student learning is impacted is through assessment. Alternative assessment, which contrasts traditional assessment methods, takes into account how students learn by promoting engagement and construction of knowledge. This dissertation explores portfolio-based assessment, a method of alternative assessment, which requires students to compose a purposeful collection of work demonstrating their knowledge in an upper-level biology course. The research objectives include characterizing and contributing to the understanding of portfolio-based assessment in higher education, examining reflection and …

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Lives At Risk: High School Dropouts In The Northern Plains Region, Bruce Ralph Schumacher Jan 2012

Lives At Risk: High School Dropouts In The Northern Plains Region, Bruce Ralph Schumacher

Education

Education is essential to personal welfare. As educational levels increase, personal income rises, the quality of life improves, and society benefits as criminality declines, tax income increases, and the cost of social programs decreases. Unfortunately, every year thousands of students leave high school without graduating. Various factors place students at-risk of dropping out, but the question remains why some at-risk students drop out while others graduate. This phenomenology investigates dropping out by following the philosophy of Jurgen Habermas, guided by the work of Max van Manen. Participants discussed their lifeworld experiences and explained factors that had caused them to leave …

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Emotional Intelligence Levels In Baccalaureate-Prepared Early Career Registered Nurses, Glenda Schooler Reemts Jan 2012

Emotional Intelligence Levels In Baccalaureate-Prepared Early Career Registered Nurses, Glenda Schooler Reemts

Education

The increasing complexity of the healthcare environment calls for increasing emotional intelligence (EI) competence in nurses so as to establish effective relationships that facilitate positive patient outcomes. Because nurses need to be competent in EI, it is important to determine if professional nursing programs prepare graduates in emotional intelligence and whether years of professional experience contribute to development of emotional intelligence. This study assessed the emotional intelligence competence of 164 baccalaureate nursing alumni who graduated during the years 2007-2010 from three Benedictine institutions in the Midwest to see if there was growth of EI with experience as a registered nurse, …

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Syllable Effects In A Fragment-Detection Task In Italian Listeners., Caroline Floccia, Jeremy Goslin, Jjd Morais, Régine Kolinsky Jan 2012

Syllable Effects In A Fragment-Detection Task In Italian Listeners., Caroline Floccia, Jeremy Goslin, Jjd Morais, Régine Kolinsky

School of Psychology

In the line of the monitoring studies initiated by Mehler et al. (1981), a group of Italian listeners were asked to detect auditory CV and CVC targets in carrier words beginning with a CV, a CVC, or a CVG (G = geminate) syllable with variable initial syllable stress. By slowing participants reaction times (RTs), using both catch and foil trials, a syllable effect was found, partially modulated by participants' speed and stress location. When catch trials were removed in a second experiment the syllable effect was not observed, even if RTs were similar to that of the first experiment. We …

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Physical Activity As An Aid To Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy (Leap) Trial: Study Protocol For A Randomized Controlled Trial, Michael Ussher, Paul Aveyard, Isaac Manyonda, S Lewis, Robert West, B Lewis, Bess Marcus, Adrian H. Taylor, Pelham Barton, Tim Coleman Jan 2012

Physical Activity As An Aid To Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy (Leap) Trial: Study Protocol For A Randomized Controlled Trial, Michael Ussher, Paul Aveyard, Isaac Manyonda, S Lewis, Robert West, B Lewis, Bess Marcus, Adrian H. Taylor, Pelham Barton, Tim Coleman

Peninsula Medical School

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