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Event Detection In Wireless Sensor Networks In Random Spatial Sensors Deployments, Pengfei ZHANG, Ido NEVAT, Gareth W. PETERS, Gaoxi XIAO, Hwee-Pink TAN 2015 Institute for Infocomm Research

Event Detection In Wireless Sensor Networks In Random Spatial Sensors Deployments, Pengfei Zhang, Ido Nevat, Gareth W. Peters, Gaoxi Xiao, Hwee-Pink Tan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We develop a new class of event detection algorithms in Wireless Sensor Networks where the sensors are randomly deployed spatially. We formulate the detection problem as a binary hypothesis testing problem and design the optimal decision rules for two scenarios, namely the Poisson Point Process and Binomial Point Process random deployments. To calculate the intractable marginal likelihood density, we develop three types of series expansion methods which are based on an Askey-orthogonal polynomials. In addition, we develop a novel framework to provide guidance on which series expansion is most suitable (i.e., most accurate) to use for different system parameters. Extensive …


Ban ‘Naked’ Braces!, A. Frank Ackerman, Ph.D. 2015 Montana Tech of the University of Montana

Ban ‘Naked’ Braces!, A. Frank Ackerman, Ph.D.

Computer Science & Software Engineering

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Attendance Tracker, Mounika Bandaru, Anil Gangishetti, Sudharshan Reddy Putha 2015 Governors State University

Attendance Tracker, Mounika Bandaru, Anil Gangishetti, Sudharshan Reddy Putha

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Attendance Tracker is an android app, which is designed especially for students and lecturers. In the system, lecturers can easily track attendance without calling the name of the students. When the students attend class, the lecturer can give time sensitive information, and then the attendance will be calculated automatically. The students can receive an automated email when their attendance drops down. When the students register for the next semester, the system automatically reset. Time can be saved and accuracy can be improved in tracking attendance especially for a very large class.


Future Sms, Varun Chowdhary Enjum, Suresh Kumar Kurapati, Umakanth Vellanki 2015 Governors State University

Future Sms, Varun Chowdhary Enjum, Suresh Kumar Kurapati, Umakanth Vellanki

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The main purpose of this project is automatic SMS messages sending. It provides flexible scheduling system to the user. That means one can schedule a message according to the required date and time.


A Survey To Fix The Threshold And Implementation For Detecting Duplicate Web Documents, Manojreddy Bhimireddy, Krishna Pavan Gandi, Reuven Hicks, Bhargav Roy Veeramachaneni 2015 Governors State University

A Survey To Fix The Threshold And Implementation For Detecting Duplicate Web Documents, Manojreddy Bhimireddy, Krishna Pavan Gandi, Reuven Hicks, Bhargav Roy Veeramachaneni

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The drastic development in the information accessible on the World Wide Web has made the employment of automated tools to locate the information resources of interest, and for tracking and analyzing the same a certainty. Web Mining is the branch of data mining that deals with the analysis of World Wide Web. The concepts from various areas such as Data Mining, Internet technology and World Wide Web, and recently, Semantic Web can be said as the origin of web mining. Web mining can be defined as the procedure of determining hidden yet potentially beneficial knowledge from the data accessible in …


Smartphones And Ble Services: Empirical Insights, Meera RADHAKRISHNAN, Archan MISRA, Rajesh Krishna BALAN, Youngki LEE 2015 Singapore Management University

Smartphones And Ble Services: Empirical Insights, Meera Radhakrishnan, Archan Misra, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Youngki Lee

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Driven by the rapid market growth of sensors and beacons that offer Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) based connectivity, this paper empirically investigates the performance characteristics of the BLE interface on multiple Android smartphones, and the consequent impact on a proposed BLE-based service: continuous indoor location. We first use extensive measurement studies with multiple Android devices to establish that the BLE interface on current smartphones is not as "low-energy" as nominally expected, and establish that continuous use of such a BLE interface is not feasible unless we choose a moderately large scan interval and a low duty cycle. We then explore …


Privacy In Crowdsourced Platforms, Thivya KANDAPPU, Arik Friedman, Vijay Sivaraman, Roksana Boreli 2015 Singapore Management University

Privacy In Crowdsourced Platforms, Thivya Kandappu, Arik Friedman, Vijay Sivaraman, Roksana Boreli

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Emerging platforms, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk and Google Consumer Surveys, are increasingly being used by researchers and market analysts to crowdsource large-scale survey data from online populations at extremely low cost. However, by participating in successive surveys, workers risk being profiled and targeted, both by surveyors and by the platform itself. In this chapter we provide an overview of privacy in crowdsourcing platforms. We consider the state-of-the-art crowdsourcing platforms and the risks to worker privacy in such platforms, we survey the existing solutions, and later describe and evaluate the design of a privacy conscious crowdsourcing platform prototype, called Loki. …


Porting The Netbeans Java 8 Enhanced For Loop Lambda Expression Refactoring To Eclipse, Md Arefin, Raffi Khatchadourian 2015 CUNY New York City College of Technology

Porting The Netbeans Java 8 Enhanced For Loop Lambda Expression Refactoring To Eclipse, Md Arefin, Raffi Khatchadourian

Publications and Research

Java 8 is one of the largest upgrades to the popular language and framework in over a decade. However, the Eclipse IDE is missing several key refactorings that could help developers take advantage of new features in Java 8 more easily. In this paper, we discuss our ongoing work in porting the enhanced for loop to lambda expression refactoring from the NetBeans IDE to Eclipse. We also discuss future plans for new Java 8 refactorings not found in any current IDE.


Functional Requirements Identification Using Item-To-Item Collaborative Filtering, Proceso L. Fernandez Jr, Reynald Jay F. Hidalgo 2015 Ateneo de Manila University

Functional Requirements Identification Using Item-To-Item Collaborative Filtering, Proceso L. Fernandez Jr, Reynald Jay F. Hidalgo

Department of Information Systems & Computer Science Faculty Publications

One of the most difficult tasks in the development of software is the identification of the functional requirements. A well-defined functional requirement will eventually map the success of a software project. A support tool that can recommend candidate functional requirements for a software project being developed will help software engineers to deliver the right software to the clients.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether a collection of previously developed software applications can serve as basis for the development of a model to identify functional requirements of a project to be developed. Completed software project documentations of Master …


A-Maze-D: Advanced Maze Development Kit Using Constraint Databases, Shruti Daggumarti, Peter Revesz, Corey Svehla 2015 University of Nebraska-Lincoln

A-Maze-D: Advanced Maze Development Kit Using Constraint Databases, Shruti Daggumarti, Peter Revesz, Corey Svehla

School of Computing: Conference and Workshop Papers

In this paper, we describe the A-Maze-D system which shows that constraint databases can be applied conveniently and efficiently to the design of maze games. A-Maze-D provides a versatile set of features by a combination of a MATLAB library and the MLPQ constraint database system. A-Maze-D is the first system that uses constraint databases to build maze games and opens new ideas in video game development.


Choosing Your Weapons: On Sentiment Analysis Tools For Software Engineering Research, Robbert JONGELING, Subhajit DATTA, Alexander SEREBRENIK 2015 Singapore Management University

Choosing Your Weapons: On Sentiment Analysis Tools For Software Engineering Research, Robbert Jongeling, Subhajit Datta, Alexander Serebrenik

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Recent years have seen an increasing attention to social aspects of software engineering, including studies of emotions and sentiments experienced and expressed by the software developers. Most of these studies reuse existing sentiment analysis tools such as SentiStrength and NLTK. However, these tools have been trained on product reviews and movie reviews and, therefore, their results might not be applicable in the software engineering domain. In this paper we study whether the sentiment analysis tools agree with the sentiment recognized by human evaluators (as reported in an earlier study) as well as with each other. Furthermore, we evaluate the impact …


The Importance Of Being Isolated: An Empirical Study On Chromium Reviews, Subhajit DATTA, Devarshi BHATT, Manish JAIN, Proshanta SARKAR, Santonu SARKAR 2015 Singapore Management University

The Importance Of Being Isolated: An Empirical Study On Chromium Reviews, Subhajit Datta, Devarshi Bhatt, Manish Jain, Proshanta Sarkar, Santonu Sarkar

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

As large scale software development has become more collaborative, and software teams more globally distributed, several studies have explored how developer interaction influences software development outcomes. The emphasis so far has been largely on outcomes like defect count, the time to close modification requests etc. In the paper, we examine data from the Chromium project to understand how different aspects of developer discussion relate to the closure time of reviews. On the basis of analyzing reviews discussed by 2000+ developers, our results indicate that quicker closure of reviews owned by a developer relates to higher reception of information and insights …


Contract-Based General-Purpose Gpu Programming, Alexey KOLESNICHENKO, Christopher M. POSKITT, Sebastian NANZ, Bertrand MEYER 2015 Singapore Management University

Contract-Based General-Purpose Gpu Programming, Alexey Kolesnichenko, Christopher M. Poskitt, Sebastian Nanz, Bertrand Meyer

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Using GPUs as general-purpose processors has revolutionized parallel computing by offering, for a large and growing set of algorithms, massive data-parallelization on desktop machines. An obstacle to widespread adoption, however, is the difficulty of programming them and the low-level control of the hardware required to achieve good performance. This paper suggests a programming library, SafeGPU, that aims at striking a balance between programmer productivity and performance, by making GPU data-parallel operations accessible from within a classical object-oriented programming language. The solution is integrated with the design-by-contract approach, which increases confidence in functional program correctness by embedding executable program specifications into …


What Are The Characteristics Of High-Rated Apps? A Case Study On Free Android Applications, TIAN YUAN, Meiyappan NAGAPPAN, David LO, Ahmed E. HASSAN 2015 Singapore Management University

What Are The Characteristics Of High-Rated Apps? A Case Study On Free Android Applications, Tian Yuan, Meiyappan Nagappan, David Lo, Ahmed E. Hassan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The tremendous rate of growth in the mobile app market over the past few years has attracted many developers to build mobile apps. However, while there is no shortage of stories of how lone developers have made great fortunes from their apps, the majority of developers are struggling to break even. For those struggling developers, knowing the “DNA” (i.e., characteristics) of high-rated apps is the first step towards successful development and evolution of their apps. In this paper, we investigate 28 factors along eight dimensions to understand how high-rated apps are different from low-rated apps. We also investigate what are …


Should I Follow This Fault Localization Tool's Output? Automated Prediction Of Fault Localization Effectiveness, Tien-Duy B. LE, David LO, Ferdian THUNG 2015 Singapore Management University

Should I Follow This Fault Localization Tool's Output? Automated Prediction Of Fault Localization Effectiveness, Tien-Duy B. Le, David Lo, Ferdian Thung

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Debugging is a crucial yet expensive activity to improve the reliability of software systems. To reduce debugging cost, various fault localization tools have been proposed. A spectrum-based fault localization tool often outputs an ordered list of program elements sorted based on their likelihood to be the root cause of a set of failures (i.e., their suspiciousness scores). Despite the many studies on fault localization, unfortunately, however, for many bugs, the root causes are often low in the ordered list. This potentially causes developers to distrust fault localization tools. Recently, Parnin and Orso highlight in their user study that many debuggers …


Porting The Netbeans Java 8 Enhanced For Loop Lambda Expression Refactoring To Eclipse, Md Arefin, Raffi Khatchadourian 2015 CUNY New York City College of Technology

Porting The Netbeans Java 8 Enhanced For Loop Lambda Expression Refactoring To Eclipse, Md Arefin, Raffi Khatchadourian

Publications and Research

Java 8 is one of the largest upgrades to the popular language and framework in over a decade. However, the Eclipse IDE is missing several key refactorings that could help developers take advantage of new features in Java 8 more easily. In this paper, we discuss our ongoing work in porting the enhanced for loop to lambda expression refactoring from the NetBeans IDE to Eclipse. We also discuss future plans for new Java 8 refactorings not found in any current IDE.


Fraglight: Shedding Light On Broken Pointcuts In Evolving Aspect-Oriented Software, Raffi Khatchadourian, Awais Rashid, Hidehiko Masuhara, Takuya Watanabe 2015 CUNY Hunter College

Fraglight: Shedding Light On Broken Pointcuts In Evolving Aspect-Oriented Software, Raffi Khatchadourian, Awais Rashid, Hidehiko Masuhara, Takuya Watanabe

Publications and Research

Pointcut fragility is a well-documented problem in Aspect-Oriented Programming; changes to the base code can lead to join points incorrectly falling in or out of the scope of pointcuts. Deciding which pointcuts have broken due to base-code changes is daunting, especially in large and complex systems. We demonstrate an automated tool called FRAGLIGHT that recommends a set of pointcuts that are likely to require modification due to a certain base-code change. The underlying approach is rooted in harnessing unique and arbitrarily deep structural commonality between program elements corresponding to join points selected by a pointcut in a particular software version. …


Computational Approaches For Remote Monitoring Of Symptoms And Activities, Ferdaus Kawsar 2015 Marquette University

Computational Approaches For Remote Monitoring Of Symptoms And Activities, Ferdaus Kawsar

Dissertations (1934 -)

We now have a unique phenomenon where significant computational power, storage, connectivity, and built-in sensors are carried by many people willingly as part of their life style; two billion people now use smart phones. Unique and innovative solutions using smart phones are motivated by rising health care cost in both the developed and developing worlds. In this work, development of a methodology for building a remote symptom monitoring system for rural people in developing countries has been explored. Design, development, deployment, and evaluation of e-ESAS is described. The system’s performance was studied by analyzing feedback from users. A smart phone …


Assessing Developer Contribution With Repository Mining-Based Metrics, Jalerson LIMA, Christoph TREUDE, Fernando FIGUEIRA FILHO, Uirá KULESZA 2015 Singapore Management University

Assessing Developer Contribution With Repository Mining-Based Metrics, Jalerson Lima, Christoph Treude, Fernando Figueira Filho, Uirá Kulesza

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Productivity as a result of individual developers' contributions is an important aspect for software companies to maintain their competitiveness in the market. However, there is no consensus in the literature on how to measure productivity or developer contribution. While some repository mining-based metrics have been proposed, they lack validation in terms of their applicability and usefulness from the individuals who will use them to assess developer contribution: team and project leaders. In this paper, we propose the design of a suite of metrics for the assessment of developer contribution, based on empirical evidence obtained from project and team leaders. In …


Mood Self-Assessment On Smartphones, Le Minh KHUE, Eng Lieh OUH, Stan JARZABEK 2015 Singapore Management University

Mood Self-Assessment On Smartphones, Le Minh Khue, Eng Lieh Ouh, Stan Jarzabek

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Mood has been systematically studied by psychologists for over 100 years. As mood is a subjective feeling, any study of mood must take into account and accurately capture user’s perception of an experienced feeling. In last 40 years, a number of pen-andpaper mood self-assessment scales have been proposed. Typically, a person is asked to separately rate various dimensions of the experienced feeling (e.g., pleasure and arousal) or mood items (interested, agitated, excited, etc.) on numeric scales (e.g., between 0 and 10). These partial ratings are then combined into an overall mood rating (or into its positive and negative affect). Penand-paper …


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