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Quality management and quality practice:
Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry
This paper is fairly long--27 pages and three appendices, with numerous lengthy quotes. The style is choppy, disjointed, and uneven, and contains unnecessary detail. Nevertheless, it might be...
History Of Computing (K.2)
| Jul 1 09
Diversity in an environment for accessible learning:
This paper is about the steps for making Web-based learning more accessible, by allowing multiple versions of the same content, without requiring the Web page authors to maintain separate but parallel...
Computer Uses In Education (K.3.1)
| Jul 1 09
On the difficulty of replicating human subjects studies in software engineering:
Has the time come to stop performing software engineering experiments involving human subjects, as yet another replication is reported to have failed to confirm findings?
An original...
Software Psychology (H.1.2...)
| Jul 1 09
Views from atop the fence:
Neutrality is defined, and seven game mechanics are described and placed on a scale called the impartiality spectrum. For example, a capture and control mechanic in a multiplayer territory game is...
Games (K.8.0...)
| Jul 2 09
An experience of teaching for learning by observation:
Computers & Education
The framework for this study is the need to learn through observation of patterns and phenomena related to basic electrical circuits. Using a design-based research approach, the study...
Computer Uses In Education (K.3.1)
| Jul 2 09
Towards a general model of the multi-criteria workflow scheduling on the grid:
Future Generation Computer Systems
Grid applications are increasingly composed of multiple components (tasks and data) rather than from monolithic applications. The dependencies between the application components are defined using...
Scheduling (D.4.1...)
| Jul 2 09
Adaptive Winograd’s matrix multiplications:
ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
Strassen’s matrix multiplication, generally used in the Winograd variant [1], is an attractive theoretical toy. Furthermore, it can be described quite easily if we ignore issues such as: the...
Algorithm Design And Analysis (G.4...)
| Jul 2 09
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Too soon to tell
Grier’s book is a quirky, thoughtful, compelling, and personal collection of short essays about the computer industry and what the technological and societal evolution that computing has engendered...
The Computer Industry (K.1)
| Jul 1 09
Probabilistic reasoning and decision making in sensory-motor systems
This collection of papers presents results from 12 different PhD theses that fall under a unifying Bayesian programming theme. The editors state in the preface what the book covers:
Research...
Uncertainty ... Probabilistic Reas. (I.2.3...)
| Jul 1 09
Transforming global information and communication markets
This book explores the mechanics of technological innovation, market strategies, and political entrepreneurship that have propelled so many countries into a new era of marketplace...
Economics (J.4...)
| Jul 1 09
Don’t spend a dime
In his new book, Kelly introduces the concept of open-source software and software as a service (SaaS) in simple layman’s language. He picks over a dozen application categories, ranging from word processing to photo editing to personal finance...
General (D.2.0)
| Jul 1 09
Developing with Google App Engine
Google App Engine is Google’s answer to cloud computing, where applications are served from remote computing services that can be inexpensively and seamlessly scaled for availability, performance, and capacity. The book’s audience is professional...
Miscellaneous (D.3.m)
| Jul 1 09
The ethics of computer games
Less nuanced approaches to the ethics of computer games may suggest that one can ascertain the moral quality of a game purely based on its content. For example, it may be too violent; it may over sexualize...
Ethics (K.4.1...)
| Jul 1 09
Handbook of parametric and nonparametric statistical procedures
Formal statistics is important to modern computer science (CS) in two ways. First, it forms the basis for the rapidly growing fields of pattern recognition and machine learning. Its contribution here...
Statistical Computing (G.3...)
| Jul 1 09
Oracle forensics
Database forensics is a field that has not received much research attention, partly due to the complexity of database software and a concomitant flooding of assurances regarding the security of mainstream...
Oracle (H.2.4...)
| Jul 2 09
Eclipse plug-ins
Eclipse plug-in developers of all levels are the target audience for this book. Chapters 1 to 3 provide enough tutorial material, examples, and infrastructure for the novice to gain a first development experience. These chapters provide a description of...
Eclipse (D.2.6...)
| Jul 2 09
Computing concepts with C++
The collection of texts that purport to teach C++ at the college level would fill several bookshelves. However, the set of texts that actually accomplish that goal would be considerably smaller. Furthermore, with the passage of time, gaining membership...
C++ (D.3.2...)
| Jul 2 09
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