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Factors that affect software systems development project outcomes: a survey of research: ACM Computing Surveys
McLeod and MacDonell present a survey of relatively current research (from 1996 to 2006) about the factors that affect project outcomes in software... more
Software Development (K.6.3...) | Feb 7 12
Dynamic constraints for record matching: The VLDB Journal
This research paper addresses the problem of matching records from different unreliable data sources. It introduces new concepts of matching dependencies (MDs) and... more
Information Storage (H.3.2) | Feb 7 12
Key factors mediating the use of a mobile technology tool designed to develop social and life skills in children with Autistic spectrum disorders: Computers & Education
A mobile-support smartphone application, which supports children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) by including social and life skills, is... more
Social & Behavioral Sciences (J.4) | Feb 7 12
Data analytics for game development: ICSE 11
When video game developers design and develop a video game, how do they know that the game meets its objectives for performance, functionality, and game experience? The simple answer is that the... more
Metrics (D.2.8) | Feb 7 12
Designing social videogames for educational uses: Computers & Education
This paper is ostensibly a survey of “research into educational videogames.” In reality, it is more like a rambling talk, sometimes incoherent and sometimes insightful. It includes history, examples... more
Computer Uses in Education (K.3.1) | Feb 6 12
Learning to identify educational materials: ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing
Users often receive search results that are not accurate or consistent with their expectations. In this paper, the authors address the challenge of automating document... more
Text Analysis (I.2.7...) | Feb 6 12
Sparse conjugate directions pursuit with application to fixed-size kernel models: Machine Learning
While the conjugate gradient method is a popular iterative approach to solving large sparse linear systems, it is not biased to find good sparse solutions. This paper presents a variant called sparse... more
Learning (I.2.6) | Feb 6 12
Dynamic processing allocation in video: IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence
The problem of detecting features of interest in large video collections is addressed in this paper. The authors’ model uses a “second-order Markov model with a node for each frame and a state... more
Video Analysis (I.2.10...) | Feb 6 12
Social aspects of music and interactive technologies in facilitating face-to-face interactions in third places: DESIRE 11
This short research paper concisely presents two studies aimed at understanding social factors related to music. More precisely, it explores the way... more
Miscellaneous (H.5.m) | Feb 3 12
Tempo induction from music recordings using ensemble empirical mode decomposition analysis: Computer Music Journal
While many semantic analysis methods for text information exist, the vast majority of current data is of a multimedia nature, which... more
Sound & Music Computing (H.5.5) | Feb 3 12
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Programming Python
This is an advanced tutorial on Python programming, covering only Python 3.X. Beyond Python, this book emphasizes systems programming, graphical user interface (GUI) programming, and Internet... more
Python (D.3.2...) | Feb 7 12
Reversibility and stochastic networks
First published in 1979, this book immediately attracted the attention of specialists in applied probability and stochastic processes. Today, it is a classic in reversibility of stochastic processes and its applications. The notion of reversibility was... more
Stochastic Processes (G.3...) | Feb 7 12
EMBOSS user’s guide: practical bioinformatics
The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite (EMBOSS) is one of the best-known tools for molecular biology. It supports many of the common tasks that need to be performed in bioinformatics: sequence retrievals and comparisons, identifying... more
Biology & Genetics (J.3...) | Feb 7 12
Bayesian time series models
Time series data appear in many areas, such as economics, audio analysis, video streaming, and biomedicine. Probabilistic models are popular tools to describe the characteristics of time series because... more
Time Series Analysis (G.3...) | Feb 6 12
The secret war between downloading and uploading: tales of the computer as culture machine
Once in a while, a book comes along that you think might provide enough material to make one truly question the direction that technology is taking. I began reading this book with such an... more
General (K.8.0) | Feb 6 12
Proofs and algorithms: an introduction to logic and computability
Mathematical logic is a challenging subject for many students. While its results are of critical importance to computer scientists, its experts often struggle to convey its main ideas to a lay audience.... more
General (F.1.0) | Feb 6 12
Privacy online: perspectives on privacy and self-disclosure in the social Web
Although individuals know that online postings are widely accessible, posters act as though this information is private. This is the privacy paradox. Divided into three sections--“Approaches,” “Applications,” and “Audiences”--this book... more
Web-Based Interaction (H.5.3...) | Feb 3 12
Data architecture: from Zen to reality
The provocative title is misleading: the book has nothing to do with Zen or its relationship to data architecture, with the exception of vague, superficial, and cliched principles that fit any philosophical concept... more
Data Storage Representations (E.2) | Feb 3 12
Basic electronics for scientists and engineers
Eggleston argues that scientists and engineers often deal with measurement and experimental data in the form of electric signals obtained from some sort of electronic circuitry. In many cases, the circuitry is self-made because the desired electronic... more
Electronics (J.2...) | Feb 2 12
Designing mLearning: tapping into the mobile revolution for organizational performance
Mobile learning (mLearning) is finding application in a wide range of technological innovations, including geolocation; near field communication (NFC)... more
Computer Uses in Education (K.3.1) | Feb 2 12
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