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This paper presents two families of distances in the space of high order proximity networks. The distances measure differences between networks and are shown to be valid metrics in the space of high order proximity networks modulo permutation isomorphisms. Practical implications are explored by comparing the coauthorship networks of two popular signal processing researchers. The metrics succeed in...
This paper provides a review of some previously identified requirements of a learning health system, a post hoc analysis of narrative artifacts describing a learning health system, and some new potential requirements of a learning health system. Engaging a transdisciplinary group of researchers and health care practitioners, we used a method of group conceptualization to elicit potential requirements...
The identification of influential nodes in complex network can be very challenging. If the network has a community structure, centrality measures may fail to identify the complete set of influential nodes, as the hubs and other central nodes of the network may lie inside only one community. Here we define a bipartite clustering coefficient that, by taking differently structured clusters into account,...
The Blue Waters Student Internship Program (BWSIP), a year-long program funded for three years by the National Science Foundation, motivates and trains the next generation of supercomputing researchers. A community engagement partnership of the Blue Waters Petascale Computing Facility at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and Shodor, the BWSIP has developed, demonstrated, and...
In 2010, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) began a collaboration with the Singapore Ministry of Education to develop the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), a new engineering-oriented university in Singapore with programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. As a component of this collaboration, MIT staff members sought to "transfuse" MIT's cultural...
The curriculum for an introductory environmental engineering course was enhanced with the addition of Service-Learning (S-L) based projects in the community. Senior year Civil and Environmental Engineering students worked on four projects, including green roof and biomass energy considerations at a local elementary school (engaging a fifth grade classroom), water quality testing (engaging high school...
The CincySTEM Urban Initiative is a program that integrates Project-based Learning (PBL) into 9th and 10th grade classes using educational technology that is provided to teachers and students for use both in classroom and offsite. Five CincySTEM projects were developed and incorporated into an urban and minority-serving high school. This paper presents an overview of the five projects, a case study...
The biggest driver for today's education is to match assessment to learning. School District (SD) leaders support efforts to hold schools accountable and are working to promote greater congruence between what's tested and what kids need to learn, if they are to thrive in the future. In order to promote important life skills like creativity, problem solving, and communications, one needs to have a...
Current research environments are witnessing high enormities of presentations occurring in different sessions at academic conferences. This situation makes it difficult for researchers (especially juniors) to attend the right presentation session(s) for effective collaboration. In this paper, we propose an innovative venue recommendation algorithm to enhance smart conference participation. Our proposed...
The OOPSLE workshop is a discussion-oriented and collaborative forum for formulating and addressing with open, unsolved and unsolvable problems in software language engineering (SLE), which is a research domain of systematic, disciplined and measurable approaches of development, evolution and maintenance of artificial languages used in software development. OOPSLE aims to serve as a think tank in...
At the University of the Free State (UFS) in South Africa, professional development is characterised by its focus on the advancement of scholarly teaching in the disciplines. Practices followed are informed by the scholarship of teaching and learning movement. Within learning communities special attention is given to the motivational conditions for optimal development, which are intentionally and...
Education shows a great impact in the life of an individual. In present time, students are expected to become 21st century learners to fulfill the demands of 21st century. Many strategies are developed and are being implemented in developed countries so that the skills acquired by students from education makes a positive impact in changing markets. But, the implementation of these methods in developing...
This paper presents the results of the use of a Motivation Booster in blended learning experiences. The implementation of the booster is embedded in the Know Cat system. The main findings presented are related with the improvement of the blended learning experiences. Specifically the motivational messages sent by the Motivation Booster to the students help to increase the students' interactions in...
This position paper reflects on recent work that sought to make positive changes to the IEEE Requirements Engineering conference (RE), and on twenty years of requirements engineering (REng) research. We question the values that seem to underpin RE, and offer what we believe are more appropriate values. We argue that these new values would result in better alignment between research and the needs of...
The International IEEE Requirements Engineering conference (RE) is the premier international forum for requirements engineering. However, participant interaction mechanisms have not received significant recent attention and conference attendees have suggested that interaction support could be improved. The “RE Interactive” program is a first implementation step to increase the level and quality of...
Goal of this paper is to overview the structure of the Networking Academy program as well as to identify emerging technologies which are supporting the NetAcad program even in content delivery or support of the institutions which are responsible for the content delivery. Besides of the general overview we are sharing best practice in creating collaborative environment.
The disciplines of requirements engineering (RE) and software architecture (SA) are fundamental to the success of software projects. Even though RE and SA are often considered separately, it has been argued that drawing a line between RE and SA is neither feasible nor reasonable as requirements and architectural design processes impact each other. Requirements are constrained by what is feasible technically...
Software engineering project courses where student teams are geographically distributed can effectively simulate the problems of globally distributed software development (DSD). However, this pedagogical model has proven difficult to adopt or sustain. It requires significant pedagogical resources and collaboration infrastructure. Institutionalizing such courses also requires compatible and reliable...
Software is created by people for people working in a range of environments and under various conditions. Understanding the cooperative and human aspects of software development is crucial in order to comprehend how methods and tools are used, and thereby improve the creation and maintenance of software. Both researchers and practitioners have recognized the need to investigate these aspects, but...
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