Software traceability has the capability of relating various artifacts produced throughout the development to assist with understanding the system from different viewpoints and abstraction levels. The Architecture Centric Traceability for Stakeholders (ACTS) technique was created to holistically address challenges from different ...

There are widespread concerns about how changes in media and technologies are affecting people's media habits. Clay Johnson (2012) proposes using the metaphor of an "information diet" to consider this as a health issue, to which insights from the realm of food and diet can be usefully applied. This thesis describes using the ...

Binocular vision issues are a primary cause of reading and writing difficulties among children, with as many at 25 percent of school-aged children needing vision therapy. Vision issues are a better predictor of academic success and quality of life than race or socioeconomic status. In spite of validated screening exams and ...

A goal of reusing source code is to lower development cost; however, reuse techniques usually require additional costs in creating generic source code and retrieving the appropriate source code from a code repository. This Master thesis presents a novel traceability technique that facilitates reuse in layered applications in ...

In this paper, we explore the relationship between programmability and performance within the context of two C++ parallel/distributed programming approaches: Hybrid OpenMP/MPI & MASS (Multi-Agent Spatial Simulation). Our study begins by working with the following hypothesis: programmers in big data analysis and Agent-Based ...

This thesis presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of adding features of automatic distributed injection, diffusion, merger, and termination to reactive agents in a parallel simulation and analysis environment. This provides a powerful simple-to-use agent behavior for information searching or diffusion purposes, ...

<bold>Dynamic Load Balancing</bold> (DLB) in Multi-agent Spatial Simulation (MASS) library is a thread-based load-balancing algorithm that calculates the CPU load, per thread, based on the computational time spent by CPU, using <bold>JAVA ThreadMXBean API</bold>. This thesis presents the system design, execution model of the ...

AgentTeamwork-Lite is a mobile-agent-based job scheduling and monitoring framework that has been developed in the concept of field-based job dispatch and migration where agents migrate over a computing-resource field to highest available computing nodes for executing their user jobs as if they were electrons sliding down on ...

Agent based modeling is the practice of simulating complex interactions by modeling the behavior of a single agent in the interaction, then observing the emergent behavior that occurs when many of those Agents interact. As simulation size increases, the computational requirements can become prohibitive, and parallelization ...

Historically, most video games lean primarily on visual communication, making them inaccessible to the blind. Non-sighted gaming is beginning to gain some momentum, particularly with the proliferation of mobile devices, whose multiple sensor inputs allow for the exploration of inventive control schemes. The arrival of built-in ...