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ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
16 years 4 months ago
The Impact of Pair Programming on Student Performance, Perception and Persistence
This study examined the effectiveness of pair programming in four lecture sections of a large introductory programming course. We were particularly interested in assessing how the...
Charlie McDowell, Linda L. Werner, Heather E. Bull...
CAD
1999
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Set-combinations of the mixed-dimension cellular objects of the Djinn API
This paper is concerned with the mathematics and formal specification of "set-like" operations for the mixed dimension cellular objects of the Djinn Application Programm...
Alan E. Middleditch, Chris Reade, Abel J. P. Gomes
TASE
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Mechanism Design for Single Leader Stackelberg Problems and Application to Procurement Auction Design
In this paper, we focus on mechanism design for single leader Stackelberg problems, which are a special case of hierarchical decision making problems in which a distinguished agent...
Dinesh Garg, Y. Narahari
FSTTCS
1992
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Structural Average Case Complexity
Levin introduced an average-case complexity measure, based on a notion of \polynomialon average," and de ned \average-case polynomial-time many-one reducibility" amongra...
Rainer Schuler, Tomoyuki Yamakami
ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Risk-averse auction agents
Auctions are an important means for purchasing material in the era of e-commerce. Research on auctions often studies them in isolation. In practice, however, auction agents are pa...
Yaxin Liu, Richard Goodwin, Sven Koenig