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FECS
2009
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United States Challenges in Science and Engineering Education
- Numerous statistical data indicate that science and engineering workforce in the United States is aging and nearing retirement. Moreover, various studies show that it has become ...
Houssain Kettani
FECS
2009
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Design and Assessment of a Multidisciplinary Course in Service Oriented Architecture
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is finding increasing acceptance in industry for the design of enterprise-scale, networked applications. However, opportunities to study SOA i...
Thomas Way, Vijay Gehlot
FECS
2009
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Using Interface Inheritance to Structure the Data Structures Course
Traditional instruction in the first data structures course treats object-oriented inheritance and polymorphism as isolated topics if at all. Course organization is an exploration...
Dale Parson, Daniel Spiegel
FECS
2009
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Development of a System for Teaching C/C++ Using Robots and Open Source Software in a CS1 Course
- This paper describes the development of a system for teaching C/C++ using LegoTM RCX Robots in a CS1 college course on introductory programming. The system has been implemented u...
Amy Delman, Lawrence Goetz, Yedidyah Langsam, Theo...
ERCIMDL
2009
Springer
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Developing a Digital Libraries Master's Programme
Abstract. The changes in Swedish education following the Bologna requirements resulted in the first Master's programmes in Library and Information Science. Two of them target ...
Elena Maceviciute, Thomas D. Wilson, Helena Franck...
ERCIMDL
2009
Springer
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A Hybrid Distributed Architecture for Indexing
This paper presents a hybrid scavenger grid as an underlying hardware architecture for search services within digital libraries. The hybrid scavenger grid consists of both dedicate...
Ndapandula Nakashole, Hussein Suleman
DGO
2009
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An information technology department in a disadvantaged municipality in Mexico: need and feasibility
The present research analyzes the need for an area for management of information and communication technologies in the local government of a disadvantaged municipality in M
Sergio R. Coria, Aurelia Gómez-Gómez...
DESRIST
2009
Springer
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An approach for designing management support systems: the design science research process and its outcomes
Design science research involves creating and evaluating innovative methods and approaches to be used in design practice. We present an approach to be used in the process of desig...
Sven A. Carlsson, Stefan Henningsson, Stefan Hrast...
CSEDU
2009
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A Culturally Contextualized Web based Game Environment to Support Meaningful Learning
Alexandre Mello Ferreira, Eliane N. Pereira, J&uac...