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- A Web-based description of design pattern representations.
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- Hendricksen, Paul A., Florida Atlantic University, Horton, Thomas
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Since the publication of the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by the Eric Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides, there has been substantial interest in design patterns in the software engineering community. One of the goals of design patterns is to capture design expertise developed by some of the most experienced developers so that it can be reused even by less experienced programmers. Like other engineering disciplines, the authors...
Show moreSince the publication of the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by the Eric Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides, there has been substantial interest in design patterns in the software engineering community. One of the goals of design patterns is to capture design expertise developed by some of the most experienced developers so that it can be reused even by less experienced programmers. Like other engineering disciplines, the authors presented their materials using a catalog format. That format can present problems for students and practitioners. As an alternative, we suggest to first replace the text-based description with a web-based description to make it easier to browse through the information. Second, we suggest using more graphical design representations for pattern descriptions to reduce the amount of necessary textual details. Using the process of reverse engineering, we recreate the original design representations of various pattern implementations. Third, we provide additional graphical representations to relate the general pattern description to specific implementations. Finally, we provide a web-based prototype of the new representation and shows how a user can take advantage of such representations.
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- 1999
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15650
- Subject Headings
- Computer software--Reusability, Object-oriented programming (Computer science)
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- Document (PDF)
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- A framework for an icon-based software engineering environment.
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- Huang, Qinxi., Florida Atlantic University, Larrondo-Petrie, Maria M.
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Current computer technologies and demands bring new challenges to the software engineering tools. This thesis includes a survey of software engineering environments, standards and technologies. It also examines the features needed to support rigorous object-oriented software development. The main contributions of the thesis are descriptions of innovative concepts and a high-level framework for a next-generation object-oriented software system development, management and maintenance...
Show moreCurrent computer technologies and demands bring new challenges to the software engineering tools. This thesis includes a survey of software engineering environments, standards and technologies. It also examines the features needed to support rigorous object-oriented software development. The main contributions of the thesis are descriptions of innovative concepts and a high-level framework for a next-generation object-oriented software system development, management and maintenance environment, called IconSEE++, an Icon-based Software Engineering Environment.
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- 1998
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15576
- Subject Headings
- Software engineering, Object-oriented methods (Computer science), Icon (Computer program language)
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- Document (PDF)
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- Object recognition on Android mobil platform using speeded up robust features.
- Creator
- Tyagi, Vivek K., College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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In recent years there has been great interest in implementing object recognition frame work on mobile phones. This has stemmed from the fact the advances in object recognition algorithm and mobile phone capabilities have built a congenial ecosystem. Application developers on mobile platforms are trying to utilize the object recognition technology to build better human computer interfaces. This approach is in the nascent phase and proper application framework is required. In this thesis, we...
Show moreIn recent years there has been great interest in implementing object recognition frame work on mobile phones. This has stemmed from the fact the advances in object recognition algorithm and mobile phone capabilities have built a congenial ecosystem. Application developers on mobile platforms are trying to utilize the object recognition technology to build better human computer interfaces. This approach is in the nascent phase and proper application framework is required. In this thesis, we propose a framework to overcome design challenges and provide an evaluation methodology to assess the system performance. We use the emerging Android mobile platform to implement and test the framework. We performed a case study using the proposal and reported the test result. This assessment will help developers make wise decisions about their application design. Furthermore, the Android API developers could use this information to provide better interfaces to the third party developers. The design and evaluation methodology could be extended to other mobile platforms for a wider consumer base.
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- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2683531
- Subject Headings
- Mobile computing, Application software, Development, Object-oriented programming (Computer software), Pattern recognition systems, Development
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- Document (PDF)
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- Design patterns and object oriented model of a biometric service system.
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- Blandon, Jatni., Florida Atlantic University, Han, Chingping (Jim)
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Continuous changes in the software development community require challenging conventional approaches resulting in techniques that allow for early decisions at the design level. This project is a demonstration of the use of design patterns as a common way to organize objects to make practical design decisions helping to generate flexible, manageable and agile software architectures. Due to the continuity and unpredictability of its requirements, the Biometric Industry is appropriate to...
Show moreContinuous changes in the software development community require challenging conventional approaches resulting in techniques that allow for early decisions at the design level. This project is a demonstration of the use of design patterns as a common way to organize objects to make practical design decisions helping to generate flexible, manageable and agile software architectures. Due to the continuity and unpredictability of its requirements, the Biometric Industry is appropriate to illustrate of the use of design patterns and object oriented analysis. First, the conceptual model of an Electronic Fingerprint Service establishes the vocabulary for discussing how a system is constructed. Since good design decisions eventually result in a good design model, this model is used to leverage the object reused when requirements change. The Electronic Biometric Services model demonstrates how by applying design patterns, the system can gain the flexibility and agility required to grow and change according to new requirements.
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- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13351
- Subject Headings
- Computer software--Development, Software architecture, Object-oriented programming (Computer science), Biometric identification, Pattern recognition systems--Development
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- Document (PDF)
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- Controlling access to physical locations.
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- Desouza-Doucet, Ana C., Florida Atlantic University, Fernandez, Eduardo B.
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The need to secure and control access to rooms in premises has shifted from allowing some people to enter a room to giving permission to specific persons to access a room and recording who entered the room and the time they spent in it. With such need for higher security in mind, we design an access control system for controlling physical access of people to locations or to specific units in these locations. Our study gives emphasis to the organization of physical locations, including nested...
Show moreThe need to secure and control access to rooms in premises has shifted from allowing some people to enter a room to giving permission to specific persons to access a room and recording who entered the room and the time they spent in it. With such need for higher security in mind, we design an access control system for controlling physical access of people to locations or to specific units in these locations. Our study gives emphasis to the organization of physical locations, including nested rooms, and the approach used to assign permission to people to access such locations. We also define some security policies to be used in such model as well as appropriate user interfaces. Finally, we develop two patterns based on our model.
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- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13328
- Subject Headings
- Software architecture, Computer networks--Access control, Computer security, Object-oriented programming (Computer science), Smart cards--Security measures
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- Document (PDF)
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- Analyzing software repository data to synthesize and visualize relationships between development artifacts.
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- Mulcahy, James J., College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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As computing technology continues to advance, it has become increasingly difficult to find businesses that do not rely, at least in part, upon the collection and analysis of data for the purpose of project management and process improvement. The cost of software tends to increase over time due to its complexity and the cost of employing humans to develop, maintain, and evolve it. To help control the costs, organizations often seek to improve the process by which software systems are developed...
Show moreAs computing technology continues to advance, it has become increasingly difficult to find businesses that do not rely, at least in part, upon the collection and analysis of data for the purpose of project management and process improvement. The cost of software tends to increase over time due to its complexity and the cost of employing humans to develop, maintain, and evolve it. To help control the costs, organizations often seek to improve the process by which software systems are developed and evolved. Improvements can be realized by discovering previously unknown or hidden relationships between the artifacts generated as a result of developing a software system. The objective of the work described in this thesis is to provide a visualization tool that helps managers and engineers better plan for future projects by discovering new knowledge gained by synthesizing and visualizing data mined from software repository records from previous projects.
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- 2011
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3333053
- Subject Headings
- Data mining, Mathematical models, Software engineering, Inofrmation visualization, Data processing, Application software, Development, Object-oriented programming (Computer science)
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- iVEST A: Interactive Data Visualization and Analysis for Drive Test Data Evaluation.
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- Lee, Yongsuk, Zhu, Xingquan, Pandya, Abhijit S., Hsu, Sam, Florida Atlantic University, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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In this thesis, a practical solution for drive test data evaluation and a real application are studied. We propose a system framework to project high dimensional Drive Test Data (DTD) to well-organized web pages, such that users can visually review phone performance with respect to different factors. The proposed application, iVESTA (interactive Visualization and Evaluation System for driven Test dAta), employs a web-based architecture which enables users to upload DTD and immediately...
Show moreIn this thesis, a practical solution for drive test data evaluation and a real application are studied. We propose a system framework to project high dimensional Drive Test Data (DTD) to well-organized web pages, such that users can visually review phone performance with respect to different factors. The proposed application, iVESTA (interactive Visualization and Evaluation System for driven Test dAta), employs a web-based architecture which enables users to upload DTD and immediately visualize the test results and observe phone and network performances with respect to different factors such as dropped call rate, signal quality, vehicle speed, handover and network delays. iVESTA provides practical solutions for mobile phone manufacturers and network service providers to perform comprehensive study on their products from the real-world DTD.
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- 2007
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012532
- Subject Headings
- Information visualization--Data processing, Object-oriented programming (Computer science), Information technology--Management, Application software--Development
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- Document (PDF)
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- Implementation of an improved embedded SQL for Java.
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- Bradley, Louis M., College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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The Java Devlopment Environment defines SQLJ as a standard way of embedding the relational database language SQL in the object-oriented programming language Java. Oracle Corporation provides an extension of SQLJ that supports dynamic SQL constructs for the processing of SQL commands that are not completely known at compile time. Unfortunately, these constructs are not sufficient to handle all dynamic situations, so that the programmer has to depend on other SQL embeddings, such as JDBC, in...
Show moreThe Java Devlopment Environment defines SQLJ as a standard way of embedding the relational database language SQL in the object-oriented programming language Java. Oracle Corporation provides an extension of SQLJ that supports dynamic SQL constructs for the processing of SQL commands that are not completely known at compile time. Unfortunately, these constructs are not sufficient to handle all dynamic situations, so that the programmer has to depend on other SQL embeddings, such as JDBC, in addition to Oracle's SQLJ. In this thesis we implement several extensions to Oracle's SQLJ so that all dynamic situations can be programmed in SQLJ, without resorting to other SQL embeddings. We also add a sub-query based for loop facility, similar to the one provided in Oracle's database programming language PL/SQL, as an improvement over the iterator constructs that SQLJ provides. This thesis discusses the design, development and implementation of these SQLJ extensions, and provided applications that show the utility of these extensions in terms of clarity and power.
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- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3358327
- Subject Headings
- SQL (Computer program language), Java ( (Computer program language), Object-oriented programming ( (Computer science), Client/server computing, Application software, Development
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- Document (PDF)