13,408 research outputs found
Mitigating Turnover with Code Review Recommendation: Balancing Expertise, Workload, and Knowledge Distribution
Developer turnover is inevitable on software projects and leads to knowledge loss, a reduction in productivity, and an increase in defects. Mitigation strategies to deal with turnover tend to disrupt and increase workloads for developers. In this work, we suggest that through code review recommendation we can distribute knowledge and mitigate turnover with minimal impact on the development process. We evaluate review recommenders in the context of ensuring expertise during review, Expertise, reducing the review workload of the core team, CoreWorkload, and reducing the
Files at Risk to turnover, FaR. We find that prior work that assigns reviewers based on file ownership concentrates knowledge on a small group of core developers increasing risk of knowledge loss
from turnover by up to 65%. We propose learning and retention aware review recommenders that when combined are effective at reducing the risk of turnover by -29% but they unacceptably reduce
the overall expertise during reviews by -26%. We develop the Sophia recommender that suggest experts when none of the files under review are hoarded by developers but distributes knowledge when files are at risk. In this way, we are able to simultaneously increase expertise during review with a ΔExpertise of 6%, with a negligible impact on workload of ΔCoreWorkload of 0.09%, and reduce the files at risk by ΔFaR -28%. Sophia is integrated into GitHub pull requests allowing developers to select an appropriate expert or “learner” based on the context of the review. We release the Sophia bot as well as the code and data for replication purposes
Embedding the Library into Scientific and Scholarly Communication through Knowledge Management
Knowledge management is a new role for academic research libraries
that has the potential to integrate the library into scholarly and scientific
communication in a significant way. Work in knowledge management
is advancing in both the sciences and humanities. The Genome Data
Base at the Johns Hopkins University is currently the most advanced
knowledge management prototype. As part of its new Center for
Knowledge Management, the University of California, San Francisco
is undertaking several initiatives to create a campuswide knowledge
management environment.published or submitted for publicatio
A VIEW FROM THE GROUND: A REFORM GROUP’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE ONGOING EFFORT TO ACHIEVE MERIT SELECTION OF JUDGES
This article describes the history of judicial selection in the state of Pennsylvania. It describes the judicial selection reform movement and the growth of the organization Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts ( PMC ) which devises solutions to meet the various challenges to judicial integrity in Pennsylvania. It focuses on the merit system that PMC has been trying to achieve for Pennsylvania\u27s appellate courts
Towards a Social Trust-Aware Recommender for Teachers
Fazeli, S., Drachsler, H., Brouns, F., & Sloep, P. B. (2014). Towards a Social Trust-aware Recommender for Teachers. In N. Manouselis, H. Drachsler, K. Verbert & O. C. Santos (Eds.), Recommender Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (pp. 177-194): Springer New York.Online communities and networked learning provide teachers with social learning opportunities, allowing them to interact and collaborate with others in order to develop their personal and professional skills. However, with the large number of learning resources produced everyday, teachers need to find out what are the most suitable ones for them. In this paper, we introduce recommender systems as a potential solution to this . The setting is the Open Discovery Space (ODS) project. Unfortunately, due to the sparsity of the educational datasets most educational recommender systems cannot make accurate recommendations. To overcome this problem, we propose to enhance a trust-based recommender algorithm with social data obtained from monitoring the activities of teachers within the ODS platform. In this article, we outline the re-quirements of the ODS recommender system based on experiences reported in related TEL recommender system studies. In addition, we provide empirical ev-idence from a survey study with stakeholders of the ODS project to support the requirements identified from a literature study. Finally, we present an agenda for further research intended to find out which recommender system should ul-timately be deployed in the ODS platform.NELLL, EU 7th framework Open Discovery Spac
Midwest Transportation Consortium Annual Report, 2007-2008
The Midwest Transportation Consortium (MTC) recently completed its sixth year of
operation. The MTC has become an established portion of the research and educational
programs at ISU and its partner universities. The MTC continues to emphasize its
primary focus of developing human capital. For example, this semester, Fall, 2005, ISU
has graduate scholars in its educational program. However, we also recognize that the
federal grant is an opportunity to build programs at our respective universities that
continue after the U.S. DOT UTCP may end. An example of building a long lasting
program is the University of Missouri – St. Louis’ (UMSL) and its development of a
transportation Ph.D. program in their business college. Admittedly, this program could
have been started regardless, but Dr. Ray Mundy, Director of UMSL’s Transportation
Scholars Program, believes that the MTC support of the transportation educational
program at UMSL was the essential component in establishing a Ph.D. program.
At ISU, the MTC has been instrumental in establishing two research and outreach
programs, and both have themes that are related to the MTC’s theme of “Transportation
System Management and Operation.” The Center for Weather Impacts on Mobility and
Safety (C-WIMS) was recently established, and the Center for Road Infrastructure
Management and Operations (RIMO) is in the process of being established. The MTC
has a critical role in establishing each of these two programs.
As part of the on-going MTC program, we have established an effective network that
promotes the education of future transportation professionals and the development of new
knowledge on how to manage transportation infrastructure and services in a more
sustainable manner. The MTC has a track record of developing outstanding students;
these students are now becoming leaders in the private sector, government, and academia.
The MTC has also supported the development of an extensive research portfolio related
to sustainable transportation asset management. More research projects are in the
pipeline. Finally, the MTC has dedicated itself to the dissemination of asset management
research results through an ongoing technology transfer program. This document
provides a progress for the latest fiscal year of operation of the MTC, which ran from
October 2004 through September 2005
Getting ready for the specialised engineering diplomas: work placements for the 14 to 16 age phase
In the UK there is considerable activity at national level in
developing the interface between school and training for
employment. The intention is to introduce new Specialised
Diploma courses into schools starting in 2008. Early in the
planning it became clear that several diplomas offer
opportunities for design and technology (D&T) in schools. A
key feature of these diplomas is that the structure consists of
learning lines comprising of several subjects coming together
for the delivery in schools. However, a significant feature is the
integration of work placement into the student learning
experience. Sheffield Children and Young People Directorate
(CYPD) has a strong commitment to ensuring diplomas are
implemented successfully in schools therefore this research
was undertaken to assess both the provision and opportunities
for work placement in the 14 to 16 age phase. The research
focused on commercial providers of education and training.
Motor trade training was selected as an industry with the
potential to contribute to the emerging specialised engineering
diploma (www.engineeringdiploma.com/).
The research consisted of:
• a review of current qualifications for all aspects of the
motor trades industry including those provided by the
Institute of the Motor Industry;
• semi-structured interviews, using Wiersma's (2000)
methodology, with motor trade commercial training and
further education (FE) providers;
• observation and informal interviews with a group of Year
10 students on a motor trades work placement;
• informal interviews with teachers and tutors responsible
for the above group.
The research outcomes identify issues concerning the provision
of work placement within diplomas and particularly how it is
integrated into the learning experience. Additionally there are
implications for subject teaching of D&T, science and
mathematics to ensure that students are prepared prior to
work placement. The conclusion identifies examples of good
practice but also raises issues about organisation and capacity.
While this research concerned engineering the implications and
issues are likely to be similar for other diplomas currently being
prepared such as Manufacturing, Construction and the Built
Environment and Hospitality and Catering
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