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Extreme programming and its positive affect on software engineering teams
This paper presents an early empirical study on Extreme Programming (XP) practices employing Positive Affect metric.The study was conducted on university students doing development projects to gain an insight understanding of the effect of using agile practices on software engineering (SE)
teams.The finding indicates that XP practices do have positive affectivity on the SE teams. This is to be expected because of the existence of the practices such as simple design,pair programming, continuous testing, continuous integration
and frequent review (release) that command feedback.This finding helps to provide early empirical evidences on the impact of XP methodology on the positive affectivity of the developers
Agent-based modelling of transactive memory systems and knowledge processes in agile versus traditional software development teams.
The objective of this research is to develop an agent-based model of transactive memory systems
(TMS - meta-knowledge of expertise and knowledge in a team) simulating software development
teams using two different software development methodologies. Waterfall (a structured methodology with a series of large discrete phases) and the Agile. eXtreme programming (XP - more recent.
dynamic, and tuned to change and flexibility). There does exist research relating to TMS;
comparisons of software development methodologies; cognitive processes of software development
teams; and also agent-based modelling of social and cognitive systems. This is interdisciplinary
research spanning psychology and computer science aiming to consolidate these discrete streams of
research.
The model evaluated the parameters of small/large tasks. and working solo/in pairs to investigate the
effect on TMS, knowledge and team output. Over three sirnulaiions. increasing in cognitive realism.
the model introduced greater complexity and novelty to the agents work. and various initial
conditions of team knowledge and team member familiarity.
The results illustrated a number of differences in TMS, knowledge processes and output between XP
and Waterfall teams. The main findings indicate that as the novelty and complexity of the task
increases the use of some XP techniques can lower the reduction in output. Also the dependence on
TMS accuracy for teams using some XP techniques in complex novel environments is high while the
team knowledge distribution becomes much more homogenous. This contradicts the literature that
asserts a positive relationship between TMS accuracy and knowledge heterogeneity. Results also
suggest that XP techniques can compensate for the advantages relating to team members' prior
knowledge of each other allowing newly formed X P teams to perform better.
The results contribute to understanding how knowledge and memory processes in software
development teams affect team output, and how the adoption of XP practices can produce results that, challenge the established TMS literature
Constrained distributed optimization : A population dynamics approach
Large-scale network systems involve a large number of states, which makes the design of real-time controllers a challenging task. A distributed controller design allows to reduce computational requirements since tasks are divided into different systems, allowing real-time processing. This paper proposes a novel methodology for solving constrained optimization problems in a distributed way inspired by population dynamics. This methodology consists of an extension of a population dynamics equation and the introduction of a mass dynamics equation. The proposed methodology divides the problem into smaller sub-problems, whose feasible regions vary over time achieving an agreement to solve the global problem. The methodology also guarantees attraction to the feasible region and allows to have few changes in the decision-making design when a network suffers the addition/removal of nodes/edges. Then, distributed controllers are designed with the proposed methodology and applied to the large-scale Barcelona Drinking Water Network (BDWN). Some simulations are presented and discussed in order to illustrate the control performance.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft
Predictability of extreme events in social media
It is part of our daily social-media experience that seemingly ordinary items
(videos, news, publications, etc.) unexpectedly gain an enormous amount of
attention. Here we investigate how unexpected these events are. We propose a
method that, given some information on the items, quantifies the predictability
of events, i.e., the potential of identifying in advance the most successful
items defined as the upper bound for the quality of any prediction based on the
same information. Applying this method to different data, ranging from views in
YouTube videos to posts in Usenet discussion groups, we invariantly find that
the predictability increases for the most extreme events. This indicates that,
despite the inherently stochastic collective dynamics of users, efficient
prediction is possible for the most extreme events.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figure
Influence of the spatial distribution of border traps in the capacitance frequency dispersion of Al2O3/InGaAs
In this paper, the capacitance frequency dispersion in strong accumulation of capacitance voltage curves has been studied for different high-k dielectric layers in MOS stacks. By studying experimental data at low (77 K) and room temperature (300 K), in oxides with different density of defects, it was possible reflect the spatial distribution of the defects in the capacitance frequency dispersion. The experimental data show that while at room temperature, the capacitance dispersion is dominated by the exchange of carriers from the semiconductor into oxide traps far away from the interface, at low temperature the oxide traps near the Al2O3/InGaAs interface are responsible for the frequency dispersion. The results indicate that the capacitance dispersion in strong accumulation reflect the spatial distribution of traps within the oxide, and that dielectric/semiconductor conduction band offset is a critical parameter for determining the capacitance dispersion for Al2O3/InGaAs based gate stacks.Fil: Palumbo, FĂ©lix Roberto Mario. ComisiĂłn Nacional de EnergĂa AtĂłmica; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas; Argentina. Universidad TecnolĂłgica Nacional; ArgentinaFil: Aguirre, Fernando Leonel. Universidad TecnolĂłgica Nacional; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas; Argentina. ComisiĂłn Nacional de EnergĂa AtĂłmica; ArgentinaFil: Pazos, Sebastián MatĂas. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas; Argentina. Universidad TecnolĂłgica Nacional; Argentina. ComisiĂłn Nacional de EnergĂa AtĂłmica; ArgentinaFil: Krylov, Igor. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology; IsraelFil: Winter, Roy. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology; IsraelFil: Eizenberg, Moshe. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology; Israe
A determination of the fragmentation functions of pions, kaons, and protons with faithful uncertainties
We present NNFF1.0, a new determination of the fragmentation functions (FFs)
of charged pions, charged kaons, and protons/antiprotons from an analysis of
single-inclusive hadron production data in electron-positron annihilation. This
determination, performed at leading, next-to-leading, and
next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD, is based on the NNPDF
methodology, a fitting framework designed to provide a statistically sound
representation of FF uncertainties and to minimise any procedural bias. We
discuss novel aspects of the methodology used in this analysis, namely an
optimised parametrisation of FFs and a more efficient minimisation
strategy, and validate the FF fitting procedure by means of closure tests. We
then present the NNFF1.0 sets, and discuss their fit quality, their
perturbative convergence, and their stability upon variations of the kinematic
cuts and the fitted dataset. We find that the systematic inclusion of
higher-order QCD corrections significantly improves the description of the
data, especially in the small- region. We compare the NNFF1.0 sets to other
recent sets of FFs, finding in general a reasonable agreement, but also
important differences. Together with existing sets of unpolarised and polarised
parton distribution functions (PDFs), FFs and PDFs are now available from a
common fitting framework for the first time.Comment: 50 pages, 22 figures, 5 table
Labsware: Implementation of Gamification Approach in Computer Lab Activities
Most of computer sciences students of Universitas Multimedia Nusantara require to take a course that come with lab practicum. Despite the importance of lab practicum activity, there are indication that some student is not motivated enough to complete it. Gamification is a method of implementing game design elements in non-game contexts. This research shows how gamification can be implemented in the classroom, and the survey result of application usage. Despite its successful implementation, increased motivation due to the application of game elements are not perceived significantly
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