Browsing Faculty Research and Scholarship by Title
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Software Development for Manufacturing Systems- Language and Networking Issues
(1992-10-01)We have witnessed unprecedented changes in the industrial world with the advent of computers and the field of manufacturing is no exception. With the boom of microcomputers, th eir usage in manufacturing systems was realized ... -
Some unwritten rules of graduate school, written down
An informal set of of advice, expectations, and “unwritten rules” slightly modified from a version for graduate students in my lab that I prepared for 2 incoming students in the fall of 2017. (The version they got included ... -
The State Innovation Exchange and educational policy
Especially since 2010, conservative interests’ dominance at advancing their preferred policies across U.S. states has been clear, with large and escalating impacts in education. Although adversaries on the political left ... -
State of the States: Illinois
An analysis of PK-12 education budgeting and funding for Fiscal Year 2014, including priorities and pressing issues. -
"State-based Control Language a State-based, Interrupt-driven, Concurrent Language with Error Detection and Recovery"
(1995-06-01)A programming environment to support interactive, concurrent programming for Miarni University's Flexible Manufacturing System is described. The environment is intended to replace the existing extended cell programming ... -
Structuring Hypertext Databases Using Hyper-Plate
(1994-12-01)Hypertext is the non-sequential access of information. The hypertext structure is powerful enough to represent informal, semiformal, and formal data. The construction of a hypertext document is a complex and laborious task. ... -
Student Perceptions of an Introductory Laboratory Course
We surveyed students taking an introductory university physics laboratory course over the summer. These students are science majors, but not physics majors. Eighteen students were interviewed, asked what they thought the ... -
Superintendent Job-Seeking Behaviors: Types of Positions Sought and Reasons for Seeking
SUMMARY: The proportion of superintendents seeking out new positions is greater than the national average superintendent attrition rate. While the majority of job-seeking superintendents are looking for other superintendent ... -
Superintendents Experiencing Threats and Contention
SUMMARY: As school board meetings have become contentious and amid an increasing trend of superintendents being fired without cause, a substantial number of superintendents or school board members have been threatened, ... -
Supplemental Material for Emerging Trends in Collaborative Modelling: A Survey
This entry contains the supplemental material and data for our paper Emerging Trends in Collaborative Modelling: A Survey. Paper abstract: Just as in other engineering disciplines, software engineering is well suited ... -
Supplemental Material for study on using multiple monitors in introduction level programming courses
This entry contains our supplemental material, including Data and its analysis, for our study investigating multiple monitors as an intervention in early programming educational laboratories. -
A Survey of Baseball Machine Learning: A Technical Report
Statistical analysis of baseball has long been popular, albeit only in limited capacity until relatively recently. The recent proliferation of computers has added tremendous power and opportunity to this field. Even an ... -
A Survey of Traditional and Practical Concurrency Control in Relational Database Management Systems
(1994-12-01)Traditionally, database theory has focused on concepts such as atomicity and serializability, asserting that concurrent transaction management must enable correctness above all else. Textbooks and academic journals detail ... -
Survival and physiological responses of hatchling Blanding's turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) to submergence in normoxic and hypoxic water under simulated winter conditions.
Abstract Overwintering habits of hatchling Blanding’s turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) are unknown. To determine whether these turtles are able to survive winter in aquatic habitats, we submerged hatchlings in normoxic (155 ... -
Surviving the big chill: overwintering strategies of aquatic and terrestrial insects.
The purpose of this paper is to describe the cold-hardiness of aquatic insects and to use the literature to compare physiological and behavioral strategies that aquatic and terrestrial insects use to cope with minimum ... -
A System Dynamics Model for Automation
(1989-03-01)A system dynamics model is presented in this paper along with the results of simulation of some policies and their consequences automation. The automation seems to be the answer for faster growth and development throughout ... -
A System Dynamics Model For Evaluating Investment Strategies for Agriculture Development
(1987-12-01)This paper presents a System Dynamics model to analyze the consequences of investments in agriculture. The data is taken from the various case studies of agriculture in India and is used as an example in the simulation ... -
System Programming - The Human and the Machine
(1991-12-01)The purpose of this paper is to document my experiences in planning, generating, and modifying the IBM VM/SP operating system (systems programming), survey literature on systems programming, and to draw conclusions as to ...