Works Published in 2014

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2014 journal article

The Future of Social Learning in Software Engineering

COMPUTER, 47(1), 48–54.

author keywords: Software; Blogs; Communities; Servers; Computers; Companies; software engineering; social screencasting; social learning; tool discovery
TL;DR: Continuous social screencasting is a promising technique for sharing and learning about new software development tools and should be considered for use in education. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

TaintDroid: An Information Flow Tracking System for Real-Time Privacy Monitoring on Smartphones

COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM, 57(3), 99–106.

By: W. Enck n, P. Gilbert*, B. Chun*, L. Cox*, J. Jung*, P. McDaniel*, A. Sheth*

TL;DR: Using TaintDroid to monitor the behavior of 30 popular third-party Android applications, this work found 68 instances of misappropriation of users' location and device identification information across 20 applications. (via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

Designing game-based learning environments for elementary science education: A narrative-centered learning perspective

INFORMATION SCIENCES, 264, 4–18.

author keywords: Serious games; Game-based learning; Narrative-centered learning; Science education
TL;DR: Results indicated that Crystal Island produced significant learning gains on both science content and problem-solving measures, and gains were consistent for gender across studies. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

Data-Centric OS Kernel Malware Characterization

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY, 9(1), 72–87.

author keywords: OS kernel malware characterization; data-centric malware analysis; virtual machine monitor
TL;DR: A data-centric OS kernel malware characterization architecture that detects and characterizes malware attacks based on the properties of data objects manipulated during the attacks, and generates malware signaturesbased on the data access patterns specific to malware attacks. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

Catch Me If You Can: Evaluating Android Anti-Malware Against Transformation Attacks

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY, 9(1), 99–108.

author keywords: Mobile; malware; anti-malware; Android
TL;DR: This paper evaluates the state-of-the-art commercial mobile anti-malware products for Android and test how resistant they are against various common obfuscation techniques (even with known malware), and proposes possible remedies for improving the current state of malware detection on mobile devices. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

Visualizing likelihood density functions via optimal region projection

COMPUTERS & GRAPHICS-UK, 41, 62–71.

By: H. Canary, R. Taylor, C. Quammen, S. Pratt, F. Gomez, B. O'Shea, C. Healey*

author keywords: Uncertainty; Parameter space analysis; Visualization; Likelihood density function
TL;DR: A novel technique to visualize a high-dimensional likelihood density function that enables the viewer to understand the shape of the high-likelihood region, and uses a three-dimensional projection space to show features that are not salient in only two dimensions. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

Visualizations of coastal terrain time series

INFORMATION VISUALIZATION, 13(3), 266–282.

By: L. Tateosian n, H. Mitasova n, S. Thakur*, E. Hardin n, E. Russ n & B. Blundell

author keywords: Visualization of time series; temporal visualization; geovisualization; visual perception; visual exploration; visualize changes; geospatial data; three-dimensional visualization; spatial data; visual exploration; space-time cube; geographic information systems; LiDAR; time series; terrain elevation; land surfaces; GIS GRASS
TL;DR: This article builds on existing approaches for visualizing spatial–temporal data to create a collection of perceptual visualizations to support coastal terrain evolution analysis, and uses the space–time cube concept to create visualizations of terrain evolution. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water (OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

Towards the prioritization of system test cases

SOFTWARE TESTING VERIFICATION & RELIABILITY, 24(4), 320–337.

author keywords: software testing and reliability; software quality; software quality; system-level testing
TL;DR: The results show that PORT improves the rate of detection of severe failures over random prioritization and indicates that customer priority was the most important contributor towards improved rate of failure detection. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

Scalable Distributed Service Integrity Attestation for Software-as-a-Service Clouds

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS, 25(3), 730–739.

By: J. Du*, D. Dean n, Y. Tan*, X. Gu* & T. Yu n

author keywords: Distributed service integrity attestation; cloud computing; secure distributed data processing
TL;DR: The experimental results show that IntTest can achieve higher attacker pinpointing accuracy than existing approaches, and does not require any special hardware or secure kernel support and imposes little performance impact to the application, which makes it practical for large-scale cloud systems. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure (OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

Persistent Homology of Delay Embeddings and its Application to Wheeze Detection

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS, 21(4), 459–463.

By: S. Emrani n, T. Gentimis n & H. Krim n

author keywords: Algebraic topology algorithms; audio analysis; biomedical signal processing; topological signal analysis
TL;DR: To discover the proper delay, this work proposes an autocorrelation like (ACL) function of the signals, and applies the introduced topological approach to analyze breathing sound signals for wheeze detection. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

Hello ADIOS: the challenges and lessons of developing leadership class I/O frameworks

CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE, 26(7), 1453–1473.

By: Q. Liu*, J. Logan*, Y. Tian*, H. Abbasi*, N. Podhorszki*, J. Choi*, S. Klasky*, R. Tchoua* ...

author keywords: high performance computing; high performance I; O; I; O middleware
TL;DR: The startling observations made in the last half decade of I/O research and development are described, and some of the challenges that remain as the coming Exascale era are detailed. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
7. Affordable and Clean Energy (OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

Degree-of-Knowledge: Modeling a Developer's Knowledge of Code

ACM TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND METHODOLOGY, 23(2).

By: T. Fritz*, G. Murphy*, E. Murphy-Hill n, J. Ou* & E. Hill*

author keywords: Human Factors; Authorship; degree-of-interest; degree-of-knowledge; expertise; onboarding; recommendation; development environment
TL;DR: A degree-of-knowledge model is introduced that computes automatically, for each source-code element in a codebase, a real value that represents a developer's knowledge of that element based on a developers' authorship and interaction data. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

The Development of the STEM Career Interest Survey (STEM-CIS)

RESEARCH IN SCIENCE EDUCATION, 44(3), 461–481.

By: M. Kier*, M. Blanchard n, J. Osborne* & J. Albert n

author keywords: STEM interest; Instrument; Survey; Social cognitive career theory; STEM careers; Confirmatory factor analysis
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

Jitter analysis of an IPP tagged traffic stream in an {IPP,M}/M/1 queue

ANNALS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS, 69(5-6), 283–294.

By: G. Geleji n & H. Perros n

author keywords: Queueing; Multi-class; Jitter; Percentile
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

Engineering Service Engagements via Commitments

IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING, 18(3), 46–54.

By: P. Telang n, A. Kalia n & M. Singh n

Contributors: P. Telang n, A. Kalia n & M. Singh n

TL;DR: The Web extra presents the claims regarding Comma's effectiveness as a set of alternative hypotheses, as well as the complete list of MSCs developed via both traditional and Comma approaches. (via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

Distributed Localization of Coverage Holes Using Topological Persistence

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING, 62(10), 2531–2541.

author keywords: Algebraic topology; distributed algorithms; graph theory; sensor networks
TL;DR: This work uses algebraic topological methods to define a coverage hole, and develops provably correct algorithm to detect a hole, which is then partitioned into smaller subnetworks, ensuring that the holes are preserved, and checking for holes in each. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

Combined-Semantics Equivalence and Minimization of Conjunctive Queries

COMPUTER JOURNAL, 57(5), 775–795.

By: R. Chirkova n

author keywords: combined semantics for query processing; query minimization; query equivalence
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

Multipoint Control Protocol With Look-Ahead for Wavelength Division Multiplexed Ethernet Passive Optical Network

JOURNAL OF OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING, 6(2), 104–113.

author keywords: Look-ahead operation; Multipoint control protocol; Passive optical network
TL;DR: The look-ahead enhanced MPCP achieves significant performance gains across a wide range of traffic loads and opens up new opportunities for the design of sophisticated dynamic bandwidth algorithms to support advanced quality of service capabilities. (via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

Licit: Administering Usage Licenses in Federated Environments

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SERVICES COMPUTING, 7(1), 96–108.

By: P. Kediyal n & M. Singh n

Contributors: P. Kediyal n & M. Singh n

author keywords: IT administration; grid computing; cloud computing; usage licenses; XACML
TL;DR: This work proposes an approach, Licit, wherein an agent represents each resource sharing site and administers licenses in collaboration with other agents and shows how to represent a variety of usage licenses formally as executable policies and provides a simple information model using which each party can specify both the attributes involved in its licenses. (via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

ExMin: A routing metric for novel opportunity gain in Delay Tolerant Networks

COMPUTER NETWORKS, 59, 184–196.

By: J. Jeong, K. Lee, Y. Yi, I. Rhee* & S. Chong

author keywords: Delay Tolerant Networks; Opportunistic forwarding; Routing
TL;DR: This paper proposes a metric called ExMin which stochastically calculates the metric by taking the expectation of the minimum delays over all possible routes and shows that ExMin outperforms MinEx by up to 30% under either of DTN environments allowing single-copy or multi-copies of a packet. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

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