Browsing Faculty Research and Scholarship by Title
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Signature Files: An Integrated Access Method for Formatted and Unformatted Databases
(1993-05-01)The signature file approach is one of the most powerful information storage and retrieval techniques which is used for finding the data objects that are relevant to the user queries. The main idea of all signature based ... -
A Simple System Dynamics Model For the Wildlife and Fish Resource
(1987-08-01)This research aims to build a dynamic model to describe the major relationships within the "Wildlife and Fish" element of the Forest Service. Our purpose is to capture the major relationships so that the model is capable ... -
A Simulation Game for Software Project Management
(1992-03-01)The software industry is one of the most rapidly growing businesses in our age. Yet, this growth has not been a wellbalanced one. On the one hand, on the technical side, programming languages, programming techniques and ... -
A Simulation of Rapid Evolution: Its Development in the Object-Oriented Paradigm
(1993-01-01)This project centered around an event in population genetics, the modeling necessary to explain it, and the way that the object-oriented paradigm influenced the implementation of the model. This paper is divided into three ... -
A Simulation Tool for the Manufacturing Engineering Department's Flexible Manufacturing Cell
(1996-04-01)The flexible manufacturing cell in the manufacturing engineering department's computer integrated manufacturing systems lab is used to study manufacturing processes. A loop conveyor, an automated storage and retrieval ... -
A Situated Philosophy of Education
Philosophy of education today is broadly divided between two fundamentally different views about the nature of philosophy itself. This meta-debate is almost never engaged directly, and yet it is exemplified in one way ... -
Social Foundations, Disciplinarity, and Democracy.
This article was originally conceived for a paper session at the 2000 American Educational Studies Association conference in Vancouver, a session designed as a “multilogue” on teaching the foundations. In the article we ... -
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.