Game development software engineering: digital educational game promoting algorithmic thinking

Software process modeling for an educational software engineering simulation game

SimSE is an educational software engineering simulation game that uses a unique software process modeling approach. This approach combines both predictive and prescriptive aspects to support the creation of dynamic, interactive, graphical models for software engineering process education. This paper describes the different constructs in a SimSE process model, introduces the associated model bui...

Educational game design: game elements for promoting engagement

Engagement​ ​in​ ​educational​ ​games,​ ​a​ ​recently​ ​popular​ ​academic​ ​topic,​ ​has​ ​been​ ​shown​ ​to increase​ ​learning​ ​performance,​ ​as​ ​well​ ​as​ ​a​ ​number​ ​of​ ​attitudinal​ ​factors,​ ​such​ ​as​ ​intrinsic​ ​interest and​ ​motivation.​ ​However,​ ​there​ ​is​ ​a​ ​lack​ ​of​ ​research​ ​on​ ​how​ ​games​ ​can​ ​be​ ​designed​ ​to​ ​promote engagement.​ ​This​ ​mixed​ ​met...

Software Process Modeling for an Interactive, Graphical, Educational Software Engineering Simulation Game

SimSE is an educational software engineering simulation game that uses a unique software process modeling approach. This approach combines both predictive and prescriptive aspects to support the creation of dynamic, interactive, graphical models for software engineering process education. This paper describes the different constructs in a SimSE process model, the associated model builder tool, ...

NETS 412 : Algorithmic Game

Recall that we argued last lecture that in any game, if every player plays according to the polynomial weights algorithm, then their empirical play history will converge to a coarse correlated equilibrium very quickly. In this lecture, we will give a new learning algorithm such that if every player plays according to it (in any game!) their empirical play history will converge to a correlated e...

Algorithmic game theory