Panel Summary This panel looks at software engineering retraining in industry through industry-university collaboration. The particular context for the panel is the Software Systems Development Certificate (SSDC) under the Software Engineering Retraining Program (SERP) that brought together Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Southern Polytechnic State University, and the State of Georgia. Thi...

In data mining, the selection of appropriate classifier to estimate some unknown attribute of a new instance has an essential role for the quality of results. Recently interesting approaches with parallel and distributed computing have been presented. In this paper we discuss an approach that uses classifiers trained on a number of data subsets in parallel as in the arbiter meta-learning techni...

IULA at UPF has developed an aligner that benefits from corpus processing results to produce an accurate and robust alignment, even with noisy parallel corpora. It compares lemmata and part-of-speech tags of analysed texts but it has two main characteristics. First, apparently it only works for near languages and second it requires morphological taggers for the compared languages. These two cha...

An IT risk assessment must deliver the best possible quality of results in a time-effective way. Organisations are used to customise the general-purpose standard risk assessment methods in a way that can satisfy their requirements. In this paper we present the QualTD Model and method, which is meant to be employed together with standard risk assessment methods for the qualitative assessment of ...

We use eye tracking data to analyze the search behavior of Generation Y users when searching for information using a mobile phone. Following previous studies, we use Google as an example of list-based SERPs to explore the impact of advertisements in search results and their impact on attention before the user’s first action on the page. Results provide evidence that the presence of advertisemen...

Novice writers of research reports often assume that research methods are generally not mentioned in the Results section of a research paper. The extent to which such an assumption is well-founded can be determined by conducting a mixed-method genre-based study of data obtained from authentic research papers. Using both quantitative and qualitative techniques in a genre analysis of two corpora ...

In this research we investigate the effect of search engine brand on the evaluation of searching performance. Our research is motivated by the large amount of search traffic directed to a handful of Web search engines, even though many have similar interfaces and performance. We conducted a laboratory experiment with 32 participants using a 42 factorial design confounded in four blocks tomeasur...

Progressive processing allows a system to satisfy a set of requests under time pressure by limiting the amount of processing allocated to each task based on a predefined hierarchical task structure. It is a useful model for a variety of real-time AI tasks such as diagnosis and planning in which it is necessary to trade-off computational resources for quality of results. This paper addresses pro...

In this study, we use eye tracking to compare the impact of ads on viewing behavior on desktop computers and mobile phones. As in previous studies, we use a list-based search engine results pages (SERPs) to conduct our examination. Our preliminary results contradict banner blindness on SERPs both on desktop computers and mobile phones. Additionally, the preliminary results suggest that top ads ...

Œe design and presentation of a Search Engine Results Page (SERP) has been subject to much research. With many contemporary aspects of the SERP now under scrutiny, work still remains in investigating more traditional SERP components, such as the result summary. Prior studies have examined a variety of di‚erent aspects of result summaries, but in this paper we investigate the inƒuence of result ...