Although optimizations have been applied for a number of years to improve the performance of software, problems that have been long-standing remain, which include knowing what opt...
Free/libre open source software (FLOSS, e.g., Linux or Apache) is primarily developed by distributed teams. Developers contribute from around the world and coordinate their activi...
This paper focus the need for new educational software environments for exploration of global statistics. We present some concrete examples of highly interactive, non-linear, visu...
When designing mixed-initiative systems, full formalization of all potentially relevant knowledge may not be cost-effective or practical. This paper motivates the need for semi-fo...