Segmentation of neural cells in three dimensional fluorescence microscopy images is a challenging image processing problem. In addition to being important to neurobiologists, accurate segmentation is a vital component of an automated image processing system. Due to the complexity of the data, particularly the extreme irregularity in neural cell shape, generic segmentation techniques do not perf...

2 Refactoring Research 3 2.1 Fundamentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2 Automating Refactorings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.3 Automating “Smell Detection” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.4 Relationship to Extreme Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.5 Other Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8...

We conducted an experiment attempting to compare XP with a traditional approach to student software engineering projects. We tasked two groups of student teams with producing a simple room reservation system, one group following a traditional development process, the other using XP. We observed little actual difference between the products delivered by either process. However, in our opinion th...

Large-scale high performance computing is permeating nearly every corner of modern applications spanning from scientific research and business operations, to medical diagnostics, and national security. All these communities rely on computer systems to process vast volumes of data quickly and efficiently, yet progress toward increased computing power has experienced a slowdown in the last number...

This paper describes the practical results of an experiment created in order to analyze the software process improvement by the use of the practices and rules of Extreme Programming methodology. In the experiment a group of 40 students in the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes took part to create a small system, to measure their productivity and to measure how much does this rules and pract...

One of the common challenges of an Extreme Programming (XP) team is to find strategies so to reinforce practices and increase velocity. Most practices have found at least one optimal strategy tested and approved practically by the community, while ‘sustainable pace’ is core tenet missing a clear strategy. The aim of the Pomodoro Technique (PT) is exactly to fill this gap. The PT is a timeboxing...

this article will address the extension of super efficiency method to rank the non-extreme efficient decision making units. many methodologies have introduced methods that can rank efficient units, amongst which, the super efficiency method due to its ability to provide meaningful geometrical as well as economic analyses has a significant place. but the common problem with all the super efficie...

This paper examines some of the problems experienced by IONA Technology’s Orbix Generation 3 maintenance and enhancement team and how the adoption of Extreme Programming has further improved the team’s ability to deliver quality support and enhancements to the products they work on. The issues identified and discussed are common issues for companies moving from the start-up pressures of time to...

This paper is based on Wald Lectures given at the annual meeting of the IMS in Minneapolis during August 2005. It is a survey of the theory of large deviations. 1. Large deviations for sums. The role of " large deviations " is best understood through an example.

In this research we focus on the link between response style behaviour in answering rating data such as Likert scales and the number of response categories that is offered. In a split-ballot experiment two versions of a questionnaire were randomly administered. The questionnaires only differed in the number of response categories, i.e. 5 vs. 6 categories. In both samples a latent-class confirma...