As web sites proliferate, offering more of the same, why does a customer choose one web site over the others? Among other factors, website intelligence offers a viable answer to this question. However, past studies fall short of providing a comprehensive conceptualization or effective metric of website intelligence, limiting our ability to enhance the intelligent aspects of web sites. Integrati...

Infectious diseases are responsible for an overwhelming number of deaths worldwide and their clinical management is often hampered by the emergence of multi-drug-resistant strains. Therefore, prevention through vaccination currently represents the best course of action to combat them. However, immune escape and evasion by pathogens often render vaccine development difficult. Furthermore, most c...

It remains important for a development organization to configure a software process that enables it to develop software products with the least possible number of defects after shipment. A development organization of CMMI level 5 has, over three years, been strived to improve those software projects that had been noted as having many defects after shipment. In this paper, we discuss our organiz...

Title of dissertation: ESSAYS IN EMPIRICAL MICROECONOMICS ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Quynh T. Nguyen, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010 Dissertation directed by: Professor Mark Duggan Assistant Professor Jeanne Lafortune Department of Economics My dissertation consists of two independent empirical microeconomics studies in development economics. Though studying di¤erent interventions, they share the same...

This study uses data collected on students enrolled in a software development course to explore the role of Creative Self-Efficacy, Playfulness, and Self-Efficacy in the quality of the students’ software development process and projects using a theoretical model proposed by Chiravuri and Ambrose [4]. Instruction in the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute’s Personal Software Productiv...

Title of dissertation: EMPIRICAL ESSAYS ON DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS IN CHINA Lingsheng Meng, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010 Dissertation directed by: Professor Mark Duggan Department of Economics My dissertation is composed of three essays on Development Economics in China. The first chapter, co-authored with Hongbin Li, evaluates the impact of the 8-7 Plan, the second wave of China’s poverty alleviat...

This article reviews some recently invented methods for au tomatically extracting translation lexicons from parallel texts The ac curacy of these methods has been signi cantly improved by exploiting known properties of parallel texts and of particular language pairs The state of the art has advanced to the point where translations can be found automatically and with high reliability even for no...