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Supervised learning requires data to be labeled. However, labels may not always be available, or creating a labeled dataset may be costly. Even when the data is labeled, labeling is often inconsistent, incomplete and inaccurate. If the data changes over ...

There are many things one can do wrong when using the C pre-processor's #ifdef statements. Such statements are often used to distinguish between hardware variants or operating system variants in the C code and when not used carefully, the C code easily ...

Error handling is part of any industrial strength code. In programming languages like C, which have no support for enhanced error handling mechanisms like exceptions, error handling is a non-trivial task and many decisions on how to implement it have to ...

The knowledge of drama building is somehow an inherent part of us. Albeit, it tends to be suppressed and forgotten. This is leveraged by a common, director or instructor supervised approach, which favors learning lines to produce them without making a ...

Data protection during processing an end-user's personal data is one of the service provider's main responsibilities. According to data protection regulations, e.g. the European General Data Protection Regulation, an informed consent to privacy policies ...

Interactive real-time visualizations consist of both the navigation and viewing application, executing in a runtime environment, and the digital content providing the data source for the visualization. As visualizations are becoming richer and more ...

Creative thinking is a key skill in more and more domains. Creativity is required to innovate, develop new ideas, get deeper insights, address challenges and resolve conflicts. In this context, we understand creativity as the process of creating and ...

This paper introduces the 'Personal Spark' pattern which can be used to identify relevant fragments of human-human interaction as an initial step to inform requirements for adaptive user interfaces and data processing, in this case for user interactions ...

We often listen to talks, awaiting something to excite us. Presenters fail quite often. They do not accomplish the goal to convince others about what they are convinced themselves. That is because presenters make an effort to deliver a superb, unique ...

Threats that harm the security of software become more and more frequent. Such incidents can lead to substantial damage, not only financially, but also in terms of reputation loss. The combination of that consequence and the likelihood of an incident is ...

Uncertainty is an inherent property of all measurements, statistics, or generally all communication involving numbers. Whenever numerical data is communicated, the uncertainty or confidence in this data should also be included. Neglecting it, or ...

Software quality becomes a necessity and no longer an advantage. In fact, with the advancement of technologies, companies must provide software with good quality. Many studies introduce the use of design patterns as improving software quality and ...

In this paper, a pattern language for improving foreign language skills when studying abroad, which describes effective practices to improve language skills, is presented. This pattern language comprises 39 patterns, which are classified into three ...

Gamification, defined as the application of game design principles in non-gaming contexts, is a powerful tool for making systems lastingly attractive by exhausting rewards as soon as specific conditions are met. In the context of online or real world ...

Remote Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are technology enablers for distributed systems and cloud-native application development. API providers find it hard to design their remote APIs so that they can be evolved easily; refactoring and ...

As with every software, Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems have their own life-cycle, from conception to construction, deployment, and operation. However, the testing requirements from these systems are slightly different due to their inherent coupling ...

Big Data is changing the perspective on how to obtain valuable information from data stored by organizations of all kinds. By using these insights, companies can make better decisions and thus achieve their business goals. However, each new technology ...

This paper proposes a new structure, Modular-Structured Pattern Language, that makes possible to make a pattern language based on the core in pattern languages depending on their situation, needs, and problems. The In this paper, first, we describe how ...

Developing a tool that provides support for different refactorings, through a set of refactoring detectors which identify opportunities for source code improvements, is not easy. Our experience in developing such a tool for refactoring object-oriented ...

There is a significant amount of guidance on Project Management (PM) including software development methodologies, best practices and anti-patterns (APs). There is, however, a lack of automated way of applying this knowledge by analyzing readily ...

Corporate use of open source in software products is on the rise. While this brings a number of technological and business benefits to companies, it also comes with potential legal and financial risks caused by license non-compliance and ungoverned use ...

Data modelling patterns provide a good guideline for creating a data model of a software or service. However, there is a lack of such a pattern respecting data protection requirements that an online service should satisfy. Especially for social media ...

Cyber-physical systems are a crucial part of many infrastructure or production systems, and are spreading into other domains as part of the IoT (Internet-of-Things) wave. As cyber-physical systems act on the physical world, attacks could have severe ...

In this paper, we present 9 patterns for Being with others from Patterns for Well-being in Life which verbalize the tips for method on fulfilling four factors of happiness as pattern language. This study is based on well-being studies of Takashi Maeno. ...

In our daily life, we are increasingly relying on connected systems ranging from smart health care devices to industrial and intelligent transportation systems, as well as smart homes and cities. The unavailability or malfunctioning of these systems ...

Data composition is used in programming languages and data transfer representation languages (such as JSON, XML and network protocols) to build complex objects, but the particular language constructs may differ. The paper presents common primitives ...

The introduction of agile methods at scale entails unique concerns such as inter-team coordination, dependencies to other organizational units, or distribution of work without a defined architecture. Compared to the rich body of agile software ...

For software project managers and other practitioners, an important activity is to detect, and consequently find solutions to, insufficiencies and mistakes in process and other project management (PM) activities. Particularly interesting among these are ...

chain of builders is a language-implementation pattern at the centre of realising variable textual syntaxes for internal domain-specific languages (DSL). An internal DSL is built on top of a general-purpose software language (GPL; Java) and uses the GPL ...

Patterns can be applied in isolation. However, the power of patterns lies in using them in sequences. Identifying pattern relationships with other patterns is difficult. The existing pattern formats reflect the relationships with other patterns in a ...