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A Comparison between a Relational Database and a Graph Database in the context of a Personalized Cancer Treatment Application
(2016)This paper presents a performance comparison between a relational database (implemented in MySQL) and a graph database (implemented in Neo4j). Unlike traditional benchmarks, this comparison is made in the context of a real ... -
A Functional Size Measurement Procedure for MVC Applications from Source Code: Design, Automation and Empirical Evaluation
(2014-09)Software size has proved to be one of the main effort-and-cost drivers. It is widely accepted that software size is one of the key factors that has the potential to affect the effort and cost of the software projects. ... -
A genetic algorithm based framework for software effort prediction
(2017)Background: Several prediction models have been proposed in the literature using different techniques obtaining different results in different contexts. The need for accurate effort predictions for projects is one of the ... -
A Gesture-Based Interaction Approach for Manipulating Augmented Objects Using Leap Motion
(2015-11)Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing are carrying the world to a reality where almost every object interacts with the environment, either via sensors or actuators, and users must learn how to interact with such ... -
A mobile application that allows children in the early childhood to program robots
(2016)Children born in the Information Age are digital natives; this characteristic should be exploited to improve the learning process through the use of technology. This paper addresses the design, construction, and evaluation ... -
A Model Proposal for Augmented Reality Game Creation to Incentivize Physical Activity
(2017)Obesity and a sedentary lifestyle are relevant issues in today’s society. Even though different resources can be used to approach this problem, technology provides endless possibilities to fight against this problem. This ... -
A Prototype Mobile Expert System for Nutritional Diagnosis
(2013)This paper describes NUTRITION UCR, a prototype expert system for human nutritional diagnosis developed in Java on Android using a service-oriented architecture. The system runs on mobile devices and offers smart features ... -
A survey of software testing practices in Costa Rica
(2019-04-24)Software testing is an essential activity in software development projects for delivering high quality products. In a previous study, we reported the results of a survey of software engineering practices in the Costa Rican ... -
A systematic literature review of methodologies used for the design of serious games. A comparative analysis
(2020-06-26)This article of systematic literature review presents the analysis of a series of methodological proposals, suggested for the design of educational video games. Nine different methodologies are analyzed. As part of the ... -
A tertiary study on model-based testing areas, tools and challenges: Preliminary results
(2018-04-24)Context: Model-based testing (MBT) is one of the most studied approaches by secondary studies in the area of software testing. A tertiary study that aggregates knowledge from secondary studies on MBT can be useful to both ... -
A user interaction bug analyzer based on image processing
(2016-08)Mobile applications support a set of user-interaction features that are independent of the application logic. Rotating the device, scrolling, or zooming are examples of such features. Some bugs in mobile applications can ... -
A Virtual Repository of Learning Objects to Support Literacy of SEN Children
(2015-01)Literacy development is an essential process for special education needs children. Otherwise, they will have additional difficulties in their daily life activities and hence their social inclusion. It is a big challenge ... -
Alexa vs. Siri vs. Cortana vs. Google Assistant: A Comparison of Speech-Based Natural User Interfaces
(2017-07-17)Natural User Interfaces (NUI) are supposed to be used by humans in a very logic way. However, the run to deploy Speech-based NUIs by the industry has had a large impact on the naturality of such interfaces. This paper ... -
Alternative and augmentative communication for people with disabilities and language problems: an eye gaze tracking approach
(2016)Alternative and augmentative communications encapsulates the use of technology to provide communication means for people with some sort of disability. In this paper, we present a prototype that provides both pictographic ... -
An Empirical Evaluation of Automated Function Points
(2016)Background: Function point analysis (FPA) has become widely used to measure software functional size in the industry. FPA is usually performed manually, which is a time consuming and expensive process. Automated Function ... -
An empirical evaluation of NASA-MDP data sets using a genetic defect-proneness prediction framework
(2016-11-09)In software engineering, software quality is an important research area. Automated generation of learning schemes plays an important role and represents an efficient way to detect defects in software projects, thus ... -
An Empirical Validation of an Automated Genetic Software Effort Prediction Framework Using the ISBSG Dataset
(2016-04)The complexity of providing accurate software effort prediction models is well known in the software industry. Several prediction models have been proposed in the literature using different techniques, with different ... -
An Empirical Validation of Function Point Structure and Applicability: A Replication Study
(2015-04)Background: The complexity of providing accurate software size estimation and effort prediction models is well known in the software industry. Function point analysis (FPA) is currently one of the most accepted software ... -
An evaluation of functional size measurement methods
(2015-04)Background: Software size is one of the key factors that has the potential to affect the effort of software projects. Providing accurate software size estimation is a complex task. A number of functional size measurement ... -
An experience with a de-identifying task to inform about privacy issues
(2016)People tend to value their privacy, but are usually unaware about the extent to which their personal information is exposed through ordinary data available online. In this paper we describe an experience in which a group ...