Concept Map (CM) is a graphical tool for organizing and structuring knowledge by depicting concepts as nodes, and relationships between concepts as edges. It can be used as an effective tool for teaching, learning, and ...

The priority ceiling protocol (PCP) is an effective protocol for minimizing priority inversions in real-time scheduling. Priority inversion occurs when a high priority task is blocked by a low priority task, such as at a ...

Assessment of educational programs is one of the important means used in academia for accountability, accreditation, and improvement of program quality. The assessment practices, guidelines, and requirements are very broad ...

Bitcoin has become the first major cryptocurrency that has caught the fancy of the world by storm lately. Behind the hood of Bitcoin are many STEM innovations that will affect the world beyond cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is ...

Across the US and the rest of the world, there exists a lack of computer security components in many CS/IT curricula. For those programs that do have such components in computer security, a common difficulty is to integrate ...

A mutual exclusion graph can be used to model a graphical mutual exclusion problem where a concurrent process is represented by a vertex and a mutual exclusion constraint between two processes is represented by an edge ...

Despite the ubiquity of XML, research in metrics for XML documents is scarce. This paper proposes and discusses eleven metrics to measure the quality and complexity of XML Schema and conforming XML documents. To provide ...

Automatic generation of starvation-free semaphore solutions to general mutual exclusion problems is discussed. A reduction approach is introduced for recognizing edge-solvable problems, together with an O(N^2) algorithm ...

In recent years, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has established a Scholarship for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) program to fund universities for providing scholarship to academically ...

Web technologies have become essential in the computing curricula. However, teaching a Web development course to computing students is challenging because of large bodies of knowledge, rapidly changing technologies, demanding ...