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During the execution of a flipped classroom course, chances increase students are not at the level scheduled in the initial planning with some students falling behind with their knowledge acquisition and others running ahead. In those cases, adding ...

Hiring talented startup-minded people is not easy. Finding a candidate with suitable skill set and who has the right attitude might be challenging. When new people are hired it is crucial from the company's perspective that they become productive as ...

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) are embedded systems in the automotive domain which play an important role for safety enhancement. They are subject to several complex hardware and software constraints, and executed in a highly variable ...

Traditionally safety and controls systems have been strictly separated from each other. There are both benefits and liabilities in this approach. Thus, modern system employing control and safety system parts do not necessarily make a strict separation ...

Conceptual independence is a novel approach for adaptable information systems. It extends the ideas of Model Driven Development. Conceptual independence eases adaptability by a separation of the Business domain terms from the functions that use the ...

In this paper, we describe patterns that can be used to find ways to integrate refactoring into everyday work in a software project. They are a part of a larger refactoring patterns pattern collection. We introduce the pattern collection and the ...

In this paper, we describe two patterns for fostering innovative ideas in a company. The patterns originate from experiences in real companies. Innovations are crucial in opening up new business vistas for a company. Old business models for any company ...

Increasingly, many institutions and students benefit from online learning systems each year. For example, in 2016 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS) reported as many as 16 million enrolled students and online tutoring systems reported over half a ...

Creative thinking is a key skill in almost every domain. Creativity is required to innovate, develop new ideas, get deeper insights, address challenges and resolve conflicts. This paper presents patterns of creative habits. These habits can be become ...

Increasing gender diversity of the student population in computer science education and keeping it more balanced requires activities and efforts in various areas (such as staff training, curriculum development, advertisements) and on different ...

Reference architectures have been established in many domains of software engineering enabling reuse of expert knowledge of design, guidelines and much more. Nevertheless, reference architectures might also lead to boilerplate code and implementation ...

The motivation behind our research was the rapid growth and business wins of world-class Finnish game companies, like Supercell, as well as the success of other game companies in Finland. In particular, Supercell's growth is something that has not been ...

Fog Computing is a new variety of the cloud computing paradigm that brings virtualized cloud services to the edge of the network to control the devices in the IoT. We present a pattern for fog computing which describes its architecture, including its ...

Community design is often still treated as an engineering problem. However, you should not let technology drive the design of your community. Instead, you want the community's purpose and the activities that the community needs to support drive the ...

Assessment, be it formative, summative or diagnostic, is at the heart of all educational endeavour yet university teachers are not always trained in assessment strategies and their underlying principles. Assessment should be fair and relevant for the ...