Anh Nguyen-Duc

Varun Gupta

Developing projects outside of a classroom setting can be intimidating for students and is not always a seamless process. Real-World Software Projects for Computer Science and Engineering Students is a quick, easy source for tackling such issues. Filling a critical gap in the research literature, the book: Is ideal for academic project supervisors. Helps researchers conduct interdisciplinary research. Guides computer science students on undertaking and implementing research-based projects This book explains how to develop highly complex, industry-specific projects touching on real-world complexities of software developments. It shows how to develop projects for students who have not yet had the chance to gain real-world experience, providing opportunity to become familiar with the skills needed to implement projects using standard development methodologies. The book is also a great source for teachers of undergraduate students in software engineering and computer science as it can help students prepare for the risk and uncertainty that is typical of software development in industrial settings.

Real-World Software Projects for Computer Science and Engineering Students

We consider a queueing theoretical model of resource sharing systems. Users arrive according to a Poisson process to a queue that is served by a Processor Sharing server. A user may choose not to join the system on arrival (balk), or join but quit at any later point (renege). Since a user who reneges wastes resources, the central question we study in the paper is what is the welfare loss of allowing users to renege, compared to when they can only balk? We show that reneging does lead to weakly smaller welfare than balking, but this result is brittle to the reneging model. We compare two different models of reneging, a random lottery-based model, and an age-based model, and show that for the latter, the equilibrium is identical to the balking equilibrium. We also prove that any non-zero penalty fees on reneging removes this feature from equilibrium behavior. Finally, we provide asymptotic and numerical comparisons of welfare under the socially optimal policy and under balking and reneging equilibria.

Reneging and Balking in Resource Sharing Systems

This book aims to increase the success rates of startups by focusing on value proposition innovation, which is propelled by the involvement of potential consumers as well as other resources such as freelancers and strategic relationships with academia. The author shows how startups who are resource constrained can invest efforts exploring the potential market of their products. The author also explores how global markets can be beneficial for a startup’s success, while showing the workarounds in hard-to-access markets. The book investigates gaining knowledge shared by freelancers, customers, and academia, whose involvement can be crucial in supporting value proposition innovation activities such as ideas generation, implementation, and commercialization. Combined, the author leads readers to discover their ability to foster value proposition innovations that result into long term competitive advantage in a highly fluctuating business environment.

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“I belong to an era where a thought is a commitment” “I haven’t forgotten a single word of yours.” It was at that moment when people start believing in magic because everything seemed to freeze when he said that and time took a snap of that frozen moment to keep it inside the museum of time. Their eyes locked for an instant on his statement and in that instant they travelled eons. A story of two people living anywhere on the face of this earth tackling their past, present and future during the course of a night where just like in space, a one degree tilt in trajectory gives an entirely new dimension and direction to each life with no chance of going back. In reality, like we all assume that we decide when destiny has already exhausted all the possibilities and decided the one for you.

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