Thesis advisor: David R. Martin / With vast amounts of data in the world, organization becomes a challenge. The success of data driven web services (IMDb, YouTube, Google Maps, Wikipedia, et cetera) all hinge on their ability to present information in an intuitive manner with user friendly interfaces. One area that fails to have such a service is sports statistics. With the ubiquitous appeal of sports, having a solution to this problem can be universally beneficial. Many sites exist that have statistics of different sports, but there are limitations to all of them. Since there is very little continuity among all sports, statistics are represented disparately.There are several problems with this approach. Any time there needs to be a change to the informational structure, the entire database and interface need to change. In addition, there can never be a single interface if there are different schemas for different sports, leading to a user unfriendly interface.My system uses a unique schema that is capable of representing statistics from any sport, no matter how unique. Adding new statistics to a sport to reflect rule changes or adding a new sport altogether are seamless. In addition, the web interface is structured by Rails, which changes automatically with the schema.Challenges included developing a universal sports schema and testing it sufficiently enough to prove its generality. Finding and extracting the data to populate the database also presented difficulties. / Thesis (BS) — Boston College, 2008. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Computer Science. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1980. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ENGINEERING. / Includes bibliographical references. / by Ahmet Vecdet Arslan. / Ph.D.

This dissertation is a study of the values and meanings people attach to places and why exploring those values is important in trails and historic preservation planning. From a foundation in critical humanistic geography and values based preservation literatures, the dissertation examines three rails to trails projects as case studies. Primary research questions include: how does a landscape become valued, devalued, and/or revalued through time? In what ways do different values of different people or groups intersect in rails to trails landscapes and how do they shape the landscape? How do historic values intersect with economic, social, political, and other values as these relate to landscape preservation? A subset of questions deals with the interactions between trails, historic preservation, and geography. What common ground do these three areas already share and what is the potential for further connections between and through them? The project contributes to the geographical tradition of interpreting ordinary landscapes but also works towards bringing together the common ground of three disparate endeavors: cultural geography, historic preservation, and trails planning around the theme of “values in place.”

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon Graduate Center, 1989.

Thesis, (Ph. D.)--Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, 1996.

Thesis, (Ph. D.)--Oregon Graduate Institute, 1997.

Thesis (M.S.) University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on August 22, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

Η παρακάτω διπλωματική αφού κάνει μια εκτενή αναφορά στα είδη των γλωσσών προγραμματισμού επεκτείνεται και στην περιγραφή των frameworks που χρησιμοποιούνται σήμερα ευρέως. Έπειτα ασχολούμαστε εκτενώς με το framework ruby on rails και περιγράφουμε αναλυτικά τις δυνατότητες που μας προσφέρει μέσα από την ανάπτυξη κάποιων εφαρμογών. Ακριβέστερα, έχουν υλοποιηθεί και αξιολογηθεί ένα site με forum και shopping cart, ένα blog, μια wiki page και ένα site για δημιουργία προφίλ από τους χρήστες του. / The following work has made an extensive reference to the kinds of programming languages and then extends a description of the frameworks currently used widely. Then devotes considerable attention to the framework ruby on rails and describes in detail the possibilities offered by means of developing some applications. Being more specific, we implemented and evaluated a site with forum and shopping cart, a blog, a wiki page, and a site for creation profile of its users.

Denna rapport behandlar utvecklingen av en webbapplikation för avtalshantering med arbetsnamnet Boardeaser Contracts. Applikationen utvecklades av studenter på Tekniska högskolan vid Linköpings universitet på uppdrag av Boardeaser AB. Rapporten syftar till att ge en överblick gällande utvecklingsarbetet och resultat samt ge svar på uppsatta frågeställningar. Applikationen har utvecklats med ramverket Ruby on Rails. Rapporten går igenom grundläggande teori gällande ramverket samt de mjukvarupaket som använts för implementationen. Rapporten behandlar också den övergripande utvecklingsmetoden samt metod för erfarenhetsfångst. Projektets resultat blev en fungerande webbapplikation med önskad funktionalitet. Resultat och metoder diskuteras och kritiseras, det ges även förslag på alternativa metoder. Arbetet sätts i ett vidare sammanhang när bland annat applikationens energiförbrukning diskuteras. Rapportens slutsatser är kortfattat att den metod som beskrivs i rapporten går att använda för att utveckla en applikation som skapar värde för kunden. Det konstateras också att Ruby on Rails lämpar sig relativt väl för utveckling av webbapplikationer. Varje medlem i projektgruppen har också skrivit ett individuellt bidrag till rapporten. Där utreds olika områden relaterade till projektet mer detaljerat. Dessa bidrag hittas i slutet på rapporten.

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