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Name | Mr Morkel Theunissen |
| Field Title | The Effect of OSS on the Software Development Strategies in the Telecommunications Industry | |
| Degree Obtained | MSc (Computer Science) University of Pretoria | |
| Current Degree | PhD (Computer Science) University of Pretoria | |
| mtheunis@cs.up.ac.za | ||
| (show/hide) Abstract | ||
| I'm investigating Open Source Software, in particular the Software Development Methodology behind it. I'll be looking into the possibility of bridging agile methodologies and OSS software development for use by corporate development teams. |
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Name | Ir Loek Cleophas |
| Field Title | Taxonomies and toolkits of tree algorithms | |
| Degree Obtained | MSc (Computer Science) Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. | |
| Current Degree | PhD (Computer Science) Technische Universiteit Eindhoven | |
| l.g.w.a.cleophas@tue.nl | ||
| (show/hide) Abstract | ||
| My interests are various, including text & tree processing, finite (tree) automata, computational biology, computational linguistics, and software construction/architecture (including components, design patterns etc.). My PhD research focuses on the application of the TABASCO method to tree automata and tree algorithms. For my MSc thesis, I applied this method to (string) pattern matching (PM), i.e. extending a taxonomy of PM algorithms. In addition, I worked on an extension to the SPARE Parts pattern matching toolkit, called SPARE Time. |
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Name | Mr Pieter van Zyl |
| Field Title | The persistence layer in architecture: How can ODBMS's be used in this layer | |
| Degree Obtained | BSc (Hon) (Computer Science) University of Pretoria | |
| Current Degree | MSc (Computer Science) University of Pretoria | |
| pvzyl@csir.co.za | ||
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Name | Mr Martin Drozdz |
| Field Title | A tool survey and complementing techniques for refactoring | |
| Degree Obtained | BSc (Hon) (Computer Science) University of Pretoria | |
| Current Degree | MSc (Computer Science) University of Pretoria | |
| martind@tuks.co.za | ||
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| This thesis aims to survey the best IDEs and complementing tools used for refactoring. The role and use of refactoring in evolutionary software developement will be discussed as well as an attempt into creating a new Java refactoring for the Eclipse project headed by Erich Gamma. Consider that 70-80% of the lifetime cost of a piece of software goes to maintenance and that hardly any software is maintained for its whole life by the original author. Refactoring helps with these problems by being able to automate re-structuring of large scale programs, without altering their behavior. It also plays a pivotal role in the XP methodology. |
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Name | Mr Ernest Ketcha Ngassam |
| Field Title | Finite State Automata implementation | |
| Degree Obtained | BSc (Maths and Computer Science), University of Yaounde, Cameroon; BSc (Hons) in Computer Science, University of Pretoria; MSc in Computer Science, University of Pretoria | |
| Current Degree | PhD in Computer Science, University of Pretoria | |
| eketcha@cs.up.ac.za | ||
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| My research interests include: Software Construction, Software Engineering, Algorithmic, Programming, Performance, Benchmarking, and Generative Programming. I?m currently working on Taxonomic Software Construction applied to Finite Automata implemented as Acceptors. We use Domain Engineering based Software Development and Generative programming to design and implement the toolkits and DSL required for the exploitation of the components that from part of the taxonomy. |
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Name | Ms Vreda Pieterse |
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| Degree Obtained | MSc (Computer Science) University of Pretoria | |
| Current Degree | PhD (Computer Science) University of Pretoria | |
| vpieterse@cs.up.ac.za | ||
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Name | Mr Tsholanang Ramushi |
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| Degree Obtained | BSc IT Computer Science | |
| Current Degree | BSC (Hons) Computer Science | |
| tramushi@cs.up.ac.za | ||