Stephen C. Davies — publications

Finlayson, I., Davies, S., "Jguardrail: A Framework for Identifying Possible Errors in Student Java Code", Presented at The Fortieth Annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges — Eastern Conference, Emmitsburg, Maryland, USA, Oct 18, 2024. (Best paper award)
Davies, S., Peura, H., "The Interaction Between Heterogeneous Voting Strategies and Dynamic Vote-Seeking Campaigns: an Agent-Based Model", Presented at The 2024 Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM 2024), Washington, D.C., USA, May 22, 2024. (Top 10 best paper award)
Davies, S., Mittereder, J., "An Agent-Based Model of Political Polarization Without Party Influence or Centralized Messaging", Presented at The 9th International Conference on Computational Social Science, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19, 2023. (Peer-reviewed research poster.)
Cagle, V., Davies, S., and Davies, T., "More Polarized than Ever? Evidence from Social Media", Presented at The 8th International Conference on Computational Social Science, Chicago, Illinois, July 17, 2022. (Peer-reviewed research poster.)
Mittereder, J., Carroll, R., Frulla, B., Davies, S., "Exploring the Impact of Social Network Density and Agent Openness on Societal Polarization", Presented at The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas annual conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico (virtual), Nov.4-7, 2021.
Venkatachalapathy, R., Davies, S., Nehrboss, W., "Wealth dynamics in the presence of network structure and primitive cooperation", Presented at The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas annual conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Oct.24-27, 2019.
Davies, S., "The Twin Impact of Homophily and Accessibility on Ideological Polarization", Presented at The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas annual conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Oct.19-22, 2017.
Davies, S., Zontine, H., "The Surprising Effect of Implementation Choices on the Rate of Convergence of Opinion Dynamics Models", Presented at The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas annual conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Nov.17-20, 2016.
Davies, S., Brown, M., "Toward an Agent-Based Simulation of the Factors Impacting Diversity Within a College Student Body", Proceedings of the 47th Winter Simulation Conference (WSC15), Yilmaz, L. et al., Eds., December 2015, pp.3973-3984.
Crawford, M., Davies, S., Griffith, A., "Predicting Metapopulation Responses of a Tidal Wetland Annual to Environmental Stochasticity and Water Dispersal Through an Individual-based Model," Ecological Modelling, vol.316, November 2015, pp.217-229.
Ruud, R., Davies, S., "Modeling Decentralized Price Fluctuations Through Agent-Based Recognition of Scarcity"  presented at the 89th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International (WEIA), Denver Colorado, June 2014.
Crawford, M., Davies, S., Griffith, A., "Estimating the Effects of Heterogeneous Competition in an Agent-based Ecological Model Using GIS Raster Color" (peer-reviewed research poster) Proceedings of the 45th Winter Simulation Conference (WSC13), pp.3976-3977, Washington, D.C., December 2013.
Davies, S., "A Computational Simulation to Study the Factors Impacting a College Student Body's Racial Diversity,"  delivered to the first annual UMW Diversity Academy, Fredericksburg Virginia, May 2013.
Polack-Wahl, J., Davies, S., and Anewalt, K. "A Snapshot of Current Languages Used in Industry."  Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE 2012), pp.148-153, Seattle, Washington, Oct. 2012.
Davies, S., Aylor-Seal, S., Hatfield, J. "Cinefile: A Category-Based Analytic Browser." IEEE Computer, vol. 45, issue 8, pp.62-69, Aug. 2012.
Parlante, N., Zelenski, J., Zingaro, D., Wayne, K., O'Hallaron, D., Guerin, J.T., Davies, S., Kurmas, Z., and Debby, K., "Nifty Assignments." in Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2012), pp.475-476, Raleigh, North Carolina, March 2012.
Clemmer, A., and Davies, S., "Smeagol: A 'Specific-to-General' Semantic Web Query Paradigm for Novices." in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2011), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 6860, A. Hameurlain et al. (Eds.), pp.288-302, Spring-Verlag, September 2011.
Davies, S., Polack-Wahl, J., and Anewalt, K. "A Snapshot of Current Practices in Teaching the Introductory Programming Sequence."  Proceedings of the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE2011), pp.625-640, Dallas, Texas, March 2011.
Davies, S. "Still Building the Memex." Communications of the ACM, vol. 53, issue 2, pp.80-88, Feb. 2011.
Davies, S., Donaher, C., Hatfield, J., and Zeitz, J.,  "Making the Semantic Web Usable: Interface Principles to Empower the Layperson".  Journal of Digital Information, vol. 12, issue 2, Jan. 2011.
Davies, S., Zeitz, J., and Hatfield, J.  "Addressing the Cognitive Difficulties of Expressing N-ary Relations in Semantic Web Data".  Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems, Graz, Austria, September 2010.
Donaher, C., Hatfield, J., Zeitz, J., and Davies, S.  "Toward a Semantic Web Editor for the Layperson" (peer-reviewed research poster.) Presented at The 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2010), Heraklion, Greece, May 2010.
Davies, S., Hatfield, J., Donaher, C., and Zeitz, J.  "User Interface Design Considerations for Linked Data Authoring Environments".  Proceedings of the Linked Data on the Web Workshop (LDOW2010), Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, April 27, 2010, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, online CEUR-WS.org/Vol-628/ldow2010_paper17.pdf.
Davies, S.  "Appointing Team Leads for Student Software Development Projects".  Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 25(2), pp.92-99, December 2009.
Davies, S., Lamb, R., and Odhiambo, N.  "Non-Intrusive Techniques for Enhancing Decentralized Data Storage with Strategic GIS Visualization".  Proceedings of the 2009 WRI World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE09), Los Angeles, California, vol. 2, pp.379-383, IEEE Computer Society, 2009.
Davies, S.  "The Effects of Emphasizing Computational Thinking in an Introductory Programming Course".  Proceedings of the 38th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), pp. 3-8, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2008.
Davies, S.  "Analyzing the Gap Between Diagrams and Code in Computer Science".  Proceedings of the 38th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), pp. 16-17, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2008.
Davies, S.  "'Why Should I Care?' Making Programming Assignments Relevant for Non-Majors".  Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 23(3), pp.90-97, January 2008.
Davies, S., Allen, S., Raphaelson, J., Meng, E., Engleman, J. and Lewis, C.  "Popcorn: the Personal Knowledge Base".  Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, pp. 150-159, University Park, PA, 2006.
Davies, S., Velez-Morales, J. and King, R.  "Building the Memex Sixty Years Later: Trends and Directions in Personal Knowledge Bases", 2005.  University of Colorado Technical Report #CU-CS-997-05.
Davies, S. and King, R. "Tools Designed Specifically for Information Space Organization".  University of Colorado Technical Report #CU-CS-998-05, 2005.
Davies, S. and King, R. "Crossing the Objective-Subjective Divide in Information Space Organization". Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Conference on Information Sciences, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 2005.
Davies, S., Badem, S., Williams, M., and King, R. "Google by Reformulation: Modeling Search as Successive Refinement"  Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Web Information Retrieval, pp. 435-440, September 2004.
Davies, S. and King, R. "Leveraging Metadata Inductively and Subjectively" Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, pp. 163-167. Shanghai, China, October 2004.
Davies, S. "The Efficacy of Personal Knowledge Bases for Materializing Mental Impressions".  Ph.D. dissertation, University of Colorado Department of Computer Science, 2005, pp.1-195.
Davies, S., "Digital Signal Processing Techniques for the Automated Recognition of Musical Tones". Masters Thesis, University of Colorado Department of Electrical Engineering, 1996, pp. 1-169.
 

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