Date of Award:

5-2017

Document Type:

Dissertation

Degree Name:

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department:

Computer Science

Committee Chair(s)

Stephen W. Clyde

Committee

Stephen W. Clyde

Committee

Curtis Dyreson

Committee

Haitao Wang

Committee

Young-Woo Kwon

Committee

Luis Gordillo

Abstract

Enterprises that develop software use current technology because of its proven advantages and to accelerate and improve the software development process. Nevertheless, it is difficult to be up-to-date for most professionals in the area. Although students from higher academic institutions need to learn these new tools, and their main purpose is to learn how learn; colleges still need to prepare students for modern enterprise requirements, so they teach new technologies to improve students’ skills. Ubiquitous computing is software and services available everywhere, for example in mobile devices, in different locations, in different networks. This computing requires good communication protocols so the software systems can interconnect properly among them to share data and for distribution purposes.

Developers design communication protocols in repetitive times and learn how to deal with different non-functional communication requirements such as reliability, security or synchronicity. This knowledge is typically collected and presented in design pattern languages, they allow professionals to communicate ideas, problems and solutions for communication software implementation. The application-level Communication Design Pattern language aims to gather this knowledge and make it available to computer science novices and experts.

Most modern software applications need to be available in the network. Developers use cloud computing resources such as virtual infrastructure, software and platforms. These services are available anywhere (anyware). Cloud computing is gradually becoming part of current Computer Science curriculums. Ultimately, we show that using cloud computing resources in programming assignments helps students improve their analysis to reuse skills.

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