Publications

Outline

• Refereed Journal Papers
• Refereed Conference Papers
• Workshop Papers
• Theses
• Tutorials

Refereed Journal Papers

1. Saif Zahir and Arber Borici, “An Efficient Block Entropy Based Compression Scheme for Systems-on-a-Chip Test Data,” Journal of Signal Processing Systems. Springer New York, pp. 1–10, 2011 (DOI)
2. Saif alZahir and Arber Borici, “Entropy-based Assessment of Written Albanian Language,” Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, Taylor and Francis, Vol. 18, Issue 1, Pages 89–-106, 2011

Refereed Conference Papers

1. Saif alZahir and Arber Borici, A Fast Lossless Compression Scheme for Digital Map Images Using Color Separation, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Dallas TX, pp. 1318–1321, March 2010.
2. Saif alZahir and Arber Borici, Lossless Compression of Maps, Charts, and Graphs via Color Separation, Data Compression Conference, UT, March 2010. (Poster Session)

Workshop Papers

1. Arber Borici, Kelly Blincoe, Adrian Schröter, Giuseppe Valetto, and Daniela Damian “ProxiScientia: Toward Real-Time Visualization of Task and Developer Dependencies in Collaborating Software Development Teams,” ICSE CHASE ’12, June 2-9, 2012, Zurich, Switzerland (to appear).
2. Daniela Damian and Arber Borici “Teamwork, Coordination and Customer Relationship Management Skills: As Important as Technical Skills in Preparing Our SE Graduates,” ICSE EduRex ’12, June 2-9, 2012, Zurich, Switzerland (to appear).
3. Daniela Damian, Casper Lassenius, Maria Paasivaara, Arber Borici, and Adrian Schröter, “Teaching a Globally Distributed Project Course Using Scrum Practices,” ICSE CTGDSD ’12, June 2-9, 2012, Zurich, Switzerland (to appear).
4. Arber Borici, Adrian Schröter, and Daniela Damian, “Embracing Distributed Work: Distance Shall Matter Less,” Future of Collaborative Software Development Workshop, Computer-Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) 2012, Seattle, WA, February 11-15, 2012. (A briefing here.)
5. Adrian Schröter, Arber Borici, and Daniela Damian, “Integrated Development Environments Lead to Departmental Borders Breakdown,” Future of Collaborative Software Development Workshop, Computer-Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) 2012, Seattle, WA, February 11-15, 2012.

Theses

1. Arber Borici, “Multum in parvo: Toward a generic compression method for binary images”. MSc Thesis, University of Northern British Columbia. 25 November 2010. (Supervisor: Saif Zahir)
2. Arber Borici, “Using Genetic Algorithms to Solve Multi-Objective Linear Transportation Problems”. BSc Thesis, State University of New York/Empire State College, 2006. (Supervisor: Milton Nimvroglou)

Tutorials

1. Arber Borici, “A Concise Introduction to Information Theory and Entropy”, January 2010. (PDF)