Date of Award
2014
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Larrondo-Petrie, Maria M.
Abstract
While international academic and research collaborations are of great importance at this time, it is not easy to find researchers in the engineering field that publish in languages other than English. Because of this disconnect, there exists a need for a portal to find Who’s Who in Engineering Education in the Americas. The objective of this thesis is to built an object-oriented architecture for this proposed portal. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) model developed in this thesis incorporates the basic structure of a social network for academic purposes. Reverse engineering of three social networks portals yielded important aspects of their structures that have been incorporated in the proposed UML model. Furthermore, the present work includes a pattern for academic social networks.
Extent
112 p.
Recommended Citation
Bonilla, Villarreal Isaura Nathaly, "Towards a portal and search engine to facilitate academic and research collaboration in engineering and" (2014). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019. 1142.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_6/1142
Identifier
FA00004179
Comments
Includes bibliography.|Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2014.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Includes bibliography.