Michael E. Cotterell
Michael E. Cotterell Principal Lecturer • UGA SoC

Publications & Scholarly Works

Textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, open-source software frameworks, and open educational resources.

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Authored Books & Textbooks

CSCI 1302 Software Development (The Book)

Michael E. Cotterell , Bradley J. Barnes

University System of Georgia • School of Computing, University of Georgia • January 2025

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Refereed Journal Publications

Variational Bayesian Inference for a Q-Matrix-Free Hidden Markov Log-Linear Additive Cognitive Diagnostic Model

Hao Duan , James Tang , Matthew J. Madison , Michael E. Cotterell , Minjeong Jeon

Algorithms • October 2025 • pp. 675

DOI: 10.3390/a18110675 →

Switching within STEM: Examining the motivational concerns that college students report considering when changing career plans within STEM fields

Emily Q. Rosenzweig , Yuchen Song , Xiao-Yin Chen , Amy Baldwin , Michael M. Barger , Michael E. Cotterell , Jonathan A. Dees , Allison S. Injaian , Jennifer R. Walker , Craig C. Wiegert , Nandana Weliweriya , Paula P. Lemons

Journal of Educational Psychology • January 2025 • pp. 832-849

DOI: 10.1037/edu0000939 →

Beyond STEM attrition: changing career plans within STEM fields in college is associated with lower motivation, certainty, and satisfaction about one’s career

Emily Q. Rosenzweig , Xiao-Yin Chen , Yuchen Song , Amy Baldwin , Michael M. Barger , Michael E. Cotterell , Jonathan A. Dees , Allison S. Injaian , Nandana Weliweriya , Jennifer R. Walker , Craig C. Wiegert , Paula P. Lemons

International Journal of STEM Education • March 2024

DOI: 10.1186/s40594-024-00475-6 →

The Effects of Measurement and Structural Model Misspecifications in Longitudinal Diagnostic Classification Models

Matthew J. Madison , Minjeong Jeon , A. Moore , S. Zor , M. Fager , L. Maas , S. Haab , Michael E. Cotterell

Manuscript in Preparation / Under Review • 2024

Automated Predictive Big Data Analytics Using Ontology Based Semantics

Mustafa V. Nural , Michael E. Cotterell , Hao Peng , Rui Xie , Ping Ma , John A. Miller

International Journal of Big Data (IJBD) • October 2015 • pp. 43-56

DOI: 10.29268/stbd.2015.2.2.4 →

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Forecasting Traffic Flow: Short Term, Long Term, and When It Rains

Hao Peng , S. U. Bobade , Michael E. Cotterell , John A. Miller

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BIGDATACONGRESS 2018) • June 2018 • pp. 57-71

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-94301-5_5 →

Adding Support for Theory in Open Science Big Data

John A. Miller , Hao Peng , Michael E. Cotterell

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2017) • June 2017 • pp. 71-75

DOI: 10.1109/SERVICES.2017.20 →

Using Semantics in Predictive Big Data Analytics

Mustafa V. Nural , Michael E. Cotterell , John A. Miller

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BIGDATACONGRESS 2015) • June 2015 • pp. 254-261

DOI: 10.1109/BigDataCongress.2015.43 →

Supporting a Modeling Continuum in ScalaTion: From Predictive Analytics to Simulation Modeling

John A. Miller , Michael E. Cotterell , Stephen J. Buckley

Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC 2013) • December 2013 • pp. 1191-1202

DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2013.6721507 →

An Economic Model for Distributed Energy Prosumers

Qun Sun , Aaron Beach , Michael E. Cotterell , Z. Wu , Santiago Grijalva

Proceedings of the 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2013) • January 2013 • pp. 2103-2112

DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2013.81 →

The Fundamental Value of Information and Strategy in Stochastic Management of Distributed Energy Storage

Qun Sun , Michael E. Cotterell , Aaron Beach , Santiago Grijalva

Proceedings of the 2012 North American Power Symposium (NAPS 2012) • September 2012 • pp. 1-6

DOI: 10.1109/NAPS.2012.6336385 →

Towards a Cloud Infrastructure for Energy Informatics

Z. Wu , Michael E. Cotterell , S. Qin , Aaron Beach , Santiago Grijalva

Proceedings of the 2012 Energy Informatics Conference (EI 2012) • August 2012

AISeL →

Facilitating Knowledge Sharing and Analysis in Energy Informatics with the Ontology for Energy Investigations (OEI)

Michael E. Cotterell , J. Zheng , S. Qin , Z. Wu , C. Champlin , Aaron Beach

Proceedings of the 2012 Energy Informatics Conference (EI 2012) • August 2012

AISeL →

Suggestions for Galaxy Workflow Design Using Semantically Annotated Services

A. Dhamanaskar , Michael E. Cotterell , J. Zheng , Jessica C. Kissinger , C. J. Stoeckert Jr. , John A. Miller

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2012) • July 2012 • pp. 29-42

DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-084-0-29 →

Software Packages & Frameworks

Open Educational Resources (OER) & Curriculum Materials

CSCI 1302 Software Development (The Book)

Michael E. Cotterell , Bradley J. Barnes

• January 2025

Open Book →

Refereed Conference Abstracts & Posters

Improving Student Sentiment of Active Learning in CS

Michael E. Cotterell , D. Yazdansepas , Bradley J. Barnes

Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER 2020) • 2020 • pp. 308

DOI: 10.1145/3372782.3408120 →

Active Learning in CS2 and Discrete Mathematics

Michael E. Cotterell , Bradley J. Barnes , D. Yazdansepas

Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2020) • 2020 • pp. 1318

DOI: 10.1145/3328778.3372618 →

SimOptDSL: Extending ScalaTion, a Domain-Specific Language for Modeling & Simulation, for Simulation Optimization

Michael E. Cotterell , John A. Miller , Jun Han , Tom Horton

Proceedings of the AlaSim International Modeling and Simulation Conference (AlaSim 2012) • May 2012

Technical Reports & Doctoral Dissertation

Supporting Open Science in Big Data Frameworks and Data Science Education

Michael E. Cotterell

Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia • December 2017

DOI: 10724/37663 →

A Markov Model for Ontology Alignment

Michael E. Cotterell , T. Medina

Technical Report (arXiv:1304.5566) • April 2013

arXiv:1304.5566 →

Unicode in Domain-Specific Programming Languages for Modeling & Simulation: ScalaTion as a Case Study

Michael E. Cotterell , John A. Miller , Tom Horton

Technical Report (arXiv:1112.1751) • December 2011

arXiv:1112.1751 →
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