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Michael E. CotterellPrincipal Lecturer • UGA SoC
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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

Open Textbook

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

UGA Athenaeum (Handle: 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