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Title: Assistive technologies for individuals with alzheimer and investigating main challenges of adopting the technologies
Author: qu, yun
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: The number of individuals with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is rising dramatically in the United States. Assistive technologies serve to assist with the care recipients' independence. However, while many technological systems for individuals with AD h...

Title: Assured Information Sharing for Ad-hoc Collaboration
Author: Jin, Jing
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering, Information technology
Description: Collaborative information sharing tends to be highly dynamic and often ad hoc among organizations. The dynamic natures and sharing patterns in ad-hoc collaboration impose a need for a comprehensive and flexible approach to reflecting and coping wi...

Title: Automated Meta-Actions Discovery for Personalized Medical Treatments
Author: Touati, Hakim
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Health services administration
Description: Healthcare, among other domains, provides an attractive ground of work for knowledge discovery researchers. There exist several branches of health informatics and health data-mining from which we find actionable knowledge discovery is underserved....

Title: Automated formal analytics for smart grid security and resiliency
Author: Rahman, Mohammad
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Sports administration
Description: Smart grid is the modernization of the legacy electric power system in which cyber computing and communications are integrated with the physical world of power systems. A smart grid provides efficient and cost-effective management of the grid by a...

Title: Bioinformatics and biomolecular tools for biomarker discovery in peripheral blood lymphocytes from patients with Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Author: Baciu, Cristina
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: Sporadic Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (sALS) is a complex, invariably fatal, disease with a poorly understood cause, despite many studies. Diagnostic biomarkers that precede active symptoms would be an immense help to clinicians, for patient mana...

Title: COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS AND THE THRESHOLD EFFECT: TOWARDS A GENERAL TOOL FOR STUDYING DYNAMIC PHENOMENA ACROSS DIVERSE DOMAINS
Author: Carmichael, Theodore
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Social structure, Cytology
Description: Most interesting phenomena in natural and social systems include transitions and oscillations among their various phases. A new phase begins when the system reaches a threshold that marks a qualitative change in system characteristics. These thres...

Title: CONFIGURATION OF APPLICATION PERMISSIONS WITH CONTEXTUAL ACCESS CONTROL
Author: Besmer, Andrew
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Users are burdened with the task of configuring access control policies on many different application platforms used by mobile devices and social network sites. Many of these platforms employ access control mechanisms to configure application perm...

Title: Clustering and Recommendation Techniques for Access Control Policy Management
Author: Marouf, Said
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Managing access control policies can be a daunting process, given the frequent policy decisions that need to be made, and the potentially large number of policy rules involved. Policy management includes, but is not limited to: policy optimization...

Title: Constraint-based Generation of Database States for Testing Database Applications
Author: Pan, Kai
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Testing is essential for quality assurance of database applications.To test the quality of database applications, it usually requirestest inputs consisting of both program input values andcorresponding database states. However, producing these tes...

Title: Coordinating decentralized learning and conflict resolution across agent boundaries
Author: Cheng, Shanjun
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology, Artificial intelligence
Description: It is crucial for embedded systems to adapt to the dynamics of openenvironments. This adaptation process becomes especially challenging in the context of multiagent systems because of scalability, partial information accessibility and complex inte...

Title: DATA ANALYSIS WORKFLOW FOR GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY MASS SPECTROMETRY-BASED METABOLOMICS STUDIES
Author: Ni, Yan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: Metabolomics has emerged as an integral part of systems biology research that attempts to comprehensively study low molecular weight organic and inorganic metabolites under certain conditions within a biological system. Technological advances in t...

Title: DECISION SUPPORT FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE RECOVERY
Author: Pala, Okan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geodesy, Information science
Description: Protecting critical infrastructure systems, such as electrical power grids, has become a primary concern for many governments and organizations across a variety of stakeholder perspectives. Critical infrastructures involve multi dimensional, highl...

Title: DEVELOPING AND VALIDATING JOINT DYNAMIC AMBULANCE RELOCATION AND FLEXIBLE DISPATCHING STRATEGIES: A SIMULATION-OPTIMIZATION APPROACH
Author: Li, Xun
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Information technology, Business
Description: Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system's mission is to provide timely and effective treatment to anyone in need of urgent medical care throughout their jurisdiction. The main goal of most EMS deployment is to reduce mortality, disability, pain an...

Title: DIGITAL PIRACY: AN ASSESSMENT OF CONSUMER PIRACY RISK AND OPTIMAL SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION STRATEGIES
Author: Jeong, Bong
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Information technology
Description: Digital piracy and the emergence of new distribution channels have changed the dynamics of supply chain coordination and created many interesting problems. There has been increased attention to understanding the phenomenon of consumer piracy behav...

Title: Data Mining the Serous Ovarian Tumor Transcriptome
Author: Tickle, Timothy
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Genetics
Description: Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecologic cancer in the United States. If caught in early stages, patient survival rate is 94%, late stage survival rates drop to 28%. It is because most cases are caught in late stages that high mortality is se...

Title: Data-driven Analytics for Extracting and Inferring Threat Actions and Attack Patterns from the Unstructured Text of Cyber Threat Intelligence
Author: Husari, Ghaith
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: With the rapid increase of the cyber-attacks, threat information sharing has become essential to understand and defend against cyber-attack in a timely and cost-effective manner. Cyber Threat Information (CTI) and threat information reports remain...

Title: Designing better exergames: application of flow concepts and the FITT principle to full body exertion video games and flexible challenge systems
Author: Nickel, Andrea
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Exercise video games have a recognized potential for widespread use as tools for effective exercise. Current exergames do not consistently strike a successful balance between the "fun gameplay" and "effective exercise" aspects of the ideal exergam...

Title: Development of a multi-layered botmaster based analysis framework
Author: Paxton, Napoleon
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Botnets are networks of compromised machines called bots that come together to form the tool of choice for hackers in the exploitation and destruction of computer networks. Most malicious botnets have the ability to be rented out to a broad range ...

Title: Dynamic behavior-based control and world-embedded knowledge for interactive artificial intelligence
Author: Heckel, Frederick
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Artificial intelligence
Description: Video game designers depend on artificial intelligence to drive player experience in modern games. Therefore it is critical that AI not only be fast and computationally inexpensive, but also easy to incorporate with the design process. We address ...

Title: ELUCIDATING THE EFFECTS OF MUTATION AND EVOLUTIONARY DIVERGENCE UPON PROTEIN STRUCTURE QUANTITATIVE STABILITY/FLEXIBILITY RELATIONSHIPS
Author: Verma, Deeptak
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: The importance of flexibility and stability on protein function has been recognized for over five decades. A protein must be flexible enough to mediate a reaction pathway, yet rigid enough to achieve high fidelity in molecular recognition. To unde...