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Title: PRICING STRATEGIES FOR ONLINE MULTIPLAYER GAMES
Author: Parker, Neal
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Business
Description: This dissertation examines the different pricing strategies available to online multiplayer game publishers. We develop mathematical models of the pricing decision that the publisher engages in and conduct a numerical experiment to identify critic...

Title: Perceiving guaranteed collision-free robot trajectories in unknown and unpredictable environments
Author: Vatcha, Rayomand
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Robotics
Description: The dissertation introduces novel approaches for solving a fundamental problem: detecting a collision-free robot trajectory based on sensing in real-world environments that are mostly unknown and unpredictable, i.e., obstacle geometries and their ...

Title: Personalized Indexing of Music by Emotions
Author: Mostafavi, Amanda
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: How a person interprets music and what prompts a person to feel certain emotions are two very subjective things. This dissertation presents a method where a system can learn and track a user's listening habits with the purpose of recommending song...

Title: Privacy and Spectral Analysis of Social Network Randomization
Author: Ying, Xiaowei
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Social networks are of significant importance in various application domains. Understanding the general properties of real social networks has gained much attention due to the proliferation of networked data. Many applications of networks such as ...

Title: Probe-Based Visual Analysis of Geospatial Simulations
Author: Butkiewicz, Thomas
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: This work documents the design, development, refinement, and evaluation of probes as an interaction technique for expanding both the usefulness and usability of geospatial visualizations, specifically those of simulations. Existing applications th...

Title: Quantifying the personal creative experience: Evaluation of digital creativity support tools using self-report and physiological responses
Author: Carroll, Erin
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Psychology, Information science
Description: Creativity is understood intuitively, but it is not easily defined and therefore difficult to measure. This makes it challenging to evaluate the ability of a digital tool to support the creative process. When evaluating creativity support tools (C...

Title: RUNNING PARALLEL APPLICATIONS ON A HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENT WITH ACCESSIBLE DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES AND AUTOMATIC SCALABILITY
Author: Villalobos, Jeremy
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Grid computing makes it possible to gather large quantities of resources to work on a problem. In order to exploit this potential, a framework that presents the resources to the user programmer in a form that maintains productivity is necessary. T...

Title: Randomization based privacy preserving categorical data analysis
Author: Guo, Ling
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: This dissertation investigates data utility and privacy of randomization-based models in privacy preserving data mining for categorical data. For the analysis of data utility in randomization model, we first investigate the accuracy analysis for a...

Title: Reasoning about recognizability in security protocols
Author: Li, Zhiwei
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Although verifying a message has long been recognized as an important concept, which has been used explicitly or implicitly in security protocol analysis, there is no consensus on its exact meaning. Such a lack of formal treatment of the concept m...

Title: Reconceptualizing the Engagement of Older Adults in the Use of Interactive Technology
Author: Lee, Lina
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: A "silver tsunami" is on its way. Silver tsunami refers to the rapid aging of the population and, in particular, of the baby boomer generation. This demographic shift has moved the focus of researchers, designers, health care providers, and policy...

Title: Revealing the Hidden Layers in an Environment: A Case Study of the Visualization of the Coronavirus Contamination and Navigation in a Hospital
Author: Ebrahimi, Arghavan
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Design, Building
Description: The current global pandemic experience has had significant influences on the health and economy of the entire world. Researchers around the world sought to understand the current situation and provide strategic solutions to protect the health of p...

Title: SECURING THE DATA STORAGE AND PROCESSING IN CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
Author: Owens, Rodney
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Organizations increasingly utilize cloud computing architectures to reduce costs and energy consumption both in the data warehouse and on mobile devices by better utilizing the computing resources available. However, the security and privacy issue...

Title: SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF RICH NETWORK TOPOLOGY IN SOCIAL NETWORKS
Author: Wu, Leting
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Social sciences--Research
Description: Social networks have received much attention these days. Researchers have de- veloped different methods to study the structure and characteristics of the network topology. Our focus is on spectral analysis of the adjacency matrix of the underlying...

Title: STABILITY AND PERFORMANCE OF NETWORKED CONTROL SYSTEMS
Author: Bai, Libin
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Network control systems (NCSs), as one of the most active research areas, are arousing comprehensive concerns along with the rapid development of network. This dissertation mainly discusses the stability and performance of NCSs into the following ...

Title: STEREOSCOPIC BIMANUAL INTERACTION FOR 3D VISUALIZATION
Author: Cho, Isaac
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Virtual Environments (VE) are being widely used in various research fields for several decades such as 3D visualization, education, training and games. VEs have the potential to enhance the visualization and act as a general medium for human-compu...

Title: STUDIES ON CORRELATED MUTATIONS ALGORITHMS OF PROTEINS PROVIDING STRUCTURAL, SPATIAL, AND ALLOSTERY INFORMATION FROM MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS
Author: Kreth, Kyle
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: Proteins provide innumerable cellular functions and benefits for all kingdoms in the domains of life. Advancements in the high throughput collection and analysis of proteins have led to ever-deeper understanding of biological pathways, evolution, ...

Title: SYSTEMATIC POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
Author: Xu, Wenjuan
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Determining whether a given policy meets a site's high-level security goals has been a challenging task, due to the low-level nature and complexity of the policy language, various security requirements and the multiple policy violation patterns. I...

Title: Social and Location Based Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks
Author: Zhu, Ying
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Communication, Computer engineering
Description: Delay tolerant networks (DTNs) are a special type of wireless mobile networks, which may lack continuous network connectivity. Routing in DTNs is very challenging, as it must handle network partitions, long delays, and dynamic topology in such net...

Title: Software-Defined Cyber Agility for Active Cyber Defense
Author: Gillani, Syed Fida
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: The scale and sophistication of stealthy and persistent cyber-attacks like distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and man-in-the-middle (MitM) have been rapidly increasing in recent years. There are fundamental Internet properties, attributed to the...

Title: Spectrum-based and Collaborative Network Topology Analysis and Visualization
Author: Hu, Xianlin
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Networks are of significant importance in many application domains, such as World WideWeb and social networks, which often embed rich topological information. Since network topology captures the organization of network nodes and links, studying ne...