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AN ARGUMENT FOR THE USE OF COMPUTER SIMULATED MODELS IN PHILOSOPHY
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Author
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Rines, Jason
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Philosophy, Science--Philosophy
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Description
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This thesis will attempt to show how computer simulated models can act as a tool for philosophers. To accomplish this goal, this thesis will be broken down into six sections. The first three sections will go into more detail regarding the nature o...
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Automated formal analytics for smart grid security and resiliency
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Author
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Rahman, Mohammad
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Sports administration
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Description
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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...
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Creating Automated Virtual Humans
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Author
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Sakpal, Raghavi
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Artificial intelligence
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Description
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Virtual Humans (VHs) are highly efficient and effective task oriented tools for various social and collaborative environments. VHs have the ability to replicate human like verbal (speech) and non-verbal (gestures, facial expressions) interactive b...
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Dynamic View Selection for Human Motion Analysis in Camera Networks
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Author
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Spurlock, Scott
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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Automated human activity analysis for multi-camera networks requires algorithms that are both accurate and efficient for practical, real-time use. Current approaches face a trade-off between accuracy and speed, with the most accurate methods havin...
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ESIDE: The integration of secure programming education into the IDE
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Author
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Whitney, Michael
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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Securing the world's technological resources has become one of the largest challenges of modern day. From healthcare to national security, power grids to public safety, the world is reliant on computer systems and their ability to perform in a saf...
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EXPLORABILITY, SATISFICING, AND SATISFACTION IN PARAMETER SPACES
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Author
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Gonzalez, Alberto
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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Many modern software applications have a fairly large set of variables that allow for the dynamic change of content. While a large parameter space provides users with fine-grained control over the content they are creating, even the best designed ...
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Empirical Methods in an Open Domain Question Answering System
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Author
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Gallagher, Sean
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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Answering questions effectively involves a complex interconnected set of linguistic and statistical analysis tools, which can be difficult to investigate and evaluate on their own. To evaluate any one of them, I developed two composable, recursive...
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Fall Detection Using a Single Video Camera
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Author
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Schlegel, Elizabeth
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Computer science, Aging
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Description
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Falls among the elderly are concerning, especially if they go unnoticed for an extended period of time. Due to fear of falling, many people end up in assisted living facilities or nursing homes which are costly and the lack of independence greatly...
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Interactive Static Analysis for Application Security
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Author
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Zhu, Jun
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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Software vulnerabilities have become increasingly pervasive and result in severe data and financial loss to organizations and individuals. One leading source of software vulnerabilities is the insecure code written by developers. Although vulnerab...
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PRESERVING DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY IN COMPLEX DATA ANALYSIS
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Author
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Wang, Yue
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Data sets
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Description
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Omnipresent databases from various resources, such as social networks, electronic commercial websites, and health related wearable devices, have provided researchers with unprecedented opportunities to analyze complex social phenomena. While socie...
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Using Occlusion to Track Multiple Objects with Similar Appearance
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Author
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Fasciano, Thomas
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Visual perception
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Description
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Multiple object tracking is a fundamental problem within computer vision and has a wide range of applications. Although well studied, it remains a difficult task especially in scenarios which contain many occluding and highly similar appearing obj...
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Video Collaboratory - Asynchronous Collaboration Around Web-based Videos
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Author
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Singh, Vikash
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Information technology
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Description
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Most Internet users consume video in some form or another. However, despite the huge amount of content available on various video sites, typical interactions with the videos are limited to posting and viewing. Overall, online video artifacts are s...
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Title
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Weakly Supervised Learning on Image Manifolds
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Author
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Wu, Hui
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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Recent work in image manifold learning has shown the prevalence of unsupervised methods that provide compact representation and perceptually meaningful organization of images in certain types of natural image sets. However, in situations where a d...