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Title: Creating Automated Virtual Humans
Author: Sakpal, Raghavi
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Artificial intelligence
Description: 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...

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: Dynamic View Selection for Human Motion Analysis in Camera Networks
Author: Spurlock, Scott
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: 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...

Title: Group modeling, recommendation and evaluation in collaborative filtering group-based recommender systems
Author: Najjar, Nadia
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Artificial intelligence
Description: As the field of recommender systems has grown, more and more attention has been focused on the need forsystems that provide and tailor recommendations to groups of users, as opposed to individuals. We have identified open issues in group-based rec...

Title: Fall Detection Using a Single Video Camera
Author: Schlegel, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Computer science, Aging
Description: 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...

Title: ESIDE: The integration of secure programming education into the IDE
Author: Whitney, Michael
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: 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...

Title: EXPLORABILITY, SATISFICING, AND SATISFACTION IN PARAMETER SPACES
Author: Gonzalez, Alberto
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: 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 ...

Title: Empirical Methods in an Open Domain Question Answering System
Author: Gallagher, Sean
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: 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...

Title: Evaluating Accuracy and Robustness Impacts of Power User Attacks on Collaborative Recommender Systems
Author: Seminario, Carlos
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology, Information science
Description: Online systems present users with a vast amount of information and product/service offerings. In order to deal with this type of information overload, many top online websites use recommender systems to provide users with a more personalized, and ...

Title: AN ARGUMENT FOR THE USE OF COMPUTER SIMULATED MODELS IN PHILOSOPHY
Author: Rines, Jason
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Philosophy, Science--Philosophy
Description: 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...

Title: PRESERVING DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY IN COMPLEX DATA ANALYSIS
Author: Wang, Yue
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Data sets
Description: 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...

Title: OBJECT MANIPULATION TECHNIQUE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION IN DESKTOP VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT
Author: Feng, Jinbo
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Object manipulation is one of the major operations in 3D graphical interaction. For existing high degree-of-freedom (DOF) manipulation techniques, most of them have shown to be more efficient or intuitive in their specific experiments. However, th...

Title: Weakly Supervised Learning on Image Manifolds
Author: Wu, Hui
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: 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...

Title: VISUAL ANALYTICS FOR LARGE SCALE ETHNOGRAPHY: EXPLORING COMPUTATIONAL AND ETHNOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE OCCUPATION AND UTILIZATION OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Author: Danilowicz, Steven
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Architecture
Description: Observational data within Post Occupancy Evaluations (POE) has had the problem of being deemed as ‘unreliable’ due to the fact that it is not based on quantifiable, empirical evidence. Even though ethnographic observation is quite effective and ha...

Title: Using Occlusion to Track Multiple Objects with Similar Appearance
Author: Fasciano, Thomas
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Visual perception
Description: 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...

Title: Interactive Static Analysis for Application Security
Author: Zhu, Jun
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: 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...

Title: Video Collaboratory - Asynchronous Collaboration Around Web-based Videos
Author: Singh, Vikash
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: 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...