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Title: Leveraging Social Media to Better Understand People's Obesity Related Behaviors
Author: Li, Chuqin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: With the worldwide prevalence of obesity doubling over the past 30 years across a wide range of demographic and socioeconomic groups, the obesity epidemic is a major public health challenge today. Excessive food consumption and lack of exercise ar...

Title: Performance Analytics of Graph Algorithms Using Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory
Author: Unmann, Evan
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: The increased size of data sets is driving the need for increased memory storage andspeed. Persistent memory, PMEM, has emerged as a new solution to the problem. It places itself in between main memory and storage in the memory hierarchy. PMEM off...

Title: Pragmatic approaches toward automated extraction and understanding of large scale health-related texts
Author: Xie, Tianyi
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Natural language processing has become a very popular tool in many areas and has also drawn great attention in the community of health informatics. It is a series of processes that allows informaticists to take advantage by extracting and understa...

Title: A Critical, Empirical, and Reflexive Investigation of the Promise of Democratization in the Making Phenomenon
Author: Okerlund, Johanna
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Many endeavors in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) align themselves with the promise of the democratization of technology production, a promise that has yet to be fulfilled due to gaps in access and underlying power dynamics. HCI has ...

Title: Better modeling of matching possibilities and uncertainty for offline visual multiple object tracking
Author: Rice, Lance
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: The task of visually tracking multiple objects remains an active field of algorithm development even after several decades of research in the computer vision community. One reason it remains an active research area is that identifying and maintain...

Title: Cognitive biases in decision-making under uncertainty with interactive data visualizations
Author: Wesslen, Ryan
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Cognitive psychology, Information science
Description: In this thesis, we hypothesize that data visualization users are subject to systematic errors, or cognitive biases, in decision-making under uncertainty. Based on research from psychology, behavioral economics, and cognitive science, we design fiv...

Title: Autonomous Cyber Defense: Formal Models and Applications
Author: Dutta, Ashutosh
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information science, Information technology
Description: With technological advancements, cyber attacks are highly automated and organized with asymmetric advantages over defenders regarding cost and efforts.Attackers employ sophisticated and diversified approaches to achieve attack objectives while bei...

Title: Aviatar- An Augmented Reality System to Improve Pilot Performance for Unmanned Aerial Systems
Author: Abbott, Robert
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Aerospace engineering, Cognitive psychology
Description: In the modern airspace, small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) such as drones are becoming increasingly popular with both amateur enthusiasts as well as professional pilots. In the three years following the initiation of the small drone registratio...

Title: Arny: An Interaction Model Based On Emotional Feedback For An AI_Based Co-creative Design System
Author: Abdellahi, Sarah
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Artificial intelligence, Information technology, Computer science
Description: Co-creative collaboration is a creative collaboration of two or more agents working together on a shared creative product. Effective co-creative collaboration is a combination of interactions and contributions of the task collaborators. In human-h...

Title: AI Based Realistic Multi-Hop Wireless Simulation
Author: pothuneedi, tagore
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Wireless multi-hop networks and software-defined networking (SDN) are emerging technologies in wireless communications for deploying cost-efficient programmable network backbones. However, the physical testbeds do not provide scalable environments...

Title: Anomaly Detection for Manufacturing Applications Using Convolutional Autoencoders
Author: Zouar, Nourelislam
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: ABSTRACTNOURELISLAM ZOUAR. ANOMALY DETECTION FOR MANUFACTURING APPLICATIONS USING CONVOLUTIONAL AUTOENCODERS. (Under the direction of DR. MIN SHIN) Anomaly Detection in manufacturing environments is increasingly gaining popularity among companies ...

Title: Generative Machine Learning Models for Airflow Prediction of Architectural Spaces
Author: Claudio Rodriguez, Fernando
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology, Architecture
Description: Computer Fluid Dynamics (CFD) airflow simulations are not used as often in architectural settings primarily due to time constraints. The proper use of CFD airflow simulations involves a complex setup and run-time process that requires a large amou...

Title: Modeling and Analyzing the United States Courts of Last Resort’s Legal Citation System as a Complex System
Author: Mohammed, Louai
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Political science, Law
Description: Courts of last resort in the United States are becoming increasingly important in American politics as the number of cases, influential decisions, and controversial issues continue to rise in the states. In discussions of federalism in the United ...

Title: Faster Convolutional Neural Networks Training
Author: Jiang, Shanshan
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models have become the mainstream method in Artificial Intelligence (AI) areas for computer vision tasks like image classification and image segmentation. Deep CNNs contain a large volume of convolution calculati...

Title: Knowledge extraction and analysis of medical text with particular emphasis on medical guidelines
Author: Hematialam, Hossein
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: In this dissertation document, we describe the potential for Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, and Machine Learning methods to improve the process of analyzing medical texts and, in particular, Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs).We p...

Title: EKF Accelerometer Wheel Based Odometry
Author: Morgan, Jacob
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science, Robotics
Description: Gathering information on robot motion is critical in determining how a mobile robothas interacted in its environment. The information about a robot’s motion, called odometry is generally collected by tracking wheel behavior for ground based robots...

Title: Efficient and Scalable Highway Asset Detection
Author: Bhojwani, Ekta
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Computer engineering, Artificial intelligence
Description: The roads and highways are a valuable asset for the state department of transportation. It takes massive investment and a huge amount of time to maintain the road assets condition. Therefore, it becomes important to automate the maintenance proces...

Title: FIRST: Finding Interesting stoRies about STudents - An Interactive Narrative Approach to Explainable Learning Analytics
Author: Al-Doulat, Ahmad
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Information science, Computer science
Description: Learning Analytics (LA) has had a growing interest by academics, researchers, and administrators motivated by the use of data to identify and intervene with students at risk of underperformance or discontinuation. Typically, faculty leadership and...

Title: Empowering Reconfigurable Platforms for Massively Parallel Applications
Author: Purkayastha, Arnab A
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science, Computer engineering
Description: The availability of OpenCL for FPGAs along with High-Level Synthesis tools have made them an attractive platform for implementing compute-intensive massively parallel applications. FPGAs with their customizable data-path, deep pipelining abilities...

Title: Exploring Cyber Threat Hunting Through Interactive Labs
Author: Webber, Michael
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: As we continue to see the impact of cyber attacks and cyber threats throughout the world, the needfor cyber threat hunting skills is more and more important to the cybersecurity industry and provides a compelling case for expanding the workforce c...