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Title
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A Survey of Network Modeling
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Author
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Wells, Unique
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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Network modeling is a set of techniques for extracting various patterns of interestfrom graphs. They can be used in many real-life analytic fields, such as sales andmarketing, journal reports, government and law enforcement, social networking site...
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AUTOMATIC UNIT TESTING TO DETECT SECURITY VULNERABILITIES IN WEB APPLICATIONS
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Author
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Mohammadi, Mahmoud
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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Web applications consume data from different inputs. Some of these inputs originate from untrusted sources, such as user inputs which will be rendered in browsers or browser-based applications such as mobile apps. Many applications with these func...
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An Integrated Phylogeographic Analysis of the Bantu Migration
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Author
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Ford, Colby
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Mathematics, Genetics
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Description
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"Bantu" is a term used to describe lineages of people in around 600 different ethnic groups on the African continent ranging from modern-day Cameroon to South Africa. The migration of the Bantu people, which occurred around 3,000 years ago, was in...
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Citation Recommendation on Graph
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Author
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Jia, Haofeng
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Artificial intelligence
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Description
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As science advances, the academic community has published millions of research papers. Researchers devote time and effort to search relevant manuscripts when writing a paper or simply to keep up with current research. In this dissertation, we cons...
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Creating New Concept-based Representations for Superior Text Analysis and Retrieval
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Author
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Shalaby, Walid
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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Text analytics represent a set of scalable techniques that mine unstructured and semi-structured textual resources in order to extract useful knowledge for performing a task at hand. For example, document clustering and classification, entity extr...
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Customer Loyalty Improvement Recommender System (CLIRS)
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Author
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Tarnowska, Katarzyna
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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This dissertation presents a novel data-driven approach to solve the problem of improving customer loyalty and customer retention. The data mining concepts of action rules and meta actions are used to extract actionable knowledge from customer sur...
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DIRECTING VIRTUAL HUMANS USING PLAY-SCRIPTS AND SPATIO-TEMPORAL REASONING
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Author
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Talbot, Christine
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Artificial intelligence
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Description
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Historically, most virtual human character research focuses on realism/emotions, interaction with humans, and discourse. The majority of the spatial positioning of characters has focused on one-on-one conversations with humans or placing virtual c...
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Deep Learning for Sentiment and Emotion Detection in Multilingual Contexts
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Author
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Abdullah, Malak
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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Social media is growing as a communication medium where people can express online their feelings and opinions on a variety of topics in ways they rarely do in person. Detecting sentiments and emotions in texts have gained a considerable amount of ...
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Title
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Deep Neural Language Generation with Emotional Intelligence and External Feedback
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Author
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Srinivasan, Vidhushini
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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Neural seq2seq models are widely used to generate dialogue using variations of RNN Encoder-Decoder architecture with maximum likelihood estimation as objective function. Advances in this architecture include introducing reinforcement learning to t...
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Title
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EXPERIMENTS IN TEXT SUMMARIZATION USING DEEP LEARNING
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Author
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Bulusu, Sai Amrit
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Artificial intelligence, Information science
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Description
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Deep Learning has been the go-to tool for text summarization in the recent times.Traditional deep learning research focuses on performing abstractive text summarizationwithout considering the user’s interests to personalize the summaries.This prob...
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Title
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Examining Untempered Social Media: Information Mutation on GAB.ai
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Author
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Muppalla, Sai Eshwar Prasad
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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Online social media often mirrors the social phenomenon of "Chinese Whispers" where information mutates during dissemination.Many a time, Twitter and Facebook in conjunction with smaller "fringe" communities like Gab.ai, often echo perspectives to...
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Title
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Fine-grained Video Classification for Rare Events
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Author
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Shan, Junjie
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Information technology
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Description
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Video analysis plays an important role in the field of computer vision and finds its application in many areas. Fine-grained event classification is one of the most challenging problems in video analysis due to subtle difference between classes an...
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Title
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Formal Techniques for Cyber Resilience: Modeling, Synthesis, and Verification
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Author
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Alsaleh, Mohammed Noraden
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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As cyber vulnerability and complexity increases, cyber attacks become highly sophisticated and inevitable. Therefore, cyber resilience is necessary to make cyber capable of misleading attackers in reaching their goals, resisting their progress, an...
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Title
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IDENTIFYING SERENDIPITOUS DRUG USAGES FROM PATIENT-REPORTED MEDICATION OUTCOMES ON SOCIAL MEDIA
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Author
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Ru, Boshu
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Information technology, Medical sciences
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Description
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Drug repositioning has prominent advantages of lower safety risk and development cost than developing new drugs. It has attracted broad interests from the biomedical community. In the past decades, computational approaches have examined biological...
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Title
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Interactive Mining for Large-scale Neuro-Morphological Datasets
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Author
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Li, Zhongyu
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Neurosciences, Biomedical engineering
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Description
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In this dissertation, we aim to investigate advanced methods for the computational analytics of large-scale neuro-morphological datasets, which can help neuroscientists interactively explore neurons in real-time. Particularly, we tackle the neuro-...
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Title
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Motivating Computer Science Students Beyond Classwork with Games and Gamification
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Author
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Watson, Stacey
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Education
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Description
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Researchers have determined that games have the power to motivate users to engage for long periods of time with unparalleled intensity because they satisfy human psychological and emotional needs. In educational contexts, researchers have examined...
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Title
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Object Tracking using Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Network
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Author
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Deshpande, Mayuri
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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In this master thesis, recurrent neural network based method for visual track-ing in videos is introduced that learns to predict the bounding box locations of atarget object at every frame. Region information and distinctive visual featuresare obt...
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Title
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PARTICIPANT SELECTION AND TASK ASSIGNMENT IN MOBILE CROWD SENSING
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Author
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Li, Hanshang
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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With the rapid increasing of smart mobile devices and the advances of sensing technologies, mobile crowd sensing (MCS) becomes a new popular sensing paradigm, which enables a variety of large-scale sensing applications. One of the key challenges o...
