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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: A Holistic Approach to Securing Memory Error Vulnerabilities in IoT Firmware
Author: Obaidat, Islam
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: A staggering number of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices harbor intrinsic security vulnerabilities within their firmware. Memory errors especially predominate as a potent category among these vulnerabilities. Memory errors not only permit remote at...

Title: A LANGUAGE-BASED APPROACH FOR SECURING ACTIONSCRIPT/FLASH VULNERABILITIES
Author: Yilmaz, Fadi
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Web technologies enable web users to share files, images, audios, videos with each other worldwide. The accessibility provided by the web lures web pirates to perform unauthorized, malicious activities in victim machines remotely by exploiting des...

Title: A User-Based Stance Analysis for Gauging Public Opinion with Stance Detection in Twitter Data
Author: Almadan, Ali
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Stance detection in social media data has received attention in recent years as an approach to determine the standpoint of users toward a target of interest, such as a person or a topic included in Twitter data. Although interviewing, surveying, a...

Title: A framework for user-centric privacy management in smartphones regarding Bluetooth Low Energy beacons
Author: Bello-Ogunu, Emmanuel
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Businesses and organizations such as retail stores, airports, and hospitals have begun to leverage the recent advances in localization technology to provide quality location-based services to their customers. Beacons are one example of this techno...

Title: ANALYSIS OF OPTICAL FIBER SPECKLE PATTERNS FOR DETECTION OF IVUS CATHETER TIP IN 3D SPACE: AN INTELLIGENT SENSOR RESEARCH
Author: Razmyar, Soroush
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Computer science, Biomedical engineering
Description: This research study presents the architectural design and computational framework for an intelligent tracking sensor constructed from a multimode fiber optic. As laser light travels through an inhomogeneous medium, such as multimode fiber, the ran...

Title: ARTIFICIAL FINANCIAL MARKET: AN AGENT-BASED APPROACH TO MODELING THE INFLUENCE OF TRADERS CHARACTERISTICS ON EMERGENT MARKET PHENOMENA
Author: Kamyab Hessary, Yasaman
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Financial markets play a critical role in today's societies and are extremely important to the general health and efficiency of an economy. Solid understanding of the behavior of financial markets can benefit investors, governing organizations and...

Title: AUTOMATIC UNIT TESTING TO DETECT SECURITY VULNERABILITIES IN WEB APPLICATIONS
Author: Mohammadi, Mahmoud
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: 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...

Title: Active Cyber Defense Planning and Orchestration
Author: Islam, Md Mazharul
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: The overwhelming number of recent data breaches reported that hundreds of terabytes of highly sensitive information, including national, financial, and personal, have been stolen from different organizations, indicating a clear asymmetric disadvan...

Title: An Evidence-Based Digital Nudging In Support Of Health Misinformation Assessment On Social Media Sites
Author: Alsaleh, Hamad
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information science, Artificial intelligence
Description: In recent years, social media have dramatically improved the dissemination speed of information, which also includes health misinformation. To date, most of the computational approaches to addressing this problem have focused on detecting and flag...

Title: Art Authentication in an Untagged Art Database
Author: Dobbs, Bryan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Art--Historiography, Mathematics
Description: The identification of the artist of a painting is also known as art authentication, and the answer to this question is manifest through art gallery exhibition and is reinforced through financial transactions. Art authentication has visual influenc...

Title: Automated Classification and Mitigation of Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities
Author: Aghaei, Ehsan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: With the widespread use of computers and networks today, cybersecurity has emerged as a crucial concern for many businesses as they fight with growing cyber threats by vulnerability exploitation. To identify and mitigate zero-day or unpatched vuln...

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: BIO-INSPIRED CYBER SECURITY AND THREAT ANALYTICS
Author: Rauf, Usman
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information science
Description: After decades of deploying cyber-security systems, it is a well-known fact that theexisting cyber infrastructure has numerous inherent limitations that not only makethe maintenance of the current network security devices difficult but also provide...

Title: Behavioral Health Stigma: Breaking the code with Stigma Index
Author: Tokmic, Farah
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Medical sciences, Information science
Description: Social labeling of people with behavioral health disorders falls under the umbrella of "stigma" and plays a key role in limiting the access to behavioral healthcare. Currently, the U.S. spends an estimated $201B on behavioral health disorders ever...

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: Building Computational Representations of Medical Guidelines Using Large Language Models and Transfer Learning
Author: Gopalakrishnan, Seethalakshmi
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: This dissertation explores the potential of natural language models, including large language models, to extract causal relations from medical texts, specifically from Clinical Practice Guidelines. The outcomes of causality extraction from Clinica...

Title: Building an Efficient and Scalable Learning System on Heterogeneous Cluster
Author: Yang, Donglin
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Deep Learning (DL) has been widely applied in both academia and industry. System innovations can continue to squeeze more efficiency out of modern hardware. Existing systems such as TensorFlow, MXNet, and PyTorch have emerged to assist researchers...

Title: COMPETITIVE STORE CLOSING DURING AN ECONOMIC DOWNTURN: A MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING APPROACH
Author: Mayadunne, Sanjaya
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Operations research
Description: A game theoretic mixed integer program model is introduced to determine optimal store closing decisions in a competitive market. The model considers the case of two rival firms seeking to downsize operations in a region. Both firms are looking to ...