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Title: A COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK FOR MULTIHOP WIRELESS ACCESS AND SENSOR NETWORKS: ANYCAST ROUTING & SIMULATION TOOLS
Author: Sharif, Kashif
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: The reliance on wireless networks has grown tremendously within a number of varied application domains, prompting an evolution towards the use of heterogeneous multihop network architectures. We propose and analyze two communication frameworks for...

Title: A Framework for the Design and Analysis of Socially Pervasive Games
Author: Powell, Eve
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Philosophy
Description: Pervasive games have the potential to create large social impacts on players and non-players alike. However, this can only happen when the game becomes integrated and accepted within a social community - or in other words, is socially adopted in i...

Title: Abstract visualization of large-scale time-varying data
Author: Yu, Li
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Computer engineering
Description: The explosion of large-scale time-varying datasets has created critical challenges for scientists to study and digest. One core problem for visualization is to develop effective approaches that can be used to study various data features and tempor...

Title: Bioinformatics and biomolecular tools for biomarker discovery in peripheral blood lymphocytes from patients with Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Author: Baciu, Cristina
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: Sporadic Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (sALS) is a complex, invariably fatal, disease with a poorly understood cause, despite many studies. Diagnostic biomarkers that precede active symptoms would be an immense help to clinicians, for patient mana...

Title: Clustering and Recommendation Techniques for Access Control Policy Management
Author: Marouf, Said
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Managing access control policies can be a daunting process, given the frequent policy decisions that need to be made, and the potentially large number of policy rules involved. Policy management includes, but is not limited to: policy optimization...

Title: Constraint-based Generation of Database States for Testing Database Applications
Author: Pan, Kai
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Testing is essential for quality assurance of database applications.To test the quality of database applications, it usually requirestest inputs consisting of both program input values andcorresponding database states. However, producing these tes...

Title: Coordinating decentralized learning and conflict resolution across agent boundaries
Author: Cheng, Shanjun
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology, Artificial intelligence
Description: It is crucial for embedded systems to adapt to the dynamics of openenvironments. This adaptation process becomes especially challenging in the context of multiagent systems because of scalability, partial information accessibility and complex inte...

Title: ELUCIDATING THE EFFECTS OF MUTATION AND EVOLUTIONARY DIVERGENCE UPON PROTEIN STRUCTURE QUANTITATIVE STABILITY/FLEXIBILITY RELATIONSHIPS
Author: Verma, Deeptak
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: The importance of flexibility and stability on protein function has been recognized for over five decades. A protein must be flexible enough to mediate a reaction pathway, yet rigid enough to achieve high fidelity in molecular recognition. To unde...

Title: ESSENTIAL DYNAMICS OF PROTEINS USING GEOMETRICAL SIMULATIONS AND SUBSPACE ANALYSIS
Author: David, Charles
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Bioinformatics, Biophysics
Description: Essential dynamics is the application of principal component analysis to a dynamic trajectory derived from a simulation protocol in order to extract biologically relevant information contained in the high dimensional data. In this work, we apply t...

Title: Essays on Exploitation and Exploration in Software Development
Author: Temizkan, Orcun
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Business, Information science
Description: Software development includes two types of activities: software improvement activities by correcting faults and software enhancement activities by adding new features. Based on organizational theory, we propose that these activities can be classif...

Title: Interactive Programming Support for Secure Software Development
Author: Xie, Jing
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Software vulnerabilities originating from insecure code are one of the leading causes of security problems people face today. Unfortunately, many software developers have not been adequately trained in writing secure programs that are resistant fr...

Title: Large-scale image collection cleansing, summarization and exploration
Author: Yang, Chunlei
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: A perennially interesting topic in the research field of large scale image collection organization is how to effectively and efficiently conduct the tasks of image cleansing, summarization and exploration. The primary objective of such an image or...

Title: MANAGERIAL RISK IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS: EFFECTS OF FRAMING, NARROW FRAMING AND TIME INCONSISTENT PREFERENCES ON REAL OPTIONS EXERCISE DECISIONS
Author: Khan, Sarah
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Management, Information technology
Description: Real options theory has been advocated as a solution to risky IT investment decisions. IT investments decisions are risky due to uncertainty around future outcomes and the inability of traditional financial measures (like NPV, IRR) to account for ...

Title: Microarray tools and analysis methods to better characterize biological networks
Author: Overall, Christopher
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: To accurately model a biological system (e.g. cell), we first need to characterize each of its distinct networks. While omics data has given us unprecedented insight into the structure and dynamics of these networks, the associated analysis routin...

Title: Perceiving guaranteed collision-free robot trajectories in unknown and unpredictable environments
Author: Vatcha, Rayomand
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Robotics
Description: The dissertation introduces novel approaches for solving a fundamental problem: detecting a collision-free robot trajectory based on sensing in real-world environments that are mostly unknown and unpredictable, i.e., obstacle geometries and their ...

Title: Reasoning about recognizability in security protocols
Author: Li, Zhiwei
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Although verifying a message has long been recognized as an important concept, which has been used explicitly or implicitly in security protocol analysis, there is no consensus on its exact meaning. Such a lack of formal treatment of the concept m...

Title: THE DIFFUSION AND IMPACT OF RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION IN SUPPLY CHAINS: A MULTI-METHOD APPROACH
Author: Wu, Xiaoran
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Business
Description: As a promising and emerging technology for supply chain management, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a new alternative to existing tracking technologies and also allows a range of internal control and supply chain coordination. RFID has ge...

Title: THROUGHPUT OPTIMIZATION FOR DATA COLLECTION IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Author: Chen, Siyuan
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Wireless sensor networks are widely used in many application domains in recent years. Data collection is a fundamental function provided by wireless sensor networks. How to eciently collect sensing data from all sensor nodes is critical to the per...

Title: The Visual Uncertainty Paradigm For Controlling Screen-Space Information In Visualization
Author: Dasgupta, Aritra
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: The information visualization pipeline serves as a lossy communication channel for presentation of data on a screen-space of limited resolution. The lossy communication is not just a machine-only phenomenon due to information loss caused by transl...

Title: Topology Design for Time-Varying Networks
Author: Huang, Minsu
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Traditional wireless networks seek to support end-to-end communication through either a single-hop wireless link to infrastructure or multi-hop wireless path to some destination. However, in some wireless networks (such as delay tolerant networks,...