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Title: A novel positional sensor for 3D vascular reconstruction
Author: Merritt, John
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Information technology
Description: Abstract Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is a device that is surgically inserted into a femoral artery, or vein, to aid in the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. Correctly locating the IVUS tip facilitates accurate 3D vascular reconstruction. Re...

Title: Advancing Green Stormwater Infrastructure Through Understanding the Influences of Social Factors
Author: Qi, Jingyi
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering
Description: Green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) is a nature-inspired engineering solution to stormwater management that has gained increasing attention over the last two decades. While the technical evidence supporting the efficacy and efficiency of GSI is ...

Title: An Integrated Phylogeographic Analysis of the Bantu Migration
Author: Ford, Colby
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Mathematics, Genetics
Description: "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...

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: Customer Loyalty Improvement Recommender System (CLIRS)
Author: Tarnowska, Katarzyna
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: 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...

Title: DYNAMIC ENERGY DISTRIBUTION IN SMART GRIDS ENABLED BY INTERNET OF THINGS SENSORS AND HYBRID TELECOM NETWORKS
Author: Bikmetov, Ravil
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Power resources, Operations research
Description: ABSTRACTRAVIL BIKMETOV. Dynamic Energy Distribution in Smart Grids Enabled by Internet of Things Sensors and Hybrid Telecom Networks. (Under the direction of DR. YASIN RAJA)Ability to manage energy consumption and generation is a major feature of ...

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: Evaluating Co-Creation In Collaborative Drawing Using Creative Thinking Modes
Author: Algarni, Ali
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Co-creation is a form of collaboration in which partners share, improve and blend ideas together to develop a creative product. It helps to share ideas and solve problems in a creative manner. Several co-creativity research works have focused on g...

Title: Evaluating and extending the concept of wisdom of crowds in the context of problem solving
Author: Sun, Min
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: James Surowiecki in his book on the wisdom of crowds wrote about the decisions made based on the aggregation of information in groups. Knowing the many case studies and anecdotes which show the success of wisdom of crowds, he argues that under cer...

Title: IDENTIFYING SERENDIPITOUS DRUG USAGES FROM PATIENT-REPORTED MEDICATION OUTCOMES ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Author: Ru, Boshu
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology, Medical sciences
Description: 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...

Title: MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR DIRECTED CURATION OF DESIGN SOLUTION SPACE
Author: Sjoberg, Christian
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Artificial intelligence, Architecture, Design
Description: The expanding role of computational models in the process of design is producing exponentially growing parameter spaces. As designers, we must create and implement new methods for searching these parameter spaces considering not only quantitative ...

Title: Mining for Knowledge to Build Decision Support System for Diagnosis and Treatment of Tinnitus
Author: Thompson, Pamela
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Medicine, Information science
Description: Tinnitus problems affect a significant portion of the population and are difficult to treat. Treatment processes are plentiful, yet not completely understood. In this dissertation, we present a knowledge discovery approach which can be used to bui...

Title: Network-based Pathway Enrichment Analysis for Biological Inference of High-throughput Gene Expression Data
Author: Naderi Yeganeh, Pourya
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Bioinformatics
Description: Pathway enrichment analysis models (PEM) are biological inference approaches that leverage annotated bio-molecular functions for interpreting the underlying processes of gene expression profiles from high-throughput genomic data. Common PEMs negle...

Title: Representing and Reasoning with Clinical Knowledge in Radiation Therapy Publications: A Step Towards Evidence-Based Medicine
Author: Zhen, Yi
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Computer engineering, Information technology
Description: To improve the quality and consistency of health care, evidence-based medicine (EBM) was proposed to promote the wide adoption of current best evidence to make decisions about care of individual patients. The practice of EBM in Radiation Oncology ...

Title: Student Sequence Model: A Temporal Model for Exploring and Predicting Risk from Heterogeneous Student Data
Author: Mahzoon, Mohammad Javad
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Information technology
Description: Data models built for analyzing student data often obfuscate temporal relationships for reasons of simplicity, or to aid in generalization. We present a sequence model that is based on temporal relationships in heterogeneous student data as the ba...

Title: Topology-aware approach for the emergence of social norms in multiagent systems
Author: Hasan, Mohammad
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Social norms facilitate agent coordination and conflict resolution without explicit communication. Norms generally involve restrictions on a set of actions or behaviors of agents to a particular strategy and can significantly reduce the cost of co...