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Title: Analysis and Enhancement of Resource-hungry Applications
Author: HUANG, SIQI
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering, Electrical engineering
Description: Resource-hungry applications play a very important role in people's daily lives, such as real-time video streaming applications and mobile augmented reality applications. However, there are several challenges to satisfy the user Quality-of-Experie...

Title: Computational Solutions to Some Challenging Number Theory and Combinatorial Problems
Author: Gao, Shanzhen
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: We use computational assist approach to tackle some challenging and interesting problems in number theory and combinatorics, such as Markoff-Hurwitz equations, integer matrix enumeration, integer sequences, and self-avoiding walks. We present the ...

Title: DATA REPLICATION FOR COPING WITH UNCERTAINTY IN SCHEDULING
Author: Chaubey, Manmohan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Scheduling theory is a common tool to analyze the performance of parallel and distributed computing systems, such as their load balance. How to distribute the input data to be able to execute a set of tasks in a minimum amount of time can be model...

Title: Design and validation of a scalable digital wireless channel emulator using an FPGA computing cluster
Author: Buscemi, Anthony
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: A Digital Wireless Channel Emulator (DWCE) is a system that is capable of emulating the RF environment for a group of wireless devices. The use of digital wireless channel emulators with networking radios is hampered by the inability to efficientl...

Title: Effects of Control-Display Mapping on 3D Interaction in Immersive Virtual Environments
Author: Li, Jialei
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: There is a significant amount of research on the mapping of the interactive control space to the display space in 3D user interfaces. While most work has focused on control-display gain (or ratio), one factor that has received relatively less atte...

Title: Improving Improv: Effects of Interpersonal Coordination on Music Improvisation
Author: Williams, Tevin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Cognitive psychology
Description: Previous research has shown that rigidity in interpersonal coordination (too muchalignment) is negatively associated with creativity as measured by ratings of aesthetic appeal. In this study, we examine the signatures of music improvisation follow...

Title: Interactive Mining for Large-scale Neuro-Morphological Datasets
Author: Li, Zhongyu
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Neurosciences, Biomedical engineering
Description: 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-...

Title: Interest-guided Exploration of Large Information Space
Author: Hu, Yueqi
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Information science
Description: With the coming of the digital era, information has never been as massive and complicated as it is nowadays. New layout strategies, visual encoding methods, and exploration mantras have been developed in the visualization area to ``squeeze a billi...

Title: Knee Joint Biomechanics after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
Author: Wang, Hongsheng
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Biomechanics, Biomedical engineering
Description: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is an important stabilizer of the knee joint. After ACL rupture, the knee joint has difficulty maintaining its stability; thus the patient often has to receive an ACL-reconstructive surgery to regain the knee joint...

Title: OBJECT MANIPULATION TECHNIQUE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION IN DESKTOP VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT
Author: Feng, Jinbo
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Object manipulation is one of the major operations in 3D graphical interaction. For existing high degree-of-freedom (DOF) manipulation techniques, most of them have shown to be more efficient or intuitive in their specific experiments. However, th...

Title: Privacy Preservation in Mobile Computing and Networking: Accessing, Sharing and Broadcasting
Author: Bo, Cheng
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: The ever increasing proliferation of mobile devices has led to unprecedented concern on privacy infringement, and various security threat and privacy leakage emerged from the water in the last few years. Although the rich functionality has allowed...

Title: Recommender System for Improving Churn Rate
Author: Duan, Yuehua
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Customer churn leads to higher customer acquisition cost, lower volume of service consumption and reduced product purchase. Reducing the outﬂow of the customers by 5% can double the proﬁt of a typical company. Therefore, it is of signiﬁcant value ...

Title: Representation Learning of Image Recognition: Diversity, Aspect Ratio, Invariance, and Composition
Author: Chen, Qiuyu
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Deep neural networks (DNN) are proved to be effective and improve the performance dramatically in various kinds of computer vision tasks. The end-to-end learning manner in training DNN consistently shows the powerful modeling ability and consequen...

Title: Statistical estimation and inference for the associations of multivariate recurrent event processes
Author: Chen, Peilin
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Biometry
Description: In this dissertation, we aim to develop a brand new method with a two-stage procedure to investigate the association between multivariate recurrent event processes. First, under the assumption of independent censoring, we model each recurrent even...

Title: THE ROLE OF SYMBOL CLOSURE IN VISUAL ENCODING: FROM PERCEPTION TO VISUAL ANALYSIS OF SYNTHETIC AND REAL-WORLD DATA
Author: Burlinson, David
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Psychology
Description: Symbols and shapes are commonly employed to represent data in visualizations such as scatterplots. Practitioners, scientists, and automated visualization tools are reliant on empirical analyses of visual encoding strategies, taking into account th...

Title: The center and cyclicity problems in a family of three dimensional polynomial systems of ordinary differential equations.
Author: Hounkanli, Kokouvi
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics
Description: This dissertation is mainly a study of the center problem in the context of a family of three dimensional systems of ordinary differential equations of the form· {u} = &minus v + P(u,v,w), · {v} = u+Q(u,v,w), · {w}=&minus &lambda...

Title: VISUAL ANALYTICS TOOLS PROVIDING INSIGHTS INTO TENNIS MATCHES
Author: Polk, Thomas
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: In this dissertation, I present a series of visual analytics tools designed to provide insights into tennis matches for the purpose of player improvement. These include analytic tools that can be divided into two basic categories: non-spatial-base...

Title: Visual Analytics Approaches to Exploring Multivariate Time Series Data
Author: Feng, Tinghao
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Time-oriented data analysis has attracted the attention of researchers for decades, across many research domains, including but not limited to medical records, business, science, engineering, biographies, history, planning, and project management....

Title: Web-GIS Based Bridge Information Database Visualization Analytics and Distributed Sensing Framework
Author: Tong, Yonghong
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: The national bridge system plays very important role in society operations ensuring mobilities that can sustain social and economic growth. Recent increasingly growing concerns about the safety of existing bridges are shared by highway agencies at...