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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...

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: 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: Understanding the Structure of Information Visualization Through Visual Metaphors
Author: Ziemkiewicz, Caroline
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Cognitive psychology
Description: Information visualization is an increasingly widespread way to present and analyze complex data, but there is much we still do not know about how people understand visually presented information. Every visualization contains certain assumptions ab...

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: 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: Structural Learning for Large Scale Image Classification
Author: Shen, Yi
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: To leverage large-scale collaboratively-tagged (loosely-tagged) images for training a large number of classifiers to support large-scale image classification, we need to develop new frameworks to deal with the following issues: (1) spam tags, i.e....

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: Spectrum-based and Collaborative Network Topology Analysis and Visualization
Author: Hu, Xianlin
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Networks are of significant importance in many application domains, such as World WideWeb and social networks, which often embed rich topological information. Since network topology captures the organization of network nodes and links, studying ne...

Title: SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF RICH NETWORK TOPOLOGY IN SOCIAL NETWORKS
Author: Wu, Leting
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Social sciences--Research
Description: Social networks have received much attention these days. Researchers have de- veloped different methods to study the structure and characteristics of the network topology. Our focus is on spectral analysis of the adjacency matrix of the underlying...

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: 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: 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: Privacy and Spectral Analysis of Social Network Randomization
Author: Ying, Xiaowei
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Social networks are of significant importance in various application domains. Understanding the general properties of real social networks has gained much attention due to the proliferation of networked data. Many applications of networks such as ...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...