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Title: AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF INTELLIGENT TUTORING CAPABILITIES VIA EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING
Author: Stamper, John
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information science, Educational technology
Description: Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) that adapt to an individual student's needs have shown significant improvement in achievement over non-adaptive instruction. This improvement occurs due to the individualized instruction and feedback that an ITS...

Title: An Approach to Reducing Parameter Uncertainty for Robotic Surface Assembly Tasks
Author: Saric, Amar
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Robotics
Description: In contrast to hard automation, which relies on the precise knowledge of all parameters and special-purpose machinery, the goal of flexible assembly is to overcome the inherent uncertainty in the location of the parts. The main result of this diss...

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: COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS AND THE THRESHOLD EFFECT: TOWARDS A GENERAL TOOL FOR STUDYING DYNAMIC PHENOMENA ACROSS DIVERSE DOMAINS
Author: Carmichael, Theodore
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Social structure, Cytology
Description: Most interesting phenomena in natural and social systems include transitions and oscillations among their various phases. A new phase begins when the system reaches a threshold that marks a qualitative change in system characteristics. These thres...

Title: Creating New Concept-based Representations for Superior Text Analysis and Retrieval
Author: Shalaby, Walid
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Text analytics represent a set of scalable techniques that mine unstructured and semi-structured textual resources in order to extract useful knowledge for performing a task at hand. For example, document clustering and classification, entity extr...

Title: Distributed Actionable Pattern Mining
Author: Bagavathi, Arunkumar
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: In recent years, the internet has become faster, computer storage has become larger, data collected by organizations as well as web and social media has grown tremendously. Data Mining tools require adaptations to cope with analyzing massive amoun...

Title: Emotion Mining From Text and Actionable Pattern Discovery
Author: Ranganathan, Jaishree
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: In the era of Web 2.0, people express their opinion, feelings and thoughts about topics including political and cultural events, natural disasters, products and services, through mediums such as blogs, forums, and micro-blogs, like Twitter. Also, ...

Title: Empirical Methods in an Open Domain Question Answering System
Author: Gallagher, Sean
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Answering questions effectively involves a complex interconnected set of linguistic and statistical analysis tools, which can be difficult to investigate and evaluate on their own. To evaluate any one of them, I developed two composable, recursive...

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: Hierarchical Learning of Discriminative Features and Classifiers for Large-scale Visual Recognition
Author: Zhou, Ning
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Enabling computers to recognize objects present in images has been a long standing but tremendously challenging problem in the field of computer vision for decades. Beyond the difficulties resulting from huge appearance variations, large-scale vis...

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: MONTE-CARLO TREE SEARCH WITH HEURISTIC KNOWLEDGE: A NOVEL WAY IN SOLVING CAPTURING AND LIFE AND DEATH PROBLEMS IN GO
Author: Zhang, Peigang
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Artificial intelligence
Description: Monte-Carlo (MC) tree search is a new research field. Its effectiveness in searching large state spaces, such as the Go game tree, is well recognized in the computer Go community. Go domain-specific heuristics and techniques as well as domain-inde...

Title: Modeling and Analyzing the United States Courts of Last Resort’s Legal Citation System as a Complex System
Author: Mohammed, Louai
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Political science, Law
Description: Courts of last resort in the United States are becoming increasingly important in American politics as the number of cases, influential decisions, and controversial issues continue to rise in the states. In discussions of federalism in the United ...

Title: POLYPHONIC MUSIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL BASED ON MULTI-LABEL CASCADE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
Author: Jiang, Wenxin
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information science, Interactive multimedia
Description: Recognition and separation of sounds played by various instruments is very useful in labeling audio files with semantic information. This is a non-trivial task requiring sound analysis, but the results can aid automatic indexing and browsing music...

Title: PRESERVING DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY IN COMPLEX DATA ANALYSIS
Author: Wang, Yue
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Data sets
Description: Omnipresent databases from various resources, such as social networks, electronic commercial websites, and health related wearable devices, have provided researchers with unprecedented opportunities to analyze complex social phenomena. While socie...

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: SIGNAL PROCESSING BASED METHOD FOR MODELING AND SOLVING INVERSE SCATTERING PROBLEMS
Author: Ritter, Richard
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Optics, Engineering
Description: A mature and difficult problem, still preoccupying many research communities in different application areas, is the recovery of a quantitative image of some unknown penetrable strongly scattering object. In most fields, such as ground penetrating ...

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....