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Title: An Exploration of the Diffusion Dynamics of Open Source Software (OSS): An Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE) Approach
Author: Zaffar, Muhammad
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Business, Information science
Description: Despite the rising popularity of Open Source Software (OSS), there is limited understanding of the factors that affect the diffusion of OSS at the organizational level. Review of the literature suggests that previous empirical and analytical studi...

Title: Assured Information Sharing for Ad-hoc Collaboration
Author: Jin, Jing
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering, Information technology
Description: Collaborative information sharing tends to be highly dynamic and often ad hoc among organizations. The dynamic natures and sharing patterns in ad-hoc collaboration impose a need for a comprehensive and flexible approach to reflecting and coping wi...

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: Development of a multi-layered botmaster based analysis framework
Author: Paxton, Napoleon
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Botnets are networks of compromised machines called bots that come together to form the tool of choice for hackers in the exploitation and destruction of computer networks. Most malicious botnets have the ability to be rented out to a broad range ...

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: 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: Optimal purchasing strategy for bandwidth: A buyer's perspective
Author: Vergara, Frances
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Business
Description: In today's burgeoning business environments, data frenetically pulses through massive interconnected networks as firms create, compile, and disseminate vast amounts of information. Organizations need to acquire the bandwidth that allows them to ef...

Title: PRICING STRATEGIES FOR ONLINE MULTIPLAYER GAMES
Author: Parker, Neal
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Business
Description: This dissertation examines the different pricing strategies available to online multiplayer game publishers. We develop mathematical models of the pricing decision that the publisher engages in and conduct a numerical experiment to identify critic...

Title: STUDIES ON CORRELATED MUTATIONS ALGORITHMS OF PROTEINS PROVIDING STRUCTURAL, SPATIAL, AND ALLOSTERY INFORMATION FROM MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS
Author: Kreth, Kyle
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: Proteins provide innumerable cellular functions and benefits for all kingdoms in the domains of life. Advancements in the high throughput collection and analysis of proteins have led to ever-deeper understanding of biological pathways, evolution, ...

Title: SYSTEMATIC POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
Author: Xu, Wenjuan
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Determining whether a given policy meets a site's high-level security goals has been a challenging task, due to the low-level nature and complexity of the policy language, various security requirements and the multiple policy violation patterns. I...

Title: THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF FUZZY QUERY PROCESSING ON SENSOR NETWORKS
Author: Doman, Marguerite
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Sensor nodes and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) enable observation of the physical world in unprecedented levels of granularity. A growing number of environmental monitoring applications are being designed to leverage data collection features of W...

Title: User Centric Policy Management
Author: Cheek, Gorrell
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Internet use, in general, and online social networking sites, in particular, are experiencing tremendous growth with hundreds of millions of active users. As a result, there is a tremendous amount of privacy information and content online. Protect...

Title: User-centric secure cross-site interaction framework for online social networking services
Author: Ko, Moo Nam
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Social networking service is one of major technological phenomena on Web 2.0. Hundreds of millions of users are posting message, photos, and videos on their profiles and interacting with other users, but the sharing and interaction are limited wit...