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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: ARTIFICIAL FINANCIAL MARKET: AN AGENT-BASED APPROACH TO MODELING THE INFLUENCE OF TRADERS CHARACTERISTICS ON EMERGENT MARKET PHENOMENA
Author: Kamyab Hessary, Yasaman
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Financial markets play a critical role in today's societies and are extremely important to the general health and efficiency of an economy. Solid understanding of the behavior of financial markets can benefit investors, governing organizations and...

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: CONFIGURATION OF APPLICATION PERMISSIONS WITH CONTEXTUAL ACCESS CONTROL
Author: Besmer, Andrew
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Users are burdened with the task of configuring access control policies on many different application platforms used by mobile devices and social network sites. Many of these platforms employ access control mechanisms to configure application perm...

Title: Communities of Purpose
Author: Stukes, Felesia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Communities of Purpose are commonly known to enact their purposes through social movements, grassroots efforts, semi-formal groups, and through organizations in the voluntary sector. They carry out charitable missions and goals and are often commi...

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: Advances in Modern Botnet Understanding and the Accurate Enumeration of Infected Hosts
Author: Nunnery, Christopher
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Information science
Description: Botnets remain a potent threat due to evolving modern architectures, inadequate remediation methods, and inaccurate measurement techniques. In response, this research exposes the architectures and operations of two advanced botnets, techniques to ...

Title: Group modeling, recommendation and evaluation in collaborative filtering group-based recommender systems
Author: Najjar, Nadia
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Artificial intelligence
Description: As the field of recommender systems has grown, more and more attention has been focused on the need forsystems that provide and tailor recommendations to groups of users, as opposed to individuals. We have identified open issues in group-based rec...

Title: Healthy vs Unhealthy: Food Related Tweets and Image Classification
Author: Oduru, Tejaswini
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Many studies have proved that the rise in obesity among the world population is due to an increase in calorie intake coupled with a lack of adequate physical activity. Food is an essential part of everyday life and has significant effects on our h...

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: LOWERING THE BARRIER TO DEVELOPMENT AND ADOPTION OF PARTICIPATORY SENSING APPLICATIONS
Author: Heggen, Scott
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Participatory sensing has the potential to support human-driven sensing and data collection at an unprecedented scale. In this emerging class of software systems, participants use an application on their mobile phone to collect digital samples of ...

Title: ESIDE: The integration of secure programming education into the IDE
Author: Whitney, Michael
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Securing the world's technological resources has become one of the largest challenges of modern day. From healthcare to national security, power grids to public safety, the world is reliant on computer systems and their ability to perform in a saf...

Title: Deep Learning for Sentiment and Emotion Detection in Multilingual Contexts
Author: Abdullah, Malak
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Social media is growing as a communication medium where people can express online their feelings and opinions on a variety of topics in ways they rarely do in person. Detecting sentiments and emotions in texts have gained a considerable amount of ...

Title: Emergency Medical Services Demand Forecasting: Modern Machine Learning Approaches For Producing Short-Term Spatiotemporal Estimations
Author: Martin, Richard
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Information technology
Description: Emergency medical services (EMS); commonly referred to as ambulance, paramedic or pre-hospital emergency services, are a critical component in the delivery of urgent medical care to communities. EMS agencies, the organizations responsible for prov...

Title: Exploring the Perceptions of Users-as-Beacons Systems: Developing and Deploying Real-Life Prototypes
Author: Miazi, Md Nazmus Sakib
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons are widely adopted in a vast range of industries involving the Internet of things (IoT). BLE is primarily used for indoor location estimation. It is often utilized to provide contextual information with low energ...

Title: Understanding the plight of Covid-19 Long Haulers through Computational Analysis of YouTube Content
Author: Jordan, Alexis
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: The coronavirus pandemic is a pervasive event that has had a drastic impact on countries globally. In the United States alone there have been over 98 million Covid-19 cases and over 1 million deaths. One consequence of Covid-19 infection has been ...

Title: Behavioral Health Stigma: Breaking the code with Stigma Index
Author: Tokmic, Farah
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Medical sciences, Information science
Description: Social labeling of people with behavioral health disorders falls under the umbrella of "stigma" and plays a key role in limiting the access to behavioral healthcare. Currently, the U.S. spends an estimated $201B on behavioral health disorders ever...

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: Software-Defined Cyber Agility for Active Cyber Defense
Author: Gillani, Syed Fida
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: The scale and sophistication of stealthy and persistent cyber-attacks like distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and man-in-the-middle (MitM) have been rapidly increasing in recent years. There are fundamental Internet properties, attributed to the...

Title: SECURING THE DATA STORAGE AND PROCESSING IN CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
Author: Owens, Rodney
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Organizations increasingly utilize cloud computing architectures to reduce costs and energy consumption both in the data warehouse and on mobile devices by better utilizing the computing resources available. However, the security and privacy issue...