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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Data-driven Analytics for Extracting and Inferring Threat Actions and Attack Patterns from the Unstructured Text of Cyber Threat Intelligence
Author: Husari, Ghaith
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: With the rapid increase of the cyber-attacks, threat information sharing has become essential to understand and defend against cyber-attack in a timely and cost-effective manner. Cyber Threat Information (CTI) and threat information reports remain...

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: EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF ICON CHARACTERISTICS ON ICON MENU SEARCH PERFORMANCE
Author: Smythwood, Kara
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Design, Information science, Aesthetics
Description: The use of icons is ubiquitous in the computing world of today with icon selection being a typical way to access documents and programs. Icons are used in a variety of ways: search, identification, and selection (mouse, touchpad, etc.). Users sear...

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: HYBRID COMPARATIVE PREDICTIVE MODELING
Author: Nawaz, Mohammad
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: In this research, a hybrid predictive model was proposed for the decision-making process. Predictive models can be built through the use of Machine Learning using different classifiers/algorithms to predict results as well as provide recommendatio...

Title: Heterogeneous Feature Integration for Regression in Multimodal Healthcare Applications
Author: Tavakoli Hosseinabadi, Maryam
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information science, Diagnostic imaging
Description: The increasing performance of feature extraction and regression modeling in various domains raises the hope for machine and deep learning to assist clinicians in numerous healthcare applications. However, the complex and multimodal nature of the p...

Title: Investigating the causal link between the stock market and Twitter sentiments using causality models and deep learning methods
Author: Seyeditabari, Narjessadat
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Artificial intelligence
Description: An investment theory called the efficient market hypothesis (EMH) claims that it is impossible to outperform the market, and therefore, stocks always trade at a fair value. An important assumption of EMH is that all investors make decisions ration...

Title: MODELING UNCERTAINTY IN DEEP LEARNING MODELS OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS
Author: Qiu, Riyi
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Recent research development has demonstrated the advantages of deep learning models in prediction tasks on electronic health records (EHR) in the medical domain. However, the prediction results tend to be difficult to explain due to the complex ne...

Title: Modeling Identity-Based Conflict and Genocide - An Approach Informed by Complexity Theory and Computational Social Science
Author: von Briesen, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: This research designs the Eris model, a novel, agent-based computational model that can aid researchers in answering questions regarding the explanation and prediction of identity-based conflict and genocide. At its most fundamental level, this wo...

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: More Efficient Learning in Traffic Grids Viewed as Complex Adaptive Systems Using Agent Based Modeling
Author: Lane, Marion
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Equation based modeling (EBM) is the most common form of scientific modeling. However, the creation of an appropriate EBM for a large system is likely to be complicated and computationally expensive. In contrast, consider the possibilities if even...

Title: Tabletop Roleplaying Strucutre for SImulating Active-Shooter Events
Author: Hawkins, M
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Artificial intelligence, Cognitive psychology
Description: This research presents a structure based on tabletop roleplaying forcreating better computational models for simulating active-shooterevents. Active-shooter events involve one or more people activelytrying to kill others inside a populated and con...

Title: Toward a better understanding of viewers' perceptions of tag clouds: relative size judgment
Author: Dhou, Khaldoon
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Cognitive psychology
Description: This dissertation focuses on viewers' perception of the relative size of words presented in tag clouds. A tag cloud is a representation of the word content of a source document where the relative frequency, or importance, of the keywords (i.e., ta...

Title: UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS THROUGH SIMULATIONS OF ANGER CONTAGION IN SOCIAL MEDIA
Author: Bacaksizlar, Nazmiye
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Information technology, System theory
Description: This dissertation investigates emotional contagion in social movements within social media platforms, such as Twitter. The main research question is: How does a protest behavior spread in social networks? The following sub-questions are: (a) What ...