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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: Bidirectional Scripting and Geometric Manipulation
Author: Rodgers, James
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Architecture, Design
Description: Working within the bounds of two-dimensional drawing programs and algorithmic design software, this project seeks to improve the accessibility to hidden information that is often obscured in conventional CAD software. Building off of visual progra...

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: A Beginning-to-End System for Efficiently Gathering Tracking Data on Multiple Targets
Author: Rice, Lance
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Multi-object tracking in video has the potential for broad applicability, from analyzing division-of-labor within biological networks such as insects, to surveillance and traffic monitoring. Despite any potential the field of multiple object track...

Title: ALGORITHMS FOR STRUCTURE BASED-PREDICTION OF TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BINDING SITES
Author: Farrel, Alvin
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Biology, Bioinformatics
Description: Transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene expression through binding to specific target DNA sites. Accurate annotation of transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) at genome scale represents an essential step toward our understanding of gene regu...

Title: Hierarchically Structured Recommender System for Improving NPS
Author: Kuang, Jieyan
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Net Promoter System (NPS) is well known as an evaluation measure of the growth engine of big companies in the business area. The ultimate goal of my research is to build an action rules and meta-actions based recommender system for improving NPS s...

Title: Mixed-reality squad-coordination platform
Author: Mahfoud, Elias
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Coordination and situation awareness are amongst the most important aspects of collaborative emergency response for firefighters, police, military soldiers, and so forth. Generally, command centers are in charge of managing a team, typically using...

Title: Measuring the Effects of Chart Embellishments to Better Understand our Perception of Charts
Author: Skau, Drew
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Cognitive psychology
Description: News organizations, non-profits, and even government agencies use information graphics to advertise and communicate their messages. Data visualizations are used heavily in these graphics, but they also often incorporate unusual design elements to ...

Title: EXPLORING VARIED APPROACHES FOR COUNTERING THE PRIVACY AND SECURITY RISKS OF THIRD-PARTY MOBILE APPLICATIONS
Author: Mohsen, Fadi
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information science
Description: Third-party mobile applications have become an essential component of modernecosystems such as Android and iOS. The number of these applications has growntremendously in recent years, for instance, the number of Android applications inthe market i...

Title: DEVELOPING A KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY FRAMEWORK IN HIGHWAY PROJECTS USING INDUSTRIAL FOUNDATION CLASS (IFC) EXTENSION
Author: Shen, Zhenhua
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Civil engineering
Description: Highway-project data are being accumulated at a dramatic pace with the advance of information technology; consequently, the need for discovering useful knowledge among the historical data to prevent highway-project construction delay is increasing...

Title: A framework for user-centric privacy management in smartphones regarding Bluetooth Low Energy beacons
Author: Bello-Ogunu, Emmanuel
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Businesses and organizations such as retail stores, airports, and hospitals have begun to leverage the recent advances in localization technology to provide quality location-based services to their customers. Beacons are one example of this techno...

Title: A framework for the use of wearables to enable study of stress
Author: Kanchinadam, Teja Simha
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Stress is a common condition that has major health impacts. Even though short-term stress helps people to react to danger immediately, chronic stress has larger health impacts such as early aging, post-traumatic stress disorder, and depression. In...

Title: Surface-based 3D Object Modeling, Detection, and Pose Estimation in Cluttered Environments for Robotic Manipulation
Author: TENG, ZHOU
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Automatic identification and pose estimation of a target object through robotic perception is necessary for many robotic tasks, such as object manipulation, scene reconstruction and view planning. However, general object recognition and pose estim...

Title: Using formal methods towards improving cloud IaaS environments
Author: Al-Haj, Saeed
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Cloud computing has become a prominent technology with the potential for tremendously positive effects on the future of computer networks and services. However, as the resources are shared in cloud environments, cloud security is a major concern. ...

Title: Intrusion Detection and Deterrence for Critical Infrastructures
Author: Ali, Muhammad
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Critical infrastructures are the systems and networks that are so vital that their unavailability would have a major impact on national security, economy, safety, or any combination thereof. Examples of critical infrastructure are power systems, f...

Title: Integrating Wavelet Entropy and Binarized Statistical Image Features to Improve Fingerprint Interoperability
Author: Chapman, Zachary
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Biometric systems are widely deployed in governmental, military and civilian applications. There are a multitude of sensors and matching algorithms available from different vendors. This creates a competitive market for these products, which is go...

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...