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Title: A COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK FOR MULTIHOP WIRELESS ACCESS AND SENSOR NETWORKS: ANYCAST ROUTING & SIMULATION TOOLS
Author: Sharif, Kashif
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: The reliance on wireless networks has grown tremendously within a number of varied application domains, prompting an evolution towards the use of heterogeneous multihop network architectures. We propose and analyze two communication frameworks for...

Title: A Framework for the Design and Analysis of Socially Pervasive Games
Author: Powell, Eve
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Philosophy
Description: Pervasive games have the potential to create large social impacts on players and non-players alike. However, this can only happen when the game becomes integrated and accepted within a social community - or in other words, is socially adopted in i...

Title: A Growth-Based Approach to the Automatic Generation of Navigation Meshes
Author: Hale, David
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Providing an understanding of space in game and simulation environments is one of the major challenges associated with moving artificially intelligent characters through these environments. The usage of some form of navigation mesh has become the ...

Title: A STOCHASTIC SEGMENTATION METHOD FOR INTERESTING REGION DETECTION AND IMAGE RETRIEVAL
Author: Li, Zhong
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information science
Description: The explosively increasing digital photo urges for an efficient image retrieval system so that digital images can be organized, shared, and reused. Current content based image retrieval (CBIR) systems face multiple challenges in all aspects: image...

Title: A Trust Supportive Framework for Pervasive Computing Systems
Author: Peng, Dichao
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Recent years have witnessed the emergence and rapid growth of pervasive computing technologies such as mobile ad hoc networks, radio frequency identification (RFID), Wi-Fi etc. Many researches are proposed to provide services while hiding the comp...

Title: A VISUAL ANALYTICS APPROACH TO FEATURE DISCOVERY AND SUBSPACE EXPLORATION IN PROTEIN FLEXIBILITY MATRICES
Author: Barlowe, Scott
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Bioinformatics
Description: The vast amount of information generated by domain scientists makes the transitionfrom data to knowledge difficult and often impedes important discoveries. Forexample, the knowledge gained from protein flexibility data sets can speed advancesin ge...

Title: A two-stage framework for designing visual analytics systems to augment organizational analytical processes
Author: Wang, Xiaoyu
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: A perennially interesting research topic in the field of visual analytics is how to effectively develop systems that support organizational knowledge worker's decision- making and reasoning processes. The primary objective of a visual analytic sys...

Title: A virtual pebble game to emsemble average graph rigidity
Author: Gonzalez, Luis
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Bioinformatics
Description: Previous works have demonstrated that protein rigidity is related to thermodynamic stability, especially under conditions that favor formation of native structure. Mechanical network rigidity properties of a single conformation are efficiently cal...

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: Abstract visualization of large-scale time-varying data
Author: Yu, Li
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Computer engineering
Description: The explosion of large-scale time-varying datasets has created critical challenges for scientists to study and digest. One core problem for visualization is to develop effective approaches that can be used to study various data features and tempor...

Title: Adaptive Network Protocols to Support Queries in Dynamic Networks
Author: LIU, DINGXIANG
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Recent technological advancements have led to the popularity ofmobile devices, which can dynamically form wireless networks.In order to discover and obtain distributed information, queriesare widely used by applications in opportunistically formed...

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: Arny: An Interaction Model Based On Emotional Feedback For An AI_Based Co-creative Design System
Author: Abdellahi, Sarah
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Artificial intelligence, Information technology, Computer science
Description: Co-creative collaboration is a creative collaboration of two or more agents working together on a shared creative product. Effective co-creative collaboration is a combination of interactions and contributions of the task collaborators. In human-h...

Title: Automated Meta-Actions Discovery for Personalized Medical Treatments
Author: Touati, Hakim
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Health services administration
Description: Healthcare, among other domains, provides an attractive ground of work for knowledge discovery researchers. There exist several branches of health informatics and health data-mining from which we find actionable knowledge discovery is underserved....

Title: Automated formal analytics for smart grid security and resiliency
Author: Rahman, Mohammad
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Sports administration
Description: Smart grid is the modernization of the legacy electric power system in which cyber computing and communications are integrated with the physical world of power systems. A smart grid provides efficient and cost-effective management of the grid by a...

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: Constraint-based Generation of Database States for Testing Database Applications
Author: Pan, Kai
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Testing is essential for quality assurance of database applications.To test the quality of database applications, it usually requirestest inputs consisting of both program input values andcorresponding database states. However, producing these tes...

Title: Coordinating decentralized learning and conflict resolution across agent boundaries
Author: Cheng, Shanjun
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology, Artificial intelligence
Description: It is crucial for embedded systems to adapt to the dynamics of openenvironments. This adaptation process becomes especially challenging in the context of multiagent systems because of scalability, partial information accessibility and complex inte...

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: Designing better exergames: application of flow concepts and the FITT principle to full body exertion video games and flexible challenge systems
Author: Nickel, Andrea
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Exercise video games have a recognized potential for widespread use as tools for effective exercise. Current exergames do not consistently strike a successful balance between the "fun gameplay" and "effective exercise" aspects of the ideal exergam...