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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 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: 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: Architecture Estimation from Sparse Images using Grammatical Shape Priors for Cultural Heritage
Author: Sui, Yunfeng
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science
Description: The estimation and reconstruction of 3D architectural structures is of great interest in computer vision, as well as cultural heritage. This dissertation proposes a novel approach to solve the difficult problem of estimating architectural structur...

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: Dynamic behavior-based control and world-embedded knowledge for interactive artificial intelligence
Author: Heckel, Frederick
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Artificial intelligence
Description: Video game designers depend on artificial intelligence to drive player experience in modern games. Therefore it is critical that AI not only be fast and computationally inexpensive, but also easy to incorporate with the design process. We address ...

Title: From pixel to region to temporal volume: a robust motion processing framework for visually-guided navigation
Author: Liu, Jianfei
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Computer engineering, Diagnostic imaging
Description: The ability to view pre-operative CT colonoscopy images co-aligned with optical colonoscopy images from endoscopic procedures can provide useful information to the gastroenterologist and lead to improved polyp detection. Colonoscopy data presents ...

Title: Mining for Knowledge to Build Decision Support System for Diagnosis and Treatment of Tinnitus
Author: Thompson, Pamela
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Medicine, Information science
Description: Tinnitus problems affect a significant portion of the population and are difficult to treat. Treatment processes are plentiful, yet not completely understood. In this dissertation, we present a knowledge discovery approach which can be used to bui...

Title: Privacy and Spectral Analysis of Social Network Randomization
Author: Ying, Xiaowei
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Social networks are of significant importance in various application domains. Understanding the general properties of real social networks has gained much attention due to the proliferation of networked data. Many applications of networks such as ...

Title: RUNNING PARALLEL APPLICATIONS ON A HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENT WITH ACCESSIBLE DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES AND AUTOMATIC SCALABILITY
Author: Villalobos, Jeremy
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Grid computing makes it possible to gather large quantities of resources to work on a problem. In order to exploit this potential, a framework that presents the resources to the user programmer in a form that maintains productivity is necessary. T...