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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: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE DETERMINANTS OF EMPLOYEES' DECISIONS TO USE ORGANIZATIONAL COMPUTING RESOURCES FOR NON-WORK PURPOSES
Author: Campbell, Stephen
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Information science
Description: Internet access in the workplace has become ubiquitous in many organizations. Often, employees need this access to perform their duties. However, many studies report a large percentage of employees use their work Internet access for non-work-relat...

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: 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: An Exploration of the Diffusion Dynamics of Open Source Software (OSS): An Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE) Approach
Author: Zaffar, Muhammad
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Business, Information science
Description: Despite the rising popularity of Open Source Software (OSS), there is limited understanding of the factors that affect the diffusion of OSS at the organizational level. Review of the literature suggests that previous empirical and analytical studi...

Title: DECISION SUPPORT FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE RECOVERY
Author: Pala, Okan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geodesy, Information science
Description: Protecting critical infrastructure systems, such as electrical power grids, has become a primary concern for many governments and organizations across a variety of stakeholder perspectives. Critical infrastructures involve multi dimensional, highl...

Title: Essays on Exploitation and Exploration in Software Development
Author: Temizkan, Orcun
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Business, Information science
Description: Software development includes two types of activities: software improvement activities by correcting faults and software enhancement activities by adding new features. Based on organizational theory, we propose that these activities can be classif...

Title: Evaluating Accuracy and Robustness Impacts of Power User Attacks on Collaborative Recommender Systems
Author: Seminario, Carlos
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology, Information science
Description: Online systems present users with a vast amount of information and product/service offerings. In order to deal with this type of information overload, many top online websites use recommender systems to provide users with a more personalized, and ...

Title: FIRST: Finding Interesting stoRies about STudents - An Interactive Narrative Approach to Explainable Learning Analytics
Author: Al-Doulat, Ahmad
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Information science, Computer science
Description: Learning Analytics (LA) has had a growing interest by academics, researchers, and administrators motivated by the use of data to identify and intervene with students at risk of underperformance or discontinuation. Typically, faculty leadership and...

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: 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: POLYPHONIC MUSIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL BASED ON MULTI-LABEL CASCADE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
Author: Jiang, Wenxin
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information science, Interactive multimedia
Description: Recognition and separation of sounds played by various instruments is very useful in labeling audio files with semantic information. This is a non-trivial task requiring sound analysis, but the results can aid automatic indexing and browsing music...

Title: Quantifying the personal creative experience: Evaluation of digital creativity support tools using self-report and physiological responses
Author: Carroll, Erin
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Psychology, Information science
Description: Creativity is understood intuitively, but it is not easily defined and therefore difficult to measure. This makes it challenging to evaluate the ability of a digital tool to support the creative process. When evaluating creativity support tools (C...