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ADWIRE: ADD-ON FOR WEB ITEM REVIEW SYSTEM
(2016-05-16)Past few decades have seen a widespread use and popularity of online review sites such as Yelp, TripAdvisor, etc. As many users depend upon reviews before deciding upon a product, businesses of all types are motivated to ... -
Alternative Architectures For Improving Document Readability
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)A number of tools have been developed to improve the readability of documents. These tools assist users to make changes which result in an easy to read document. Most of these tools were developed for users who work ... -
AN MRQL VISUALIZER USING JSON INTEGRATION
(2017-05-08)In today’s world where there is no limit to the amount of data being collected from IOT devices, social media platforms, and other big data applications, there is a need for systems to process them efficiently and effortlessly. ... -
ANALYSIS AND CATEGORIZATION OF DRIVE-BY DOWNLOAD MALWARE USING SANDBOXING AND YARA RULESET
(2019-05-08)With the increase in the usage of websites as the main source of information gathering, malicious activity especially drive-by download has exponentially increased. A drive-by download refers to unintentional download of ... -
Analyzing Differences In Color Variation Sensitivity Between Experts And Novices To Find A Differentiating Process In Pigmented Skin Lesion Diagnosis
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Fatal skin lesions such as melanomas appear as having high color variation to experts but often as having low variation to novices. This thesis investigated if it is possible to find a function representing an expert's ... -
Anytime Top-k Queries On Exact And Fuzzy Data
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Top-k queries on large multi-attribute data sets are fundamental operations in information retrieval and ranking applications. In this thesis, we initiate research on the anytime behavior of top-k algorithms on exact and ... -
Application Of Graph-based Data Mining To Biological Networks
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)A huge amount of biological data has been generated by long-term research. It is time to start to focus on a system-level understanding of bio-systems. Biological networks are networks of biochemical reactions, containing ... -
An Application Of Parallel And Distributed Computing Methods To Approximate Pattern Matching Of Genetic Regulatory Motifs
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Bioinformatics is a relatively new scientific field concerned with providing computational means and support to research in molecular biology and genetics. It draws from many different areas of computer science, including ... -
Application Of Software Engineering Best Practices And Principles To Small Development Teams
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)The motivation of this thesis comes from the professional experience of the author. Having worked with very small software development teams in various capacities, he realized that significant improvements could be achieved ... -
Approaches For Validating Frequent Episodes Based On Periodicity In Time-series Data
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)There is ongoing research on sequence mining of time-series data. We study Hybrid Apriori, an interval-based approach to episode discovery that deals with different periodicities in time-series data. Our study identifies ... -
ApproxML: Efficient Approximate Ad-Hoc ML Models Through Materialization and Reuse
(2019-12-10)Machine Learning (ML) has become an essential tool in answering complex predictive analytic queries. Model building for large scale datasets is one of the most time-consuming parts of the data science pipeline. Often data ... -
An Assistive Navigation Paradigm For Semi-autonomous Wheelchairs Using Force-feedback And Goal Prediction
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2008-08-08)As computer technology advances and facilitates an increased amount of autonomous sensing and control, the interface between the human and autonomous computer systems becomes increasingly important. This applies in particular ... -
AUTO-ROI SYSTEM: AUTOMATIC LOCALIZATION OF ROI IN GIGAPIXEL WHOLE-SLIDE IMAGES
(2017-05-09)Digital Pathology is a very promising approach to diagnostic medicine to accomplish better, faster prognosis and prediction of cancer. The high-resolution whole slide imaging (WSI) can be analyzed on any computer, easily ... -
Automated Integration Of Biomedical Information For The Support Of Genome-wide Association Studies
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2008-09-17)Genome-wide association studies of the genetic underpinnings of complex phenotypes, and human diseases in particular, have been steadily gaining momentum over the past several years. Yet, the number of polymorphic sites ... -
Automated Software Testing Using Covering Arrays
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Modern society is increasingly dependent on the quality of software systems. Software testing is a widely used approach to ensure software quality. Since exhaustive testing is impractical due to resource constraints, it ... -
Automated Testing of a Commercial Cyber-Physical System Development Tool Chain
(2019-11-14)Rigorous validation of commercial cyber-physical system (CPS) tool chains (e.g., MATLAB/Simulink) through automated testing is of utmost importance since tool-chain generated artifacts are often deployed in safety-critical ... -
Automatic discovery of significant events from databases
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2012-04-11)The advent of the internet has caused enormous amounts of data available online causing many significant facts to be hidden within this data. Searching for a significant fact within these large datasets is a query intensive ... -
Automatic Scheduler: A New Approach For Scheduling Rides
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2012-07-25)Scheduling plays an important role in a person's life. Even computers use the concept of scheduling when it comes to processing jobs. Scheduling is important in cases normally when there is large data to process and manual ... -
Azul - Using multimodal sensors from mobile and wearable devices for assessment and monitoring of depression symptoms
(2019-12-10)With the ubiquitous presence of mobile phones, there is too much data that can be collected for different purposes which can be correlated to monitor multiple more user information. If used responsibly, this data can be ... -
Big Data In Single Player Games
(2020-05-28)Improving video games can be exponentially more efficient by utilizing big data. Big data plays a big part in modern gaming, especially for multiplayer games like poker, first person shooter games. Utilizing the data ...