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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 ...
Bridging Two Grids: The SAM-grid/LCG Integration Project
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)
SAM-Grid is an integrated data, job, and information management system. SAM-Grid addresses the distributed computing needs of the Dzero experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL. The system typically ...
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 ...
EStream: An Integration Of Event And Stream Processing
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)
Event and stream data processing models have been researched extensively and are utilized in diverse application domains. Advanced applications require both event and stream processing, which is currently not supported. ...
Multi-dimensional Indexing For XML Data
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is becoming a dominant standard for exchanging and retrieving data over the internet. As XML in data exchanging grows, various XML indexing techniques have been proposed for fast and ...
Service Discovery By Automated Structural And Semantic Matching
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)
Pervasive computing systems need to locate and use services dynamically. Current models of service location and interaction rely on a fixed contract, or service description, located by name and/or a combination of keywords. ...
Personalizing (Re-ranking) Web Search Results Using Information Present On A Social Network
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)
We describe a social search engine paradigm which can be built on top of a classic search engine (e.g. Google, Yahoo, etc.) and a social information network (such as FriendSter). In this thesis, the objective was to design ...
Stepping-stone Network Attack Kit (SNEAK) For Evading Timing-based Detection Methods Under The Cloak Of Constant Rate Multimedia Streams
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2008-09-17)
With the advent of the Internet, network-based security threats have been constantly on the rise. The source of an attack could be traced by studying the system logs and the source IP address of the attack can be used to ...
A Framework For Real-time Fault Detection And Response In Multi-agent Teams
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2011-03-03)
This thesis details the creation of a fault detection and response framework that can be applied to mobile multi-agent teams. This framework unites existing concepts of conditioned based maintenance and real-time machine ...
Privacy For Location Based Services With Smartphones
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2011-07-14)
In recent years, mobile devices and smartphones enabled with GPS and Inter-net access have become extremely common. People use these devices as they woulda personal computer for easy access to information. Location Based ...