Special Section On Electrical Contacts,
2017
Marquette University
Special Section On Electrical Contacts, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., Ravi Mahajan
Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research and Publications
Welcome to the Special Topics Section dedicated to the 2015 Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts. This Special Section contains six high-quality papers that comprehensively describe the state of the art and potential future directions for topics of great interest to our readers. The Editor-in-Chief (EIC), in consultation with the other EICs, Associate Editors (AEs), and domain experts, selects the topics for the Special Sections, and a Guest Editor or AE (GE/AE) who is a leading expert in the technical area then directs the solicitation and peer review of the papers. In cases where the GE/AE is also an author, the …
Thz Metamaterial Characterization Using Thz-Tds,
2017
Air Force Institute of Technology
Thz Metamaterial Characterization Using Thz-Tds, Christopher H. Kodama, Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research and Publications
The purpose of this chapter is to familiarize the reader with metamaterials and describe terahertz (THz) spectroscopy within metamaterials research. The introduction provides key background information on metamaterials, describes their history and their unique properties. These properties include negative refraction, backwards phase propagation, and the reversed Doppler Effect. The history and theory of metamaterials are discussed, starting with Veselago’s negative index materials work and Pendry’s publications on physical realization of metamaterials. The next sections cover measurement and analyses of THz metamaterials. THz Time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) will be the key measurement tool used to describe the THz metamaterial measurement process. Sample …
Funny Games - A Definition For And Study Of Comic Videogames,
2017
Long Island University
Funny Games - A Definition For And Study Of Comic Videogames, Eric Guardara
Discovery Day (formerly Post & Beyond)
In this project, I define the genre of Comic Games and discuss its categorical independence of other genres. Until now, this genre has not been clearly defined in the videogame medium. I have conducted research and compiled games that are generally accepted as being humorous. I then weeded out games that simply contain humor and categorized the remaining works that are at their core Comic Games. Comic Games are those whose primary and prolonged purpose are to evoke laughter from the user. This is different than humorous games that passively include humor. A Comic Game is one that is predominantly …
Vistics,
2017
Long Island University
Vistics, Scott Tongue
Discovery Day (formerly Post & Beyond)
Vistics is a 2.5D platformer game for virtual reality devices such as the Oculus Rift. One of the major software goals in the Vistics design is to reduce the effects of simulation sickness in virtual reality devices. On the technical side, Vistics needs to achieve a low enough rendering time that matches the refresh rate of the device of the Oculus Rift - 90 Hz (also known as 90 frames per seconds). Additionally, the camera in the game must be capable of updating in under 16ms. This means that when the user changes their head position in the real world, …
Autonomous Uav Navigation In An Indoor Environment For Warehouse Inventory Recording,
2017
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Autonomous Uav Navigation In An Indoor Environment For Warehouse Inventory Recording, Venkat Ramana Reddy Garlapati
UNO Student Research and Creative Activity Fair
UAV’s are currently used extensively in outdoor environments for various applications, including wildfire monitoring, and agricultural surveying, their use in indoor applications have been fairly restricted, owing mainly to the difficulty to maneuver them in smaller indoor spaces and the inability to use GPS-based navigation system. Nevertheless, there are many indoor applications where UAVs could provide a safe, reliable and resilient means to perform operations that are dangerous for humans such as surveillance inside chemical plants, inventory scanning in cold storages etc., Autonomous UAV navigation in an indoor environment can be achieved by finding a collision-free flight path to pass …
A Hierarchical Learning Model For Extracting Public Health Data From Social Media,
2017
University of Nebraska at Omaha
A Hierarchical Learning Model For Extracting Public Health Data From Social Media, Elham Rastegari
UNO Student Research and Creative Activity Fair
In decision making processes, particularly when it comes to health-related decisions, each relevant piece of information is important. This is particularly important when it comes to health conditions for which there remains a high degree of non-determinism as far as diagnosis and treatment. Online social media, are places in which people feel free to share their opinions about numerous topics, including public health issues and how individuals have responded to different types of treatments associated with diseases. social media could represent a secondary source that can be used as a supplement to other data sources. This would allow individuals as …
Session D-3: Robotics Programming Using Java,
2017
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Session D-3: Robotics Programming Using Java, Pat Patankar
Professional Learning Day
I will discuss how to program NXT kit with various sensors using Java programming language.
Lightweight Three-Factor Authentication And Key Agreement Protocol For Internet-Integrated Wireless Sensor Networks,
2017
Xidian University, China
Lightweight Three-Factor Authentication And Key Agreement Protocol For Internet-Integrated Wireless Sensor Networks, Qi Jiang, Sherali Zeadally, Jianfeng Ma, Debiao He
Information Science Faculty Publications
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) will be integrated into the future Internet as one of the components of the Internet of Things, and will become globally addressable by any entity connected to the Internet. Despite the great potential of this integration, it also brings new threats, such as the exposure of sensor nodes to attacks originating from the Internet. In this context, lightweight authentication and key agreement protocols must be in place to enable end-to-end secure communication. Recently, Amin et al. proposed a three-factor mutual authentication protocol for WSNs. However, we identified several flaws in their protocol. We found that their …
Evergreen: A Senior Project,
2017
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Iota Pi Application For Ios,
2017
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Iota Pi Application For Ios, Deborah Newberry
Computer Science and Software Engineering
Kappa Kappa Psi is a national honorary fraternity for college band members. They meet every Sunday night, and during these meetings they plan events (both internal and external) that aim to meet our goal of making sure that the Cal Poly band programs have their social, financial, material, and educational needs satisfied. This paper details the steps I took to create an application for them to use internally to help ease organizational processes.
Corgi: Compute Oriented Recumbent Generation Infrastructure,
2017
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Corgi: Compute Oriented Recumbent Generation Infrastructure, Christopher Allen Hunt
Master's Theses
Creating a bicycle with a rideable geometry is more complicated than it may appear, with today’s mainstay designs having evolved through years of iteration. This slow evolution coupled with the bicycle’s intricate mechanical system has lead most builders to base their new geometries off of previous work rather than expand into new design spaces. This crutch can lead to slow bicycle iteration rates, often causing bicycles to all look about the same. To combat this, several bicycle design models have been created over the years, with each attempting to define a bicycle’s handling characteristics given its physical geometry. However, these …
Revalume: Configurable Employee Evaluations In The Cloud,
2017
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Revalume: Configurable Employee Evaluations In The Cloud, Terrence Zone Li
Master's Theses
The software industry has seen a shift from annual to more frequent quarterly and even weekly employee reviews. As a result, there is a high demand for employee evaluations to be less costly and less time-consuming, while providing key insights for richer interactions between employees and their employers or managers. Tech com- panies are constantly looking for methods of producing high quality evaluations to prevent costly turnover. In an industry where software engineers are in high demand, tech companies face a challenging problem. Issues with employee evaluations typi- cally include the lack of performance transparency, unhelpful feedback, lack of metrics, …
Efficient Revocable Id-Based Signature With Cloud Revocation Server,
2017
South-Central University for Nationalities, China
Efficient Revocable Id-Based Signature With Cloud Revocation Server, Xiaoying Jia, Debiao He, Sherali Zeadally, Li Li
Information Science Faculty Publications
Over the last few years, identity-based cryptosystem (IBC) has attracted widespread attention because it avoids the high overheads associated with public key certificate management. However, an unsolved but critical issue about IBC is how to revoke a misbehaving user. There are some revocable identity-based encryption schemes that have been proposed recently, but little work on the revocation problem of identity-based signature has been undertaken so far. One approach for revocation in identity-based settings is to update users' private keys periodically, which is usually done by the key generation center (KGC). But with this approach, the load on the KGC will …
Isbord: Internet Searching Based On Resource Description,
2017
China Internet Network Information Center, China
Isbord: Internet Searching Based On Resource Description, Zhiwei Yan, Sherali Zeadally, Guanggang Geng
Information Science Faculty Publications
Based on the Information-Centric Networking (ICN) concept and the mature model of the current TCP/IP-based Internet, we propose content searching based on universal and scalable resource description, namely ISBORD (Internet Searching based on Resource Description). This novel concept aims to improve the efficiency of content searching and simplifies the end-user functionality to support the evolution of the content-centric Internet.
College Cloud: Web Development With A Django Stack And Google Cloud,
2017
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
College Cloud: Web Development With A Django Stack And Google Cloud, Evan Joseph Hench
Computer Science and Software Engineering
Students at Cal Poly run into two main problems involving clubs: efficiency of communication and the ability to find clubs that interest them. Currently, members of clubs communicate in four main ways: Facebook, GroupMe, text message, and email. As a result, it is fairly easy for things to become disorganized from all the different types of communication. Group members are forced to check multiple communication outlets just to stay updated, wasting their time. In addition, finding clubs at Cal Poly is not easy. The annual club fair helps interested students to some degree, but with hundreds of clubs on campus …
Video Frame Interpolation Via Adaptive Convolution,
2017
Portland State University
Video Frame Interpolation Via Adaptive Convolution, Simon Niklaus, Long Mai, Feng Liu
Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Video frame interpolation typically involves two steps: motion estimation and pixel synthesis. Such a two-step approach heavily depends on the quality of motion estimation. This paper presents a robust video frame interpolation method that combines these two steps into a single process. Specifically, our method considers pixel synthesis for the interpolated frame as local convolution over two input frames. The convolution kernel captures both the local motion between the input frames and the coefficients for pixel synthesis. Our method employs a deep fully convolu- tional neural network to estimate a spatially-adaptive con- volution kernel for each pixel. This deep neural …
Bayesian Optimization For Refining Object Proposals,
2017
Portland State University
Bayesian Optimization For Refining Object Proposals, Anthony D. Rhodes, Jordan Witte, Melanie Mitchell, Bruno Jedynak
Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
We develop a general-purpose algorithm using a Bayesian optimization framework for the efficient refinement of object proposals. While recent research has achieved substantial progress for object localization and related objectives in computer vision, current state-of-the-art object localization procedures are nevertheless encumbered by inefficiency and inaccuracy. We present a novel, computationally efficient method for refining inaccurate bounding-box proposals for a target object using Bayesian optimization. Offline, image features from a convolutional neural network are used to train a model to predict an object proposal’s offset distance from a target object. Online, this model is used in a Bayesian active search to …
Automatic Generation Of Web Applications And Management System,
2017
California State University, San Bernardino
Automatic Generation Of Web Applications And Management System, Yu Zhou
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
One of the major difficulties in web application design is the tediousness of constructing new web pages from scratch. For traditional web application projects, the web application designers usually design and implement web application projects step by step, in detail. My project is called “automatic generation of web applications and management system.” This web application generator can generate the generic and customized web applications based on software engineering theories. The flow driven methodology will be used to drive the project by Business Process Model Notation (BPMN). Modules of the project are: database, web server, HTML page, functionality, financial analysis model, …
Android Mobile Application For Hospital Executives,
2017
California State University - San Bernardino
Android Mobile Application For Hospital Executives, Vihitha Nalagatla
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
Hospitals are the largest and most complex organizations where health care is provided. Safe and effective patient care services in hospitals depend on the efficient decisions made by hospital executives. The main task of hospital executives is to ensure the hospital can provide high quality patient care and services. “Android Mobile Application For Hospital Executives” is an Android application used for displaying hospital performance metrics on a daily basis. This application allows hospital executives to review and monitor hospital operational data with ease of access and in a portable manner. Thus, reducing the effort of the hospital executives to perform …
An Investigation Of The Correlation Between Mental Workload And Web User’S Interaction,
2017
Technological University Dublin
An Investigation Of The Correlation Between Mental Workload And Web User’S Interaction, Joaquim Filipe Romero
Dissertations
Mental Workload, a psychological concept, was identified as being linked with task’s and system’s performance. In the context of Human-Computer Interaction, recent research has identified Mental Workload as an important measure in the designing and evaluation of web interfaces, and as an additional and supplemental insight to typical usability evaluation methods. Simultaneously, web logs containing data related to web users’ interaction (e.g. scrolling; mouse clicks) have been proved useful in evaluating the usability of web sites by analysing the data tracked for hundreds of users. In order to study if the potential of logs of user interaction can be applied …
