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Easy Net Admin: Inventory Tool For Network Administrators, Rohini Mopu Reddy

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to develop a tool / utility for network administrators to maintain information about all the systems operated by the College of Natural Sciences at California State University, San Bernardino.

Optimal Play Of The Dice Game Pig, Todd W. Neller, Clifton G.M. Presser

Computer Science Faculty Publications

The object of the jeopardy dice game Pig is to be the first player to reach 100 points. Each player's turn consists of repeatedly rolling a die. After each roll, the player is faced with two choices: roll again, or hold (decline to roll again).

• If the player rolls a 1, the player scores nothing and it becomes the opponent's turn.
• If the player rolls a number other than 1, the number is added to the player's turn total and the player's turn continues.
• If the player holds, the turn total, the sum of the rolls during the turn, …

Conceptual Model Builder, Chia-Yang Lin

Theses Digitization Project

Whenever one designs a new database system, an Entity-Relationship Diagram (ER diagram) is always needed to present the structure of this database. Using the graphically well-arranged ER Diagram helps you to easily understand the entities, attributes, domains, primary keys, foreign keys, constraints, and relationships inside a database. This data-modeling tool is an ideal choice for companies and developers.

Java/Xml-Based Trading Information Processing System For Produce Wholesale Market, Ching-Ling Yang

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to investigate the use of the emerging XML technologies to improve online Business to Business (B2B) supply chain processes.

A Wiki Paradigm To Manage Online Course Content, Elharith Omer Elrufaie

Theses Digitization Project

This project develops a new version of the Wiki style administration of online course content. It will implement a teaching and learning tool that works as a easy and quick communication interface between instructor and student. The second purpose of the project is to design an easily extendable and maintainable architecture, which provides a generic Wiki system that can work for any information technology department and handle sets of courses and insturctors.

Umbilical Cord: A System For Ubiquitous Computing, James Emory Warshawsky

Theses Digitization Project

Ubiquitous computing aims to make computing widely available, easy to use, and completely transparent to the user. Umbilical Cord is intended to be the first step in researching ubiquitous computing at CSUSB. It implements a model scalable network with a client-server architecture that features consistent user interaction and global access to user data. It is based on the Linux operating system which can be leveraged for future research due to the open nature of its source code. It also features a scalable network swap.

Designing An Electron Learning Website Using Asp, Jeremy Charles Johnson

Theses Digitization Project

The primary purpose of this project is to develop an online forum to facilitate communication among educators, parents, and students resulting in an open environment for more informed decisions by all those involved in the educational process. The second purpose is the personal development of an electronic learning application using online tools needed for an effective online learning environment that will cost the school district little or nothing.

Sequential Alignment And Position Verification System For Functional Proton Radiosurgery, Veysi Malkoc

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to improve the existing version of the Sequential Alignment and Position Verification System (SAPVS) for functional proton radiosurgery and to evaluate its performance after improvement .

Web Texturizer: Exploring Intra Web Document Dependencies, Seema Amit Tandon

Theses Digitization Project

The goal of this project is to create a customized web browser to facilitate the skimming of documents by offsetting the document with relevant information. This project added techniques of learning information retrieval to automate the web browsing experience to the web texturizer. The script runs on the web texturizer website; and it allows users to quickly navigate through the web page.

An Image Delta Compression Tool: Idelta, Kevin Michael Sullivan

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this thesis is to present a modified version of the algorithm used in the open source differencing tool zdelta, entitled "iDelta". This algorithm will manage file data and will be built specifically to difference images in the Photoshop file format.

Web Based Internship Management System: A Collaborative Coordinating Tool, Vishal Dharod

Theses Digitization Project

The main purpose of this project is to provide an easy-to-use interface for students and faculty members to interact with each other during the course of a student's internship class.

Tr-2004012: Single-Hop Probing Asymptotics In Available Bandwidth Estimation: Sample-Path Analysis, Xiliang Liu, Kaliappa Ravindran, Benyuan Liu, Dmitri Loguinov

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Tr-2004014: A Homotopic/Factorization Process For Toeplitz-Like Matrices With Newton's/Conjugate Gradient Stages, Victor Y. Pan

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Tr-2004018: Evidence-Based Common Knowledge, Sergei Artemov

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Tr-2004019: Quantified Lp, Melvin Fitting

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Face Recognition: Study And Comparison Of Pca And Ebgm Algorithms, Sachin Katadound

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Face recognition is a complex and difficult process due to various factors such as variability of illumination, occlusion, face specific characteristics like hair, glasses, beard, etc., and other similar problems affecting computer vision problems. Using a system that offers robust and consistent results for face recognition, various applications such as identification for law enforcement, secure system access, computer human interaction, etc., can be automated successfully. Different methods exist to solve the face recognition problem. Principal component analysis, Independent component analysis, and linear discriminant analysis are few other statistical techniques that are commonly used in solving the face recognition problem. Genetic …

Tr-2004008: Simultaneous Fuzzy Segmentation Of Multiple Objects, Bruno M. Carvalho, Gabor T. Herman, T. Yung Kong

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Tr-2004009: A Reduction Of The Matrix Eigenproblem To Polynomial Rootfinding Via Similarity Transforms Into Arrow-Head Matrices, Victor Y. Pan

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Tr-2004013: Toeplitz And Hankel Meet Hensel And Newton: Nearly Optimal Algorithms And Their Practical Acceleration With Saturated Initialization, Victor Y. Pan, Brian Murphy, Rhys E. Rosholt, Xinmao Wang

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Tr-2004015: Superfast Algorithms For Singular Toeplitz-Like Matrices, Victor Y. Pan

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

A Paradigm For Spreadsheet Engineering Methodologies, Thomas A. Grossman Jr., O Ozluk

Business Analytics and Information Systems

Spreadsheet engineering methodologies are diverse and sometimes contradictory. It is difficult for spreadsheet developers to identify a spreadsheet engineering methodology that is appropriate for their class of spreadsheet, with its unique combination of goals, type of problem, and available time and resources. There is a lack of well-organized, proven methodologies with known costs and benefits for well-defined spreadsheet classes. It is difficult to compare and critically evaluate methodologies. We present a paradigm for organizing and interpreting spreadsheet engineering recommendations. It systematically addresses the myriad choices made when developing a spreadsheet, and explicitly considers resource constraints and other development parameters. This …

Smart Sequence Similarity Search (S⁴) System, Zhuo Chen

Theses Digitization Project

Sequence similarity searching is commonly used to help clarify the biochemical and physiological features of newly discovered genes or proteins. An efficient similarity search relies on the choice of tools and their associated subprograms and numerous parameter settings. To assist researchers in selecting optimal programs and parameter settings for efficient sequence similarity searches, the web-based expert system, Smart Sequence Similarity Search (S4) was developed.

An On-Line Library Of Design Patterns, Weizhong Wu

Theses Digitization Project

This project is to develop an on-line library to help software engineers who utilize design patterns for developing e-commerce applications it translates generic design patterns to concrete design patterns. The graphical user interface was developed to allow the user to develop their own design patterns by modifying or changing stored design patterns.

Customer Relationship Management For Banking System, Pingyu Hou

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to design, build, and implement a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system for a bank. CRM BANKING is an online application that caters to strengthening and stabilizing customer relationships in a bank.

Morder-Client Food Service, Li Qui

Theses Digitization Project

In the Morder-Client Food Service, a waiter/waitresses orders meals via a wireless handheld device. By reading the order items listed on the screen of a personal computer which is in a kitchen, the cook can make the correct dishes. This system can improve service quality and efficiency.

Operator-Based Semantics For Logic Programs, Pascal Hitzler

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

The question how knowledge can be represented by means of logic programs with negation has been a driving force for the field of non-monotonic reasoning. Implemented systems, known as answer set programming systems, have emerged recently and are currently being used in various application domains like the semantic web.

Intuitively, logic programs are being used for encoding commonsense reasoning, in particular the phenomenon that human reasoning tends to ”jump to conclusions” under incomplete knowledge. Formally, this kind of reasoning is described by interpreting the first-order syntax of logic programs in a more sophisticated way. This, in turn, is most easily …

On The Decidability Of The Termination Problem Of Active Database Systems, James Bailey, Guozhu Dong, K. Rammamohanarao

Kno.e.sis Publications

Active database systems enhance the functionality of traditional databases through the use of active rules or ‘triggers’. One of the principal analysis questions for such systems is that of termination—is it possible for the rules to recursively activate one another indefinitely, given an initial triggering event. In this paper, we study the decidability of the termination problem, our aim being to delimit the boundary between the decidable and the undecidable. We present results for two broad types of variations, variations in rule syntax and variations in meta level features. Within each of these, we identify members close to the …

Ice Dynamics Preceding Catastrophic Disintegration Of The Floating Part Of Jakobshavn Isbræ, Greenland, Jesse V. Johnson, Paul R. Prescott, Terence J. Hughes

Computer Science Faculty Publications

The floating terminal of Jakobshavn Isbræ, the fastest Greenland ice stream, has disintegrated since 2002, resulting in a doubling of ice velocity and rapidly lowering inland ice elevations. Conditions prior to disintegration were modeled using control theory in a plane-stress solution, and the Missoula model of ice-shelf flow. Both approaches pointed to a mechanism that inhibits ice flow and that is not captured by either approach. Jamming of flow, an inherent property of granular materials passing through a constriction (Jakobshavn Isfjord), is postulated as the mechanism. Rapid disintegration of heavily crevassed floating ice accompanies break-up of the ice jam.

Detailed Spatially Distributed Geothermal Heat-Flow Data For Modeling Of Basal Temperatures And Meltwater Production Beneath The Fennoscandian Ice Sheet, Jens-Ove Näslund, Peter Jansson, James L. Fastook, Jesse Johnson, Leif Andersson

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Accurate modeling of ice sheets requires proper information on boundary conditions, including the geothermal heat flow (or heat-flow density (HFD)). Traditionally, one uniform HFD value is adopted for the entire modeled domain. We have calculated a distributed, high-resolution HFD dataset for an approximate core area (Sweden and Finland) of the Scandinavian ice sheet, and imbedded this within lower-resolution data published for surrounding regions. Within the Last Glacial Maximum ice margin, HFD varies with a factor of as much as 2.8 (HFD values ranging between 30 and 83mWm–2), with an average of 49mWm–2. This average value is 17% higher than 42mWm–2, …

Dynamic Voltage Scaling For Sporadic And Periodic Tasks, Ala' Adel Qadi, Steve Goddard, Shane Farritor

School of Computing: Technical Reports

Dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) algorithms save energy by scaling down the processor frequency when the processor is not fully loaded. Many algorithms have been proposed for periodic and aperiodic task models but none support the periodic and sporadic task models when the deadlines are not equal to their periods. A DVS algorithm, called General Dynamic Voltage Scaling (GDVS), that can be used with sporadic or periodic tasks in conjunction with the preemptive EDF scheduling algorithm with no constraints on the deadlines is presented here. The algorithm is proven to guarantee each task meets its deadline while saving the maximum amount …