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Jc Drain And Sewer Website, Jarod Pichler, Nathan Houman

Capstone Showcase

1. A website for a small plumbing business in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The website includes a Home, About Us, Services, Contact Us, and Testimonials page. The home page introduces the company to the website viewer. The About Us page provides information about the company and owner, to the website viewer. The Services page provides the website viewer with all of the services that the company can provide. The Contact Us page allows the website viewer to send the company an email. Finally, the Testimonials page will allow the website viewer to leave a comment about the company’s services. The website also includes …

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Ultrafast Optical Response And Ablation Mechanisms Of Molybdenum Disulfide Under Intense Femtosecond Laser Irradiation, Changji Pan, Lan Jiang, Jingya Sun, Qingsong Wang, Feifei Wang, Ka Wang, Yongfeng Lu, Yeliang Wang, Liangti Qu, Tianhong Cui

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications

Numerous valuable studies on electron dynamics have focussed on the extraordinary properties of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2); however, most of them were confined to the level below the damage threshold. Here the electron dynamics of MoS2 under intense ultrafast laser irradiation was investigated by experiments and simulations. Two kinds of ablation mechanisms were revealed, which led to two distinct types of electron dynamics and final ablation morphology. At a higher fluence, the emergence of superheated liquid induced a dramatic change in the transient reflectivity and micro-honeycomb structures. At a lower fluence, the material was just removed by sublimation, and the ablation …

Ev Charging Behavior Analysis Using Hybrid Intelligence For 5g Smart Grid, Yi Shen, Wei Fang, Feng Ye, Michel Kadoch

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the widespread use of electric vehicles (EV), vehicle-to-grid (V2G) has sparked considerable discussion as an energy-management technology. Due to the inherently high maneuverability of EVs, V2G systems must provide on-demand service for EVs. Therefore, in this work, we propose a hybrid computing architecture based on fog and cloud with applications in 5G-based V2G networks. This architecture allows the bi-directional flow of power and information between schedulable EVs and smart grids (SGs) to improve the quality of service and cost-effectiveness of energy service providers. However, it is very important to select …

Metadata Management For Clinical Data Integration, Ningzhou Zeng

Theses and Dissertations--Computer Science

Clinical data have been continuously collected and growing with the wide adoption of electronic health records (EHR). Clinical data have provided the foundation to facilitate state-of-art researches such as artificial intelligence in medicine. At the same time, it has become a challenge to integrate, access, and explore study-level patient data from large volumes of data from heterogeneous databases. Effective, fine-grained, cross-cohort data exploration, and semantically enabled approaches and systems are needed. To build semantically enabled systems, we need to leverage existing terminology systems and ontologies. Numerous ontologies have been developed recently and they play an important role in semantically enabled …

Algorithms For Achieving Fault-Tolerance And Ensuring Security In Cloud Computing Systems, Md. Tariqul Islam

Theses and Dissertations--Computer Science

Security and fault tolerance are the two major areas in cloud computing systems that need careful attention for its widespread deployment. Unlike supercomputers, cloud clusters are mostly built on low cost, unreliable, commodity hardware. Therefore, large-scale cloud systems often suffer from performance degradation, service outages, and sometimes node and application failures. On the other hand, the multi-tenant shared architecture, dynamism, heterogeneity, and openness of cloud computing make it susceptible to various security threats and vulnerabilities. In this dissertation, we analyze these problems and propose algorithms for achieving fault tolerance and ensuring security in cloud computing systems.

First, we perform a …

Greater Cybersecurity Threat Predictions With A Primer In Machine Learning, Samir Souidi, Stanley Mierzwa

Center for Cybersecurity

Why is it that Big Data services such as Netflix can predict, with reasonable accuracy, the movies and programs that I may be interested in when I connect to their service? When I access Amazon.com Online Shopping, I get a good glimpse of items I purchased in the past, and at what timeframe, and also a prediction if it is time to repurchase it? Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) probably hold the key to the reasons these predictions are performed so well. So, why can’t we predict, at least at a small-scale level, when and what type of …

Image Instance Segmentation: Using The Cirsy System To Identify Small Objects In Low Resolution Images, Orghomisan William Omatsone

Dissertations

The CIRSY system (or Chick Instance Recognition System) is am image processing system developed as part of this research to detect images of chicks in highly-populated images that uses the leading algorithm in instance segmentation tasks, called the Mask R-CNN. It extends on the Faster R-CNN framework used in object detection tasks, and this extension adds a branch to predict the mask of an object along with the bounding box prediction. Mask R-CNN has proven to be effective ininstance segmentation and object de-tection tasks after outperforming all existing models on evaluation of the Microsoft Common Objects in Context (MS COCO) …

Machine Learning Assisted Gait Analysis For The Determination Of Handedness In Able-Bodied People, Hugh Gallagher

Dissertations

This study has investigated the potential application of machine learning for video analysis, with a view to creating a system which can determine a person’s hand laterality (handedness) from the way that they walk (their gait). To this end, the convolutional neural network model VGG16 underwent transfer learning in order to classify videos under two ‘activities’: “walking left-handed” and “walking right-handed”. This saw varying degrees of success across five transfer learning trained models: Everything – the entire dataset; FiftyFifty – the dataset with enough right-handed samples removed to produce a set with parity between activities; Female – only the female …

An Examination Of The Smote And Other Smote-Based Techniques That Use Synthetic Data To Oversample The Minority Class In The Context Of Credit-Card Fraud Classification, Eduardo Parkinson De Castro

Dissertations

This research project seeks to investigate some of the different sampling techniques that generate and use synthetic data to oversample the minority class as a means of handling the imbalanced distribution between non-fraudulent (majority class) and fraudulent (minority class) classes in a credit-card fraud dataset. The purpose of the research project is to assess the effectiveness of these techniques in the context of fraud detection which is a highly imbalanced and cost-sensitive dataset. Machine learning tasks that require learning from datasets that are highly unbalanced have difficulty learning since many of the traditional learning algorithms are not designed to cope …

Transformer Neural Networks For Automated Story Generation, Kemal Araz

Dissertations

Towards the last two-decade Artificial Intelligence (AI) proved its use on tasks such as image recognition, natural language processing, automated driving. As discussed in the Moore’s law the computational power increased rapidly over the few decades (Moore, 1965) and made it possible to use the techniques which were computationally expensive. These techniques include Deep Learning (DL) changed the field of AI and outperformed other models in a lot of fields some of which mentioned above. However, in natural language generation especially for creative tasks that needs the artificial intelligent models to have not only a precise understanding of the given …

Identifying Online Sexual Predators Using Support Vector Machine, Yifan Li

Dissertations

A two-stage classification model is built in the research for online sexual predator identification. The first stage identifies the suspicious conversations that have predator participants. The second stage identifies the predators in suspicious conversations. Support vector machines are used with word and character n-grams, combined with behavioural features of the authors to train the final classifier. The unbalanced dataset is downsampled to test the performance of re-balancing an unbalanced dataset. An age group classification model is also constructed to test the feasibility of extracting the age profile of the authors, which can be used as features for classifier training. The …

Detection Of Pathological Hfo Using Supervised Machine Learning And Ieeg Data, Isabel L. Sicardi Rosell

Dissertations

Epilepsy is the second most common neurological disorder and it affects approxi mately 50 million people worldwide. One of the main characteristics of this disorder is the presence of recurrent seizures which tend to be controlled through medication. Nonetheless, 20% of the patients with this disorder are resistant to drug treatment meaning that they need to go through alternative procedures.

Classification Of Animal Sound Using Convolutional Neural Network, Neha Singh

Dissertations

Recently, labeling of acoustic events has emerged as an active topic covering a wide range of applications. High-level semantic inference can be conducted based on main audioeffects to facilitate various content-based applications for analysis, efficient recovery and content management. This paper proposes a flexible Convolutional neural network-based framework for animal audio classification. The work takes inspiration from various deep neural network developed for multimedia classification recently. The model is driven by the ideology of identifying the animal sound in the audio file by forcing the network to pay attention to core audio effect present in the audio to generate Mel-spectrogram. …

Confusion Modelling - An Estimation By Semantic Embeddings, Praveen Mohanprasad

Dissertations

Approaching the task of coherence assessment of a conversation from its negative perspective ‘confusion’ rather than coherence itself, has been attempted by very few research works. Influencing Embeddings to learn from similarity/dissimilarity measures such as distance, cosine similarity between two utterances will equip them with the semantics to differentiate a coherent and an incoherent conversation through the detection of negative entity, ‘confusion’. This research attempts to measure coherence of conversation between a human and a conversational agent by means of such semantic embeddings trained from scratch by an architecture centralising the learning from the distance between the embeddings. State of …

Finetuning Pre-Trained Language Models For Sentiment Classification Of Covid19 Tweets, Arjun Dussa

Dissertations

It is a common practice in today’s world for the public to use different micro-blogging and social networking platforms, predominantly Twitter, to share opinions, ideas, news, and information about many things in life. Twitter is also becoming a popular channel for information sharing during pandemic outbreaks and disaster events. The world has been suffering from economic crises ever since COVID-19 cases started to increase rapidly since January 2020. The virus has killed more than 800 thousand people ever since the discovery as per the statistics from Worldometer [1] which is the authorized tracking website. So many researchers around the globe …

Investigating Effect Of Amount Of Augmented Data On Performance Of Convolutional Neural Network For Multiclass Image Classification, Shivam Khandelwal

Dissertations

This research project seeks to investigate the use of Image Data augmentation that generates synthetic data by adding distortions to original images, as a means of replacement to a large amount of real data used to train the Convolutional Neural Networks. The purpose of the research project is to assess the effectiveness of augmented data over the real data by comparing the performance of the model trained with various amounts of augmented training and validation data ratio. Deep learning tasks involving convolutional neural networks have difficulty in generalizing the models effectively for computer vision tasks when the training dataset is …

Investigating The Predictability Of A Chaotic Time-Series Data Using Reservoir Computing, Deep-Learning And Machine- Learning On The Short-, Medium- And Long-Term Pricing Of Bitcoin And Ethereum., Molly Kenny

Dissertations

This study will investigate the predictability of a Chaotic time-series data using Reservoir computing (Echo State Network), Deep-Learning(LSTM) and Machine- Learning(Linear, Bayesian, ElasticNetCV , Random Forest, XGBoost Regression and a machine learning Neural Network) on the short (1-day out prediction), medium (5-day out prediction) and long-term (30-day out prediction) pricing of Bitcoin and Ethereum Using a range of machine learning tools, to perform feature selection by permutation importance to select technical indicators on the individual cryptocurrencies, to ensure the datasets are the best for predictions per cryptocurrency while reducing noise within the models. The predictability of these two chaotic time-series …

Measuring Decentrality In Blockchain Based Systems, Sarada Prasad Gochhayat, Sachin Shetty, Ravi Mukkamala, Peter Foytik, Georges A. Kamhoua, Laurent Njilla

VMASC Publications

Blockchain promises to provide a distributed and decentralized means of trust among untrusted users. However, in recent years, a shift from decentrality to centrality has been observed in the most accepted Blockchain system, i.e., Bitcoin. This shift has motivated researchers to identify the cause of decentrality, quantify decentrality and analyze the impact of decentrality. In this work, we take a holistic approach to identify and quantify decentrality in Blockchain based systems. First, we identify the emergence of centrality in three layers of Blockchain based systems, namely governance layer, network layer and storage layer. Then, we quantify decentrality in these layers …

The Effects Of Mixed-Initiative Visualization Systems On Exploratory Data Analysis, Alvitta Ottley, Adam Kern

All Computer Science and Engineering Research

The primary purpose of information visualization is to act as a window between a user and the data. Historically, this has been accomplished via a single-agent framework: the only decision-maker in the relationship between visualization system and analyst is the analyst herself. Yet this framework arose not from first principles, but a necessity. Before this decade, computers were limited in their decision-making capabilities, especially in the face of large, complex datasets and visualization systems. This paper aims to present the design and evaluation of a mixed-initiative system that aids the user in handling large, complex datasets and dense visualization systems. …

Automatic Chest X-Rays Analysis Using Statistical Machine Learning Strategies, Hermann Yepdjio Nkouanga

All Master's Theses

Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease responsible for the deaths of more than one million people worldwide every year. Even though it is preventable and curable, it remains a major threat to humanity that needs to be taken care of. It is often diagnosed in developed countries using approaches such as sputum smear microscopy and culture methods. However, since these approaches are rather expensive, they are not commonly used in poor regions of the globe such as India, Africa, and Bangladesh. Instead, the well known and affordable chest x-ray (CXR) interpretation by radiologists is the technique employed in those places. Nevertheless, …

Image Forgery Detection With Machine Learning, Lubna Alzamil

All Master's Theses

The issue of forged images is currently a global issue that spreads mainly via social networks. Image forgery has weakened Internet users’ confidence in digital images. In recent years, extensive research has been devoted to the development of new techniques to combat various image forgery attacks. Detecting fake images prevents counterfeit photos from being used to deceive or cause harm to others. In this thesis, we propose methods using the error level analysis algorithm to detect manipulated images. We show that our combination of image pre-processing and machine learning techniques is an efficient approach to detecting image forgery attacks.

Glaciernet: A Deep-Learning Approach For Debris-Covered Glacier Mapping, Zhiyuan Xie, Umesh K. Haritashya, Vijayan K. Asari, Brennan W. Young, Michael P. Bishop, Jeffrey S. Kargel

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Rising global temperatures over the past decades is directly affecting glacier dynamics. To understand glacier fluctuations and document regional glacier-state trends, glacier-boundary detection is necessary. Debris-covered glacier (DCG) mapping, however, is notoriously difficult using conventional geospatial technology methods. Therefore, in this research for automated DCG mapping, we evaluate the utility of a convolutional neural network (CNN), which is a deep learning feed-forward neural network. The CNN inputs include Landsat satellite images, an Advanced Land Observation Satellite (ALOS) digital elevation model (DEM) and DEM-derived land-surface parameters. Our CNN based deep-learning approach named GlacierNet was designed by appropriately choosing the type, number …

Mitosisnet: End-To-End Mitotic Cell Detection By Multi-Task Learning, Md Zahangir Alom, Theus Aspiras, Tarek M. Taha, Tj Bowen, Vijayan K. Asari

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Mitotic cell detection is one of the challenging problems in the field of computational pathology. Currently, mitotic cell detection and counting are one of the strongest prognostic markers for breast cancer diagnosis. The clinical visual inspection on histology slides is tedious, error prone, and time consuming for the pathologist. Thus, automatic mitotic cell detection approaches are highly demanded in clinical practice. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end multi-task learning system for mitosis detection from pathological images which is named"MitosisNet". MitosisNet consist of segmentation, detection, and classification models where the segmentation, and detection models are used for mitosis reference region …

อัลกอริทึมการระบุการผันกลับของเซลลูลาร์ออโตมาตาหนึ่งมิติด้วยกราฟสับเซตย่อยภายใต้เงื่อนไขการกำหนดขอบเขตแบบไม่มีค่า, วรยุทธ วงศ์นิล

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

เซลลูลาร์ออโตมาตาถือเป็นโมเดลทางคณิตศาสตร์ที่สามารถทำงานแบบระบบพลวัต ซึ่งประกอบไปด้วยสถานะจำกัดที่เรียงตัวกันอย่างเป็นระบบเรียกเซลล์ แต่ละเซลล์จะเปลี่ยนสถานะไปยังสถานะใหม่พร้อมกันด้วยการอาศัยกฎการส่งผ่านที่ขึ้นอยู่กับเซลล์รอบ ๆ ด้วยเวลาแบบเต็มหน่วย แม้ว่าเซลลูลาร์ออโตมาตามีโครงสร้างและนิยามในแบบพื้นฐาน แต่สามารถสร้างระบบที่พฤติกรรมมีความซับซ้อนได้ สมบัติในการผันกลับได้ของเซลลูลาร์ออโตมาตาถือเป็นสมบัติสำคัญที่ได้รับความสนใจในหลายงานวิจัยและสามารถนำไปประยุกต์ใช้ได้ในงานหลาย ๆ ด้านในทางวิทยาศาสตร์ แต่สำหรับเซลลูลาร์ออโตมาตาหนึ่งมิติภายใต้เงื่อนไขการกำหนดขอบเขตแบบไม่มีค่ายังถือมีข้อจำกัดของจำนวนกฎที่มีไม่มากที่มีสมบัติดังกล่าว ในงานวิจัยนี้ศึกษาและเสนออัลกอริทึมการระบุการผันกลับของเซลลูลาร์ออโตมาตาหนึ่งมิติด้วยกราฟสับเซตย่อยภายใต้เงื่อนไขการกำหนดขอบเขตแบบไม่มีค่านิยามเซลล์เพื่อนบ้านด้วยเวกเตอร์ ด้วยการแทนเซลลูลาร์ออโตมาตาด้วยกราฟสับเซตย่อยเราเสนอวิธีในการระบุสมบัติการผันกลับได้ในกราฟโดยการพิจารณาเส้นเชื่อมและจุดยอดที่เชื่อมถึงกัน นอกจากนี้งานวิจัยนี้ยังเสนอวิธีในการคำนวณสถานะก่อนหน้าสำหรับสถานะใด ๆ ของเซลลูลาร์ออโตมาตาหนึ่งมิติที่มีสมบัติผันกลับได้ภายใต้เงื่อนไขการกำหนดขอบเขตแบบไม่มีค่า ซึ่งวิธีที่ได้เสนออยู่บนพื้นฐานของการพิจารณาลักษณะของเซลล์เพื่อนบ้านด้วยการคำนวณทางเดินบนกราฟด้วยการดำเนินการของเมตริกซ์

การวิเคราะห์ข้อความภาษาธรรมชาติตามประมวลกฎหมายอาญา, วีรยุทธ ครั่งกลาง

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์นี้วิเคราะห์การบังคับใช้กฎหมายอาญาของประเทศไทย ในภาค1 บทบัญญัติทั่วไป และภาค2 เฉพาะความผิดเกี่ยวกับชีวิต มาตรา 288 และมาตรา 289 ในลักษณะ10 ความผิดเกี่ยวกับชีวิตและร่างกาย ตามประมวลกฎหมายอาญาของไทย ส่วนแรกของวิทยานิพนธ์นี้ใช้ความรู้ด้านกฎหมายอาญาและคำพิพากษาของศาลฎีกาในการสร้างกฎในการพิจารณาที่มนุษย์สามารถเข้าใจได้ และส่วนที่สองคือการฝึกฝนแบบจำลองด้วยชุดข้อมูลจากคำพิพากษาด้วยเทคนิคการเรียนรู้เชิงลึก โดยแก้ปัญหาความไม่สมดุลของกลุ่มข้อมูลฝึกสอนด้วยการสังเคราะห์ตัวอย่างข้อมูลในกลุ่มอื่น ๆ ให้มีจำนวนเท่ากับกลุ่มที่มากที่สุด และฝึกสอนด้วยโครงข่ายหน่วยความจำระยะสั้นแบบยาวทิศทางเดียวและสองทิศทาง ซึ่งเป็นโครงข่ายประสาทเทียมแบบวกกลับประเภทหนึ่ง และเมื่อวัดประสิทธิภาพแบบจำลองด้วยค่าเฉลี่ยมหภาคเอฟวัน พบว่าแบบจำลองของหน่วยความจำระยะสั้นแบบยาวสองทิศทางให้ประสิทธิภาพสูงกว่าแบบทิศทางเดียว และการใช้ค่าถ่วงน้ำหนักเริ่มต้นจากเรียนรู้ด้วยคลังข้อมูลขนาดใหญ่อื่น ให้ประสิทธิภาพที่สูงกว่าการใช้เฉพาะข้อมูลฝึกสอน และท้ายสุดทำการทดสอบความแม่นยำของแบบจำลองจากข่าวอาชญากรรมด้วยเทคนิคการหาค่าเฉลี่ยความน่าจะเป็น เพื่อใช้เป็นข้อมูลขาเข้าของกฎการพิจารณา พบว่าสอดคล้องกับความเห็นของนักกฎหมาย 59 %

A Comparative Study Of Text Summarization On E-Mail Data Using Unsupervised Learning Approaches, Tijo Thomas

Dissertations

Over the last few years, email has met with enormous popularity. People send and receive a lot of messages every day, connect with colleagues and friends, share files and information. Unfortunately, the email overload outbreak has developed into a personal trouble for users as well as a financial concerns for businesses. Accessing an ever-increasing number of lengthy emails in the present generation has become a major concern for many users. Email text summarization is a promising approach to resolve this challenge. Email messages are general domain text, unstructured and not always well developed syntactically. Such elements introduce challenges for study …

Evaluating Bert Embeddings For Text Classification In Bio-Medical Domain To Determine Eligibility Of Patients In Clinical Trials, Saurabh Khodake

Dissertations

Clinical Trials are studies conducted by researchers in order to assess the impact of new medicine in terms of its efficacy and most importantly safety on human health. For any advancement in the field of medicine it is very important that clinical trials are conducted with right ethics supported by scientific evidence. Not all people who volunteer or participate in clinical trials are allowed to undergo the trials. Age, comorbidity and other health issues present in a patient can be a major factor to decide whether the profile is suitable or not for the trial. Profiles selected for clinical trials …

Customer Churn Prediction, Deepshikha Wadikar

Dissertations

Churned customers identification plays an essential role for the functioning and growth of any business. Identification of churned customers can help the business to know the reasons for the churn and they can plan their market strategies accordingly to enhance the growth of a business. This research is aimed at developing a machine learning model that can precisely predict the churned customers from the total customers of a Credit Union financial institution. A quantitative and deductive research strategies are employed to build a supervised machine learning model that addresses the class imbalance problem handled feature selection and efficiently predict the …

Evaluating The Impact Of Defeasible Argumentation As A Modelling Technique For Reasoning Under Uncertainty, Lucas Rizzo

Doctoral

Limited work exists for the comparison across distinct knowledge-based approaches in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for non-monotonic reasoning, and in particular for the examination of their inferential and explanatory capacity. Non-monotonicity, or defeasibility, allows the retraction of a conclusion in the light of new information. It is a similar pattern to human reasoning, which draws conclusions in the absence of information, but allows them to be corrected once new pieces of evidence arise. Thus, this thesis focuses on a comparison of three approaches in AI for implementation of non-monotonic reasoning models of inference, namely: expert systems, fuzzy reasoning and defeasible argumentation. …

Ambiqual: Towards A Quality Metric For Headphone Rendered Compressed Ambisonic Spatial Audio, Miroslaw Narbutt, Jan Skoglund, Andrew Allen, Michael Chinen, Dan Barry, Andrew Hines

Articles

Spatial audio is essential for creating a sense of immersion in virtual environments. Efficient encoding methods are required to deliver spatial audio over networks without compromising Quality of Service (QoS). Streaming service providers such as YouTube typically transcode content into various bit rates and need a perceptually relevant audio quality metric to monitor users’ perceived quality and spatial localization accuracy. The aim of the paper is two-fold. First, it is to investigate the effect of Opus codec compression on the quality of spatial audio as perceived by listeners using subjective listening tests. Secondly, it is to introduce AMBIQUAL, a full …