Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Physical Sciences and Mathematics Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Articles 1 - 8 of 8

Full-Text Articles in Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Automatically Classifying Non-Functional Requirements With Feature Extraction And Supervised Machine Learning Techniques, Mahtab Ezzatikarami Dec 2020

Automatically Classifying Non-Functional Requirements With Feature Extraction And Supervised Machine Learning Techniques, Mahtab Ezzatikarami

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Abstract. Context and Motivation: Non-functional requirements (NFRs) of a system need to be classified into different types such as usability, performance, etc. This would enable stakeholders to ensure the completeness of their work by extracting specific NFRs related to their expertise. Question/Problem: Because of the size and complexity of requirement specification documents, the manual classification of NFRs is time-consuming, labour-intensive, and error-prone. We thus need an automated solution that can provide a highly accurate and efficient categorization of NFRs. Principal ideas/results: In this investigation, using natural language processing and supervised machine learning (SML) techniques, we investigate with feature extraction techniques …


Making Sense Of Online Public Health Debates With Visual Analytics Systems, Anton Ninkov Nov 2020

Making Sense Of Online Public Health Debates With Visual Analytics Systems, Anton Ninkov

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Online debates occur frequently and on a wide variety of topics. Particularly, online debates about various public health topics (e.g., vaccines, statins, cannabis, dieting plans) are prevalent in today’s society. These debates are important because of the real-world implications they can have on public health. Therefore, it is important for public health stakeholders (i.e., those with a vested interest in public health) and the general public to have the ability to make sense of these debates quickly and effectively. This dissertation investigates ways of enabling sense-making of these debates with the use of visual analytics systems (VASes). VASes are computational …


Discrimination Of Leucine And Isoleucine In De Novo Peptide Sequencing Using Deep Neural Networks, Bingran Shen Aug 2020

Discrimination Of Leucine And Isoleucine In De Novo Peptide Sequencing Using Deep Neural Networks, Bingran Shen

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

De novo peptide sequencing from tandem MS data is a key technology in proteomics for understanding the structure of proteins, especially for first seen sequences. Although this technique has advanced rapidly in recent years and become more effective, one crucial problem remained unsolved. Due to the isomerism of leucine and isoleucine, they are practically indistinguishable in de novo sequencing using traditional tandem MS data. Some experimental attempts have been made to resolve this ambiguity such as EThCD fragmentation process. In this study, we took a data focused approach rather than only looking for characteristic satellite ions produced by the EThCD …


Ranking Comments: An Entropy-Based Method With Word Embedding Clustering, Yuyang Zhang Aug 2020

Ranking Comments: An Entropy-Based Method With Word Embedding Clustering, Yuyang Zhang

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Automatically ranking comments by their relevance plays an important role in text mining and text summarization area. In this thesis, firstly, we introduce a new text digitalization method: the bag of word clusters model. Unlike the traditional bag of words model that treats each word as an independent item, we group semantic-related words as clusters using pre-trained word2vec word embeddings and represent each comment as a distribution of word clusters. This method can extract both semantic and statistical information from texts. Next, we propose an unsupervised ranking algorithm that identifies relevant comments by their distance to the “ideal” comment. The …


Optimized Machine Learning Models Towards Intelligent Systems, Mohammadnoor Ahmad Mohammad Injadat Jul 2020

Optimized Machine Learning Models Towards Intelligent Systems, Mohammadnoor Ahmad Mohammad Injadat

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

The rapid growth of the Internet and related technologies has led to the collection of large amounts of data by individuals, organizations, and society in general [1]. However, this often leads to information overload which occurs when the amount of input (e.g. data) a human is trying to process exceeds their cognitive capacities [2]. Machine learning (ML) has been proposed as one potential methodology capable of extracting useful information from large sets of data [1]. This thesis focuses on two applications. The first is education, namely e-Learning environments. Within this field, this thesis proposes different optimized ML ensemble models to …


Visual Analytics Of Electronic Health Records With A Focus On Acute Kidney Injury, Sheikh S. Abdullah Jul 2020

Visual Analytics Of Electronic Health Records With A Focus On Acute Kidney Injury, Sheikh S. Abdullah

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

The increasing use of electronic platforms in healthcare has resulted in the generation of unprecedented amounts of data in recent years. The amount of data available to clinical researchers, physicians, and healthcare administrators continues to grow, which creates an untapped resource with the ability to improve the healthcare system drastically. Despite the enthusiasm for adopting electronic health records (EHRs), some recent studies have shown that EHR-based systems hardly improve the ability of healthcare providers to make better decisions. One reason for this inefficacy is that these systems do not allow for human-data interaction in a manner that fits and supports …


Triaging Twitter Users: An Exploratory Visual Analytics System, Parinaz Nasr Esfahani Jun 2020

Triaging Twitter Users: An Exploratory Visual Analytics System, Parinaz Nasr Esfahani

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Twitter is one of the most popular microblogging and social networking services. Many people from a wide range of backgrounds use Twitter to contribute their thoughts on different topics through postings, known as ``tweets”. Analysts collect and analyze tweets to extract knowledge. To rely on tweets, it is crucial to assess Twitter users’ credibility. In recent years, researchers have proposed various techniques, especially data analytics models, for evaluating Twitter users and analyzing their behaviour; however, these techniques do not engage analysts in the process, leading to a lack of understanding and trust in results. In this thesis, an exploratory visual …


Edge-Cloud Iot Data Analytics: Intelligence At The Edge With Deep Learning, Ananda Mohon M. Ghosh May 2020

Edge-Cloud Iot Data Analytics: Intelligence At The Edge With Deep Learning, Ananda Mohon M. Ghosh

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Rapid growth in numbers of connected devices, including sensors, mobile, wearable, and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices, is creating an explosion of data that are moving across the network. To carry out machine learning (ML), IoT data are typically transferred to the cloud or another centralized system for storage and processing; however, this causes latencies and increases network traffic. Edge computing has the potential to remedy those issues by moving computation closer to the network edge and data sources. On the other hand, edge computing is limited in terms of computational power and thus is not well suited for …