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Pattern Discovery In Dna Using Stochastic Automata, Shweta Shweta Dec 2015

Pattern Discovery In Dna Using Stochastic Automata, Shweta Shweta

Master's Projects

We consider the problem of identifying similarities between different species of DNA. To do this we infer a stochastic finite automata from a given training data and compare it with a test data. The training and test data consist of DNA sequence of different species. Our method first identifies sentences in DNA. To identify sentences we read DNA sequence one character at a time, 3 characters form a codon and codons form proteins (also known as amino acid chains).Each amino acid in proteins belongs to a group. In total we have 5 groups’ polar, non-polar, acidic, basic and stop codons. …


Question Answering System For Yioop, Niravkumar Patel Oct 2015

Question Answering System For Yioop, Niravkumar Patel

Master's Projects

Yioop is an open source search engine developed and managed by Dr. Christopher Pollett. Currently, Yioop returns the search results of the query in the form of list of URLs, just like other search engines (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc.) This paper created a new module for Yioop. This new module, known as the Question-Answering (QA) System, takes the search queries in the form of natural language questions and returns results in the form of a short answer that is appropriate to the question asked. This feature is achieved by implementing various functionalities of Natural Language Processing (NLP). By using NLP, …


Collaboration Prototyper: Automatic Generation Of Prototypes From Uml Collaborations, Ramya Badthody Shenoy Oct 2015

Collaboration Prototyper: Automatic Generation Of Prototypes From Uml Collaborations, Ramya Badthody Shenoy

Master's Projects

The thesis begins with a discussion of the use of designing versus prototyping in the initial stages of software development lifecycle. We present the idea of generating a working prototype directly from a UML analysis model to overcome time spent on creating a prototype. UML diagrams can be made to give sufficient information to generate code. Collaborations form the backbone of analysis models. A collaboration can be defined as a UML class diagram together with one or more sequence diagrams. Collaborations are the input of the Collaboration Prototyper (CP). CP transforms a collaboration into a Java prototype.


Load Balancing For Big Data Entity Matching Using Block Split, Akhilesh Kondra Oct 2015

Load Balancing For Big Data Entity Matching Using Block Split, Akhilesh Kondra

Master's Projects

Entity Matching (EM) is a complex problem and has great impact on data quality. In EM we usually match all the combination of entity pairs using different similarity measures and judge if there is any match between entities. Mapreduce based parallel programing model can be used to match these entities. Even distribution of data into the map and reduce tasks will play vital role in the productivity of Mapreduce based programing model. If the dataset is large and has skewed data, then the distribution should be done effectively to achieve load balancing. In this paper, I have implemented an approach …


A Completely Covert Audio Channel In Android, Sukanya Thakur Oct 2015

A Completely Covert Audio Channel In Android, Sukanya Thakur

Master's Projects

Exfilteration of private data is a potential security threat against mobile devices. Previous research concerning such threats has generally focused on techniques that are only valid over short distances (NFC, Bluetooth, electromagnetic emanations, and so on). In this research, we develop and analyze an exfilteration attack that has no distance limitation. Specifically, we take advantage of vulnerabilities in Android that enable us to covertly record and exfilterate a voice call. This paper presents a successful implementation of our attack, which records a call (both uplink and downlink voice streams), and inaudibly transmits the recorded voice over a subsequent inaudible call, …


Interactive Phishing Filter, Rushikesh Joshi Oct 2015

Interactive Phishing Filter, Rushikesh Joshi

Master's Projects

Phishing is one of the prevalent techniques used by attackers to breach security and steal private and confidential information. It has compromised millions of users’ data. Blacklisting websites and heuristic-based methods are common approaches to detect a phishing website. The blacklist method suffers from a window of vulnerability. Many heuristics were proposed in the past. Some of them have better accuracy but a lower performance. A phishing filter should have better accuracy and peformance. It should be able to detect fresh phishing websites. Jo et al. [2] present a list of attributes of the web page to find the disparity …


Bitfed, A Centralized Cryptocurrency With Distributed Miners, Shruti Sharma Oct 2015

Bitfed, A Centralized Cryptocurrency With Distributed Miners, Shruti Sharma

Master's Projects

Bitcoin is a decentralized peer-to-peer electronic currency wherein all the payments are sent from one transactor to another directly [1]. Financial institutions are not present in the protocol, hence, there are lower processing fees. The distributed nature provides resilience to Bitcoin transactions, and it operates on mathematical principles and cryptographic proofs. As per Bitcoin generation algorithm, the number of bitcoins in existence will never surpass 21 million, which will lead to deflation and encourage hoarding. In this project, we have implemented a Bitcoin-like currency in order to mitigate the issue of deflation [7]. The idea for our protocol is based …


Comparative Analysis Of Two Clustering Algorithms: K-Means And Fsdp (Fast Search And Find Of Density Peaks), Li Miao Oct 2015

Comparative Analysis Of Two Clustering Algorithms: K-Means And Fsdp (Fast Search And Find Of Density Peaks), Li Miao

Master's Projects

With the overwhelming amount of data pouring into our lives, obtaining meaningful information from them is becoming a must task for people. How can people mine for "gold" in this area? Or, what tools can they use to do that? It has been proved that clustering is one of the best tools. In this project, two clustering algorithms are studied and numerically compared with various data sets. The first one is the K-means clustering which starts with initial roughly-guessed clusters, tries to classify some data points into one cluster, and iteratively repeats until converges. The second algorithm is called Fast …


A Secured Cloud System Based On Log Analysis, Sindhusha Doddapaneni Oct 2015

A Secured Cloud System Based On Log Analysis, Sindhusha Doddapaneni

Master's Projects

Now-a-days, enterprises’ acceptance over the Cloud is increasing but businesses are now finding issues related to security. Everyday, users store a large amount of data in the Cloud and user input may be malicious. Therefore, security has become the critical feature in the applications stored in the Cloud. Though there are many existing systems which provide us different encryption algorithms and security methods, there is still a possibility of attacks to applications and increasing data modifications. The idea behind this project is to find attacks and protect the applications stored in the Cloud using log analysis. The proposed solution detects …


Designing A Programming Contract Library For Java, Neha Rajkumar Oct 2015

Designing A Programming Contract Library For Java, Neha Rajkumar

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Programmers are now developing large and complex software systems, so it’s important to have software that is consistent, efficient, and robust. Programming contracts allow developers to specify preconditions, postconditions, and invariants in order to more easily identify programming errors. The design by contract principle [1] was first used in the Eiffel programming language [2], and has since been extended to libraries in many other languages. The purpose of my project is to design a programming contract library for Java. The library supports a set of preconditions, postconditions, and invariants that are specified in Java annotations. It incorporates contract checking for …


Extensible Authentication Protocol Vulnerabilities And Improvements, Akshay Baheti Oct 2015

Extensible Authentication Protocol Vulnerabilities And Improvements, Akshay Baheti

Master's Projects

Extensible Authentication Protocol(EAP) is a widely used security protocol for Wireless networks around the world. The project examines different security issues with the EAP based protocols, the family of security protocols for Wireless LAN. The project discovers an attack on the subscriber identity module(SIM) based extension of EAP. The attack is a Denial-of-Service attack that exploits the error handling mechanism in EAP protocols. The project further proposes countermeasures for detection and a defense against the discovered attack. The discovered attack can be prevented by changing the protocol to delay the processing of protocol error messages.


Cryptanalysis Of The Purple Cipher Using Random Restarts, Aparna Shikhare Oct 2015

Cryptanalysis Of The Purple Cipher Using Random Restarts, Aparna Shikhare

Master's Projects

Cryptanalysis is the process of trying to analyze ciphers, cipher text, and crypto systems, which may exploit any loopholes or weaknesses in the systems, leading us to an understanding of the key used to encrypt the data. This project uses Expectation Maximization (EM) approach using numerous restarts to attack decipherment problems such as the Purple Cipher. In this research, we perform cryptanalysis of the Purple cipher using genetic algorithms and hidden Markov models (HMM). If the Purple cipher has a fixed plugboard, we show that genetic algorithms are successful in retrieving the plaintext from cipher text with high accuracy. On …


Metamorphic Code Generator Based On Bytecode Of Llvm Ir, Arjun Shah Oct 2015

Metamorphic Code Generator Based On Bytecode Of Llvm Ir, Arjun Shah

Master's Projects

Metamorphic software is famous for changing the internal structure of the code while keeping the functionality same. In order to escape the signature detection along with some advanced detection techniques, many malware writers have used metamorphism as the means. On the other hand, code morphing technique increases the diversity of the software which is considered to be a potential security advantage. In our paper, we have developed a metamorphic code generator based on the LLVM framework. The architecture of LLVM has a three-phase compiler design which includes the front end, the optimizer and the back end. It also gives assistance …


Neural Network Captcha Cracker, Geetika Garg Oct 2015

Neural Network Captcha Cracker, Geetika Garg

Master's Projects

NEURAL NETWORK CAPTCHA CRACKER A CAPTCHA (acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart") is a type of challenge-response test used to determine whether or not a user providing the response is human. In this project, we used a deep neural network framework for CAPTCHA recognition. The core idea of the project is to learn a model that breaks image-based CAPTCHAs. We used convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks instead of the conventional methods of CAPTCHA breaking based on segmenting and recognizing a CAPTCHA. Our models consist of two convolutional layers to learn image …


Implementing Type Inference In Jedi, Vaibhav Kamble Oct 2015

Implementing Type Inference In Jedi, Vaibhav Kamble

Master's Projects

This thesis begins with an overview of type systems: evolution, concepts, and problems. This survey is based on type systems of modern languages like Scala and Haskell. Scala has a very sophisticated type system that includes generics, polymorphism, and closures. It has a built-in type inference mechanism that enables the programmer to exclude certain type annotations. It is often not required in Scala to mention the type of a variable because the compiler can infer the type from the initialization of the variable. Study of such type system is demonstrated by the implementation of the type system. A type system …


Metamorphic Java Engine, Sailee Choudhary Oct 2015

Metamorphic Java Engine, Sailee Choudhary

Master's Projects

Malware is a software program outlined to damage or perform other unwanted actions to a computer system. Metamorphic malware is a category of malignant software programs that has the ability to change its code as it propagates. A hidden Markov model (HMM) is a statistical model where the system is assumed to be a Markov process with unseen states. An HMM is based on the use of statistics to detect patterns, and hence in metamorphic virus detection. Previous work has been done in order to create morphing engines using LLVM-bytecode format. This project includes the creation of a morphing engine …


Pattern-Driven Programming In Scala, Huaxin Pang Oct 2015

Pattern-Driven Programming In Scala, Huaxin Pang

Master's Projects

This is an experimental exploration of the pattern-driven programming paradigm—the sole use of pattern matching to determine the next instruction or execute. We define a pure pattern-driven programming language named PA-Scala by defining a subset of the Scala programming language, which restricts sequence control to the powerful pattern matching facilities in Scala. We use PA-Scala to explore the strengths and limitations of pattern-driven programming. By implementing a phrase structure grammar solver in PA-Scala, we show that pattern-driven programming can be used to solve general computation problems. We then implement a Prolog interpreter in PA-Scala, which demonstrates how resolution and unification …


Scalable Techniques For Similarity Search, Siddartha Reddy Nagireddy Oct 2015

Scalable Techniques For Similarity Search, Siddartha Reddy Nagireddy

Master's Projects

Document similarity is similar to the nearest neighbour problem and has applications in various domains. In order to determine the similarity / dissimilarity of the documents first they need to be converted into sets containing shingles. Each document is converted into k-shingles, k being the length of each shingle. The similarity is calculated using Jaccard distance between sets and output into a characteristic matrix, the complexity to parse this matrix is significantly high especially when the sets are large. In this project we explore various approaches such as Min hashing, LSH & Bloom Filter to decrease the matrix size and …


Recommendation System Using Collaborative Filtering, Yunkyoung Lee Oct 2015

Recommendation System Using Collaborative Filtering, Yunkyoung Lee

Master's Projects

Collaborative filtering is one of the well known and most extensive techniques in recommendation system its basic idea is to predict which items a user would be interested in based on their preferences. Recommendation systems using collaborative filtering are able to provide an accurate prediction when enough data is provided, because this technique is based on the user’s preference. User-based collaborative filtering has been very successful in the past to predict the customer’s behavior as the most important part of the recommendation system. However, their widespread use has revealed some real challenges, such as data sparsity and data scalability, with …


Improving The Accuracy And Robustness Of Self-Tuning Histograms By Subspace Clustering, Sai Kiran Padooru Oct 2015

Improving The Accuracy And Robustness Of Self-Tuning Histograms By Subspace Clustering, Sai Kiran Padooru

Master's Projects

Self-tuning histograms are a type of histograms very popular these days, as they allow the usage of multidimensional datasets. The main advantage of them is that they have a low computational cost due to their capacity to understand the dataset. Also, they proposed a better approach as they stay up-to-date and have adaptability to query patterns. According to the above, many researchers have worked on improving the accuracy of these type of histograms, which has led to the use of subspace clustering methods as initialization values. Following this approach in this study, a self-tuning histogram code was developed with the …


A Javascript And Php Epub Reader Web Application, Xiaqing He Oct 2015

A Javascript And Php Epub Reader Web Application, Xiaqing He

Master's Projects

EPUB is one of the most popular ebook formats. It is supported by many e-Readers, such as Apple’s iBooks, BlackBerry Playbooks, Sony Reader, Kobo eReader, Amazon Kindle Fire, and the Mozilla Firefox add-on EPUBReader. In this report, we describe our implementation of a JavaScript and PHP EPUB reader web application. This web application allows users to read the EPUB format books easily across multiple devices without any specified platform lock-in. Our application provides an EPUB library. When a user logs in, he can borrow an EPUB book from the library and save into his own bookshelf, then choose any one …


Ssct Score For Malware Detection, Srividhya Srinivasan Oct 2015

Ssct Score For Malware Detection, Srividhya Srinivasan

Master's Projects

Metamorphic malware transforms its internal structure when it propagates, making detection of such malware a challenging research problem. Previous research considered a score based on simple substitution cryptanalysis, which was applied to the metamorphic detection problem. In this research, we analyze a new score based on a combined simple substitution and column transposition (SSCT) cryptanalysis. We show that this SSCT score significantly outperforms the simple substitution score— and other malware detection scores—in many cases.


On-The-Fly Map Generator For Openstreetmap Data Using Webgl, Sreenidhi Pundi Muralidharan Oct 2015

On-The-Fly Map Generator For Openstreetmap Data Using Webgl, Sreenidhi Pundi Muralidharan

Master's Projects

This project describes an approach to create an On-the-fly Map Generator for Openstreetmap Data Using WebGL. The most common methods to generate online maps generate PNG overlay tile images from a wide range of data sources, like GeoJSON, GeoTIFF, PostGIS, CSV, and SQLite, etc., based on the coordinates and zoom-level. This project aims to send vector data for the map to the browser and hence render maps on-the-fly using WebGL. We push all of the vector computation to the GPU. This means that less data needs to be sent to the browser. We have compared existing approaches to our method …


Author Recognition Using Locality Sensitive Hashing & Alergia (Stochastic Finite Automata), Prashanth Sandela Oct 2015

Author Recognition Using Locality Sensitive Hashing & Alergia (Stochastic Finite Automata), Prashanth Sandela

Master's Projects

In today’s world data grows very fast. It is difficult to answer questions like 1) Is the content completely written by this author, 2) Did he get few sentences or pages from another author, 3) Is there any way to identify actual author. There are many plagiarism software’s available in the market which identify duplicate content. It doesn’t understand writing pattern involved. There is always a necessity to make an effort to find the original author. Locality sensitive hashing is one such standard for applying hashing to recognize authors writing pattern.


Predicting 'Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder' Using Large Scale Child Data Set, Arpi Shah Oct 2015

Predicting 'Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder' Using Large Scale Child Data Set, Arpi Shah

Master's Projects

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a disorder found in children affecting about 9.5% of American children aged 13 years or more. Every year, the number of children diagnosed with ADHD is increasing. There is no single test that can diagnose ADHD. In fact, a health practitioner has to analyze the behavior of the child to determine if the child has ADHD. He has to gather information about the child, and his/her behavior and environment. Because of all these problems in diagnosis, I propose to use Machine Learning techniques to predict ADHD by using large scale child data set. Machine …


A Recommendation Engine Using Apache Spark, Swapna Kulkarni Oct 2015

A Recommendation Engine Using Apache Spark, Swapna Kulkarni

Master's Projects

The volume of structured and unstructured data has grown at exponential scale in recent days. As a result of this rapid data growth, we are always inundated with plethora of choices in any product or service. It is very natural to get lost in the amazon of such choices and finding hard to make decisions. The project aims at addressing this problem by using entity recommendation. The two main aspects that the project concentrates on are implementing and presenting more accurate entity recommendations to the user and another is dealing with vast amount of data. The project aims at presenting …


Study Of Big Data Arhitecture Lambda Arhitecture, Jaideep Katkar Oct 2015

Study Of Big Data Arhitecture Lambda Arhitecture, Jaideep Katkar

Master's Projects

The lambda architecture introduced by Marz is generic, scalable and fault-tolerant data processing architecture. It aims to satisfy the needs for a robust system that is faulttolerant, both against hardware failures and human mistakes, being able to serve a wide range of workloads and use cases. The architecture proposal decomposes the problem into three layers: a) the batch layer focuses on fault tolerance and optimizes for precise results b) the speed layer is optimized for short response-times and only takes into account the most recent data and c) the serving layer provides low latency views to the results of the …


Clustering Web Concepts Using Algebraic Topology, Harleen Kaur Ahuja Oct 2015

Clustering Web Concepts Using Algebraic Topology, Harleen Kaur Ahuja

Master's Projects

In this world of Internet, there is a rapid amount of growth in data both in terms of size and dimension. It consists of web pages that represents human thoughts. These thoughts involves concepts and associations which we can capture. Using mathematics, we can perform meaningful clustering of these pages. This project aims at providing a new problem solving paradigm known as algebraic topology in data science. Professor Vasant Dhar, Editor-In-Chief of Big Data (Professor at NYU) define data science as a generalizable extraction of knowledge from data. The core concept of semantic based search engine project developed by my …


Measuring Malware Evolution, Poonkodi Ponnambalam Oct 2015

Measuring Malware Evolution, Poonkodi Ponnambalam

Master's Projects

In this research, we simulate the effect of code evolution by applying a variety of code morphing strategies. Specifically, we consider code substitution, transposition, insertion, and deletion. We then analyze the effect of these code morphing strategies relative to a variety of malware scores that have been considered in previous research. Our goal is to gain a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of these various malware scoring techniques. This research should prove useful in designing more robust scores for detecting malware.


Entity And Relational Queries Over Big Data Storage, Nachappa Achakalera Ponnappa Oct 2015

Entity And Relational Queries Over Big Data Storage, Nachappa Achakalera Ponnappa

Master's Projects

Big data storage involves using NoSQL technologies to handle and process huge volumes of data. NoSQL databases are non-relational, schema-free where data is stored as key-value pairs. The aim of the thesis is to implement Entity and Relational queries on top of Big Data storage. In order to achieve this, we use NoSQL technologies like MongoDB and HBase. We implement various methodologies and solutions on top of MongoDB and HBase to map data across different tables and implement entity and relational queries to retrieve entities from huge volumes of data. We also measure the performance of both the technologies and …