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Intelligent Systems For Industry Using Reinforcement Learning Technique, Lirandë Pira

Theses and Dissertations

The rise of Intelligent Systems has happened gradually, then suddenly. They are gradual because we are aware that this field of computing has come a long way along with the history of computers. Yet, the sudden astonishing changes that affect mankind seem to take everyone in surprise. Their occurrence is reshaping the real world and our interaction with our digital life is changing in profound ways. Can computers think? We don’t have evidence on that, whatever the answer to that question is. But what we know is that computers do learn. Indeed, the whole process of computer evolution revolves around …

Bootstrap Vs Foundation, Leandrit Ferizi

Theses and Dissertations

Në kohën tonë teknologjia po ecën me hapa shumë të shpejtë, sidomos në fushën e paisjeve elektronike si: kompjuterë, telefona të menqur, televizorë të menqur, etj. Numri i përdorueseve të internetit dhe këtyre paisjeve ështe në rritje të vazhdueshme. Platformat dhe madhësit e ndryshme të këtyre paisjeve na deyrojnë që gjatë zhvillimit të web faqeve të mendojmë për secilin përdorues duke orientuar zhvillimin që të jetë kompatibil me shfletuesit dhe të gjitha paisjet. Pamja e web faqeve dallon varësisht nga paisja e përdorur. Web faqeve, tek të cilat ky ndryshim ndodh varësisht nga paisja, ju referohemi si “Responsive Websites”. Krijimi …

Aplikimi I Decision Tree Në Kompanitë E Sigurimeve, Shpend Sadiku

Theses and Dissertations

Data mining është lëmi ku shkencat kompjuterike bashkëveprojnë fuqishëm me shkencat statistikore dhe qëllimi kryesor është identifikimi i marrëdhënieve dhe trendëve të fshehura në të dhënat e mbledhura dhe parashikimi i trendëve/ngjarjeve te ardhshme. Duke e ditur se sot shumica e aktiviteteve tona janë të lidhura ngushtë me përdorim të teknologjisë informative, sasia e të dhënave të mbledhura nga ana e kompanive dhe institucioneve të ndryshme është e jashtëzakonisht e madhe. Prandaj, edhe dobitë që mund të përfitohen nga këto të dhëna janë të mëdha dhe atë në të gjitha segmentet e jetës. Duke përdorur metoda të ndryshme për analizimin …

Wordpress Vs. Joomla, Rinor Bivolaku

Theses and Dissertations

Ekzistojnë probleme të ndryshme të asociuara me një uebsajt statik, si për shembull përditësimi i menaxhimit dhe përmbajtjes(management and content update). Për të adresuar këto probleme, një alternativë është përdorimi i Content Management Systems(CMS), siç janë WordPress dhe Joomla. Ky punim përshkruan procesin e përdorimit të këtyre CMS-ëve në një uebsajt statik (proces i njohur si migrimi i sajtit statik në CMS), duke shtuar funksionalitetet të cilat vijnë duke i adresuar kërkesat që vijnë nga një kompani apo klient i caktuar. Në ndërkohë, themes përdoren për të kustomizuar uebsajtin bazuar në po ato kërkesa; pluginsat specifik të WordPress apo …

Gsu Event Portal, Syed Fazalullah, Syed Zainullabuddin, Sujith Kumar Thota, Nadeh Ali Shafizadeh

All Capstone Projects

We want to enhance the services we provide at the GSU event portal site. As we know that the current system provides an old fashioned service including the look and feel which is out dated with the current trend. Our solution will bring a great look and feel to the user and easy navigation across the website. Also providing new feature that is the email service where the user will receive emails upon registration and during other activities. This application will not replace the theme of the existing application but will provide rich user interface and additional services to the …

Gsu Event Portal, Pradeep Kumar Kollu, Venkatraman Metpally, Suraj Ram Ravuri, Sadhan Vegendla

All Capstone Projects

This is a Hybrid Web Application that brings both business and customer on to single platform. It deals which Events, Promotion and deals by the many organization and selling the tickets online.

Through this application it helps the business or an individual to publish, promote and sell their event tickets or deals to the customers and ease to do business. It also helps the event’s organizers and business to increase the market through Social Media. This application helps the customer to check the event, deals based on location, cost, type, date and buy tickets for them. It Supports both pc …

Gsu Event Portal, Shashivardhan Reddy Amaram, Rakesh Pandala, Srinivas Pothuguntla

All Capstone Projects

Event Portal for Governor’s State University is a concept of Content Management System for college events, conducted by management or students. Users that includes students and management can register in event portal to create, edit or delete events with specific details such as background of event, images, location, data and time. Students should login to the portal to register for any events. Upon every user registration in portal or for any event a confirmation email will be sent to registered mail id.

Admin is the super user of the portal to control users and events. A responsive design enables this …

Gsu Event Portal, Richard Evans, Gina Richard, Andre Rogers

All Capstone Projects

This project provides an event ticket buying service for the registered members of the service. This project will be engineered by a three-member team that will create the website, document the project, and define the constraints of the project. The website that will be developed will display current and future events given in major cities throughout the United States. Each city will have venues that the website will provide tickets for. The project will center on entertainment events. Entertainment events are defined as sporting, such as baseball, basketball, football and hockey, concerts and movies.

The project is intended to provide …

Gsu Event Portal, Mounica Avuthu, Tanojkumar Mekala, Srinath Palasani, Sharikar Srikanth Rao

All Capstone Projects

Event organization and its execution is an important factor while dealing with the global event, also sometime same event at different stages and at different location. The event organizations often keep a very important information and global intimation center to the users of the portal. There are different locations, address; their reach ability is associate with the event portal which is the main informative center in between the event organizer and event participants. In the project and concept present by us is map based event management and information management system which is maintaining the different measurement, information and other factor …

Edit Distance Based Encryption And Its Application, Tran Viet Xuan Phuong, Guomin Yang, Willy Susilo, Kaitai Liang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Edit distance, also known as Levenshtein distance, is a very useful tool to measure the similarity between two strings. It has been widely used in many applications such as natural language processing and bioinformatics. In this paper, we introduce a new type of fuzzy public key encryption called Edit Distance-based Encryption (EDE). In EDE, the encryptor can specify an alphabet string and a threshold when encrypting a message, and a decryptor can obtain a decryption key generated from another alphabet string, and the decryption will be successful if and only if the edit distance between the two strings is within …

Machine Learning Methods For Brain Image Analysis, Ahmed Fakhry

Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

Understanding how the brain functions and quantifying compound interactions between complex synaptic networks inside the brain remain some of the most challenging problems in neuroscience. Lack or abundance of data, shortage of manpower along with heterogeneity of data following from various species all served as an added complexity to the already perplexing problem. The ability to process vast amount of brain data need to be performed automatically, yet with an accuracy close to manual human-level performance. These automated methods essentially need to generalize well to be able to accommodate data from different species. Also, novel approaches and techniques are becoming …

Novel Monte Carlo Methods For Large-Scale Linear Algebra Operations, Hao Ji

Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

Linear algebra operations play an important role in scientific computing and data analysis. With increasing data volume and complexity in the "Big Data" era, linear algebra operations are important tools to process massive datasets. On one hand, the advent of modern high-performance computing architectures with increasing computing power has greatly enhanced our capability to deal with a large volume of data. One the other hand, many classical, deterministic numerical linear algebra algorithms have difficulty to scale to handle large data sets.

Monte Carlo methods, which are based on statistical sampling, exhibit many attractive properties in dealing with large volume of …

Toward Open And Programmable Wireless Network Edge, Mostafa Uddin

Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

Increasingly, the last hop connecting users to their enterprise and home networks is wireless. Wireless is becoming ubiquitous not only in homes and enterprises but in public venues such as coffee shops, hospitals, and airports. However, most of the publicly and privately available wireless networks are proprietary and closed in operation. Also, there is little effort from industries to move forward on a path to greater openness for the requirement of innovation. Therefore, we believe it is the domain of university researchers to enable innovation through openness. In this thesis work, we introduce and defines the importance of open framework …

Towards Aggregating Time-Discounted Information In Sensor Networks, Xianping Wang

Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

Sensor networks are deployed to monitor a seemingly endless list of events in a multitude of application domains. Through data collection and aggregation enhanced with data mining and machine learning techniques, many static and dynamic patterns can be found by sensor networks. The aggregation problem is complicated by the fact that the perceived value of the data collected by the sensors is affected by many factors such as time, location and user valuation. In addition, the value of information deteriorates often dramatically over time. Through our research, we already achieved some results:

A formal algebraic analysis of information discounting, especially …

Magnopark, Smart Parking Detection Based On Cellphone Magnetic Sensor, Maryam Arab

Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

We introduce a solution that uses the availability of heavy crowds and their smart devices, to gain more result as to where potential parking is possible. By leveraging the raw magnetometer, gyroscope, and accelerometer data, we are able to detect parking spots through the natural movement exerted by the walking pedestrians on the sidewalks beside the streets. Dating back as far as 2013, a very large portion of pedestrians composing the crowds on the sidewalk, possessed at least one smart device in their hand or pocket14]. It is this statistic that fuels our application, in which we depend on crowds …

The Darklight Rises: Visible Light Communication In The Dark, Zhao Tian, Kevin Wright, Xia Zhou

Computer Science Technical Reports

Visible Light Communication (VLC) emerges as a new wireless communication technology with appealing benefits not present in radio communication. However, current VLC designs commonly require LED lights to emit shining light beams, which greatly limits the applicable scenarios of VLC (e.g., in a sunny day when indoor lighting is not needed). It also entails high energy overhead and unpleasant visual experiences for mobile devices to transmit data using VLC. We design and develop DarkLight, a new VLC primitive that allows light-based communication to be sustained even when LEDs emit extremely-low luminance. The key idea is to encode data into ultra-short, …

Byoc: Build Your Own Cluster, Part Iii - Configuration, Nathan R. Vance, Michael L. Poublon, William F. Polik

Faculty Publications

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Significant Permission Identification For Android Malware Detection, Lichao Sun

School of Computing: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

A recent report indicates that a newly developed malicious app for Android is introduced every 11 seconds. To combat this alarming rate of malware creation, we need a scalable malware detection approach that is effective and efficient. In this thesis, we introduce SigPID, a malware detection system based on permission analysis to cope with the rapid increase in the number of Android malware. Instead of analyzing all 135 Android permissions, our approach applies 3-level pruning by mining the permission data to identify only significant permissions that can be effective in distinguishing benign and malicious apps. Based on the identified significant …

Mercator (Mapping Enumerator For Cuda) User's Manual, Stephen V. Cole, Jeremy Buhler

All Computer Science and Engineering Research

Welcome to the MERCATOR user's manual! MERCATOR is a CUDA/C++ system designed to assist you in writing efficient CUDA applications by automatically generating significant portions of the GPU-side application code. We hope you find it helpful; please feel free to contact the authors with any questions or feedback.

In-Network Retransmissions In Named Data Networking, Hila Ben Abraham, Patrick Crowley

All Computer Science and Engineering Research

The strategy layer is an important architectural component in both Content-Centric Networking (CCN) and Named Data Networking (NDN). This component introduces a new forwarding model that allows an application to configure its namespace with a forwarding strategy. A core mechanism in every forwarding strategy is the decision of whether to retransmit an unsatisfied Interest or to wait for an application retransmission. While some applications request control of all retransmissions, others rely on the assumption that the strategy will retransmit an Interest when it is not satisfied. Although an application can select the forwarding strategy used in the local host, it …

Introduction To Gis Using Open Source Software, 7th Ed, Frank Donnelly

Open Educational Resources

This tutorial was created to accompany the GIS Practicum, a day-long workshop offered by the Newman Library at Baruch College CUNY that introduces participants to geographic information systems (GIS) using the open source software QGIS. The practicum introduces GIS as a concept for envisioning information and as a tool for conducting geographic analyses and creating maps. Participants learn how to navigate a GIS interface, how to prepare layers and conduct a basic geographic analysis, and how to create thematic maps. This tutorial was written using QGIS version 2.14 "Essen", a cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) desktop GIS software package.

The First Potential Energy Surfaces For The C₆Hˉ-H₂ And C₆Hˉ-He Collisional Systems And Their Corresponding Inelastic Cross Sections, Kyle M. Walker, Fabien Dumouchel, François Lique, Richard Dawes

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

Molecular anions have recently been detected in the interstellar and circumstellar media. Accurate modeling of their abundance requires calculations of collisional data with the most abundant species that are usually He atoms and H₂ molecules. In this paper, we focus on the collisional excitation of the first observed molecular anion, C₆H^-, by He and H₂. Theoretical calculations of collisional cross sections rely generally on ab initio interaction potential energy surfaces (PESs). Hence, we present here the first PESs for the C₆H^--H₂ and C₆H^--He van …

Mhealth Support System For Researchers And Participants, Taskina Fayezeen

Master's Theses (2009 -)

With the proliferation of mobile technologies, there is a significant increase of research using mobile devices in the medical and public health area. Mobile technology has improved the efficiency of healthcare delivery effectively. Mobile Health or mHealth is an interdisciplinary research area which has been active for more than a decade. Much research has been conducted and many software research tools (mHealth Support System) have been developed. Despite the time length, there is a significant gap in the mHealth research area regarding software research tools. Individual research groups are developing their own software research tool though there is a significant …

Application Of Group Testing For Analyzing Noisy Networks, Vladimir Ufimtsev

Student Work

My dissertation focuses on developing scalable algorithms for analyzing large complex networks and evaluating how the results alter with changes to the network. Network analysis has become a ubiquitous and very effective tool in big data analysis, particularly for understanding the mechanisms of complex systems that arise in diverse disciplines such as cybersecurity [83], biology [15], sociology [5], and epidemiology [7]. However, data from real-world systems are inherently noisy because they are influenced by fluctuations in experiments, subjective interpretation of data, and limitation of computing resources. Therefore, the corresponding networks are also approximate. This research addresses these issues of obtaining …

Constraint Answer Set Programming Versus Satisfiability Modulo Theories, Yuliya Lierler, Benjamin Susman

Computer Science Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Constraint answer set programming is a promising research direction that integrates answer set programming with constraint processing. It is often informally related to the field of Satisfiability Modulo Theories. Yet, the exact formal link is obscured as the terminology and concepts used in these two research areas differ. In this paper, we make the link between these two areas precise.

A Dynamic Run-Profile Energy-Aware Approach For Scheduling Computationally Intensive Bioinformatics Applications, Sachin Pawaskar, Hesham Ali

Computer Science Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

High Performance Computing (HPC) resources are housed in large datacenters, which consume exorbitant amounts of energy and are quickly demanding attention from businesses as they result in high operating costs. On the other hand HPC environments have been very useful to researchers in many emerging areas in life sciences such as Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics. In an earlier work, we introduced a dynamic model for energy aware scheduling (EAS) in a HPC environment; the model is domain agnostic and incorporates both the deadline parameter as well as energy parameters for computationally intensive applications. Our proposed EAS model incorporates 2-phases. In …

Multiple Fermi Surfaces In Superconducting Nb-Doped Bi₂Se₃, B. J. Lawson, Paul Corbae, Gang Li, Fan Yu, Tomoya Asaba, Colin Tinsman, Y. Qiu, Julia E. Medvedeva, Yew San Hor, L. Li

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Topological insulator Bi₂Se₃ has shown a number of interesting physical properties. Doping Bi₂Se₃ with copper or strontium has been demonstrated to make the material superconducting and potentially even a topological superconductor. The recent discovery of superconducting niobium-doped Bi₂Se₃ reveals an exciting new physical phenomenon, the coexistence of superconductivity and magnetic ordering, as well as signatures of an odd-parity p-wave superconducting order. To understand this new phenomenon, a detailed knowledge of the electronic structure is needed. We present an observation of quantum oscillations in the magnetization (the de Haas-van Alphen effect) of …

Whisk: Web Hosted Information Into Summarized Knowledge, Jiewen Wu

Master's Theses

Today’s online content increases at an alarmingly rate which exceeds users’ ability to consume such content. Modern search techniques allow users to enter keyword queries to find content they wish to see. However, such techniques break down when users freely browse the internet without knowing exactly what they want. Users may have to invest an unnecessarily long time reading content to see if they are interested in it. Automatic text summarization helps relieve this problem by creating synopses that significantly reduce the text while preserving the key points. Steffen Lyngbaek created the SPORK summarization pipeline to solve the content overload …

Understanding The Role Of Information Technology For Sustainable Development In Small Businesses And Micro-Enterprises, Jie Xiong

Student Work

Small businesses, including micro-enterprises, represent the majority of all firms in the world. This study investigates how Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) can impact the performance of small businesses, including micro-enterprises. This research introduces an updated Information Technology for Development (IT4D) framework to investigate the key factors that influence the adoption of technology in small businesses. Through structural equation modeling (SEM) and factor analysis of 118 microenterprises in China, facilitating conditions, attitude toward using technology, and anxiety is positively related to the behavior intention to use IT. Also, the usage of ICTs and human capital have a positive effect towards …

Examining Bridges Between Informal And Formal Learning Environments: A Sequential Mixed Method Design, Dagen L. Valentine

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The purpose of this sequential mixed method study was to identify schools implementing a technology-based engineering design intervention in a way that connects or bridges formal learning environments of the school-day to informal learning environments such as afterschool programs. Further, this study investigated educators’ decisions that enabled or facilitated bridging between formal and informal learning environments. This cooperation and/or linking between informal and formal learning time is bridging. Participants included public schools (n=16) in Eastern Nebraska that incorporated the Nebraska Wearables Technology (WearTec) program at their school, club or Out-of-School-Time program during the 2015-2016 school year. Three of the schools …