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Pervasive Parallel And Distributed Computing In A Liberal Arts College Curriculum, Tia Newhall, Andrew Danner, Kevin C. Webb

Computer Science Faculty Works

We present a model for incorporating parallel and distributed computing (PDC) throughout an undergraduate CS curriculum. Our curriculum is designed to introduce students early to parallel and distributed computing topics and to expose students to these topics repeatedly in the context of a wide variety of CS courses. The key to our approach is the development of a required intermediate-level course that serves as a introduction to computer systems and parallel computing. It serves as a requirement for every CS major and minor and is a prerequisite to upper-level courses that expand on parallel and distributed computing topics in different …

Simulimi & Analiza E Performances Se Nje Rrjeti Te Komunikimit 3g/Umts, Gent Çuna

Theses and Dissertations

Rrjetat wireless te komunikimeve mobile jane duke u rritur me ritem te hovshem, dhe kjo me shume gjase do te ndodhe edhe ne te ardhmen e afert. Ne kete punim eshte kryer nje hulumtim i tekonoligjise se gjenerates se 3-te (3G) duke e analizuar punen per te krijuar dizajn dhe kushte optimale per rrjetin 3G.

Ne 3G, disa prej sherbimeve si e-mail, shfletimi i web etj, lejojne kalimin e rrjetit prej circuit-switched(ku nje kanal i dedikuar ndahet per kohen e transmetimit) ne ate packed-switched(ku nje mesazh ndahet ne disa pjese qe dergohen ne menyre te pavarur dhe qe bashkohen ne …

Implementimi I Infrastrukturës Së Rrjetit Në Kampusin Universitar, Agron Gërbeshi

Theses and Dissertations

Me anë të kësaj teme dua të projektojë një infrastrukturë të rrjetës për kampuse Universitare, i cili mund të përdoret në të ardhmen për të implementuar rrjetin kompjuterik në kampuse Universitare. Do të analizojë dhe simulojë probleme të ndryshme si rrjetin VPN, Wireless, Access Lists dhe krijimin e departamenteve në kampusin Universitarë.

Metodologjia e hulumtimit I takon tipit sasiore dhe cilësore ku nëpërmes programit për simulim të rrjeteve kompjuterike Cisco Packet Tracer dhe Microsoft Visio do të paraqesë të gjitha rezultatet e arritura.

Hulumitmi do të realizohet në qendrat Universitare të UBT në Prishtinë, Lipjan, Ferizaj dhe Prizren. Nga analiza …

Motion-Capture-Based Hand Gesture Recognition For Computing And Control, Andrew Gardner

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation focuses on the study and development of algorithms that enable the analysis and recognition of hand gestures in a motion capture environment. Central to this work is the study of unlabeled point sets in a more abstract sense. Evaluations of proposed methods focus on examining their generalization to users not encountered during system training.

In an initial exploratory study, we compare various classification algorithms based upon multiple interpretations and feature transformations of point sets, including those based upon aggregate features (e.g. mean) and a pseudo-rasterization of the capture space. We find aggregate feature classifiers to be balanced across …

Sales Management Portal, Vivek Devarakonda, Ashok Kachwaha, Mary Caroline Kandukuri, Manisha Reddy Vennam

All Capstone Projects

This project is aimed to design a sales portal where student/guardian enter the perspective student information into pipeline by keeping logs of contacts and activities, opportunities, and proposals, and eventually availabilities of seats. The portal enables management to oversee works and track progresses, and in the meantime to interact with and provide guidance to recruit students timely. This portal has a responsive design so it will adjust to diverse resolutions, making it easy for student/guardian to navigate the portal on their own devices. Eventually guardians/students are allowed to enter the perspective student information and can have the opportunity to choose …

A Software Development Process For Freshman Undergraduate Students, Catherine Higgins, Fredrick Mtenzi, Ciaran O’Leary, Orla Hanratty, Claire Mcavinia

Book Chapters / Conference Papers

This conceptual paper presents work which is part of an ongoing research project into the design of a software development process aimed at freshman, undergraduate computing students. The process of how to plan and develop a solution is a topic that is addressed very lightly in many freshman, undergraduate courses which can leave novices open to developing habit-forming, maladaptive cognitive practices. The conceptual software development process described in this paper has a learning process at its core which centres on declarative knowledge (in the form of threshold concepts) and procedural knowledge (in the form of computational thinking skills) scaffolding freshman …

Clustering Opportunistic Ant-Based Routing Protocol For Wireless Sensor Networks, Xinlu Li, Brian Keegan, Fredrick Mtenzi

Book Chapters / Conference Papers

The wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have a wide range of applications in many ereas, including many kinds of uses such as environmental monitoring and chemical detection. Due to the restriction of energy supply, the improvement of routing performance is the major motivation in WSNs. We present a Clustering Opportunistic Ant-based Routing protocol (COAR), which comprises the following main contributions to achieve high energy efficient and well load-balance: (i) in the clustering algorithm, we caculate the theoretical value of energy dissipation, which will make the number of clusters fluctuate around the expected value, (ii) define novel heuristic function and pheromone update …

Sales Management Portal, Shushrutha Bandari, Bandla Mounika, Bala Varshaan Kovuru

All Capstone Projects

The Sales Management Portal is a conceptual design for a company’s sales pipeline database portal, through which sales staff enters client’s information into pipeline by keeping logs of contacts and activities, opportunities and proposals, and eventually projects. The portal enables management to oversee works and track progresses, and in the meantime to interact with the staff and provide guidance to sales staff timely. This portal should have a responsive design so it will adjust to diverse resolutions, making it easy for users to navigate the portal on their own devices. GSU Corporation is a world-renown provider of communication solutions. It …

Sales Management Portal, Pavankumar Annapareddy, Niharika Dusharla, Sri Ram Kumar Ramineni

All Capstone Projects

To create this Sales Management Portal, it is aimed to develop the sales pipeline by using .NET (Microsoft Visual Studio 2015) and SQL SERVER (Management Studio 2016). This system can be used to store the details of the sale details of the company projects purchased by user accounts. It is an integrated system which contains both the client segment (utilized by salespersons, managers, stock chiefs and so forth.) and the administrator segment (utilized by the chairmen for performing administrator level capacities, for example, adding new things to the stock, changing the cost of the project and so on.). This framework …

Sales Management Portal, Dileep Ponnekanti, Puvvala Jeevanth Naga Durga, Vidiyala Surendra

All Capstone Projects

The main motive behind this project is the combination of Sales Management Portal and Job searching portal. In this project the client, user, job seeker, investors and the companies can communicate each other using this portal. Manager, HR will update the Project information like budget, revenue, type, proposal and how many opportunities are available based on the project to the job seekers. And people also can be the part of the project by investing on the project as a shareholder. Manager and HR have the authorities to add the client details in the portal. The includes many aspects like Company …

Sales Management Portal, Mounika Mallepalli, Deepa Pasula

All Capstone Projects

In this project we are designing company’s sales pipeline database portal. This sales management portal plays very important role in any company, the profit and success of the company rely on sales management. This management portal holds the information of clients and their contact information, this information will useful to know the requirements and to make proposals with them. If these proposals approved by the manager then that proposal become a project to the company. This portal also enables the company manager to get up to date with their work progress, and gives updates to sales staff simultaneously. The manager …

Sales Management Portal, Krishna Reddy Battu, Naveen Kumar Gujjari, Ahtesham Hussein Mohammed, Sudeepthi Monajigari

All Capstone Projects

This is a conceptual design for a company’s sales pipeline database portal, at which sales staff enters clients’ information into pipeline by keeping logs of contacts and activities, opportunities and proposals, and eventually projects. The portal enables management to oversee works and track progresses, and in the meantime to interact with and provide guidance to sales staff timely. This portal should have a responsive design so it will adjust to diverse resolutions, making it easy for users to navigate the portal on their own devices. Sales management portal can perform a number of important functions, including: Sales management portal is …

Sales Management Portal, Yameen Fatima, Billa Koushik Mohan, Shaik Samee Uddin

All Capstone Projects

The main objective of this project is to enhance the sales management portal of an academic center which is a non-profitable organization. The purpose is to help the pipeline, to create the relating design for the organization’s sales. The sales management portal should be able to promote the academic courses and improve the sales in best possible way. This sales management portal should be able to link to the existing course management portal. Staff should able to enter new client’s information into pipeline by keeping logs of contacts, activities, opportunities, proposals, and eventually registration. The sales management portal should allow …

Sales Management Portal, Margaret Ann Akines

All Capstone Projects

The Sales Management Portal is a multi-leveled and Synchronized Web Portal. It will be of great importance, because salesman could use this portal for marketing their product, generating interest, keeping logs of their accounts, and planning activities. The log-in process will be both smooth, and user-friendly. Members of any Sales Department Team will be able to search, update, and work on leads, add potential or confirmed customers, as well as track the progress of sales of product or services. This new Sales Management Portal will solve the old problems of “Paid by Commission” like “Every Man/Woman for themselves” routine. It …

Eduform, Olaf Broms

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

EduForum is a project that has been constructed to fulfil a niche in the learning management system market. The current learning management system market is comprised of mainly large, well-funded, and highly entrenched offerings. The trend in the market has been shifting recently away from some of these legacy offerings towards some of their newer competitors. This trend holds true in the for-profit marker, but no true competitor has emerged to challenge the market’s largest open-source offering, Moodle.

EduForum hopes to be the offering to fill this role by using a number of new methodologies and technologies to create a …

Multi-Gpu Accelerated High-Fidelity Simulations Of Beam-Beam Effects In Particle Colliders, Naga Sai Ravi Teja Majeti

Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

Numerical simulation of beam-beam effects in particle colliders are crucial in understanding and the design of future machines such as electron-ion colliders (JLEIC), linac-ring machines (eRHIC) or LHeC. These simulations model the non-linear collision dynamics of two counter rotating beams in particle colliders for millions of turns. In particular, at each turn, the algorithm simulates the collision of two directed beams propagating at different speeds with different number of bunches each. This leads to non-pair-wise collisions of beams with different number of bunches that results in an increase in the computational load proportional to the number of bunches in the …

Querying And Visualization Of Moving Objects Using Constraint Databases, Semere M. Woldemariam

School of Computing: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Good querying and visualization of moving objects and their trajectories is still an open problem. This thesis investigates three types of moving objects. First, projectiles, whose parabolic motion is difficult to represent. Second, moving objects that slide down a slope. The representation of these objects is challenging because of their accelerating motion. Third, the motion of migrating animals. The motion of migrating animals is challenging because it also involves some spatio-temporal interpolation. The thesis shows a solution to these problems using ideas from physics and an implementation in the MLPQ constraint databases system. The MLPQ implementation enables several complex spatio-temporal …

Sales Management Portal, Manoranjan Kumar Daggolu, Bharat K. Gampa, Tarun Kakarla, Mahesh Reddy Thokala

All Capstone Projects

The sales management portal is online web based application where the user will be able to keep a track of all the sales made by an organization with respect to the projects being handled by the organization. Apart from tracking the sales data the other features include creation of projects, teams, managing the team members, communication among the users, search functionality for the projects, teams and users and project tracking. The application supports three levels of users where each user with respect to the role will have different functionality and user authorization is made at even page level to make …

Sales Management Portal, Janumala Nikitha, Ranjith Kumar Pullepally, Sujith Kumar Saminani, Ashwin Kumar Vodnala

All Capstone Projects

The project deals with the tracking of the sales made on behalf of the projects that are being handled by the organization. In the current project, there exists three levels of user’s such as employee, manager and client. Each user with different levels of access will be having different features enabled to them. Apart from this the users will be having authorized access and each user will be checked for role based access at each page level so that only authorized user will be able to access the feature that are assigned to the user. The web application will be …

Sales Management Portal, Sumeet Bajaj, Dheeraj Kanth Chimme, Vivek Varma Gadiraju

All Capstone Projects

The Sales Management portal is web based application where the users will be able to make purchases of different leather based products available at the store. The web based application will be having three levels of access where each user will be having different menu options available for performing various levels tasks based on the level of authorization. The web based application will be dealing with the selling of the leather based products and generating the sales information to create plans and deals for the future to gain more profits. The importance of the project lies in the generation of …

Os2: Oblivious Similarity Based Searching For Encrypted Data Outsourced To An Untrusted Domain, Zeeshan Pervez, Mahmood Ahmad, Asad Masood Khattak, Naeem Ramzan, Wajahat Ali Khan

All Works

© 2017 Pervez et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Public cloud storage services are becoming prevalent and myriad data sharing, archiving and collaborative services have emerged which harness the pay-as-you-go business model of public cloud. To ensure privacy and confidentiality often encrypted data is outsourced to such services, which further complicates the process of accessing relevant data by using search queries. Search over encrypted data schemes solve this problem by …

Multispectral Image Analysis Using Decision Trees, Arun D. Kulkarni, Anmol Shrestha

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Many machine learning algorithms have been used to classify pixels in Landsat imagery. The maximum likelihood classifier is the widely-accepted classifier. Non-parametric methods of classification include neural networks and decision trees. In this research work, we implemented decision trees using the C4.5 algorithm to classify pixels of a scene from Juneau, Alaska area obtained with Landsat 8, Operation Land Imager (OLI). One of the concerns with decision trees is that they are often over fitted with training set data, which yields less accuracy in classifying unknown data. To study the effect of overfitting, we have considered noisy training set data …

Shortest Path Problem Under Triangular Fuzzy Neutrosophic Information, Florentin Smarandache, Said Broumi, Assia Bakali, Mohamed Talea, Luige Vladareanu

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In this paper, we develop a new approach to deal with neutrosphic shortest path problem in a network in which each edge weight (or length) is represented as triangular fuzzy neutrosophic number. The proposed algorithm also gives the shortest path length from source node to destination node using ranking function. Finally, an illustrative example is also included to demonstrate our proposed approach.

A Privacy Preserving Framework For Rfid Based Healthcare Systems, Farzana Rahman, Anwarul A. Bhuiyan, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed

Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Faculty Research and Publications

RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) is anticipated to be a core technology that will be used in many practical applications of our life in near future. It has received considerable attention within the healthcare for almost a decade now. The technology’s promise to efficiently track hospital supplies, medical equipment, medications and patients is an attractive proposition to the healthcare industry. However, the prospect of wide spread use of RFID tags in the healthcare area has also triggered discussions regarding privacy, particularly because RFID data in transit may easily be intercepted and can be send to track its user (owner). In a …

Homogenization Of Plastic Deformation In Heterogeneous Lamella Structures, Rui Yuan, Irene J. Beyerlein, Caizhi Zhou

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

It has been shown that unlike its constituent nanocrystalline (NC) phase, a heterogeneous lamella (HL) composite comprising NC and coarse-grain layers exhibits greatly improved ductility. To understand the origin of this enhancement, we present a 3D discrete dislocation, crystal plasticity finite element model to study the development of strains across this microstructure. Here we show that the HL structure homogenizes the plastic strains in the NC layer, weakening the effect of strain concentrations. These findings can provide valuable insight into the effects of material length scales on material instabilities, which is needed to design heterogeneous structures with superior properties.

Speech Based Machine Learning Models For Emotional State Recognition And Ptsd Detection, Debrup Banerjee

Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Recognition of emotional state and diagnosis of trauma related illnesses such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using speech signals have been active research topics over the past decade. A typical emotion recognition system consists of three components: speech segmentation, feature extraction and emotion identification. Various speech features have been developed for emotional state recognition which can be divided into three categories, namely, excitation, vocal tract and prosodic. However, the capabilities of different feature categories and advanced machine learning techniques have not been fully explored for emotion recognition and PTSD diagnosis. For PTSD assessment, clinical diagnosis through structured interviews is a …

Finite Element Modeling Driven By Health Care And Aerospace Applications, Fotios Drakopoulos

Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

This thesis concerns the development, analysis, and computer implementation of mesh generation algorithms encountered in finite element modeling in health care and aerospace. The finite element method can reduce a continuous system to a discrete idealization that can be solved in the same manner as a discrete system, provided the continuum is discretized into a finite number of simple geometric shapes (e.g., triangles in two dimensions or tetrahedrons in three dimensions).

In health care, namely anatomic modeling, a discretization of the biological object is essential to compute tissue deformation for physics-based simulations. This thesis proposes an efficient procedure to convert …

Jfix: Semantics-Based Repair Of Java Programs Via Symbolic Pathfinder, Xuan Bach D. Le, Duc-Hiep Chu, David Lo, Goues Le, Willem Visser

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Recently there has been a proliferation of automated program repair (APR) techniques, targeting various programming languages. Such techniques can be generally classified into two families: syntactic- and semantics-based. Semantics-based APR, on which we focus, typically uses symbolic execution to infer semantic constraints and then program synthesis to construct repairs conforming to them. While syntactic-based APR techniques have been shown success- ful on bugs in real-world programs written in both C and Java, semantics-based APR techniques mostly target C programs. This leaves empirical comparisons of the APR families not fully explored, and developers without a Java-based semantics APR technique. We present …

Iupdater: Low Cost Rss Fingerprints Updating For Device-Free Localization, Liqiong Chang, Jie Xiong, Yu Wang, Xiaojiang Chen, Junhao Hu, Dingyi Fang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

While most existing indoor localization techniques are device-based, many emerging applications such as intruder detection and elderly monitoring drive the needs of device-free localization, in which the target can be localized without any device attached. Among the diverse techniques, received signal strength (RSS) fingerprint-based methods are popular because of the wide availability of RSS readings in most commodity hardware. However, current fingerprint-based systems suffer from high human labor cost to update the fingerprint database and low accuracy due to the large degree of RSS variations. In this paper, we propose a fingerprint-based device-free localization system named iUpdater to significantly reduce …

How To Enable Future Faster Payments? An Evaluation Of A Hybrid Payments Settlement Mechanism, Zhiling Guo, Yuanzhi Huang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In the era of Fintech innovation and e-commerce, faster settlement of massive retail transactions is crucial for business growth and financial system stability. However, speeding up payments settlement can create periodic liquidity shortfalls to banks which would incur high cost of funds in the settlement process. We propose a new hybrid settlement mechanism design that integrates features of real-time gross settlement, deferred net settlement, and central queue management structure. The hybrid mechanism is managed by an intermediary and is particularly suitable to settle large volume of small-value retail payments. We evaluate the mechanism using computer experiments and simulation. We find …