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Database Management System For Byuh Jonathan Napela Center, Olivia K. F. Moleni

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this project is to build a database management system (DBMS) for the Jonathan Napela Center department. The Napela Center is a department for students who are majoring or minoring in Hawaiian Studies and/or Pacific Island Studies. Currently the Napela Center uses Microsoft Excel as their DBMS to store and track both current and past student information. Unfortunately, this system hasn’t been working well for them due to unreliable information, limited user access and sometime can get too complex with too much data. So the director of the department decided to seek for another system.

This paper will …

Ged: Moving Into The Electronic Age, Kateri Montileaux

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to find a direction as the Community Continuing Education/General Education Diploma (CCE/GED) department goes into the electronic age. Not only has the General Education Diploma test become computer based, the process of studying, preparing and communicating has also required one to use desktop computers, laptops, tablets, smart phones, email, and webinars daily. The goal is to promote the department and its services to the younger generation (18-25 years old) who are completely comfortable using electronic devices, and to the older generation (40+years) who may know a little bit of electronic communicating but who are …

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 …

Online Health Recommendation System: A Social Support Perspective, Tareq Nasralah, Cherie Noteboom, Abdullah Wahbeh, Mohammad Aref Al-Ramahi

Research & Publications

Online Health Communities (OHC) aim to support patients through offer them the opportunities to exchange support with others. However, patients have difficulties and problems locating expertise within the online health communities. In this regard, this study aims to create a patient recommender system to help users locate those with relevant experience and similar health status. Specifically, we aim to leverage the type of online social support users seek to determine the patient health status to build a patient status prediction model. Building the model will help create a peer recommendation system for online support group members to easily locate peers …

A System For Detecting Malicious Insider Data Theft In Iaas Cloud Environments, Jason Nikolai, Yong Wang

Research & Publications

The Cloud Security Alliance lists data theft and insider attacks as critical threats to cloud security. Our work puts forth an approach using a train, monitor, detect pattern which leverages a stateful rule based k-nearest neighbors anomaly detection technique and system state data to detect inside attacker data theft on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) nodes. We posit, instantiate, and demonstrate our approach using the Eucalyptus cloud computing infrastructure where we observe a 100 percent detection rate for abnormal login events and data copies to outside systems.

The Development Of An Automated Testing Framework For Data-Driven Testing Utilizing The Uml Testing Profile, James Edward Hearn

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

The development of increasingly-complex Web 2.0 applications, along with a rise in end-user expectations, have not only made the testing and quality assurance processes of web application development an increasingly-important part of the SDLC, but have also made these processes more complex and resource-intensive. One way to effectively test these applications is by implementing an automated testing solution along with manual testing, as automation solutions have been shown to increase the total amount of testing that can be performed, and help testing team achieve consistency in their testing efforts. The difficulty, though, lies in how to best go about developing …

On Understanding Preference For Agile Methods Among Software Developers, David Brian Bishop, Amit V. Deokar, Surendra Sarnikar

Research & Publications

Agile methods are gaining widespread use in industry. Although management is keen on adopting agile, not all developers exhibit preference for agile methods. The literature is sparse in regard to why developers may show preference for agile. Understanding the factors informing the preference for agile can lead to more effective formation of teams, better training approaches, and optimizing software development efforts by focusing on key desirable components of agile. This study, using a grounded theory methodology, finds a variety of categories of factors that influence software developer preference for agile methods including self-efficacy, affective response, interpersonal response, external contingencies, and …

Information Technology Services (Its) Program Database, Lora Ersland

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

The South Dakota Board of Regents (SDBOR) system, comprised of the six public universities, has undertaken a project to migrate the Colleague Student Information System from a proprietary Unidata database to an Oracle database. The conversion to the Oracle database will allow the ITS Administrative Computing staff more options to create programs that access the Colleague Student Information System.

During the conversion of the existing Unidata programs, it was discovered that the migration was causing us to lose our ability to keep track of programs that were developed to access the Colleague system. In addition, while we are gaining the …

Check Exception Automation (Cea) System, Aashima Arora

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

Check Exception Automation (CEA) System is a web application which provides the facility to create and resolve the check exception that occurs after the check is successfully deposited to the American Bank. Checks can be deposited via different channels such as ATM, Cash Vault (which is a kind of check dropping box) and via mobile. There are a number of exceptions that may occur after depositing the check such as missing signature, wrong amount, altered check, duplicate check and missing amount. The older check exception resolution process was manual process. The goal of this project is to automate the check …

Yar Consulting Marketing Website And Extranet Site, John Suarez

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

This is a hybrid project. As a new Information Systems consultancy the need for a website to market to potential clients was evident. The decision to add an extranet site was made after specific needs for Ace Hardware were made evident to Yar’s founders. Ace Hardware Corporation is a cooperative with over 4,400 members in over 100 nations worldwide. Ace corporate rolled out a B2B pilot program in the fall of 2013 to help Ace independently owned retail stores learn how to sell to other businesses. One of YAR’s founders is currently working with Ace corporate as a program consultant …

The Impact Of Technical Innovation On Voter Registration And Turnout, Chere' Evans

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

Research on provisional ballots is nearly nonexistent and research on military and overseas civilian absentee ballots is limited. While the percentages of those voters are small, they are still substantial enough to swing close elections, so ensuring that every eligible voter has his or her vote counted is essential and research is needed in order to identify ways to improve processes for these voters.

By the 2012 Presidential General election, the Maryland State Board of Elections (SBE) had implemented Online Voter Registration (OLVR), Electronic (or paperless) Motor Voter (EMV), and Online Absentee Request (OAR). Maryland also did a redesign of …

Virtualized Educational Lab Setup Project Plan And Supporting Project Documentation, Aaron Napierala

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

The current infrastructure being used for IT courses at the University of Northwestern Ohio is not adequate for students. In addition, hands-on components of courses are difficult to test over, faculty administration of class resources was minimal, and students did not have access to enterprise level systems. The solution was to implement a lab environment to accomplish all of these concerns. This project closely mirrors how a real world project would function using the knowledge acquired during coursework completed at DSU. Documentation submitted for coursework at DSU was used as templates during this project. Not only was this project designed …

Cycles Of Electronic Health Records Adaptation By Physicians: How Do The Positive And Negative Experience With The Ehr System Affect Physicians' Ehr Adaptation Process?, Cherie Noteboom, Dhundy Bastola, Sajda Qureshi

Research & Publications

The integration of EHR in IT infrastructures supporting organizations enable improved access and recording of patient data, enhanced ability to make improved decisions, improved quality and reduced errors in patient care. Despite these benefits, there are mixed results as to the use of EHR. The literature suggests that the reasons for the limited use relate to policy, financial and usability considerations, but it does not provide an understanding of reasons for physicians’ limited interaction and adaptation of EHR.

Following an analysis of qualitative data, collected in a case study at a hospital using interviews, this research explains how physicians interact …