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The Stained Glass Of Knowledge: On Understanding Novice Mental Models Of Computing, Briana Christina Bettin

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Learning to program can be a novel experience. The rigidity of programming can be at odds with beginning programmer's existing perceptions, and the concepts can feel entirely unfamiliar. These observations motivated this research, which explores two major questions: What factors influence how novices learn programming? and How can analogy by more appropriately leveraged in programming education?

This dissertation investigates the factors influencing novice programming through multiple methods. The CS1 classroom is observed as a "whole system", with consideration to the factors present in it that can influence the learning process. Learning's cognitive processes are elaborated to ground exploration into specifically …

Where Did The Time Go?, John C. Viaud, Bilal Abdulmajid, Vitali Surmach, Jia Yanxia

Capstone Showcase

Study shows that most people spend a full quarter of their active hours on their mobile device which can take a serious toll on our productivity as well as our mental and physical well-being. We created an Android app that is able to track and visualize phone usage patterns to help user establish awareness of how much and in what ways they use their Android devices. Unlike currently existing phone time management apps, such as Apple’s ScreenTime and Google’s new Digital Wellbeing, our app provides functionalities to encourage off-phone time and personal goal management.

Optimizing Pollution Routing Problem, Shivika Dewan

All Master's Theses

Pollution is a major environmental issue around the world. Despite the growing use and impact of commercial vehicles, recent research has been conducted with minimizing pollution as the primary objective to be reduced. The objective of this project is to implement different optimization algorithms to solve this problem. A basic model is created using the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) which is further extended to the Pollution Routing Problem (PRP). The basic model is updated using a Monte Carlo Algorithm (MCA). The data set contains 180 data files with a combination of 10, 15, 20, 25, 50, 75, 100, 150, and …

Remark On Artificial Intelligence, Humanoid And Terminator Scenario: A Neutrosophic Way To Futurology, Victor Christianto, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

This article is an update of our previous article in this SGJ journal, titled: On Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, Artificial Intelligence & Human Mind [7]. We provide some commentary on the latest developments around AI, humanoid robotics, and future scenario. Basically, we argue that a more thoughtful approach to the future is "technorealism."

Android Game, Ryan Weston

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

The purpose of this project was to create an endless runner game for Android coded in Java and XML and developed in Android Studio. In the game, the player controls a frog that jumps from lily pad to lily pad to avoid logs moving toward the player. The player must also maneuver the lily pads as they can randomly disappear. There are three difficulties in the game that vary the disappearance rate of lily pads as well as the frequency and acceleration rate of the log obstacles. The game also has a scoring system and saves the high score locally …

Automated Process Of Quantifying Scientific Images Using Fiji, Olivia Casimir

Summer Community of Scholars Posters (RCEU and HCR Combined Programs)

No abstract provided.

Creating And Deploying Automated Software Test Procedures With Regression Testing, Austen Seidler

Summer Community of Scholars Posters (RCEU and HCR Combined Programs)

No abstract provided.

Pseudo-Data Generation For Improving Clinical Named Entity Recognition, Jeffrey T. Smith

Theses and Dissertations

One of the primary challenges for clinical Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the availability of annotated training data. Technical and legal hurdles prevent the creation and release of corpora related to electronic health records (EHRs). In this work, we look at the imapct of pseudo-data generation on clinical NER using gazetteering and thresholding utilizing a neural network model. We report that gazetteers can result in the inclusion of proper terms with the exclusion of determiners and pronouns in preceding and middle positions. Gazetteers that had higher numbers of terms inclusive to the original dataset had a higher impact. We also …

Multimodal Data Integration For Real-Time Indoor Navigation Using A Smartphone, Yaohua Chang

Dissertations and Theses

We propose an integrated solution of indoor navigation using a smartphone, especially for assisting people with special needs, such as the blind and visually impaired (BVI) individuals. The system consists of three components: hybrid modeling, real-time navigation, and client-server architecture. In the hybrid modeling component, the hybrid model of a building is created region by region and is organized in a graph structure with nodes as destinations and landmarks, and edges as traversal paths between nodes. A Wi-Fi/cellular-data connectivity map, a beacon signal strength map, a 3D visual model (with destinations and landmarks annotated) are collected while a modeler walks …

Performing The Digital Self: Understanding Location-Based Social Networking, Territory, Space, And Identity In The City, Konstantinos Papangelis, Alan Chamberlain, Ioanna Lykourentzou, Vassilis-Javed Khan, Michael Saker, Hai-Ning Liang, Irwyn Sadien, Ting Cao

Articles

Expressions of territoriality have been positioned as one of the main reasons users alter their behaviors and perceptions of spatiality and sociality while engaging with location-based social networks (LBSN). Despite the potential for this interplay to further our understanding of LBSN usage in the context of identity, very little work has actually been done towards this. Addressing this gap in the literature is one the chief aims of the article. Drawing on an original six-week study with 42 participants utilizing a bespoke LBSN entitled ‘GeoMoments’, our research explores: (1) the way that territoriality is linked to self-identity; and (2) how …

Sparsity And Weak Supervision In Quantum Machine Learning, Seyran Saeedi

Theses and Dissertations

Quantum computing is an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of computer science, mathematics, and physics that studies information processing tasks on a quantum computer. A quantum computer is a device whose operations are governed by the laws of quantum mechanics. As building quantum computers is nearing the era of commercialization and quantum supremacy, it is essential to think of potential applications that we might benefit from. Among many applications of quantum computation, one of the emerging fields is quantum machine learning. We focus on predictive models for binary classification and variants of Support Vector Machines that we expect to be …

Feature Extraction And Description For Retinal Fundus Image Registration, Ramli Roziana

Student Works (2020-2029)

Retinal fundus image registration (RIR) is performed to align two or more fundus images. A general framework of a feature-based RIR technique comprises of preprocessing, feature extraction, feature descriptor, matching and estimating geometrical transformation. The RIR is mainly performed for super-resolution, image mosaicking and longitudinal study applications to assist diagnosis and monitoring retinal diseases. Registering image pair from these applications involve a combination of challenges such as overlapping area and rotation between images. The challenges of the overlapping area and rotation can be addressed at feature extraction and feature descriptor stages of the feature-based RIR technique, respectively. To address the …

Analysis Of Automatic Annotations Of Real Video Surveillance Images, Diana Guevara Flores, Fernando Pérez Téllez, David Pinto Avendaño

Articles

The results of the analysis of the automatic annotations of real video surveillance sequences are presented. The annotations of the frames of surveillance sequences of the parking lot of a university campus are generated. The purpose of the analysis is to evaluate the quality of the descriptions and analyze the correspondence between the semantic content of the images and the corresponding annotation. To perform the tests, a fixed camera was placed in the campus parking lot and video sequences of about 20 minutes were obtained, later each frame was annotated individually and a text repository with all the annotations was …

Using Blockchain For Digital Card Game, Raymond A. Swannack

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

In recent years, the popularity of both online card games and blockchain technology have grown exponentially. While combining these two does not immediately seem like an obvious idea, they in fact complement each other nicely. Blockchain allows for players to actually own their cards, in a way that was unheard of in the digital format just a few years ago. It also gives them the freedom to use them in any way they like, just like in real life. In this thesis we will look into how viable this idea really is. We use the Ethereum virtual machine to simulate …

A Probabilistic Machine Learning Framework For Cloud Resource Selection On The Cloud, Syeduzzaman Khan

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The execution of the scientific applications on the Cloud comes with great flexibility, scalability, cost-effectiveness, and substantial computing power. Market-leading Cloud service providers such as Amazon Web service (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offer various general purposes, memory-intensive, and compute-intensive Cloud instances for the execution of scientific applications. The scientific community, especially small research institutions and undergraduate universities, face many hurdles while conducting high-performance computing research in the absence of large dedicated clusters. The Cloud provides a lucrative alternative to dedicated clusters, however a wide range of Cloud computing choices makes the instance selection for the end-users. This thesis …

Comparison Of The Tally Numbering System To Traditional Arithmetic Systems In Field Programmable Gate Arrays, Robert Paul Shredow

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

This research explores the use of heterogeneous computing platforms for use in machine learning as well as different neural network architectures. These platforms and architectures can be used to accelerate the complex operations that are required for machine learning, more specifically neural networks. The use of different architectures, implementing different types of numbering and mathematics systems is explored in hopes of accelerating mathematical functions. The heterogeneous computing platform explored in this thesis is a Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), specifically a SoC/FPGA which is a ARM CPU and a FPGA in the same chip. FPGAs are unique because they are …

Generating Peptide Mass Spectrometry Ground Truth Data, Jessica L. Henning, Rob Smith

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Very few quantitative evaluations exist for precursor mass spectrometry data due to the lack of tools for enabling the manual feature finding necessary to generate this data. Other lacks the ability to capture, edit, save, and view precursor mass spectrometry data. We present JS-MS 2.0, a software suite that provides a dependency-free, browser-based, one click, cross-platform solution for creating precursor ground truth. The software retains the first version’s capacity for loading, viewing, and navigating MS1 data in 2- and 3-D, and adds tools for capturing, editing, saving and viewing isotopic envelope and extracted isotopic chromatogram features. The software can also …