Browsing by Author "Computer Science"
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Improving Access to Information through Conceptual Classification
Bazargani, Sahar (East Carolina University, 2011)Overwhelming the users with large amount of information on the Web has resulted in users' inability to find the information and their dissatisfaction with available information searching and filtering systems. On the other ... -
INTELLIGENT MODEL FOR IMAGE-BASED RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM
Prateek, Prerna (East Carolina University, 2016-08-29)Online shopping has developed in parallel with the Internet, and Recommendation Systems have played a pivotal role in its growth. The recommendations are usually provided in two ways: Content-based Filtering and Collaborative ... -
Intrusion detection using machine learning algorithms
Lakshminarayana, Deepthi Hassan (East Carolina University, 2019-11-27)With the growing rate of cyber-attacks, there is a significant need for intrusion detection systems (IDS) in networked environments. As intrusion tactics become more sophisticated and more challenging to detect, this ... -
INVESTIGATING THE STAR SCHEMA BENCHMARK AS A REPLACEMENT FOR THE TPC-H DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM
Sanchez, Jimi Carmen (East Carolina University, 2016-12-13)Decision Support System (DSS) are at the core of business intelligence systems. Implementation costs for enterprise level Database Management System (DBMS) and DSS average $10,461 for installation costs. This does not ... -
Knowledge Discovery for Clinical Decision Support System in Patient Records
Budhathoki, Dev (East Carolina University, 2018-07-23)Knowledge discovery from the patient's health records is a challenging task for the medical specialists. The knowledge generated from the patient's records can assist specialists to make an effective decision and recommend ... -
LOOKING TO THE STARS: A HYBRID VOTING APPROACH FOR STAR RATING PREDICTION OF AMAZON CUSTOMER REVIEWS
Davis, Storm Pierce (East Carolina University, 2021-07-14)Due to the continuous growth of E-Commerce platforms, more and more data is becoming widely available. Almost every online transaction, from buying products on Amazon to renting vacation houses on Airbnb, allows for users ... -
MACHINE LEARNING BASED MEDICAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS
Gudivada, Akhil (East Carolina University, 2019-04-23)As many fields progress with the assistance of cognitive computing, the field of health care is also adapting, providing many benefits to all users. However, advancements in this area are hindered by several challenges ... -
Machine Learning Techniques to Aid Breast Cancer Recurrence Prediction
Rose, Madison (East Carolina University, 2023-05-03)Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer death and one of the most common cancers among women. Treatment looks different for every patient due to a variety of factors. One factor that can change a patient’s treatment ... -
MC/DC COVERAGE FOR REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATIONS
Das, Gourav (East Carolina University, 2018-05-02)In the early 1990s, the Modi ed Condition/Decision Coverage (MC/DC) criterion was suggested as a structural white-box testing approach, but it can also be used for blackbox speci cation-based testing. Practical application ... -
Migrating Legacy Software Applications to Cloud Computing Environments : A Software Architect's Approach
Rowe, Fred (East Carolina University, 2011)Cloud computing has garnered a great deal of interest in the past few years. The availability of on-demand computational power is presumed to provide substantial IT infrastructure cost-savings, partially through the ... -
Migration of Legacy Web Application Using NoSQL Databases
Ghasemi, Pouyan (East Carolina University, 2013)The Migration of the legacy web application to Content Management Systems (CMS) is inevitable because of the overload of managing the content. Traditionally, Content Management Systems are built with RDBMSes and the migration ... -
miRCancer : a microRNA-Cancer Association Database and Toolkit Based on Text Mining
Xie, Boya (East Carolina University, 2010)MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of single-stranded small non-coding RNAs. Study of miRNAs has been a fast growing field since the first miRNA was discovered in 1993. Many findings indicate that miRNA plays an important role ... -
miRDiabetes : A microRNA-Diabetes Association Database Constructed With Data Mining on Literature
Guo, Hui (East Carolina University, 2014)MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a growing class of non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression by translational repression. A role for miRNA in diabetes was first established in 2004 and research in miRNA-diabetes association has ... -
Modeling and Analysis of SQL Queries in PHP Systems
Anderson, David (East Carolina University, 2018-04-19)PHP is a common language used for creating dynamic websites. These websites often include the use of databases to store data, with embedded SQL queries constructed within the PHP code and executed through the use of database ... -
Modeling and Prediction of Cryptocurrency Prices Using Machine Learning Techniques
Ashayer, Alireza (East Carolina University, 2019-05-01)With the introduction of Bitcoin in the year 2008 as the first practical decentralized cryptocurrency, the interest in cryptocurrencies and their underlying technology, Blockchain, has skyrocketed. Their promise of security, ... -
Modeling and Testing of Aspect-Oriented Systems
Jiang, Wenhuan (East Carolina University, 2011)Aspect-Oriented programming modularizes crosscutting concerns into Aspects, which are automatically weaved to the specified points of a program. Although Aspect-Oriented programming improves program maintainability and the ... -
Modeling Salient Object-Object Interactions to Generate Textual Descriptions for Natural Images
Adeli, Hossein (East Carolina University, 2012)In this thesis we consider the problem of automatically generating textual descriptions of images which is useful in many applications. For example, searching and retrieving visual data in overwhelming number of images and ... -
Motion-Based Segmentation of Medical MRI Images: A Review and Analysis
Adhikari, Anil (East Carolina University, 2018-07-20)Image data produced in medical field assists doctors, surgeons and researchers to study muscle and tissue structure to identify and diagnose patient specific diseases and deficiency. Due to the complexity of muscle ... -
MRSL: AUTONOMOUS NEURAL NETWORK-BASED SELF-STABILIZING SYSTEM
Hedayati, Hooman (East Carolina University, 2015-12-15)Stabilizing and localizing the positioning systems autonomously in the areas without GPS accessibility is a difficult task. In this thesis we describe a methodology called Most Reliable Straight Line (MRSL) for stabilizing ... -
Optimization of Web Services for Cloud Deployment and Mobile Consumption
Bleicher, David (East Carolina University, 2013)Research performed for this thesis indicates an impedance mismatch between prevailing approaches to development of service-oriented enterprise applications and the consumption capabilities of mobile devices. The rich ...