Browsing Dissertations and Theses by Author "Computer Science"
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Automated Usability Evaluations using Client Side Usability Framework (CSUF)
Chintalapani, Venkat Narsimha Reddy (East Carolina University, 2016-05-04)Usability of a website is essential in order for a company to achieve its business goals. Evaluating a website for usability and accessibility is costly and time consuming primarily because it involves usability experts ... -
Automatic SQL query generation
Arbabifard, Kamyar (East Carolina University, 2017-07-19)Automatic generation of questions for learning assessment has been an area of research interest for long. The advent of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as well as the goal of providing immediate contextualized feedback ... -
Back-Projective Priming: Toward Efficient 3d Model-based Object Recognition via Preemptive Top-down Constraints
Dellana, Ryan (East Carolina University, 2016-07-25)This thesis introduces back-projective priming, a computer vision technique that synergistically fuses object recognition and pose estimation by augmenting 3D models with geometric constraints. It also enables the use of ... -
Bibliographic Reference Analysis in Archival Data Using Supervised Machine Learning and Grammatical Features
Philips, James Patrick (East Carolina University, 2021-11-19)Bibliographic references are integral to scholarly discourse in humanities disciplines. While prior work has focused on reference extraction and parsing, little research has investigated the classification of footnotes ... -
COMPARISON OF TOPIC MODELING METHODS FOR ANALYZING TWEETS ON COVID-19 VACCINE
Khanjari Nezhad Jooneghani, Zeinab (East Carolina University, 2021-07-20)Twitter is a microblogging site and a popular social media platform for sharing thoughts on current world events. The dynamic of Twitter discussions makes it a valuable data source for mining people's opinions and emotions ... -
CUSTOMER REVENUE PREDICTION FROM GEOGRAPHICAL DATA
Khademorezaian, Kasra (East Carolina University, 2019-07-22)Online stores have created more opportunities for firms to offer different products and services to their customers. These online stores produce a tremendous amount of data that serve different purposes, including revenue ... -
CUSTOMER REVIEWS ANALYSIS WITH DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS FOR E-COMMERCE RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS
Maleki Shoja, Babak (East Carolina University, 2019-07-17)The first part of this thesis systematically reviews the trend of researches conducted from 2011 to 2018 in terms of challenges and problems regarding developing a recommendation system, areas of application, proposed ... -
DEVELOPING A REAL-TIME DATA ANALYTICS FRAMEWORK FOR TWITTER STREAMING DATA
Yadranjiaghdam, Babak (East Carolina University, 2016-12-13)Twitter is an online social networking service with more than 300 million users, generating a huge amount of information every day. Twitter's most important characteristic is its ability for users to tweet about events, ... -
DYNAMIC DEFENSES AND THE TRANSFERABILITY OF ADVERSARIAL EXAMPLES
Thomas, Sam (East Carolina University, 2019-05-02)Adversarial machine learning has been an important area of study for the securing of machine learning systems. However, for every defense that is made to protect these artificial learners, a more sophisticated attack emerges ... -
EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING AND ITS USES TO PREDICT THE MOST PROSPEROUS LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
Whitley, Lewis Adam (East Carolina University, 2018-04-23)The use of technology and data analysis within the classroom has been a resourceful tool in order to collect, study, and compare a student's level of success. With the large amount of regularly collected data from student ... -
ENFORCING ROLE-BASED ACCESS CONTROL ON A SOCIAL NETWORK
Anderson, James Carold (East Carolina University, 2012)Social networks supply a means by which people can communicate with each other while allowing for ease in initiating interaction and expressions. These systems of human collaboration may also be used to store and distribute ... -
Exploring the Usability Issues Encountered by Individuals with Visual Impairments on Social Networking Sites: Problem Description, System Evaluation and Semantic Web Solution
Brinkley, Julian (East Carolina University, 2014-08-28)While social networking sites (SNSs) like Facebook are widely used and have been broadly studied, investigations of their use by individuals with visual impairments are scarce within the academic literature. Anecdotal ... -
Formal Model To Reduce the Risk Of Cloud Outages
Hotwani, Komal (East Carolina University, 2014)Cloud outages have become very common in recent years as many companies adopt hosted services. One of the major reasons for cloud outages is the service level for availability, reliability, security not being met as mentioned ... -
GestDefLS : A Gesture Definition Language in Swift
Writtenberry, Robert William (East Carolina University, 2015)The application programming interfaces supplied by Apple for developing applications in the Swift programming language on iOS devices provide limited support when it comes to declaring gesture recognizers outside of those ... -
Group Mutual Exclusion in Linear Time and Space
He, Yuan (East Carolina University, 2014)The Group Mutual Exclusion (GME) problem, introduced by Joung, is a natural extension of the classical Mutual Exclusion problem. In the classical Mutual Exclusion problem, two or more processes are not simultaneously allowed ... -
Human Organ Real-time Localization using HTC Vive Tracking System and Machine Learning Models
Hall, Linwood Earl, Jr (East Carolina University, 2022-04-27)Virtual reality and machine learning technologies have become focal points for research and development for medical studies in recent years. However, previous studies do not typically use virtual reality and machine learning ... -
IMPLEMENTATION OF BERT BASED MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TO EXTRACT CANCER –MIRNA RELATIONSHIP FROM RESEARCH LITERATURE
Sundharam, Arunprasad (East Carolina University, 2021-04-15)In the world today, text mining is a widely popular and growing branch of Information technology, in which we extract useful information out of the given pile of text data. There are thousands of research papers in medical ... -
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 ...