Browsing Dissertations and Theses by Author "Computer Science"

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  • POSTGRESQL AS A MULTI-MODEL DATABASE 

    Khanal, Rabindra (East Carolina University, 2019-07-26)
    Data is being generated at unprecedented volume and speed, which is popularly known as Big Data. Most of this data is unstructured and requires natural language processing and information retrieval techniques to extract ...

  • QA4R: A QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM FOR R PACKAGES 

    Babu, Ganesh (East Carolina University, 2022-07-26)
    There is a massive amount of data from various sources available today, and querying meaningful information from those datasets would be valuable. Question Answering Systems (QAS) implement information retrieval (IR) and ...

  • QA4R: A QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM FOR R PACKAGES 

    Babu, Ganesh (East Carolina University, 2022-07-26)
    There is a massive amount of data from various sources available today, and querying meaningful information from those datasets would be valuable. Question Answering Systems (QAS) implement information retrieval (IR) and ...

  • QPE: A System For Deconstructing SQL Queries 

    Bullard, Connor D (East Carolina University, 2023-04-26)
    Research on the topic of converting natural language to machine-readable code has experienced great interest over the last decade, however studies into converting machine-readable code into natural language are sparse. The ...

  • RE-ENGINEERING ATLAS SYSTEMS WITH WATLAS 

    Rivenbark, Stuart W (East Carolina University, 2021-12-01)
    The ATLAS language is a legacy language that currently runs on OpenVMS systems. Here, we describe a Windows-based system for re-engineering existing ATLAS applications, transforming them into equivalent C# source code that ...

  • Recurrence and Plasticity in Evolved Neural Controllers 

    Ahlstrom, Mark (East Carolina University, 2009)
    Among the more important applications of evolutionary neurocontrollers is the development of systems that are able to dynamically adapt to a changing environment. While traditional approaches to control system design demand ...

  • Reinforcement Learning based Recommender System using Q-Learning and Deep Q-Learning 

    Rezaei, Mehrdad (East Carolina University, 2022-07-14)
    The first part of this thesis concludes with an overall summary of the publications so far on the recommender system using reinforcement learning. We have performed a systematic review of the research studies published ...

  • Reinforcement Learning based Recommender System using Q-Learning and Deep Q-Learning 

    Rezaei, Mehrdad (East Carolina University, 2022-07-14)
    The first part of this thesis concludes with an overall summary of the publications so far on the recommender system using reinforcement learning. We have performed a systematic review of the research studies published ...

  • Runtime Monitoring On Hard Real-Time Operating Systems 

    Darafsheh, Kaveh (East Carolina University, 2015)
    This thesis will compare and evaluate different approaches in integrating runtime monitors into processes running on a hard real-time operating system. The host system is a single board computer (SBC) with a VxWorks 653 ...

  • Security Analysis and Framework of Cloud Computing with Parity-Based Partially Distributed File System 

    Asghary Karahroudy, Ali (East Carolina University, 2011)
    Cloud computing offers massive scalability, immediate availability, and low cost services as major benefits, but as with most new technologies, it introduces new risks and vulnerabilities too. Despite the fact that different ...

  • Self-Checked Metamorphic Testing of Monte Carlo Simulation 

    Wu, Tong (East Carolina University, 2011)
    Photon propagation in biological tissues can be modeled with Monte Carlo simulations numerically. However, testing a such program is difficult due to the unknown character of the test oracles. Although approaches based on ...

  • Sentiment analysis study with an emphasis on the integration of different statement polarities and the evaluation of the resulting sentiments 

    Braddy, Shawn (5/16/2016)
    Social media has become an integral part of today's society and has continued to grow tremendously throughout the world. People communicate through social media constantly and social media has become a pivotal place for ...

  • SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AS A SOCIAL PROCESS: A STUDY OF RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK 

    Lanier, Lindsey (East Carolina University, 2016-05-03)
    Powered by increased capabilities of online collaboration tools, open source software development has become a critical component of the development landscape for both individual developers and for organizations. However, ...

  • Software Engineering for Real-Time NoSQL Systems-centric Big Data Analytics 

    Clark, William F (East Carolina University, 2020-12-02)
    Recent advances in Big Data Analytics (BDA) have stimulated widespread interest to integrate BDA capabilities into all aspects of a business. Before these advances, companies have spent time optimizing the software ...

  • Software Technology Maturation and Software Security 

    Locklear, Trina Kay (East Carolina University, 2019-08-05)
    Software technology maturation, also referred to as technology transfer, is as difficult as it is rare, mostly because of the time scale involved. Software maturation is defined as the process of taking a piece of technology ...

  • Studies on Gopala-Hemachandra Codes and their Applications 

    Childers, Logan (East Carolina University, 2020-11-16)
    Gopala-Hemachandra codes are a variation of the Fibonacci universal code and have applications in data compression and cryptography. We study a specific parameterization of Gopala-Hemachandra codes and present several ...

  • Synchronizing Automata and the Černý Conjecture 

    Masters, Miciah Dashiel Butler (East Carolina University, 2012)
    We provide a survey of research surrounding the Černý conjecture. This conjecture concerns finite-state automata that have the property of being "synchronizing." A synchronizing automaton is one for which there exists ...

  • SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF LITERATURE USING TWITTER AS A TOOL 

    Pradyumn, Mudit (East Carolina University, 2018-07-17)
    Twitter has over 330 million active monthly users producing roughly 500 million Tweets per day, or 200 billion Tweets a year. Making this one of the largest human-generated opinion data collections. In addition to this ...

  • Tactile Demographics: Predicting Demographic Information Using Touch Data from Mobile Devices 

    Williams, Baylea (East Carolina University, 2021-04-20)
    The research conducted in this thesis was to serve as a baseline on which human demographics are most likely to be able to be predicted through touch screen interactions. In addition, it served as a way of finding which ...

  • TEXT EXTRACTION FROM IMAGES USING NEURAL NETWORKS 

    Pala, Venkatesh Reddy (East Carolina University, 2019-09-16)
    Most western languages have witnessed the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in one other form. Primary fact for this achievement is due to the efforts of several researchers contributing to the field of computational ...