Browsing College of Engineering and Technology by Author "Computer Science"
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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 ... -
Overhauling Legacy Enterprise Software Applications with a Concept Refinement Process Model
Knight, Daniel P. (East Carolina University, 2013)Currently, there are many legacy enterprise software applications in active deployment that are outdated. These large legacy applications are rapidly becoming less practical for both the organizations they service, and for ... -
Performance Analysis of Extractive Text Summarization
Patel, Vishwa (East Carolina University, 2019-07-22)In this era, data is increasing exponentially, and it is crucial for people to keep up with all of this information. The information is available in several different forms such as news articles, online blogs, etc., many ... -
Performance analysis of machine learning algorithms to predict mobile applications' star ratings via its user interface features
Navaei, Maryam (East Carolina University, 2022-05-05)The first part of this thesis concludes with an overall summary of the publications so far on the applied Machine Learning techniques in different phases of the Software Development Life Cycle that including Requirements ... -
Personality assessment from social media data: An ensemble model
Taghikhani, Shahin (East Carolina University, 2019-05-01)The global prevalence of social media encourages people to upload and share a vast and recurrent amount of information about themselves through various mediums of communication such as text, pictures, audio, and video. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ...