Browsing College of Engineering and Technology by Title
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A New Approach to Communications Management Planning Through 3D Web and Semantic Web Technologies
(2011-09)Communication management plans are used to determine not only who needs what information but also how that information will be collected and transmitted. Now two evolving technologies are looking to drive project planners ... -
Optimization of Web Services for Cloud Deployment and Mobile Consumption
(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
(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University, 2013)Currently, there are many legacy enterprise software applications in active deployment that are outdated.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 ... -
A Protocol and Tool for Developing a Descriptive Behavioral Model
(East Carolina University, 2012)Fuzzy rules have been used to model complex human behavior in order to develop sophisticated industrial control systems. The use of fuzzy rules to create a behavioral model provides a quantitative basis for discussing the ... -
Recurrence and Plasticity in Evolved Neural Controllers
(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 ... -
Risk Considerations in the Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in the Construction Industry
(2016-12)The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the construction industry is swiftly growing worldwide. UAVs are changing the way construction companies do business. Contractors are increasingly using camera-mounted UAVs ... -
Safe Design Suggestions for Vegetated Roofs
(2012-08)Rooftop vegetation is becoming increasingly popular because of its environmental benefits and its ability to earn green-building certification credits. With the exception of one international guideline, there is little ... -
Security Analysis and Framework of Cloud Computing with Parity-Based Partially Distributed File System
(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
(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 ... -
Small Business Information Security
(East Carolina University, 2012)Small businesses account for over fifty percent of the Gross National Product of the U.S. economy; and the security of their information systems is critical for them to operate, compete, and remain profitable. While many ... -
A Survey of Retailer's Satisfaction
(East Carolina University, 2013)The purpose of this exploratory study is to examine the overall satisfaction of retailers' from manufacturers in a supply-chain system, based on selected "Lean" related factors, such as quality, delivery, cost, and pricing. ... -
Synchronizing Automata and the Černý Conjecture
(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 ... -
UInterestManager : A Generic Framework to Model User Interests
(East Carolina University, 2013)With the proliferation of documents on the Internet, it has become increasingly difficult for users to search and retrieve the information they want: information that is relevant and interesting. To address this problem, ... -
USING HYBRID SCRUM TO MEET WATERFALL PROCESS DELIVERABLES
(East Carolina University, 2013)System Development Life Cycles (SDLCs) for organizations are often based upon traditional software development models such as the waterfall model. These processes are complex, heavy in documentation deliverables, and are ... -
Using n-grams to identify time periods of cultural influence
(East Carolina University, 2012)An author's literary style is influenced by the cultural time period in which the author lives. The author's ideas, and the words chosen to express them, can help identify the cultural time period that most influenced the ... -
Using Synchronized Audio Mapping to Predict Velar and Pharyngeal Wall Locations during Dynamic MRI Sequences
(East Carolina University, 2013)Automatic tongue, velum (i.e., soft palate), and pharyngeal movement tracking systems provide a significant benefit for the analysis of dynamic speech movements. Studies have been conducted using ultrasound, x-ray, and ... -
Virtual world technologies provide platform for interaction between on-campus and online students: A case study
(Vancouver, BC., 2011)There has been a great deal of attention paid to efforts by educators to integrate teaching methodologies and strategies between face to face and online classrooms in an effort to maximize learning by combining delivery ...