Browsing College of Engineering and Technology by Author "Tabrizi, M. H. N."
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AN INVESTIGATION OF VELOPHARYNGEAL CLOSURE WITH LINEAR REGRESSION
Sana, Anish (East Carolina University, 1/13/16)Cleft lip and palate is a common birth defect in the United States. Children diagnosed with this abnormality face difficulties during feeding, hearing and speech. Surgical methods exist to repair the cleft lip and palate ... -
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 ... -
Gesture Prediction Model for the Guitar Fingering Problem
Samavatian, Arman (East Carolina University, 2014)In this thesis we provide a method for finding the fingering of a music piece on any type of guitar using a hand model. Adapting to the real world conditions by deploying a model of the user's hand, and considering the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Treasure Island Security framework : A Generic Security Framework for public clouds
Shahbazi, Ali (East Carolina University, 2014)In this thesis we introduce a generic security framework for public clouds called Treasure Island Security framework that is designed to address the issues related to cloud computing security and specifically key-management ... -
UInterestManager : A Generic Framework to Model User Interests
Darabi, Majid (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
Moster, Emil (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
Knight, Gregory P. (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
Rahimian, Pooya (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 ... -
Using The Morphological Analysis Perspective (MAP) In Software Engineering Project Management
Moore, Roger (East Carolina University, 2015)Corporations require well defined strategies and successful implementation of strategic solutions in order to survive, facilitate growth, and remain competitive. In the current internet enabled economy, software development ...