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    • Image Processing for White Line Detection in a Grassy Field 

      Murad, Rodi (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      Image processing for object detection and decision making based on the observed remains a challenge today. As participants in the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition in 2018 and 2019, we were tasked to build an autonomous ...
    • Image Registration and Fusion Application 

      Singh, Shreya (North Dakota State University, 2021)
      Image Registration and Fusion is a process of manipulating two or more input images through a combination of geometric transformation operations and fusion rules to obtain the information from the input images into one ...
    • Immune Network Optimization of Composite SaaS for Cloud Computing 

      Bauer, Kevin Kaatz (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      Serving the needs efficiently for a wide gamut of cloud users is a challenge. One way to address this challenge is to decompose SaaS (Software as a Service) into application components and then consider them as loosely ...
    • Implementation and Evaluation of CMA-ES Algorithm 

      Gagganapalli, Srikanth Reddy (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      Over recent years, Evolutionary Algorithms have emerged as a practical approach to solve hard optimization problems in the fields of Science and Technology. The inherent advantage of EA over other types of numerical ...
    • Implementation of a Clonal Selection Algorithm 

      Valluru, Srikanth (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Some of the best optimization solutions were inspired by nature. Clonal selection algorithm is a technique that was inspired from genetic behavior of the immune system, and is widely implemented in the scientific and ...
    • Implementation of a GIS with Analytics for Pollution Data 

      Rastogi, Aakanksha (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      Particulate matter called pm2.5 refers to harmful microscopic liquid or solid matter of diameter 2.5 microns suspended in the air. To effectively analyze and visualize data for pollution category pm2.5, a Geographic ...
    • Implementation of a Medical Decision Making Tool 

      Gadiparthi, Sudheer (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Nowadays timely medical assistance is necessary for physicians/medical practitioners for decision making. Sometimes it is necessary for physicians to make decisions to diagnose the disease of a patient promptly. ‘Implementation ...
    • Implementation of Multilevel Thresholding Based Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Edge Detection of Images 

      Kanajal Chandrakanth, Spoorthy (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      Edges in an image characterize object boundaries in an image, which is helpful in image processing and feature extraction in a particular scene. One of the methods used to detect edges in an image is image thresholding, ...
    • Implementation of Parallel Programming to Improve Transaction Speed and Scalability in Blockchain Systems 

      DeNio, Joshua (North Dakota State University, 2021)
      This thesis presents a parallel mining architecture model intended to be used in blockchain systems to improve transaction speed and network scalability while maintaining decentralization. Typical blockchain validation ...
    • Implementation of Weighted Centroid Neural Network for Edge Preserving Image Compression 

      Depa, Amarender Reddy (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      Image compression is a type of data compression applied to images. The objective of image compression is to reduce the cost for storage or transmission. Image compression is associated with removing redundant information ...
    • Improved Genetic Programming Techniques For Data Classification 

      Al-Madi, Naila Shikri (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Evolutionary algorithms are one category of optimization techniques that are inspired by processes of biological evolution. Evolutionary computation is applied to many domains and one of the most important is data mining. ...
    • An Improved Modular Framework for Developing Multi-Surface Interaction 

      Limke, Jed Patrick (North Dakota State University, 2016)
      Advances in multi-touch capabilities have led to their use in a vast array of devices, but usable interactions that span across devices are less frequently encountered. To address this concern, a framework was created for ...
    • Improving Usability in ‘CIRCLE’ 

      Peruri, Alekya (North Dakota State University, 2016)
      This paper describes how the System Usability Scale (SUS) has helped in improving and making a software tool called the Classification, Identification, and Retrieval-based Collaborative Learning Environment (CIRCLE) more ...
    • In Memory Computation of Glowworm Swarm Optimization Applied to Multimodal Functions Using Apache Spark 

      Miryala, Goutham (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      Glowworm Swarm Optimization (GSO) is one of the optimization techniques, which need to be parallelized in order to evaluate large problems with high-dimensional function spaces. There are various issues involved in the ...
    • Incorporating Sliding Window-Based Aggregation for Evaluating Topographic Variables in Geographic Information Systems 

      Gomes, Rahul (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      The resolution of spatial data has increased over the past decade making them more accurate in depicting landform features. From using a 60m resolution Landsat imagery to resolution close to a meter provided by data from ...
    • Increasing the Predictive Potential of Machine Learning Models for Enhancing Cybersecurity 

      Ahsan, Mostofa Kamrul (North Dakota State University, 2021)
      Networks have an increasing influence on our modern life, making Cybersecurity an important field of research. Cybersecurity techniques mainly focus on antivirus software, firewalls and intrusion detection systems (IDSs), ...
    • Increasing Usability and Accessibility of GIS Technology Through Extension of Existing Software Tools 

      Noel, Elizabeth Joan (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      As the popularity of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology increases and its use extends from specialized users to the general public, tools available to users must adapt to take these changes into account. Virtual ...
    • Injecting Safety-Critical Certification Into Agile Software Methods 

      Minot, Scott James (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Agility offers an adaptable and changeable environment within software development. The benefits that agile methods provide for software development are becoming an even greater possibility in safety-critical software ...
    • The Insurance Manager - Mobile Application 

      Sharma, Aditi (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      People buy several expensive products with the insurance whether it is a Camera, Phone, Television etc. Insurance usually comes with an end date and other important information like: Product Name, Vendor Name, Price of the ...
    • An Interactive System for Cow Herd Performance 

      Hossain, Naqib (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      This paper explores the application-development phases for the Cow Herd Appraisal of Performance System (CHAPS). In 1985, North Dakota State University’s Dickinson Research Extension Center and the North Dakota Beef Cattle ...