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    • Athletic Fundraising and University Development Offices: A Structurational Relationship 

      Dickhudt, Keith Michael (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      This case study examines the working relationship between an athletic department and a central development office within a university. This study focuses primarily on the coordination of fundraising efforts between the ...
    • An Architecture for the Implementation and Distribution of Multiuser Virtual Environments. 

      Dischinger, Benjamin James (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      JavaMOO is an architecture for creating multiuser virtual environments focusing on domain-specific design and rapid development. JavaMOO components use best practices and extensible design for system configuration, ...
    • Alternative Clustering Algorithms in Sensor Networks 

      Gupta, Divya (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      A wireless sensor network is composed of a large number of tiny sensor nodes that can be deployed in a variety of environments like battle fields, water, large fields, and the like, and can transmit data to a Base station ...
    • Digital Deception and the Illusion of Choice: How Dark Patterns Undermine Informed Consent GDPR 

      Khan, Wajeeha (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      Our investigation builds on prior research to examine global e-commerce data privacy, focusing on compliance with GDPR and CCPA laws introduced in 2018 and 2020. This study reveals uneven adherence to GDPR and CCPA regulations ...
    • Evaluation of Convolutional Neural Networks Against Deepfakes Using Transfer Learning 

      Krishan, Siddharth (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      The main objective of this paper is to evaluate ResNets, DenseNet, Inception and VGG, against deepfake images, to answer the question: How effectively these Convolutional Neural Network can distinguish between deepfake ...
    • Sentiment Analysis of Tweets for Hate Speech Detection Using Binary Classification Algorithms and BERT 

      Kaur, Manveer (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      In the modern world, social media wields a lot of power. Twitter, particularly, has provided people a platform to express their opinions about everything under the sun from mundane everyday life to politics, race, religion ...
    • Advanced Computational Ratings for College Football Teams 

      Hensley, Joel Michael (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      This paper explores the subject of rating systems applied to the world of college football. Current rating system methodologies are examined, and four rating systems are developed and evaluated in a program. The Hensley ...
    • Development Tools for Content Creation in Virtual Environments 

      Hokanson, Guy Eric (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      lmmersive Virtual Environments (IVEs) for education are designed and implemented to enable students to learn complicated concepts in an exploratory and inquiry based manner. The environments are constructed so that ...
    • CareCompanion: A Virtual Assistant for Enhancing Quality of Life in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Patients 

      Hasan, Wordh Ul (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      Patients with Alzheimer's Disease and Associated Dementias (ADRD), as well as older adults, grapple with issues such as memory loss, trouble navigating, and feelings of loneliness. These challenges influence their daily ...
    • Post-Deployment Key Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks 

      Loree, Paul Edward (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      Many wireless sensor network applications require secure communication between nodes in the network. However, establishing pair-wise keys between nodes to provide security is challenging due to the limited resources in ...
    • Virtual-Experiment-Driven Process Model (VEDPM) 

      Lua, Chin Aik (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      Computer simulations are the last resort for many complex problems such as swarm applications. However, to the best of the author's knowledge, there is no convincing work in proving ''What You Simulate ls What You See'' ...
    • Smart Robotic Arm Control through Autonomous Object Detection and Retrieval 

      Mahodaya, Vicky Ramnath (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      This paper outlines the design and development of a robotic arm that can automatically detect and locate an object within its working envelope, reach to the object, grab the object with the aid of force feedback, bring ...
    • Electronic Payment System Decision Support with Bloom's Taxonomy 

      Mattaparthy, Harika (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      The primary goal of this paper is to develop an online course that enables students to learn about electronic payment systems by applying Bloom's taxonomy. There are six levels in Bloom's taxonomy, with knowledge ...
    • Optimizing Incident Management Strategies Using Simulation 

      Manori, Anshuman (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      Incidents, pre-programmed or random, are major sources of congestion on urban freeways. With many of urban freeways in the US operating close to capacity, the need to reduce the impact of incident-related congestion has ...
    • A Software Agent System for Private Email 

      Mukka, Hari K. (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      The primary concerns in existing Email and instant messaging systems are authentication processes, privacy and security issues. These messaging systems transfer the message content through servers using protocols like ...
    • A Data Visualization Tool to Identify Patterns Formed by Subsets of Data 

      Osmani, Md Golam Morshed (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      An object may be identified by its properties which may comprise both continuous data values and categorical data values. Sometimes a particular property (categorical) value may select a group of objects which have ...
    • Dynamic Algorithms for Sensor Scheduling and Adversary Path Prediction 

      Pandey, Shivendushital Pyarelal (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      In this thesis we describe three new dynamic, real time and robust sensor scheduling algorithms for intruder tracking and sensor scheduling. We call them Tactic Association Based Algorithm (TABA), Tactic Case Based ...
    • XGraphML-A Tool for Transforming UML to GraphML 

      Raavi, Sandeep (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      This paper proposes and implements XGraphML, a tool which transforms a file from a UML format to a GraphML using XSLT and JAXP technologies. The tool connects ArgoUML with VEGGIE through this transformation. ArgoUML is ...
    • Anonymity and Hostile Node Identification in Wireless Sensor Networks 

      Reindl, Phillip Steven (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      In many secure wireless network attack scenarios, the source of a data packet is as sensitive as the data it contains. Existing work to provide source anonymity in wireless sensor networks (WSN) are not frugal in terms ...
    • Design of the Photo Album Ontology 

      Sarker, Mridula (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      At present, growing demand of the management of huge volume of web contents, especially photos, require the software tools, which can store, index and retrieve the photos from the repository more efficiently. In this ...