Computer Science: Recent submissions
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Increasing Usability and Accessibility of GIS Technology Through Extension of Existing Software Tools
(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 ... -
A Data Mining Approach for Identifying Pavement Distress Signatures
(North Dakota State University, 2015)This work introduces signature-based data mining of pavement distress data. The goal is to understand the factors that influence pavement distress. The presented approach maintains multiple types of flexible pavement ... -
Immune Network Optimization of Composite SaaS for Cloud Computing
(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 ... -
Domain Ontology Based Detection Approach to Identify Effect Types of Security Requirements upon Functional Requirements
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Requirements engineering is a subfield of software engineering that is concerned with analyzing software requirements specifications. An important process of requirement engineering is tracing requirements to investigate ... -
The Fusion of Ultrasonic and Spatially Aware System in Mobile - Interaction Device
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Over the past four decades, the prophecy from computer pundits and prognosticators pointed that looming arrival of the paperless office era was coming. However, forty years later, physical paper documents are still playing ... -
Multi-Variate Attribute Selection for Agricultural Data
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Farmers always have been concerned about the quantity of crops (yield) as well as the quality of crops (sugar content of the sugar beets). The quality and quantity of crops are affected by various attributes, some are ... -
Particle Swarm Optimization and Particle Filter Applied to Object Tracking
(North Dakota State University, 2016)The particle filter is usually used as a tracking algorithm in non-linear under the Bayesian tracking framework. However, the problems of degeneracy and impoverishment degrade its performance. The particle filter is ... -
A Restful Architecture for Multiuser Virtual Environments and Simulations
(North Dakota State University, 2014)JavaMOO is an architecture for creating multiuser virtual environments using the MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) and MOO (MUD Object Oriented) design patterns (rooms and objects in the rooms, including \exit" objects that lead ... -
A Linguistic Model for Improving Sentiment Analysis Systems
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The value of automated sentiment analysis systems is increasing with the vast amount of consumer-generated content, allowing researchers to analyze the information readily available on the World Wide Web. Much research has ... -
Towards Improving P300-based Brain-Computer Interfaces: From Desktop to Mobile
(North Dakota State University, 2014)A brain-computer interface (BCI) enables a paralyzed user to interact with an external device through brain signals. A BCI measures identi es patterns within these measured signals, translating such patterns into commands. ... -
Training Set Selection to Improve Crop Classification
(North Dakota State University, 2015)In some classification problems, acquiring class label information is much more expensive than collecting attribute data. One such problem is crop classification from satellite imagery. While random sampling is one option, ... -
A Data Mining Approach to Radiation Hybrid Mapping
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The task of mapping markers from Radiation Hybrid (RH) mapping experiments is typically viewed as equivalent to the traveling-salesman problem, which has combinatorial complexity. As an additional problem, experiments ... -
Adapting Web Page Tables on Mobile Web Browsers: Results from Two Controlled Empirical Studies
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Displaying web page content in mobile screens is a challenging task and users often face difficulty retrieving the relevant data. It can force them to adopt a time-consuming hunt-and-peck strategy. Application of design ... -
A New Coupling Metric: Combining Structural and Semantic Relationships
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Maintaining object-oriented software is problematic and expensive. Earlier research has revealed that complex relationships among object-oriented software entities are key reasons that make maintenance costly. Therefore, ... -
Metrics and Tools to Guide Design of Graphical User Interfaces
(North Dakota State University, 2014)User interface design metrics assist developers evaluate interface designs in early phase before delivering the software to end users. This dissertation presents a metric-based tool called GUIEvaluator for evaluating the ... -
Addressing Off-Nominal Behaviors in Requirements for Embedded Systems
(North Dakota State University, 2015)System requirements are typically specified on the assumption that the system's operating environment will behave in what is considered to be an expected and nominal manner. When gathering requirements, one concern is ... -
An Artificial Immune System Heuristic in a Smart Electrical Grid
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The immune system of the human body follows a process that is adaptive and learns via experience. Some algorithms are designed to take advantage of this process to determine solutions for complex problem domains. The ... -
Heuristic Clustering with Secured Routing in Two Tier Sensor Networks
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This study addresses the management of Heterogeneous Sensor Networks (HSNs) in an area of interest. The use of sensors in our day-to-day life has increased dramatically, and in ten to fifteen years the sensor nodes may ... -
Simulating Multi-Agent Decision Making for a Self Healing Smart Grid
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Dynamic real-time power systems like the national power grid operate in continuously changing environments such as adverse weather conditions, power line malfunctions, device failures, etc. These disruptions can lead to ... -
Measurement of Non-Technical Skills of Software Development Teams
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Software Development managers recognize that project team dynamics is a key component of the success of any project. Managers can have a project with well-defined goals, an adequate schedule, technically skilled people and ...