Computer Science: Recent submissions

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    • Evaluation of a New Bio-Inspired Algorithm: Krill Herd 

      Madamanchi, Devi (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Number of nature inspired algorithms is proposed to solve complex optimization problems. The Krill Herd algorithm is one such biologically-inspired algorithm, proposed to solve optimization problems in response to biological ...

    • Naïve Bayes Classifier: A MapReduce Approach 

      Zheng, Songtao (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Machine learning algorithms have the advantage of making use of the powerful Hadoop distributed computing platform and the MapReduce programming model to process data in parallel. Many machine learning algorithms have been ...

    • Best Practices of ERP Implementation 

      Puri, Rahul (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Today Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has become a fundamental necessity for the organization. It serves many functional areas and many industries in an integrated fashion, trying to automate operations from inventory ...

    • Investigating the Defect Patterns during the Software Development Projects 

      Poudyal, Abhaya (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      With the growing software industry and our dependency on complex software applications, it is vital that the software is free of faults. The objective of my study is to, identify and classify the most common type of defects ...

    • Analyzing Student Learning Outcomes in Programming Course Using Individual Study Vs. Pair Programming 

      Abeyratne, Keith (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Pair programming has been common practice in the programming industry during last three decades, but only recently did it start to draw the attention as a teaching strategy. This paper investigates whether we should introduce ...

    • Mining Frequent Coherent Patterns from Weighted Graphs 

      Ahmed, Syed Kutub Uddin (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Current research on network analysis; such as community detection, pattern mining and many other graph mining application mostly focus on large social or biological networks. Such experiments may find interesting patterns ...

    • Protein-Function Prediction Using a Graph-Matching Algorithm 

      Shrestha, Sarjan (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Proteins are the basic building blocks for biological life. Proteins interact with other proteins or molecules to carry out various functions. The active region in the protein molecule is the functional site. Today, most ...

    • Graphical Simulation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Mission 

      Gebremariam, Alemayehu (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are automated flying planes currently focused on military and civilian applications. This work simulates the motion of UAV in the battlefield environment; making use of the theoretical ...

    • Mining Representative Cohesive Dense Subgraphs 

      Brazier, Tyler (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Data mining techniques have an important implication in social and biological network analysis, were we're interested in finding related complexes and communities. A modern paradigm for solving this problem involves finding ...

    • Simple Identity Manager 

      Kolluru, Sunil (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Identity management is a key area for any enterprise. Maintaining user profiles, including e-mail, passwords, and other personal information, and providing a way to manage them is ubiquitous for any company. Specifically, ...

    • Requirement Eliciting Process: A Method To Analyze Requirements Through Concept Maps 

      Fonseka, Marie Nilukshi (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Conceptual modeling involves the understanding and communication between system analysts and end-users. Concept maps (CM) are informal, semantic, node-link conceptual graphs used to represent knowledge in a variety of ...

    • Evaluating the Usefulness of Requirement Error Taxonomy as a Defect Prevention Technique: An Empirical Investigation 

      Rehman, Sana (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Defect prevention techniques can be used during the creation of software artifacts to help developers create high-quality artifacts. The Requirement Error Taxonomy developed by Walia et al. [22, 23] helps focus developer’s ...

    • 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 ...

    • Project Quality Tool: A Tool for Project Success 

      Srichinta, Pallavi (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      This paper proposes a solution to the current changing requirements communication problem in an offshore on-site software development model. The proposed model is a web-based tool where the user in a project team can enter ...

    • Historical Analysis and Estimation Tool for Energy Trading 

      Sambaraju, Sharath Chandra (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Many forms of commodities are traded in today’s financial world, the most commonly used commodity, ‘Electricity’, is no exception. Electricity is mostly traded on a day to day basis, where the buyers and suppliers agree ...

    • Petri Net Model for Smart Grid System 

      Pandey, Anand Swaroop (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      The concept of a smart grid is to provide self-healing, reliable, economic, and environment friendly energy-saving, sustainable electricity services to the users including the freedom to choose and set priorities according ...

    • Does Domain Knowledge Increase Creativity During Requirements Development: An Empirical Investigation 

      Sharm, Sonu (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      To design and build a system/software, we need to understand the business of the organization, so understanding the business is very important for requirement analysis of such system. This requires an effective and efficient ...

    • Female Factor and Team Projects: A Social Sensitivity Perspective 

      Khosla, Sourabh (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Software Development is a complex, time-consuming task wherein a team must collaborate effectively over a long period of time. Achieving maximum productivity and quality requires commitment. A recent MIT study concluded ...

    • Applied Nonparametric Statistical Tests to Compare Evolutionary and Swarm Intelligence Approaches 

      Amanchi, Srinivas Adithya (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Recently, in many experimental studies, the statistical analysis of nonparametric comparisons has grown in the area of computational intelligence. The research refers to application of different techniques that are used ...

    • Mobile Applications for Viewing Price and Load of Power Data from New York Independent System Operator 

      Gupta, Nimish (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      In New York, the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) supervises the wholesale electrical market and collects different kinds of data, including price and load data, which are available on the NYISO’s website. These ...