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    • 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 ...
    • Investigating the Use of Model-Based Method for Improving the Quality of Natural Language Requirements: A Controlled Empirical Study 

      Gupta, Munmun (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Requirement engineering is a critical phase in software development that describes the customer needs and specifications for the software. Requirements are gathered through various sources and documented for a software ...
    • Power Consumption for iOS 

      Kwete, Yannick Mingashanga (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      The shift from traditional software development for personal computers to mobile applications on iOS comes with new challenges and considerations. Software development teams similar to my work group built expertise in ...
    • Simian Plus: A Mission Simulation Enhancement Toolkit 

      Dayala, Divya (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) have the ability to execute missions that include detecting and destroying the targets. The Simian simulator developed at NDSU performs complex motion calculations for moment - moment flight ...
    • Semantic-Based Publish/Subscribe System in Social Network 

      Jahan, Farzana (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      The publish/subscribe model has become a prevalent paradigm for building distributed notification services by decoupling the publishers and the subscribers from each other. The semantics-based publish/subscribe system ...
    • Taxonomy of Gestures in Human Computer Interaction 

      Vafaei, Fereydoon (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Classification of gestures is important in the area of gestural interaction given the diversity, the complexity and the spontaneity of the gestures in different HCI application domains. Gesture designers for interactive ...
    • SPIN Model Checker for MACT 

      Somavarapu, Murali Krishna (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      The SPIN (Simple PROMELA Interpreter) model checker is a verification system used to check high-level models of concurrent systems and improve the overall system’s performance. The SPIN model checker takes the PROMELA model ...
    • Real Parameter Optimization Using Differential Evolution 

      Dawar, Deepak (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Over recent years, Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) have emerged as a practical approach to solve hard optimization problems presented in real life. The inherent advantage of EA over other types of numerical optimization methods ...
    • Social Network Based Recommendation System 

      Singh, Manish (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Every day we are overwhelmed with choices and options. Recommendation systems have gained popularity in providing suggestions. But every web application today has its own recommendation system. The recommendations provided ...
    • Scheduling of Appliances Based on Sensitivity to Dynamic Pricing in a Smart Grid 

      Saha, Barsha (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      The work described in this paper models the scheduling of smart home appliances of different types of consumers based on their sensitivity to dynamic price changes. The price sensitivity is established on a scale of 0 to ...
    • A Comparative Study of Spreadsheet Applications on Mobile Devices 

      Chintapalli, Veera Venkata Satyanarayana Murthy (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Advancements with mobile-screen sizes and enhancements to current-day features for mobile applications have increased the number of users accessing spreadsheets on mobile devices while away from desktop computers. In recent ...
    • An Automated Testing Framework for the Virtual Cell Game 

      Dandey, Santosh Raj (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      The NDSU Virtual Cell game is a role-based, multi-user computer game developed to aid in learning cellular concepts in biology. It is developed using client/server architecture with Lambda-Moo as a server and web-based ...
    • Developing a Software Tool to Enhance the Creativity during Software Development Using the Results from the Literature Review 

      Hegde, Reshma (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Success during software development depends on the creativity of software engineers. Knowledge plays a very important role in enhancing the creativity of software developers. Knowledge is available in different forms like ...
    • Replication with Incentives in Centralized Peer to Peer Networks 

      Mudgal, Akshay (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      We are living in a digital age in which data production has become so ubiquitous that the demand for sharing will increase as more aspects of life become digital. There are several ways we share data: via websites and ...
    • Evaluation of Firefly Algorithm Using Benchmark Functions 

      Kundur, Anuroop (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      The field of nature inspired computing and optimization techniques have evolved to solve the difficult optimization problems in diverse fields of engineering, science and technology. The Firefly algorithm is one of the ...
    • Tutorial on Negative Selection Algorithm 

      Singh, Sonal (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      The primary aim of this paper is to incorporate the educational objectives of the revised Bloom’s taxonomy in the creation of educational material and assessments for teaching the concepts of the Negative Selection Algorithm. ...