Browsing Computer Science Doctoral Work by Issue Date
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Virtual-Experiment-Driven Process Model (VEDPM)
(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'' ... -
Vector-Item Pattern Mining Algorithms and their Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Advances in storage technology have long been driving the need for new data mining techniques. Not only are typical data sets becoming larger, but the diversity of available attributes is increasing in many problem domains. ... -
A Secure and Reliable Interference-Aware Wireless Mesh Network Design
(North Dakota State University, 2012)A wireless mesh network (WMN) is a multihop wireless network consisting of a large number of wireless nodes of which some are called gateway nodes and connected with a wired network. Wireless mesh network have attracted ... -
Using Information Retrieval to Improve Integration Testing
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Software testing is an important factor of the software development process. Integration testing is an important and expensive level of the software testing process. Unfortunately, since the developers have limited time ... -
Towards Change Propagating Test Models In Autonomic and Adaptive Systems
(North Dakota State University, 2012)The major motivation for self-adaptive computing systems is the self-adjustment of the software according to a changing environment. Adaptive computing systems can add, remove, and replace their own components in response ... -
Mining for Significant Information from Unstructured and Structured Biological Data and Its Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Massive amounts of biological data are being accumulated in science. Searching for significant meaningful information and patterns from different types of data is necessary towards gaining knowledge from these large amounts ... -
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 ... -
Towards Test Focus Selection for Integration Testing Using Software Metrics
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Object-oriented software systems contain a large number of modules which make the unit testing, integration testing, and system testing very difficult and challenging. While the aim of the unit testing is to show that ... -
A Two-phase Security Mechanism for Anomaly Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been applied to a wide range of application areas, including battle fields, transportation systems, and hospitals. The security issues in WSNs are still hot research topics. The constrained ... -
Adaptive Regression Testing Strategies for Cost-Effective Regression Testing
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Regression testing is an important but expensive part of the software development life-cycle. Many different techniques have been proposed for reducing the cost of regression testing. To date, much research has been performed ... -
Spatially Aware Computing for Natural Interaction
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Spatial information refers to the location of an object in a physical or digital world. Besides, it also includes the relative position of an object related to other objects around it. In this dissertation, three systems ... -
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 ... -
A Distributed Linear Programming Model in a Smart Grid
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Advances in computing and communication have resulted in large-scale distributed environments in recent years. They are capable of storing large volumes of data and, often, have multiple compute nodes. However, the inherent ... -
Mining Semantic Relationships Between Concepts Across Documents Using Wikipedia Knowledge
(North Dakota State University, 2013)The ongoing astounding growth of text data has created an enormous need for fast and efficient Text Mining algorithms. However, the sparsity and high dimensionality of text data present great challenges for representing ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Improved Genetic Programming Techniques For Data Classification
(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. ...