Browsing Computer Science Masters Papers by Issue Date

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    • Shortest Path in a Wireless Sensor Network with Multiple Sensor Failures 

      Poreddy, Sandeep Reddy (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      This paper shows how a shortest path can be obtained in a wireless sensor network, between a source sensor and a destination sensor, in a hop-by-hop fashion, considering multiple sensor failures along the path of data ...

    • DOM Structure Based Web Pattern Mining 

      Pillarikuppam, Naresh (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      A rapid expansion in the Web has motivated several studies to understand and recognize the implementation structure underlying the interface. Though the presentation of the Web pages looks different, those Web pages may ...

    • Discovering Complex Relationships between Drugs and Diseases 

      Sharma, Ranjana (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      Finding the complex semantic relations between existing drugs and new diseases will help in the drug development in a new way. Most of the drugs which have found new uses have been discovered due to serendipity. Hence, the ...

    • Multi-Style Web Content Restructuring for Efficient Mobile Web Browsing 

      Xia, Xiaojun (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      Mobile devices such as smart phones, PDAs, and tablets are getting more and more popular every day. As a result, more people tend to use mobile devices to access Web contents. Therefore, mobile browsing becomes an important ...

    • Job Aggregation Search Engine 

      Sundaram, Anita (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a Job Aggregation Search Engine (JASE) that acts as a one-stop-shop for listing recently posted jobs across top multiple job search engines. There are multiple job ...

    • Algorithms for Coverage Improvement in a Sensor Network 

      Maddi, Sunil Reddy (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      Sensors are devices which have the ability to receive and respond to a signal. These sensors, when used as a group, form a sensor network. Sensors in a sensor network can communicate and transmit data. In the early stages ...

    • Multi-Agent Based Simulation of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicles System 

      Murugesan, Karthiksivaram (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      The rapid growth of using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for civilian and military applications has promoted the development of research in many areas. Most of the unmanned aerial vehicles in use are manually controlled. ...

    • Demonstrating Bid Rigging with a Shopping Agent Application Using JADE 

      Sivanandam, Dinesh (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      This paper presents the implementation of a shopping-cart agent that demonstrated collusion in online bidding. Collusion is an agreement between two or more persons, sometimes illegal and therefore secretive, to limit open ...

    • Graph Data Conversion and Tree Visualization 

      Guduru, Srinivas (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      The first part of the paper is converting graph data format from GXL to GraphML. GXL and GraphML are both XML-based languages for representing graph data. The HP page segmentation tool produces output graph data in GXL ...

    • The Grid Scan Heuristic for Extending Lifetime in Wireless Sensor Networks 

      Pachva, Srikar (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      Wireless Sensor Networks, consisting of sensing devices which sense the environment and communicate information among each other, is an emergent field in wireless networking with many potential applications. Efficiency of ...

    • Capacitated Transshipment Models for Predicting Signaling Pathways 

      Sahni, Ritika (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      Signal transduction is a process of transmitting signals for controlling biological responses. The protein-protein interaction (PPI) data, containing signal transduction proteins, can be considered as a bi-directional, ...

    • Application of the Kusumoto Cost-Metric to Evaluate the Cost-Effectiveness of Software Inspections 

      Mandala, Narendar Reddy (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      Inspection and testing are two widely recommended techniques for software quality improvement with a common goal of defect detection and removal in software products. While testing cannot be conducted until software is ...

    • Fuzzy Decision Model for a Smart Grid 

      Baqui, Muhammad Niamul (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      Electricity is vital for U.S. economy. Over the years, the demand and the usage of electricity have skyrocketed, but the electric transmission and distribution processes have been manual. The current work formulates an ...

    • Course Proposal and Approval System 

      Murugaiyan, Elangovan (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      North Dakota State University (NDSU) Distance and Continuing Education (DCE) department makes learning resources of the institution available in a variety of traditional and non-traditional ways. It offers courses in various ...

    • Energy Data Analyzer System 

      Pradhan, Basudha (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      Analyzing the electrical energy load and pricing data is important to make informed decisions about energy needs and regulations. Data from over a decade are publicly available online for many Independent System Operators ...

    • Text Mail - On Demand Email to SMS Service 

      Wijeyaratne, Pubudu (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      Short Messaging Service (SMS)-based mobile information services have become increasingly common around the world, especially among users with low-end mobile devices. This paper presents the design and implementation of ...

    • Comparison of Particle Swarm Optimization Variants 

      Daggubati, Satyanarayana (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a heuristic global optimization method, which is based on swarm intelligence. It is inspired by the research on the bird and fish flock movement behavior. The algorithm is widely used ...

    • Application for Capturing Potential Tardiness in Operating Room Suites 

      Gronneberg, Bethlehem Abera (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      This paper describes the design, architecture and implementation of a Dashboard Application, a tool developed to capture the potential tardiness in Operating Room (OR) Suites. The paper is focused on developing an automated ...

    • Assessment and Recommendation of Requirement Management Tool Based on User Needs 

      Mohpal, Aditi (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      Over recent years, requirement management has played a very vital role in materializing IT projects. Whether it is the healthcare sector, finance sector, banking sector, or any other industrial sector, requirement management ...

    • Modeling of Consumer Responses to Dynamic Pricing in a Smart Grid 

      Khan, Md Mahbubur Rahman (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      This paper models the responses of three different types of consumers based on their sensitivity to dynamic price. Simulated household demand data is used to model the dynamic price of electricity. These prices are then ...