Computer Science Masters Papers: Recent submissions

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    • Implementation of a GIS with Analytics for Pollution Data 

      Rastogi, Aakanksha (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      Particulate matter called pm2.5 refers to harmful microscopic liquid or solid matter of diameter 2.5 microns suspended in the air. To effectively analyze and visualize data for pollution category pm2.5, a Geographic ...

    • The Realization of Visualization and Prediction Models 

      Wang, Yijun (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      Visualization is a specific technique for building images, animations or diagrams to communicate a message [1]. Nowadays, it effective to communicate both abstract and concrete ideas for big data by visual imagery. ...

    • Wireless Sensor Network Scheduling and Coverage Using an ABC Algorithm 

      Pachaiyappan, Sathya (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      Limited sensor battery capacity is a major issue in wireless sensor networks. If all of the sensors in a network need not be in an awake state to provide adequate coverage at any given time, it is possible to strategically ...

    • Implementation of a Clonal Selection Algorithm 

      Valluru, Srikanth (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Some of the best optimization solutions were inspired by nature. Clonal selection algorithm is a technique that was inspired from genetic behavior of the immune system, and is widely implemented in the scientific and ...

    • An Interactive Visualization System for a Multi-Level View of Opinion Mining Results 

      Chitkara, Karan (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Products are purchased and sold on a daily basis and people tend to critique on products they purchase. Those who want to buy a product will read reviews on that product given by others before buying; likewise those who ...

    • Smart Task Scheduling for a Truck Company 

      Gautam, Pooja (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      The truck scheduling system is a web-based application which will facilitate online truck activities. The objective of the application is to provide the truck system with an automated computerized tool, which will be helpful ...

    • Critical Information Retrieval from Emails 

      Sen, Souvik (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      With efficiency being a driving force in today’s ecommerce, emails have become a major form of communication. However, deciphering information from these emails has been a be-labored task. With every email containing ...

    • 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 ...