Browsing Computer Science Masters Theses by Title
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Effect of Prompting Techniques and Learning Styles on Requirements Elicitation
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Research efforts on improving requirements elicitation are focused on developing and validating better techniques for eliciting a comprehensive set of requirements. However, there isn't enough empirical evidence available ... -
Efficient Publish/Subscribe System over Mobile Ad-Hoc Network
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Information dissemination is an important issue for mobile ad-hoc communities. This issue is very challenging due to the dynamic and fragile nature of the mobile ad-hoc networks, in which participants have limited computing ... -
Efficient Regression Testing for Web Applications Using Reusable Constraint Values
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Current web applications offer people easy ways to deploy web sites, and the use of web applications has grown rapidly over the past decades. Companies that provide web applications need frequent regression testing because ... -
Evaluating the Gap Between the Skills and Abilities of Senior Undergraduate Computer Science Students and the Expectations of Industry
(North Dakota State University, 2012)A large emphasis is placed on improving student education. Every year researchers propose new teaching methods and suggest improvements to existing methods. However, recent computer science and software engineering graduates ... -
An Evaluation Framework for Business Intelligence Visualization
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Nowadays, data visualization is becoming an essential part of data analysis. Business Intelligence Visualization (BIV) is a powerful tool that helps modern business flows faster and smoother than ever before. However, ... -
Exploring Frameworks for Rapid Visualization of Viral Proteins Common for a Given Host
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Viruses are unique organisms that lack the protein machinery necessary for its propagation (like polymerase) yet possess other proteins that facilitate its propagation (like host cell anchoring proteins). This study explores ... -
Finding the Most Predictive Data Source in Biological Data
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Classification can be used to predict unknown functions of proteins by using known function information. In some cases, multiple sets of data are available for classification where prediction is only part of the problem, ... -
Frequent Substring-Based Sequence Classification Using Reduced Alphabets
(North Dakota State University, 2011)In recent years, various disciplines have generated large quantities of sequence data which has necessitated automated techniques for classifying these sequences into different categories of interest. Especially with the ... -
The Fusion of Ultrasonic and Spatially Aware System in Mobile - Interaction Device
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Over the past four decades, the prophecy from computer pundits and prognosticators pointed that looming arrival of the paperless office era was coming. However, forty years later, physical paper documents are still playing ... -
A General Framework for Developing Multi-Surface Environments
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Since multi-touch technique has been used widely for personal device, such as smartphone, personal computer and tabletop, many forms of interaction are developed and served for user’s daily usage. But forms of interaction ... -
Identifying & Analyzing Security Vulnerabilities While Integration of Data from Cloud to SQL DBMS An Industrial Case Study
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Data integration defines propulsion of data from numerous sources into a database system in a way that yields the information representing powerful analytics. Various industries are always working towards keeping their ... -
Image Processing for White Line Detection in a Grassy Field
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Image processing for object detection and decision making based on the observed remains a challenge today. As participants in the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition in 2018 and 2019, we were tasked to build an autonomous ... -
Image Registration and Fusion Application
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Image Registration and Fusion is a process of manipulating two or more input images through a combination of geometric transformation operations and fusion rules to obtain the information from the input images into one ... -
Immune Network Optimization of Composite SaaS for Cloud Computing
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Serving the needs efficiently for a wide gamut of cloud users is a challenge. One way to address this challenge is to decompose SaaS (Software as a Service) into application components and then consider them as loosely ... -
Implementation of Parallel Programming to Improve Transaction Speed and Scalability in Blockchain Systems
(North Dakota State University, 2021)This thesis presents a parallel mining architecture model intended to be used in blockchain systems to improve transaction speed and network scalability while maintaining decentralization. Typical blockchain validation ... -
In Memory Computation of Glowworm Swarm Optimization Applied to Multimodal Functions Using Apache Spark
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Glowworm Swarm Optimization (GSO) is one of the optimization techniques, which need to be parallelized in order to evaluate large problems with high-dimensional function spaces. There are various issues involved in the ... -
Increasing Usability and Accessibility of GIS Technology Through Extension of Existing Software Tools
(North Dakota State University, 2015)As the popularity of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology increases and its use extends from specialized users to the general public, tools available to users must adapt to take these changes into account. Virtual ... -
Injecting Safety-Critical Certification Into Agile Software Methods
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Agility offers an adaptable and changeable environment within software development. The benefits that agile methods provide for software development are becoming an even greater possibility in safety-critical software ... -
Intrusion Detection With an Autoencoder and ANOVA Feature Selector
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Intrusion detection systems are systems that aim at identifying malicious activities or violation of policies in a network. The problem of high dimensionality in intrusion detection systems is a barrier in processing data ... -
An Investigation of Integration and Performance Issues Related to the Use of Extended Page Sizes in Computationally Intensive Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2012)The combination of increasing fabrication density and corresponding decrease in price has resulted in the ability of commodity platforms to support large memory capacities. Processor designers have introduced support for ...