Computer Science Masters Theses: Recent submissions

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    • An Automated Approach for Discovering Functional Risk-Inducing Flaws in Software Designs 

      Hassan, Amro Salem Salem (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      For safety critical applications, it is necessary to ensure that risk-inducing flaws do not exist in the final product. To date, many risk-based testing techniques were proposed. The majority of these techniques address ...

    • Sliding Window Based Technique to Obtain Correlation Between Field Variables 

      Chavan, Harshada Chandrakant (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      In agriculture, finding correlation between field variables such as yield, NDVI, etc. is a classic problem. The most popular solution for finding correlation is to use regression analysis over complete field. In a field, ...

    • Increasing Usability and Accessibility of GIS Technology Through Extension of Existing Software Tools 

      Noel, Elizabeth Joan (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 ...

    • A Data Mining Approach for Identifying Pavement Distress Signatures 

      Bouret, Megan Sue (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      This work introduces signature-based data mining of pavement distress data. The goal is to understand the factors that influence pavement distress. The presented approach maintains multiple types of flexible pavement ...

    • Immune Network Optimization of Composite SaaS for Cloud Computing 

      Bauer, Kevin Kaatz (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 ...

    • The Fusion of Ultrasonic and Spatially Aware System in Mobile - Interaction Device 

      Wang, Di (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 ...

    • Multi-Variate Attribute Selection for Agricultural Data 

      Xu, Xing John (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      Farmers always have been concerned about the quantity of crops (yield) as well as the quality of crops (sugar content of the sugar beets). The quality and quantity of crops are affected by various attributes, some are ...

    • Particle Swarm Optimization and Particle Filter Applied to Object Tracking 

      Xia, Gongyi (North Dakota State University, 2016)
      The particle filter is usually used as a tracking algorithm in non-linear under the Bayesian tracking framework. However, the problems of degeneracy and impoverishment degrade its performance. The particle filter is ...

    • A Restful Architecture for Multiuser Virtual Environments and Simulations 

      Kariluoma, Matti (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      JavaMOO is an architecture for creating multiuser virtual environments using the MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) and MOO (MUD Object Oriented) design patterns (rooms and objects in the rooms, including \exit" objects that lead ...

    • A Linguistic Model for Improving Sentiment Analysis Systems 

      Hall, Jared Coleman (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      The value of automated sentiment analysis systems is increasing with the vast amount of consumer-generated content, allowing researchers to analyze the information readily available on the World Wide Web. Much research has ...

    • Training Set Selection to Improve Crop Classification 

      Christeson, Eric John (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      In some classification problems, acquiring class label information is much more expensive than collecting attribute data. One such problem is crop classification from satellite imagery. While random sampling is one option, ...

    • Adapting Web Page Tables on Mobile Web Browsers: Results from Two Controlled Empirical Studies 

      Annadi, Ramakanth Reddy (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Displaying web page content in mobile screens is a challenging task and users often face difficulty retrieving the relevant data. It can force them to adopt a time-consuming hunt-and-peck strategy. Application of design ...

    • An Artificial Immune System Heuristic in a Smart Electrical Grid 

      Chowdhury, Md. Minhaz (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      The immune system of the human body follows a process that is adaptive and learns via experience. Some algorithms are designed to take advantage of this process to determine solutions for complex problem domains. The ...

    • ReviewMiner: An Unsupervised Method of Aspect Extraction and Aspect Rating from Product Reviews 

      Dutta, Anubrata (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      One major piece of information available on the web is reviews about various products that are written by users. Some commercial websites provide additional information about the products along with the reviews. However, ...

    • Efficient Regression Testing for Web Applications Using Reusable Constraint Values 

      Hossain, Md Imamul (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 ...

    • Smart Grid Optimization Using a Capacitated Transshipment Problem Solver 

      Lampl, Damian (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      A network flow model known as the capacitated transshipment problem, or CTP, can represent key aspects of a smart grid test network with the goal of finding minimum cost electric power flows using multiple different cost ...

    • Chemical Compound Classification Ensemble 

      Zhu, Ya (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      In the research of health science, scientists often need to screen numerous chemical compounds to find drugs that can treat a disease. The process of testing the functionality of these compounds in the laboratory is very ...

    • Injecting Safety-Critical Certification Into Agile Software Methods 

      Minot, Scott James (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 ...

    • Vector-Vector Patterns for Agricultural Data 

      Momsen, Eric (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Agriculture is increasingly driven by massive data, and some challenges are not covered by existing statistics, machine learning, or data mining techniques. Many crops are characterized not only by yield but also by quality ...

    • Mobisurf: Bimanual Inter-Device Interaction 

      Roudaki, Ali (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      A shared interactive display (i.e. tabletop) provides a large space for collaborative interaction. However, it lacks a private area for accessing sensitive information. On the other hand, a mobile device offers a variety ...