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A Class-Specific Ensemble Feature Selection Approach for Classification Problems 

Soares, Caio (2009-04-20)
This research proposes a new feature selection algorithm, Class-specific Ensemble Feature Selection (CEFS), which finds class-specific subsets of features optimal to each available classification in the dataset. Each ...

Classifying Speakers Using Voice Biometrics In a Multimodal World 

Rouse, Kenneth (2009-07-30)
The following dissertation document is a research study conducted to determine whether a classi cation for a person is obtainable by using the person's voice. The intent of this work was to investigate a collection of ...

A Clustering Rule-based Approach for Classification Problems 

Williams, Philicity (2010-05-24)
Today’s data storage and collection abilities have allowed the accumulation of enormous amounts of data. Data mining can be a useful tool in transforming these large amounts of raw data into useful information. Predictive ...

A Cognitive Model and Gaze-Based Evaluation of Multiple Representation use during Program Comprehension and Debugging 

Hejmady, Prateek (2011-11-28)
Integrated Development Environments (IDE) for software development offer a wide variety of software visualization tools, which facilitate navigation and analysis, and generate multiple graphical presentations of program ...

A Collaborative Tool for Communities of Practice to Share Best Practices 

Nyagwencha, Justus (2013-09-30)
This dissertation presents a For Youth For Life (FYFL) cloud tool as a unique solution to a problem of identifying an easy to use, scalable, cost effective, and fault tolerant collaborative system or tool for members of ...

Collaborative-Adversarial Pair (CAP) Programming 

Swamidurai, Rajendran (2010-01-13)
The advocates of pair programming claim that it has a number of benefits over traditional individual programming, including faster software development, higher quality code, reduced overall software development cost, ...

ColorScape: A Creative Artificial Ecosystem Model of Communication and Collective Creativity in Global Participatory Science 

Zou, Guangyu (2012-01-31)
With the increasing use of cyberinfrastructure and popularity of e-Science initiatives, science is becoming truly globalized, reducing barriers to entry and enabling formation of open and global networked innovation ...

Comparative Study of Sentiment Detection Techniques for Business Analytics 

Avery, Heather (2015-12-14)
As the amount of data proliferates, businesses are faced with a plethora of decision support opportunities and often times lack a prescribed set of techniques to speed up or even handle analysis opportunities. The primary ...

Comparison of Aerial Collision Avoidance Algorithms in a Simulated Environment 

Holt, James (2012-02-28)
In the field of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), several control processes must be ac- tive to maintain safe, autonomous flight. When flying multiple UAVs simultaneously, these aircraft must be capable of performing mission ...

Congestion Control in Wireless Sensor Networks 

Kulkarni, Anand (2010-07-30)
For this thesis we consider Directed Diffusion routing protocol. It manages paths in a data-centric way. A sink node publicizes its interest in some events. Such an interest will be disseminated within the network and ...

Context-based file systems and spatial query applications 

Zhang, Ji (2013-04-23)
This dissertation presents studies related to I/O techniques in data-intensive computation and advanced solutions of spatial queries. There is a lack of general mechanisms for integrating multiple file system techniques ...

Cooling Hadoop: Temperature Aware Schedulers in Data Centers 

Kulkarni, Sanjay (2013-01-07)
The amount of unstructured data, also known as “Big Data” in Internet is growing every day. Because the Big data is unstructured, a large-scale distributed batch processing infrastructure like Hadoop is used instead of ...

Culturally Situated Design Tools: Animated Support Tools for Mathematics 

Bolton, Albanie (2010-04-12)
Culturally Situated Design Tools (CSDTs) are web-based software applications that allow students to create simulations of cultural arts: Native American beadwork, African American cornrow hairstyles, urban graffiti, and ...

Culture Based Computing For Adult Learners (C-CAL) 

Eugene, Wanda (2011-04-28)
This dissertation presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of the novel Cultural based Computing for Adult Learners (C-CAL) system, a self-directed online learning application utilizing culture to support adult ...

Data Center Specific Thermal and Energy Saving Techniques 

Muzaffar, Tausif (2015-07-23)
Data centers are ever increasing as we become more reliant on web based transactions. The benefits of such massive computing are obvious by the speed and ease we can get most media or information. A challenge is that new ...

Database Indexing for Skyline Computation, Hierarchical Relational Database, and Spatially-Aware SPARQL Evaluation Engine 

Wang, Chih-Jye (2015-12-10)
Computerized databases are ubiquitous and play an important role in many software projects. The efficiency of these systems are crucial in applications they support. Data indexing is the key to efficient data retrieval in ...

A Demographic Survey of Selected Third-Party Android Markets 

Symon, William (2012-07-20)
In 1998 less than 10 percent of the global population held cell phone subscriptions. By the end of 2011 this number had increased to 87 percent, accounting for over 5.9 billion subscribers worldwide. Due to this high ...

Design and evaluation of an accessible website developed using SharePoint 2010 

Kulkarni, Sonal (2012-01-06)
The internet and web applications are growing rapidly. People are, more than ever before, dependent on the web applications and this dependency will continue to increase. A large number of web users have various accessibility ...

Design and Implementation of Scalable and Efficient Programming Models for Fast Computation and Data Processing 

Que, Xinyu (2013-05-14)
Despite the tremendous growth of computational power, scientific applications and business data analytics continue to face many challenges such as programming productivity, application scalability, and efficiency. ...

Design of a Hybrid Memory System for General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units 

Carpenter, Patrick (2012-04-27)
Addressing a limited power budget is a prerequisite for maintaining the growth of computer system performance into and beyond the exascale. Two technologies with the potential to help solve this problem include general-purpose ...