Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Department "Computer Science"
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For Youth For Life: 4-H Digital Badges: A Collaborative Tool to Support Informal Learning
(2015-05-05)
The intent of FYFL (For Youth For Life) application is to provide an easy to use, cost effective and scalable collaborative system in order to facilitate learning and sharing best practices across communities and institution ...
“For Youth for Life” An Online Education System Usability and Security Improvement
(2015-05-08)
The FYFL (For Youth For Life) application is used to perform website functions which helps learning among communities across many content areas, supports the 4-H badge management system and creates users of different levels. ...
A Framework for Universal Problem Resolution with Continuous Improvement
(2014-05-01)
This dissertation outlines a universal problem resolution framework implementing reasoning and improvement capabilities exhibited by human beings. The work reviews literature concerning major differentiations of human ...
A Full Life-Cycle Methodology for Structured Use-Centered Quantitative Usability Requirements Specification and Usability Evaluation of Websites
(2009-08-14)
World Wide Web has gained its dominant status in the cyber information and services delivery world in recent years. But how to specify website usability requirements and how to evaluate and improve website usability according ...
GANGs: an Energy Efficient Medium Access Protocol
(2010-04-13)
Recent advances in wireless communications and electronics have enabled the development of low-cost sensor networks. Low energy storage capacity is one of the critical features of nodes in these networks. Communication ...
A Gateway-Based Approach for Information Retrieval from Data-Centric Wireless Sensor Networks from IP Hosts
(2010-11-11)
With applications ranging from environmental and health monitoring to military surveillance and inventory tracking, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are changing the way we collect and use data and will be a major part of ...
Go with the flow: Data Flow Analysis for Binary Differencing
(2014-07-30)
Differencing in computer science is often used to quickly determine differences between two files. While this works well for plain text files, such as source code, applying differencing to binary executable files is more ...
Green Dolphin: an Educational Questions and Answers Website
(2013-07-10)
Questions and answers boards are popular among enterprises. A dedicated question and answer site called Piazza is in widespread use in the educational domain. We present the design of an educational Q & A system called ...
HadioFS: Improve the Performance of HDFS by Off-loading I/O to ADIOS
(2013-08-21)
Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is the underlying storage for the whole Hadoop stack, which includes MapReduce, HBase, Hive, Pig, etc. Because of its robustness and portability, HDFS has been widely adopted, often ...
Highly Reliable and Load-balancing Routing Protocol for the Wireless Sensor Network
(2010-05-19)
In wireless sensor networks, the reliability of message delivery is low because its wireless medium has a high packet loss rate and some nodes frequently may not work because each node uses a small amount of battery power. ...
Human Coordination of Robot Teams: An Empirical Study of Multimodal Interface Design
(2009-05-04)
Human Robot Interaction is an emerging area of interdisciplinary research that requires contributions from the areas of robotics, human computer interaction, cognitive sciences, multimodal interfaces and others. Due to ...
Implementation of Fork-Merge Parsing in OpenRefactory/C
(2015-05-04)
C preprocessor directives are extensively used in C programs. Due to this, performing advanced program transformations on C programs is difficult. To obtain correct transformations, all possible configurations have to be ...
Imprinting Community College Computer Science Education with Software Engineering Principles
(2012-05-01)
Although the two-year curriculum guide includes coverage of all eight software engineering core topics, the computer science courses taught in Alabama community colleges limit student exposure to the programming, or coding, ...
Improve I/O performance and Energy Efficiency in Hadoop Systems
(2012-08-27)
MapReduce is one of the most popular distributed computing platforms for the large-scale data-intensive applications. MapReduce has been applied to many areas of divide-and-conquer problems like search engines, data mining, ...
The Improvement of Computer Performance and Self-Efficacy Among Seniors Citizens Through Training and Virtual Classrooms
(2009-04-22)
Senior citizens represent the fastest growing demographic worldwide. As
indicated in the Year 2000 U.S. census, there are 35 million people 65 years old or older
in the United States, and by 2030, it is estimated that ...
Improving Energy Efficiency and Security in Cluster Computing Systems
(2011-07-25)
Cluster computing systems are widely used in parallel and distributed computing research.
Besides performance, energy cost and security should also be carefully concerned in large scale cluster computing systems to reduce ...
Improving Performance of Hadoop Clusters
(2012-01-18)
The MapReduce model has become an important parallel processing model for large- scale data-intensive applications like data mining and web indexing. Hadoop, an open-source implementation of MapReduce, is widely applied ...
Improving Prediction Accuracy Using Class-specific Ensemble Feature Selection
(2010-08-03)
As data accumulates at a speed significantly faster than can be processed, data preprocessing techniques such as feature selection become increasingly important and beneficial. Moreover, given the well-known gains of ...
Improving Reliability of Energy-Efficient Storage Systems
(2012-05-04)
With the rapid growth of the production and storage of large scale data sets it is important to investigate methods to drive the cost of storage systems down. Many energy conservation techniques have been proposed to achieve ...
Improving Reliability Of Wireless Sensor Networks for Target Tracking using Wireless Acoustic Sensors
(2009-11-13)
The advancement of MEMS technologies has made it possible to produce tiny wireless
sensor devices. These tiny sensors hold the promise of revolutionizing sensing in a wide
range of application domains because of their ...