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Advancements and Implementation of Polynomial-Based Learning Machines for Data Processing and System Modeling 

Pukish, Michael, III (2014-04-23)
At the present time, the need in all disciplines for efficient and powerful algorithms for the handling of large and complex datasets is certainly at its highest. Extremely large multi-dimensional datasets are commonplace ...

An Approach for Anonymous Spelling for Voter Write-Ins Using Speech Interaction 

Dawkins, Shanee (2009-10-23)
Today, the technology used for voting does not fully address the issues that disabled voters are confronted with during elections. Every voter, regardless of disability, should be able to vote and verify his or her ballot ...

Clustering and Predictive Modeling: An Ensemble Approach 

Williams, Philicity (2008-08-15)
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 ...

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 ...

Development of an Augmenting Navigational Cognition System 

Yang, Ying (2005-12-15)
Social isolation for persons with cognitive impairments due to aging and/or disease is common and widespread. Those people who have diseases such as early Alzheimer’s and dementia tend to forget what they have to do to ...

E-Textbook Evaluation Study 

Aldubaisi, Fatimah (2014-12-09)
The effects that technological advances have on education and how these advances can be used to improve the learning process are important research questions that attract many researchers to study different aspects of these ...

The Evolution of the C# Language: The Impact of Syntactic Sugar and Language Integrated Query on Performance 

Mageed, Ahmad (2010-04-09)
The C# language has seen a healthy adoption rate for a fairly young language. Each released version has introduced features that have addressed pain points in the version preceding it, as well as providing greater flexibility ...

Green Dolphin: an Educational Questions and Answers Website 

Aritajati, Chulakorn (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 ...

An Intelligent and Interactive Simulation and Tutoring Environment for Exploring and Learning Simple Machines 

Myneni, Lakshman Sundeep (2011-12-01)
Students in middle school science classes have difficulty mastering physics concepts such as energy and work, taught in the context of simple machines. Moreover, students' naive conceptions of physics often remain unchanged ...

A Location-Based Indoor Recommendation System Using A Hidden Markov Model 

Ding, Yusheng (2016-05-02)
Recommendation systems play an important role in both the industrial and the academic worlds because they can combine theoretical study and market use together perfectly. Through improving user experience, recommendation ...

A Metaheuristic for Autonomous and Self-Organizing Consensus Formation Inspired by Honey Bee Nest Site Selection Behavior 

Mentis, Alexander (2014-12-04)
This research presents a self-organizing system for engineering consensus among cooperating, distributed processes and studying consensus negotiation in natural systems that use the quorum sensing mechanism. The presented ...

Modeling the Effects of Intelligent Driver Assistance on Driver Behaviors 

Deo, Ganesh (2010-06-01)
Many studies have concluded that activities like answering a cell phone call and entering an address while driving could potentially distract the driver. This thesis presents the design and experimental evaluation by ...

Simbuilder: An Investigation and Usability Study Of Novice Programming Techniques 

Kanakadoss, Sumitha (2005-12-15)
In many existing programming languages, novices always find it difficult to transform their mental plan to terms compatible with the computer. By analyzing the ways users think to solve their daily problems and designing ...

Studio-Based Computer Supported Collaborative Learning 

Myneni, Lakshman Sundeep (2009-04-23)
The field of computing is experiencing a significant decline in incoming majors. According to the latest reports, the main reasons for this decline are (a) computing is too often related to programming, and (b) introductory ...

Talking Games: An Empirical Study of Speech-based Cursor Control Mechanisms 

Thornton, David (2008-12-15)
This document describes a study of speech-based cursor control mechanisms along with a new proposed approach called NameTags. This research is intended to provide empirical user data to inform the design of future systems ...

Team-RUP: An Agent-Based Simulation Study of Team Behavior In Software Development Organizations 

Phillips, Jared (2006-05-15)
Software production methods are enacted via the interactions of software teams that cooperate to build software. Therefore, organizational culture has a significant effect on project coordination. Yet, this is not reflected ...

Voice Interactive System: A Usability Study of the Voice Survey Creator 

Wachs, Ashley (2007-05-15)
The voice user interface survey is aimed at providing an easier and more efficient way of creating surveys that is conducive to the entire population. This system allows a person to call and create a survey solely over ...