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An Interdisciplinary Study: A Framework Supporting the Automated Phonetic Transcription Grading Tool System, from Business Requirement to Software Maintenance

Li, Sicheng (2021-12-01) ETD File Embargoed

Interactive learning applications enhance the motivation for students to interact and learn with the applications. In this research the primary goals are as follows: 1) to propose and implement algorithms to calculate the ...

Interface Design Guidelines to Improve Usability of Websites for Teenagers

Bailey, Cathy (2017-04-20)

Although most teenagers (aged 13-17) use the Internet daily, very little human-computer interaction (HCI) research exists on design of websites for teens. Several authors have published web usability guidelines and “cool” ...

iTad: An I/O-Aware Thermal Model for Data Centers

Muzaffar, Tausif (2014-05-08)

With the ever-growing cooling costs of large-scale data centers, thermal management must be adequately addressed. Thermal models can play a critical role in thermal management that helps in reducing cooling costs in data ...

iTech: An Interactive Technical Assistant

Wilson, Dale-Marie (2006-08-15)

This dissertation concentrates on the problem of designing and developing a conversational technical assistant. The main focus is to identify and address issues related to producing a system that allows for conversational ...

A Knowledge Base and Question Answering System Based on Loglan and English

Linker, Sheldon (2011-03-31)

One of the "holy grails" of computational linguistics has been to have a machine carry out a conversation, and to have some idea of what it is talking about. Loglan's machine grammar was a first attempt to carry out such ...

Mathematics Enrichment through Accelerated Learning to improve Learning and Achievement for PreK-12 students in Alabama

Asogwa, Onyinye Rosemary (2023-12-11)

The most recent nationwide math scores for 13-year-olds in the US dropping to the lowest level in decades, including Alabama's placement at the bottom, as revealed by the 2019 nationwide NAEP assessment, highlight the ...

Minimum Power Consumption for Rate Monotonic Tasks

Huang, Chiao (2008-12-15)

Embedded computer systems are widely used in modern life and their use is expanding. One of the typical constraints in embedded systems, particularly in standalone devices, is their low power capacity. One way to expand ...

A Model for Building Trustworthiness in Online Stores

Lanford, Patricia (2007-08-15)

More and more research is being done everyday in the world of e-commerce as consumers and merchants alike realize how powerful a selling tool the internet has become. Research shows that trust is key to the success of ...

Multiple UAV Simulation with Multiresolution Multistage Models and Decision Support

Li, Bo (2008-08-15)

Multi UAV simulation is a dynamic multi-simulation of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) activities in the battlefield with multiresolution multistage models. Decision support is implemented under this simulation. It ...

Neural Enhancement for Multiobjective Optimization

Garrett, Aaron (2008-05-15)

In this work, a neural network approach is applied to multiobjective optimization problems in order to expand the set of optimal solutions. The network is trained using results obtained from existing evolutionary multiobjective ...

Novel Machine Learning Algorithms for Analyzing Large-scale Genomic and Genetic Data

Wang, Ye (2020-12-01)

With the advancement of next-generation sequencing technology, numerous disease/ phenotypic associations with the human microbiome and human genome are uncovered and revealed. In this dissertation, we take advantage of ...

A Novel Method for Visualizing Keywords in Bibliometrics Science

Alhwiti, Theyab Atallah H (2017-07-25)

In the last two decades bibliometrics science has been evolving to help scientists and researchers to maintain the drastically increasing of the availability of scienti c literature. Bibliometrics help to have a broad ...

On the Adversarial Robustness of Machine Learning Models on Multi-Graph Scenarios

Zhang, Zijie (2023-07-27)

In this work, we study the the task of graph matching under several scenarios in an adversarial context. Despite achieving remarkable performance, deep learning based graph matching still suffers from harassment caused by ...

Optimization of Split Keyboard Design for Touchscreen Devices

Alamdar Yazdi, Mohammad Ali (2018-04-27)

While many large touchscreen devices have a split keyboard option to enable two-thumb typing, there are significant differences in the design which affect users’ text entry rate. A mixed integer-programming model is developed ...

Performance Evaluation of Biased Queue Management

Li, Xiaoming (2006-08-15)

Congestion is an important issue which researchers focus on in the Transmission Control Protocol (\textit{TCP}) network environment. To keep the stability of the whole network, congestion control algorithms have been ...

PineHill: A Novel Approach to Computer Aided Language Learning

Koh, Kyuhan (2007-05-15)

Teaching language involves understanding the way people perceive words and utilizing methods of instruction that they can easily comprehend. Computer assisted instruction is of great benefit and more interesting to learners ...

Post-Speech-Recognition Processing in Domain-Specific Text-Corpus-Based Distributed Listening System: Analysis, Interpretation and Selection of Speech Recognition Results

Lee, Spencer (2006-12-15)

Achieving usable recognition rates has been an almost never-ending quest in speech recognition research for more than three decades. Recently speech recognition rates have dramatically improved in conjunction with the rapid ...