Browsing by Author "Hendrix, Dean"

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The Activity Metric for Low Resource, On-line Character Recognition

Confer, William (2005-12-15)

This work presents an algorithm for on-line character recognition that is fast, portable, and consumes very little memory for code or data. The algorithm is alphabet-independent, and does not require training beyond ...

Analyzing the Benefits of Graphics Processing Units for Computation-Intensive Applications on Hadoop

Vasko, Kevin (2015-07-21)

Due to the ever expanding amount of data that is being generated in the “Big Data era” there is an ever increasing challenge of processing this data. This work aims to tackle the challenge of improving the performance of ...

Automated Source Code Measurement Environment For Software Quality

Lee, Young (2007-12-15)

Measuring how well software component can be reused and maintained helps programmers not only write reusable and maintainable software, but also identifies reusable or maintainable components. We develop an automated ...

Automatic Detection of Software Security Vulnerabilities in Executable Program Files

Tevis, Jay-Evan (2005-08-15)

Secure programming describes those techniques that software developers use to provide security features in their applications. In addition to these techniques, software practitioners use static code security checkers to ...

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 ...

Computational Methods for Evaluation of Protein Structural Models

Alapati, Rahul (2019-04-23)

Proteins are essential parts of organisms and participate in virtually every process within the cells. The function of a protein is closely related to its structure than to its amino acid sequence. Hence, the study of the ...

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 ...

The Design and Development of a Framework to support Ergonomics Professionals and General Users

Asogwa, Onyinye (2018-05-01)

Poor ergonomics in many industries expose workers to risk. Improving the productivity of an organization is as important as the welfare of the employees that work hard to achieve the results. We are in a digital world where ...

Discrete Event Role Playing Simulation of Small Team Software Engineering Projects

Rogers, Neal (2006-08-15)

A dissertation presented on the simulation of small team software engineering projects. Each individual acts as a team leader for a software project that is scheduled to last from 5 to 52 weeks. A team of four or five ...

Dynamically Adjustable Software Process

Rawajfih, Yasmeen (2016-12-09)

Industry experience shows that the quality of a software product is directly related to the quality of the software process used to produce it. Software process can rarely be used out of the box. Project types, scopes and ...

The Effects of Community Partnerships on K-12 Computer Science Education

Reed, Aaron (2019-04-17)

Technology is a critical component of the American economy. Analysts have claimed it is imperative that the United States maintain its status as a worldwide leader in technology or its economy, standard of living, and ...

Empirical Evidence of the Consequences of Bad Smells in Software

Topuz, Fatma Neda (2022-03-08)

A “smell” is a property of software source code that indicates a deeper problem. Smells do not necessarily affect the code at the immediate point in time but are thought to cause problems during a later phase of the ...

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 ...

Exploring the Integration of Model-based Formal Methods into Software Design Education

Wang, Shuo (2005-12-15)

Proper design analysis is indispensable to assure quality and reduce emergent cost due to faulty software. Teaching proper design verification skills early during the pedagogical development of a software engineer is ...

An Extract Function Refactoring for the Go Language

Gnanaprakasa, Steffi Mariya (2015-07-31)

Refactoring is a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal code structure without changing its external behavior. Refactoring is specified as a parameterized program transformation ...

A Flexible Model for Multi-agent Based Simulation of Software Development Process

Agarwal, Ravikant (2007-12-15)

Inadequate use of project management techniques in software development can be traced to the lack of efficient education strategies for managers. Software development processes are complex and therefore it is hard to predict ...

“For Youth for Life” An Online Education System Usability and Security Improvement

Talluri, Nayana Teja (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. ...

From Bare Metal to Private Cloud: Introducing DevSecOps and Cloud Technologies to Naval Systems

Anderson, Robert (2018-07-20)

Virtualizing computing resources provides a myriad of benefits ranging from increased hardware utilization, better disaster recovery, and isolation between the applications and the underlying hardware. Isolation of ...

Improving Programming Productivity with Statistical Models

Nguyen, Tam (2022-04-26)

Modern applications often need to have very short time-to-market and upgrade cycles, and thus, short development time. To address this requirement, application developers often rely heavily on API frameworks and libraries ...

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 ...