Computer Science ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 2020
SYBIL DEFENSE USING EFFICIENT RESOURCE BURNING, Diksha Gupta
Blockchain Based Communication Architectures with Applications to Private Security Networks, Ashley N. Mayle
Data Mining of Chinese Social Networks: Factors That Indicate Post Deletion, Meisam Navaki Arefi
Intelligent Networks for High Performance Computing, William Whitney Schonbein
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Promotional Campaigns in the Era of Social Platforms, Noor E. Abu-el-rub
Thwarting Adversaries with Randomness and Irrationality, Abhinav Aggarwal
Non-Trivial Off-Path Network Measurements without Shared Side-Channel Resource Exhaustion, Geoffrey I. Alexander
Robot Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments, Hao-Tien Lewis Chiang
An Efficient Multiple-Place Foraging Algorithm for Scalable Robot Swarms, Qi Lu
Shared-Environment Call-by-Need, George W. Stelle
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Automatic Conversation Review for Intelligent Virtual Assistants, Ian R. Beaver
Mining Temporal Activity Patterns On Social Media, Nikan Chavoshi
The Nature of Ephemeral Secrets in Reverse Engineering Tasks, Antonio Miguel Espinoza
Adaptive Parallelism for Coupled, Multithreaded Message-Passing Programs, Samuel K. Gutiérrez
Criticality Assessments for Improving Algorithmic Robustness, Thomas B. Jones
Measuring Decentralization of Chinese Censorship in Three Industry Segments, Jeffrey Knockel
Multi-Resolution Analysis of Large Molecular Structures and Interactions, Kasra Manavi
Automated Development of Semantic Data Models Using Scientific Publications, Martha O. Perez-Arriaga
Data-Driven Uncertainty Quantification Interpretation with High Density Regions, Matthew Gregor Peterson
Next Generation TCP/IP Side Channels, Xu Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Improving HPC Communication Library Performance on Modern Architectures, Matthew G. F. Dosanjh
Search in T cell and Robot Swarms: Balancing Extent and Intensity, George M. Fricke
Characterizing and Improving Power and Performance in HPC Networks, Taylor L. Groves
Distributed Knowledge Discovery for Diverse Data, Hossein Hamooni
Improving Large Scale Application Performance via Data Movement Reduction, Dewan M. Ibtesham
Spam, Fraud, and Bots: Improving the Integrity of Online Social Media Data, Amanda Jean Minnich
Detection of Pheromone Laying Event in Foraging Data of Harvester Ants Using Change Point Analysis Method, Safeeul Bashir Safee
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Molecular Docking With Haptic Guidance and Path Planning, Torin Adamson
COMPUTER-AIDED QUANTITATIVE EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF DIABETIC FOOT, Viktor Chekh
Evidence-based Cybersecurity: Data-driven and Abstract Models, Benjamin Edwards
Transfuse: A Compile-Time Metaprogramming Solution for Reducing Boilerplate on Google's Android, John Ericksen
Theory and Practice of Computing with Excitable Dynamics, Alireza Goudarzi
Towards Deeper Understanding in Neuroimaging, Rex Devon Hjelm
Stochastic Methods for One-Sided Bipartite Crossing Minimization and its Variants, Tanya Jeffries
Software Testing of Parallel Programming Frameworks, Beverly Klemme
The Environment Constrains Successful Search Strategies in Natural Distributed Systems, Drew Levin
Using Rollback Avoidance to Mitigate Failures in Next-Generation Extreme-Scale Systems, Scott Levy
Logic Circuits Based on Extended Molecular Spider Systems, Dandan Mo
Scheduling Heterogeneous HPC Applications in Next-Generation Exascale Systems, Oscar Hernan Mondragon Martinez
Resource-Efficient and Robust Distributed Computing, Mahnush Movahedi Meimandi
An Exploration of Style Transfer Using Deep Neural Networks, Cameron Y. Smith
Scalable and Robust Distributed Algorithms for Privacy-Preserving Applications, Mahdi Zamani
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Geometric Algorithms and Data Structures for Simulating Diffusion Limited Reactions, Shaun Bloom
New Approaches for Data-mining and Classification of Mental Disorder in Brain Imaging Data, Mustafa Sinan Cetin
Evolving Efficient Foraging Behavior in Biologically-Inspired Robot Swarms, Joshua Peter Hecker
Dominion: A Game of Information Exploitation, Jacob Hobbs
High-Dimensional Motion Planning and Learning Under Uncertain Conditions, Nick D. Malone
Stella: A Python-based Domain-Specific Language for Simulations, David Mohr
New Optimization Technique for Radiation Therapy Planning, Daniel Riofrio
Selfishness and Malice in Distributed Systems, George Saad
The Ant and the Trap: Evolution of Ant-Inspired Obstacle Avoidance in a Multi-Agent Robotic System, Karl Stolleis
Creating an Immersive and Entertaining Game for Raising Internet Privacy Awareness, April Suknot
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Integrating Multiple Data Views for Improved Malware Analysis, Blake Anderson
Advanced Network Inference Techniques Based on Network Protocol Stack Information Leaks, Roya Ensafi
DNA Chemical Reaction Network Design Synthesis and Compilation, M. Leigh Fanning
Reinforcement Learning and Planning for Preference Balancing Tasks, Aleksandra Faust
Introducing Modularity into Complex Software Test Suite Frameworks, Lucille Frey
Meta Concepts: A Knowledge-Based Code Generation System, Nicholas Moss
Matrix Factorization: Nonnegativity, Sparsity and Independence, Vamsi Potluru
Design and Implementation of a Scala Compiler Backend Targeting the Low Level Virtual Machine, Geoffrey Reedy
Neutral Networks of Real-World Programs and their Application to Automated Software Evolution, Eric Schulte
Proxy-Based Acceleration for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, Benjamin Yackley
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Scaling in the immune system, Soumya Banerjee
Front Rendering on the GPU, Jeffrey Bowles
Enhancing HPC on Virtual Systems in Clouds through Optimizing Virtual Overlay Networks, Zheng Cui
Improving Spoken Programming Through Language Design and the Incorporation of Dynamic Context, Benjamin M. Gordon
Hopscotch: Robust Multi-agent Search, Edward C. Miles
Interactive Exploration of Multitask Dependency Networks, Diane Oyen
Abstract Models of Molecular Walkers, Oleg Semenov
A Pointillism Approach for Natural Language Processing of Social Media, Piyo Song
Ontology-based annotation using naive Bayes and decision trees, Jiawei Xu Jr
Model Selection for Stochastic Block Models, Xiaoran Yan
Community Detection in Complex Networks, Yaojia Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Energy consumption in networks on chip : efficiency and scaling, George Bezerra
Methods for speculatively bootstrapping better intrusion detection system performance, Sunny Fugate
Energy conserving privacy enhancing algorithms for resource-constrained devices, Michael Groat
Multivalent Random Walkers:A computational model of superdiffusive transport at the nanoscale, Mark Joseph Olah
Applications of Voronoi partitions in particle therapy, Daniel Riofrio
Privacy-preserving techniques for computer and network forensics, Bilal Shebaro
Fault-tolerant wireless sensor networks using evolutionary games, Ricardo Villalon
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Fine-grained reasoning about the security and usability trade-off in modern security tools, Mohammed I. Al-Saleh
Keeping checkpoint/restart viable for exascale systems, Kurt Ferreira
Improving peer review with ACORN : Ant Colony Optimization algorithm for Reviewer's Network, Mark Flynn
Efficiently bootstrapping extreme scale software systems, Joshua Goehner
Practical, scalable algorithms for Byzantine agreement, Olumuyiwa Oluwasanmi
Parallel network protocol stacks using replication, Charles Donour Sizemore
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Artificial Conversations for Chatter Bots Using Knowledge Representation, Learning, and Pragmatics, Chayan Chakrabarti
Dynamic photon painting, Zhe Chen
Molecular simulations of dendritic molecules : a study of PAMAM and phenyl-acetylene dendrimers, Mark Fleharty
A protocol reconfiguration and optimization system for MPI, Manjunath Gorentla Venkata
Collective belief models for representing consensus and divergence in communities of Bayesian decision-makers, Kshanti Greene
Simulating the evolution of recruitment behavior in foraging Ants, Kenneth Letendre
Security in network games, Rustagi Navin
Automating Program Verification and Repair Using Invariant Analysis and Test Input Generation, Thanh V. Nguyen
Efficient algorithms for phylogenetic post-analysis, Nicholas Pattengale
Three algorithms for causal learning, Roshan Ram Rammohan
Algorithms for self-healing networks, Amitabh Trehan
Markov random field modeling of the spatial distribution of proteins on cell membranes, Jun Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Using ant colony optimization for routing in microprocesors, Tamanna Arora
Reconfigurable middleware architectures for large scale sensor networks, Sean M. Brennan
