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  • Improving the Quality of Software Using Mutation Testing and Fault Prediction

    Creator:
    Ahmed, Iftekhar
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    Our confidence in software systems depends on our confidence in the exhaustiveness of our testing. As software systems get more complex, the task of exhaustive testing becomes more complex and even infeasible in some cases. In order to build less error prone systems, we therefore need to not only focus...
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    Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Carlos Jensen Our

  • An automated web crawl methodology to analyze the online privacy landscape

    Creator:
    Sarkar, Chandan
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    Protecting end-users privacy and building trust are the two most important factors needed to support the growth of ecommerce. The increased dependence on the Internet for a wide variety of daily transactions causes a corresponding loss in privacy for many users, as virtually all websites collect data from users directly...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ Dr. Carlos Jensen Protecting end-users privacy and building trust are the two most

  • Investigating the Effects of Design Quality in OSS Projects

    Creator:
    Mannan, Umme Ayda
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    Software systems are becoming an essential part of the lives of both individuals and organizations, and as a consequence, these systems are getting bigger and more complex. Because of this, the tasks of maintaining the quality in these complex software systems are becoming increasingly difficult. Furthermore, these systems are subject...
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    : Investigating the Effects of Design Quality in OSS Projects Abstract approved: Carlos Jensen Anita Sarma

  • An Investigation of the Effects of Merge Conflicts on Collaborative Software Development

    Creator:
    Brindescu, Caius
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    Merge conflicts have long plagued software development. With larger and more dispersed teams comes greater risk of developers working on the same code at the same time. While merge conflicts are known to be painful, their exact impact on software is still largely unknown. Are merge conflicts an isolated problem,...
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    Sarma Carlos Jensen Merge conflicts have long plagued software development. With larger and more

  • Interactive visualization of diversity in multivariate data sets unified across fields of study

    Creator:
    Pham, Tuan N. T.
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    The study of the diversity of multivariate objects shares common characteristics across disciplines, including ecology and organizational management. Nevertheless, experts in these two disciplines have adopted somewhat separate diversity concepts and analysis techniques, limiting the ability of potentially sharing and cross comparing these concerns. Moreover, while complex diversity data may...
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    Carlos Jensen, and Professor James Coakley (GCR) for their encouragement and input. This dissertation

  • EM-MAC : an energy-aware multi-channel medium access control protocol for multi-hop wireless networks

    Creator:
    Sivanantha, Akhil
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    The stupendous growth in wireless and mobile devices in the recent years has prompted researchers to look at innovative approaches that enable effective use of the available resources. In this thesis, we propose a medium access control (MAC) protocol, referred to as EM-MAC, that enables wireless devices with multi-channel access...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , 2009. [7] Daniel de O. Cunha, Lus Henrique M. K. Costa, and Otto Carlos M. B. Duarte. Analyzing the

  • Implementation and performance measurement and analysis of OLSR protocol

    Creator:
    Sinky, Hassan Hussein
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    This paper provides a measurement-based performance evaluation of the Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol. Two versions of OLSR, OLSR-ETX and OLSR-ETT, are implemented and evaluated on a mesh network that we built from off-the-shelf commercial components. OLSR-ETX uses the Expected Transmission Count (ETX) metric whereas, OLSR-ETT uses the Expected...
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    Masters Thesis
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    New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, 2005. [12] Igor M. Moraes Lus Henrique M. K. Costa

  • Keeping your Friends Secret: Improving the Security, Effciency and Usability of Private Set Intersection

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    Rindal, Peter B.
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    Private set intersection (PSI) allows two parties, who each hold a set of items, to compute the intersection of those sets without revealing anything about other items. Recent advances in PSI have significantly improved its performance for the case of semi-honest security, making semi-honest PSI a practical alternative to insecure...
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    Dissertation

  • Convergence Analysis Framework for Fixed-Point Algorithms in Machine Learning and Signal Processing

    Creator:
    Vu, Trung
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    Iterative algorithms are simple yet efficient in solving large-scale optimization problems in practice. With a surge in the amount of data in past decades, these methods have become increasingly important in many application areas including matrix/tensor recovery, deep learning, data mining, and reinforcement learning. To optimize or improve iterative algorithms,...
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  • Supporting merge comprehension when resolving merge conflicts

    Creator:
    Nelson, Nicholas
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    Distributed version control allows developers to manage software evolution among distributed development teams. But it does not eliminate all consistency and concurrency issues, and instead introduces additional complexity when merging code. And resolving merge conflicts is nontrivial when automated merging fails. In such cases, developers are forced to inspect the...
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