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Software for configuration of a video server

Creator:: Venkataraman, Saumya
Abstract:: A video server is the multimedia equivalent of a data file server. As video goes digital video servers that support digital media are required for production and broadcasting in television companies. Grass Valley Group provides comprehensive digital video solutions through a range of video servers called Profiles. The Profile Media...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Visual SQL analyzer project report

Creator:: Li, Xiaoyan
Abstract:: Structure Query Language (SQL) is widely used to access data stored in relational database systems. Although a powerful and flexible language, SQL can also be complex and hard to learn. For most new SQL users, it's easy to write SQL statement by following SQL grammar and syntax rules, but it's...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

WebGD : Framework for web-based GIS/database applications

Creator:: Wangmutitakul, Paphun
Abstract:: We have developed a framework for Web-based GIS/database applications which allow users to insert, update, delete, and query data with a map interface displayed by Web browsers. The framework was designed so that a Web-based GIS application that uses ArcIMS as a map server can be easily created, customized, and...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

WebSiteGen3 : a tool for generating ASP.NET forms

Creator:: Naik, Parijat
Abstract:: Web-Site Generator 3 (WebSiteGen3) is a rapid application development (RAD) tool that generates ASP.NET forms to insert, query, update and delete data stored in the user tables in a SQL Server 2000 database. WebSiteGen3 uses a graphical user interface to show the user tables in a hierarchical tree based on...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Separabilities for a new class of gray codes

Creator:: Park, Jung Pil
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Galileo - a system for analyzing Java bytecode database handlers subsystem

Creator:: Balasubramanian, Eswar, Sharma, Hitesh, and Thorat, Aarti
Abstract:: Analysis of programs forms an important activity in the field of software engineering. It is necessary to help understand the code, which facilitates comprehensive testing, maintenance and optimization of code. Aristotle is a tool for analyzing programs written in C. We have designed a system on similar lines for Java...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Power saving in WAP

Creator:: Potti, Girish
Abstract:: Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is an industry standard aimed to bring the web to handheld devices. The handheld devices are constrained by battery life and it becomes important that power is conserved across web transactions. The power consumed by the handheld device is directly proportional to the time taken for...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Responder tracking application

Creator:: Wanalertlak, Naroot
Abstract:: We have developed a prototype web-based GIS application for tracking the locations of moving entities. This application, which is called the Responder application, consists of two parts: the Responder client and the Responder server. The Responder client is a .NET application written in C#. It reads the location data from...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Metacontent based techniques for the regression testing of component based software : a case study

Creator:: Williams, Vasanth
Abstract:: Component based software technologies are viewed as essential for creating the software systems of the future. However, the use of externally provided component has serious drawbacks for a wide range of software engineering activities often because of a lack of information about the components. One such drawback involves validation of...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Web-PST : web-based pesticide screening tool

Creator:: Yao, Hua
Abstract:: Web-based Pesticide Screening Tool (Web-PST) is a web-based software application for evaluating the potential risk of pesticides on the surrounding environment. It uses the formulas and standards specified by the Soil/Pesticide Interaction Screening Procedure Version II (SPISP II). Web-PST closely models the stand-alone Windows application Windows Pesticide Screening Tool (WIN-PST)....
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

CREEDA budget generator

Creator:: Tao, Wenfang
Abstract:: CREEDA-BG (Crop Rotation Economic and Environmental Decision-Aid Budget Generator) is a web-based enterprise budgeting tool that allows a user to manage information on her fields, rotations, crops, and operations, and to view estimates of income and expenses. The user can then use this information to evaluate alternative plans and make...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Metacontent based techniques for the regression testing of component based software : a case study

Creator:: Chattopadhyay, Soumya
Abstract:: Component based software technologies are viewed as essential for creating the software systems of the future. However the use of externally provided components has serious drawbacks for a wide range of software engineering activities often because of a lack of information about the components. One such drawback involves validation of...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Evaluation functions in aerial image segmentation

Creator:: Langford, William T.
Abstract:: Remote sensing is the most practical way to acquire large amounts of land cover data for monitoring and understanding environmental change, so it is important to be able to map land cover from imagery. Maps defining land cover patches as polygons rather than pixels greatly improve processing efficiency in models...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A collaborative filtering algorithm and evaluation metric that accurately model the user experience

Creator:: McLaughlin, Matthew
Abstract:: "Collaborative filtering algorithms’ performances have been evaluated using a variety of metrics. These metrics, such as Mean Absolute Error and Precision, have often ignored recommendations for which they do not have data. Ignoring these recommendations has provided numbers which do not accurately represent the user experience. Qualitatively we have seen...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

WebRUSLE : web-based revised universal soil loss equation (RUSLE)

Creator:: Wuttiwat, Teerawat
Abstract:: Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) is a standard for estimating soil loss caused by rainfall and overland flow. The current software tool that implements this standard is RUSLE 1.06b, which is a stand-alone DOS application. In this project, we converted the DOS application to a Web application, which we...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Web-PST : Web-based Pesticide Screening Tool

Creator:: Manda, Ashwin Prasad
Abstract:: We have developed a web-based software tool for evaluating the potential risk of pesticides on the surrounding environment. The software tool is called Web-based Pesticide Screening Tool (Web-PST). It uses the formulas and standards specified by the Soil/Pesticide Interaction Screening Procedure Version II (SPISP II). Web-PST closely models the stand-alone...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Exploring the impact of test suite granularity and test grouping technique on the cost-effectiveness of regression testing

Creator:: Qiu, Xuemei
Abstract:: Regression testing is an expensive testing process used to validate changes made to previously tested software. Different regression testing techniques can have different impacts on the cost-effectiveness of testing. This cost-effectiveness can also vary with different characteristics of test suites. One such characteristic, test suite granularity, reflects the way in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Shrunken learning rates do not improve AdaBoost on benchmark datasets

Creator:: Forrest, Daniel L. K.
Abstract:: Recent work has shown that AdaBoost can be viewed as an algorithm that maximizes the margin on the training data via functional gradient descent. Under this interpretation, the weight computed by AdaBoost, for each hypothesis generated, can be viewed as a step size parameter in a gradient descent search. Friedman...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Test case prioritization

Creator:: Malishevsky, Alexey Grigorievich
Abstract:: Regression testing is an expensive software engineering activity intended to provide confidence that modifications to a software system have not introduced faults. Test case prioritization techniques help to reduce regression testing cost by ordering test cases in a way that better achieves testing objectives. In this thesis, we are interested...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Object highlighting : real-time boundary detection using a Bayesian network

Creator:: Jia, Jin
Abstract:: Image segmentation continues to be a fundamental problem in computer vision and image understanding. In this thesis, we present a Bayesian network that we use for object boundary detection in which the MPE (most probable explanation) before any evidence can produce multiple non-overlapping, non-self-intersecting closed contours and the MPE with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Advanced separation of concerns and the compatibility of aspect-orientation

Creator:: Dechow, Doug
Abstract:: The appropriate separation of concerns is a fundamental engineering principle. A concern, for software developers, is that which must be represented by code in a program; by extension, separation of concerns is the ability to represent a single concern in a single appropriate programming language construct. Advanced separation of concerns...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Development of a mobile process to extract phosphorus from livestock wastes as a valuable fertilizer

Creator:: Hoilman, Gene
Abstract:: Environmental and regulatory concerns are causing confined animal feeding operations (CAFO's) to account for phosphorous content when applying wastewater to agricultural fields for disposal. In most cases this requires more land to spread the waste onto so that the phosphorous needs of the crop are not exceeded. A mobile process...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Applying machine learning for prediction, recommendation, and integration

Creator:: Bao, Xinlong
Abstract:: This dissertation explores the idea of applying machine learning technologies to help computer users find information and better organize electronic resources, by presenting the research work conducted in the following three applications: FolderPredictor, Stacking Recommendation Engines, and Integrating Learning and Reasoning. FolderPredictor is an intelligent desktop software tool that helps...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Learning multiple non-redundant codebooks with word clustering for document classification

Creator:: Surve, Akshat Sudhakar
Abstract:: The problem of document classification has been widely studied in machine learning and data mining. In document classification, most of the popular algorithms are based on the bag-of-words representation. Due to the high dimensionality of the bag-of-words representation, significant research has been conducted to reduce the dimensionality via different approaches....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Towards reliable and survivable ocean wave energy converters

Creator:: Brown, Adam C.
Abstract:: Ocean wave energy is a new and developing field of renewable energy with great potential. The energy contained in one meter of an average wave off the coast of Newport Oregon could supply dozens of homes with electricity. However, ocean waves are usually quite irregular which leads to large bursts...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Seismic performance of a pile-supported container wharf structures in rockfill

Creator:: Kawamata, Yohsuke
Abstract:: Recently, the concept of performance based design has become popular for many types of structures, including port facilities under seismic loading. For the case of pile-supported wharves, the level of performance is generally estimated using the displacement capacity of the structure. Therefore, understanding soil-pile interaction is one of the most...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Activity recognition in desktop environments

Creator:: Shen, Jianqiang
Abstract:: Knowledge workers are struggling in the information flood. There is a growing interest in intelligent desktop environments that help knowledge workers organize their daily life. Intelligent desktop environments allow the desktop user to define a set of “activities” that characterize the user’s desktop work. These environments then attempt to identify...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Image features and learning algorithms for biological, generic and social object recognition

Creator:: Zhang, Wei
Abstract:: Automated recognition of object categories in images is a critical step for many real-world computer vision applications. Interest region detectors and region descriptors have been widely employed to tackle the variability of objects in pose, scale, lighting, texture, color, and so on. Different types of object recognition problems usually require...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

UCT for tactical assault battles in real-time strategy games

Creator:: Balla, Radha-Krishna
Abstract:: We consider the problem of tactical assault planning in real-time strategy games where a team of friendly agents must launch an assault on an enemy. This problem offers many challenges including a highly dynamic and uncertain environment, multiple agents, durative actions, numeric attributes, and different optimization objectives. While the dynamics...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Interactive fault localization techniques to empower the debugging efforts of end-user programmers

Creator:: Ruthruff, Joseph Ronald
Abstract:: End users develop more software than any other group of programmers, using software authoring devices such as e-mail filtering editors, by-demonstration macro builders, and spreadsheet environments. Despite this, there has been only a little research on finding ways to help these programmers with the dependability of the software they create....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Learning MDP action models via discrete mixture trees

Creator:: Wynkoop, Michael S.
Abstract:: This thesis addresses the problem of learning dynamic Bayesian network (DBN) models to support reinforcement learning. It focuses on learning regression tree models of the conditional probability distributions of the DBNs. Existing algorithms presume that the stochasticity in the domain can be modeled as a deterministic function with additive noise....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Scale effects on reinforced concrete beams strengthened for shear with discrete externally bonded carbon fiber-reinforced polymer U-wraps

Creator:: Dawson, Matthew Ryan
Abstract:: Current ACI design provisions for shear in reinforced concrete (RC) beams strengthened with externally bonded carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) U-wraps may not adequately account for the effect of scale. This paper describes tests of 6 geometrically scaled beams to identify possible scale effects of such beams. Results indicated that effective...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Image feature detection and matching for biological object recognition

Creator:: Deng, Hongli
Abstract:: Image feature detection and matching are two critical processes for many computer vision tasks. Currently, intensity-based local interest region detectors and local feature-based matching methods are used widely in computer vision applications. But in some applications, such as biological object recognition tasks, within-class changes in pose, lighting, color, and texture...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A SAT-based planning framework for optimizing resource production

Creator:: Ventura, Christopher
Abstract:: Domain-independent automated planning is concerned with computing a sequence of actions that can transform an initial state into a desired goal state. Resource production domains form an interesting class of such problems, in that they typically require reasoning about concurrent durative-actions with continuous effects while minimizing some cost function. Although...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Designing and understanding information retrieval systems using collaborative filtering in an academic library environment

Creator:: Jung, Seikyung
Abstract:: Accessing information on the Web has become ingrained into our daily lives, and we seek information from many different sources, including conference and journal publications, personal web pages, and others. Increasingly, web-based information retrieval systems such as web-based search engines, library on-line catalog systems, and subscription-based federated search systems are...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Update programming -- a safe approach to software maintenance

Creator:: Ren, Deling
Abstract:: Software maintenance accounts for a large portion of the software development cost, particularly the process of updating programs either to adapt for requirement change or to enhance design or efficiency. Currently, program updates are generally performed manually by programmers using text editors. This is an unreliable method because syntax and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Model-based approximation methods for reinforcement learning

Creator:: Wang, Xin
Abstract:: The thesis focuses on model-based approximation methods for reinforcement learning with large scale applications such as combinatorial optimization problems. First, the thesis proposes two new model-based methods to stablize the value–function approximation for reinforcement learning. The first one is the BFBP algorithm, a batch-like reinforcement learning process which iterates between...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Protein secondary structure prediction using conditional random fields and profiles

Creator:: Shen, Rongkun
Abstract:: Protein secondary structure prediction plays a pivotal role in predicting protein folding in three-dimensions. Its task is to assign each residue one of the three secondary structure classes helix, strand, or random coil. This is an instance of the problem of sequential supervised learning in machine learning. This thesis describes...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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