• Bounded rationality for BitTorrent networks 

    Wu, Yiping (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] As peer-to-peer networking has becoming a focus in the global networking realm, peer-to-peer distributed systems have been through rapid developments ...
  • Content extraction, analysis, and retrieval for plant visual traits studies 

    Hao, Dayang (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    In recent years, automatic content extraction, analysis and retrieval for plant visual trait studies play a more important role than ever before, because traditional manual processing suffers two major issues: excessive ...
  • Domain-concept mining : an efficient on-demand data mining approach 

    Mahamaneerat, Wannapa Kay, 1974- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    Traditional brute-force association mining approaches, when applied to large datasets, are thorough but inefficient due to computational complexity. A low global minimum probability threshold can worsen this complexity by ...
  • Feasibility of the nintendo Ds for teaching problem-based learning in kindergarten through twelfth grade students 

    Lipinski, Michael (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    Problem-based learning (PBL) is an instructional approach that has been employed successfully since the 1960s and continues to gain mainstream acceptance in many areas of study. PBL is an instructional, and curricular, ...
  • Knowledge representation and exchange of visual patterns using semantic abstractions 

    Barb, Adrian S. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    Modern technology enables organizations to build large-scale data repositories. The utility of such repositories, however, is limited if they don't support exible methods of extracting knowledge, especially for image ...
  • Shape reconstruction from volumetric images 

    Heckenberg, Gregory (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    This thesis presents the research algorithms and techniques applied to three volumetric image problems(1) high quality mesh reconstruction from distance field volumetric data, (2) distance field surface approximation from ...