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Privacy preservation in mobile social networks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
In this day and age with the prevalence of smartphones, networking has evolved in an intricate and complex way. With the help of a technology-driven society, the term "social networking" was created and came to mean using ...
Data mining student activity patterns in an interactive activity-based STEM learning environment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Jupyter Notebook is gaining in popularity for STEM instruction and activity-based learning. This platform for sharing interactive documents via a web interface allows instructors to combine a variety of media together with ...
Semi-automatic exploratory data analytics for actionable discoveries through subgroup mining
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
People are born with the curiosity to see differences between groups. These differences are useful for understanding the root causes of certain discrepancies, such as populations and diseases. However, without prior knowledge ...
Dynamic spatio-temporal graph neural networks for hot topic prediction in scientific literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
With information explosion occurring in past decades, the rapid growth of papers published results in the rapid change of hot topics, especially in the biomedical domain. It turns out very hard for researchers who are ...
Intelligence-driven edge computing for visual cloud computing systems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The explosive growth and diversity of mobile devices such as smart phones and Internet of Thing (IoT) devices has prompted the evolution of network and ...
Estimation of dynamic detector confidence thresholds in SAS imagery using mixture models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
As machine learning has matured over the years, more and more safety critical tasks have been entrusted to computers. Automated target recognition (ATR), the problem of identifying explosive hazards on the sea?oor, is one ...
Systematic assessment of security, privacy and usability of virtual reality learning environment applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Social Virtual Reality Environments is a new cloud computing based platform which integrates IoT to build applications in areas such as ...
Web services for image analytics to enable feedback control of remote instrumentation in CNT growth
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/1/2024] Remote instrumentation of scientific instruments e.g., scanning electron microscopes today involves inefficient, manual methods for remote instrument control and handling of large image data ...
IICON : identifying informative comments in online news
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/1/2024] Many news outlets are discontinuing their comment sections due to moderation challenges as manual moderation for identifying irrelevant and informative comments is inadequate, costly, and ...
A hierarchical time-indexed database for multi-modal derived sensor data using GPU-accelerated PostgreSQL
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
With the vast influx of data captured by ubiquitous sensors, such as those in wearable devices, smart sensors in long-term care facilities, and hydraulic bed sen- sors, there exists an enormous potential for exploiting ...
Towards automated and explorative characterization of nano-energetic material response to directed energy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Nanoenergetic materials offer high-density energy storage that may react to produce heat and release gaseous products. In order to utilize aluminum-based nanoenergetic materials effectively, the mechanisms by which aluminum ...
Securing cloud-hosted applications using active defense with rule-based adaptations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Security cloud-based applications is a dynamic problem since modern attacks are always evolving in their sophistication and disruption impact. Active defense is a state-of-the-art paradigm where proactive or reactive ...
ClaimChain: secure Blockchain platform for handling insurance claims processing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Insurance claims processing involves multi-domain entities and multi-source data, along with a number of human-agent interactions. Consequently, this processing is traditionally manually-intensive and time-consuming. ...
Accurate, fast, and robust 3D city-scale reconstruction using wide area motion imagery
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Multi-view stereopsis (MVS) is a core problem in computer vision, which takes a set of scene views together with known camera poses, then produces a geometric representation of the underlying 3D model Using 3D reconstruction ...
Building environmentally-aware classifiers on streaming data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The three biggest challenges currently faced in machine learning, in our estimation, are the staggering quantity of data we wish to analyze, the incredibly small proportion of these data that are labeled, and the apparent ...
Deep heterogeneous superpixel neural networks for image analysis and feature extraction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Lately, deep convolutional neural networks are rapidly transforming and enhancing computer vision accuracy and performance, and pursuing higher-level and interpretable object recognition. Superpixel-based methodologies ...
Fuzzy-based conversational recommender for data-intensive science gateway applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Neuro-scientists are increasingly relying on parallel and distributed computing resources for analysis and visualization of their neuron simulations. ...
3D genome structure reconstruction from chromosomal contact data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Different cell types of an organism have the same DNA sequence, but they can function differently because their difference in 3D organization allows ...
Information fusion for robust detection of scarce features/objects in high resolution electro-optical satellite imagery
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
We conducted research to develop and test methods to improve the detection of scarce objects in high-resolution electro-optical satellite imagery. We demonstrated improvements through various forms of information and data ...
Computer vision for plant and animal inventory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The population, composition, and spatial distribution of the plants and animals in certain regions are always important data for natural resource management, conservation and farming. The traditional ways to acquire such ...