• Achieving Optimal Schedule by Network Flow Techniques 

    Wan, Xili (2015-08-11)
    Scheduling plays an important role in protocol design and performance optimizations for wireless or wired networks. This dissertation studies how to achieve optimal performance for two fundamental scheduling problems ...
  • Classification of Clinical Tweets Using Apache Mahout 

    Wang, Li (2015)
    There is an increasing amount of healthcare related data available on Twitter. Due to Twitter’s popularity, every day large amount of clinical tweets are posted on this microblogging service platform. One interesting ...
  • Financial Aspects of Stand-alone Solar Power Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa 

    Oruoch, Angela Ndhuya Oguna (2015-08-12)
    Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have struggled with low electrification rates in rural areas. This research examines various methods of achieving higher rural electrification rates. Among the factors that impede rural ...
  • Integration Features in the Development of Software Product Line Architecture 

    Narisetty, Varun (2015-08-12)
    Software product line architecture (PLA) is one of the most promising applications of software architecture. This paper presents a pragmatic PLA development approach with tool support. It addresses two existing issues of ...
  • A Multimodal Biometric Authentication for Smartphones 

    Saripalle, Sashi K. (Sashi Kanth) (University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)
    Biometrics is seen as a viable solution to ageing password based authentication on smartphones. Fingerprint biometric is leading the biometric technology for smartphones, however, owing to its high cost, major players in ...
  • A New Approach for Fast Processing of SPARQL Queries on RDF Quadruples 

    Slavov, Vasil Georgiev (2015-06-19)
    The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a standard model for representing data on the Web. It enables the interchange and machine processing of data by considering its semantics. While RDF was first proposed with the ...
  • A Pervasive Middleware for Activity Recognition with Smartphones 

    Vaka, Prakash Reddy (2015)
    Activity Recognition (AR) is an important research topic in pervasive computing. With the rapid increase in the use of pervasive devices, huge sensor data is generated from diverse devices on a daily basis. Analysis of the ...