Browsing Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Department "Computer Science (UMKC)"
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Energy Efficient Resource Allocation for Virtual Network Services with Dynamic Workload in Cloud Data Centers
(2015)With the rapid proliferation of cloud computing, more and more network services and applications are deployed on cloud data centers. Their energy consumption and green house gas emissions have significantly increased. ... -
Enriching Knowledge Graphs Using Machine Learning Techniques
(2020)A knowledge graph represents millions of facts and reliable information about people, places, and things. These knowledge graphs have proven their reliability and their usage for providing better search results; answering ... -
Explainable AI framework through Multi-Context Multi-Dimensional Graph Neural Network
(2023)In this research, we explored the multifaceted realm of digital communication, emphasizing social media channels such as Twitter and Reddit, complemented by conventional data-gathering techniques like focus group discussions ... -
Federated learning-based 3D pothole detection, evaluation, and routing for smart transportation
(2024)Bad road conditions can cause vehicle damage and create hazardous driving conditions. Auto damages caused by potholes can add up to thousands of dollars per vehicle. Besides, pothole resolution is one of the most expensive ... -
FedSmarteum: Secure Federated Matrix Factorization Using Smart Contracts for Multi-Cloud Supply Chain
(2021)With increased awareness comes unprecedented expectations. We live in a digital, cloud era wherein the underlying information architectures are expected to be elastic, secure, resilient, and handle petabyte scaling. The ... -
A Graph Analytics Framework for Knowledge Discovery
(2016)In the current data movement, numerous efforts have been made to convert and normalize a large number of traditionally structured and unstructured data to semi-structured data (e.g., RDF, OWL). With the increasing number ... -
GraphEvo: Evaluating Software Evolution Using Machine Learning Based Call Graph Analytics And Network Portrait Divergence
(2022)Understanding software evolution is essential for software development tasks, including debugging, maintenance, and testing. Unfortunately, as software changes, it becomes more prominent and more complicated, which makes ... -
High Availability and Scalability Schemes for Software- Defined Networks (SDN)
(2015)A proliferation of network-enabled devices and network-intensive applications require the underlying networks not only to be agile despite of complex and heterogeneous environments, but also to be highly available and ... -
ICE-MILK: Intelligent Crowd Engineering using Machine-based Internet of Things Learning and Knowledge Building
(2022)The lack of proper crowd safety control and management often leads to spreading human casualties and infectious diseases (e.g., COVID-19). Many Machine Learning (ML) technologies inspired by computer vision and video ... -
Ice-Mocha: Intelligent crowd engineering using mobile internet of things characterization and analytics
(2019)Human casualties at entertaining, religious, or political crowd events often occur due to the lack of proper crowd safety management. Notably, for a moving crowd, a minor accident can create a panic for the people to start ... -
Internet of Things (IoT) Applications With Diverse Direct Communication Methods
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of physical objects or things that are embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity - which enable the object to collect and exchange data. Rapid proliferation ... -
Lightweight cryptographic protocols for mobile devices
(2020)In recent years, a wide range of resource-constrained devices have been built and integrated into many networked systems. These devices collect and transfer data over the Internet in order for users to access the data or ... -
Measuring Level of Degradation in Power Semiconductor Devices using Emerging Techniques
(2021)High thermal and electrical stress, over a period of time tends to deteriorate the health of power electronic switches. Being a key element in any high-power converter systems, power switches such as insulated-gate bipolar ... -
Modeling and simulation of silicon photonics based optical ring resonator biosensor
(2021)In the photonic technological platforms, the signal is carried by light rather than an electron as in conventional electronic technologies. Electronic processing of the signals is becoming restricted, particularly in the ... -
Multi-scale analysis of urban wetland changes using satellite remote sensing techniques
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-01-10)This study investigates urban wetland-cover changes in the Kansas City metropolitan area with analyses at various spatial and temporal scales. Not many studies fully addressed multi-scale urban wetland-cover dynamics in ... -
Multimedia Big Data Analytics and Fusion for Data Science
(2023)Big data is becoming increasingly prevalent in people's everyday lives due to the enormous quantity of data generated from social and economic activities worldwide. As a result, extensive research has been undertaken to ... -
Multiple-valued logic: technology and circuit implementation
(2021)Computing technologies are currently based on the binary logic/number system, which is dependent on the simple on and off switching mechanism of the prevailing transistors. With the exponential increase of data processing ... -
A New Approach for Fast Processing of SPARQL Queries on RDF Quadruples
(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 ... -
Ocular motion classification for mobile device presentation attack detection
(2020)As a practical pursuit of quantified uniqueness, biometrics explores the parameters that make us who we are and provides the tools we need to secure the integrity of that identity. In our culture of constant connectivity, ... -
On-chip Voltage Regulator– Circuit Design and Automation
(2021)With the increase of density and complexity of high-performance integrated circuits and systems, including many-core chips and system-on-chip (SoC), it is becoming difficult to meet the power delivery and regulation ...