Browsing Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Department "Computer Science (UMKC)"
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Application-Aware Network Design Using Software Defined Networking for Application Performance Optimization for Big Data and Video Streaming
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)This dissertation investigates improvement in application performance. For applications, we consider two classes: Hadoop MapReduce and video streaming. The Hadoop MapReduce (M/R) framework has become the de facto standard ... -
Compression for Machine Vision and Beyond
(2020)Compression has been one of the most fundamental and elusive challenges in both academia and industry. With the sheer increase of high-definition video content over the internet, developing improved compression algorithms ... -
Data center resource management with temporal data center resource management with temporal dynamic workload
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-19)The proliferation of Internet services drives the data center expansion in both size and the number. More importantly, the energy consumption (as part of total cost of ownership (TCO)) has become a social concern. When ... -
DBHAaaS – Database High Availability As A Service For Cloud Computing
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)On conventional database systems, the recovery manager applies transaction Undo or Redo operation or a combination of them to recover the last consistent state of the database from a system failure. Transaction redo, ... -
Distributed Perimeter Firewall Policy Management Framework
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)A perimeter firewall is the first line of defense that stops unwanted packets (based on defined firewall policies) entering the organization that deploys it. In the real world, every organization maintains a perimeter ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Ontology-based methods for disease similarity estimation and drug repositioning
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-10-02)Human genome sequencing and new biological data generation techniques have provided an opportunity to uncover mechanisms in human disease. Using gene-disease data, recent research has increasingly shown that many seemingly ... -
A semantic framework for event-driven service composition
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-09-14)Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become a popular paradigm for designing distributed systems where loosely coupled services (i.e. computational entities) can be integrated seamlessly to provide complex composite ... -
Semantic Frameworks for Document and Ontology Clustering
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-01-20)The Internet has made it possible, in principle, for scientists to quickly find research papers of interest. In practice, the overwhelming volume of publications makes this a time consuming task. It is, therefore, important ... -
Sequential Designs with Application in Software Engineering
(2014-03-31)Presented here is a Bayesian approach to test case allocation in the software reliability estimation. Bayesian analysis allows us to update our beliefs about the reliability of a particular partition as we test, and thus, ... -
The Holistic Course Delivery: A Novel Pedagogy for Collegiate Introductory Computer Programming
(2020)For many years there have not been enough computer science graduates to fill open positions. One of the chief barriers to the formation of computer science graduates is that many students are unsuccessful in the introductory ... -
VELAS: a fully-distributed daily hydrologic feedback model with emphasis on vegetation, land cover, and soil water dynamics
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-15)We present a daily hydrologic feedback model, VELAS (the VEgetation- LAnd cover-Soil water dynamics), to simulate daily responses of hydrologic processes including interception, runoff, evapotranspiration, infiltration, ... -
Volatility-Aware Query Processing in Peer-to-Peer Systems
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2010)Peer-to-Peer (P2P) paradigm has been recognized as a disruptive technology that can aggregate enormous storage and processing resources for information sharing and distributed computing. This paradigm has received significant ...