Computer Science Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Computer Science, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Interactive Brain Tumor Segmentation with Inclusion Constraints, Danfeng Chen
Analysis of 3D Cone-Beam CT Image Reconstruction Performance on a FPGA, Devin Held
Advanced Driving Assistance Prediction Systems, Maedeh Hesabgar
An Exercise and Sports Equipment Recognition System, Siddarth Kalra
Molecular Distance Maps: An alignment-free computational tool for analyzing and visualizing DNA sequences' interrelationships, Rallis Karamichalis
On the Promotion of the Social Web Intelligence, Taraneh Khazaei
Digits Recognition on Medical Device, Chang Liu
Food Recognition and Detection with Minimum Supervision, Renfeng Liu
Machine Learning of Lifestyle Data for Diabetes, Yan Luo
Fast Fourier Transforms over Prime Fields of Large Characteristic and their Implementation on Graphics Processing Units, Davood Mohajerani
Regulatory Compliance-oriented Impediments and Associated Effort Estimation Metrics in Requirements Engineering for Contractual Systems Engineering Projects, Md Rashed I. Nekvi
Coordinated Autonomic Managers for Energy Efficient Date Centers, Forough Norouzi
Algorithms for Glycan Structure Identification with Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Weiping Sun
A Data Fusion Approach to Automated Decision Making in Intelligent Vehicles, Besat Zardosht
Identifying Individual Driver Behaviour Using In-Vehicle CAN-bus Signals of Pre-Turning Maneuvers, Mahboubeh Zardosht
Color Separation for Background Subtraction, Jiaqi Zhou
IOT Stream Analytics Platform, Xing Zhou
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Determining Critical Points of Handwritten Mathematical Symbols Represented as Parametric Curves, Aoesha G. Alsobhe
BM3D Image Denoising using Learning-Based Adaptive Hard Thresholding, Farhan Bashar
Surface Reconstruction from Noisy and Sparse Data, Mark A. Brophy
Using Cellular Automata and Lattice Boltzmann Methods to Model Cancer Growth: Analysis of Combination Treatment Outcomes, Jenna L. Butler
Vascular Tree Structure: Fast Curvature Regularization and Validation, Egor Chesakov
Computing in Algebraic Closures of Finite Fields, Javad Doliskani
Geological Object Recognition in Extraterrestrial Environments, Gregory M. Elfers
Formal models of the extension activity of DNA polymerase enzymes, Srujan Kumar Enaganti
Generalized Inclusion-Exclusion, Mike W. Ghesquiere
An Investigation of Cognitive Implications in the Design of Computer Games, Robert Haworth
Adaptive Non-Local Means using Weight Thresholding, Asif Khan
Interactive Visualization for Deep Organizational data, Arash Khosravi
A Study of Pseudo-Periodic and Pseudo-Bordered Words for Functions Beyond Identity and Involution, Manasi Kulkarni
Symmetry Shape Prior for Object Segmentation, Xinze Liu
Algorithms for Peptide Identification from Mixture Tandem Mass Spectra, Yi Liu
Optical Flow At Occlusion Boundaries And In Occlusion Regions, Hua Meng
Clustering-Based Personalization, Seyed Nima Mirbakhsh
A Real-Time N-Gram Approach to Choosing Synonyms Based on Context, Brian J. Moore
Geography Aware Virtual Machine Migrations and Replications for Distributed Cloud Data Centers, Sakif Shahriar Pritom
Trust based Privacy Policy Enforcement in Cloud Computing, Karthick Ramachandran
Generating Invalid Input Strings for Software Testing, Benjamin D. Revington
An Approach To Artificial Society Generation For Video Games, Bryan Sarlo
Metagenome Assembly, Wenjing Wan
Implementation Techniques for the Truncated Fourier Transform, Li Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
State Controlled Object Oriented Programming, Jamil Ahmed
Application of Risk Metrics for Role Mining, Sharmin Ahmed
A Collaborative Access Control Model for Shared Items in Online Social Networks, Hanaa Al Shareef
Transit Demand Estimation And Crowding Prediction Based On Real-Time Transit Data, Michael Aro
Accessibility of E-Commerce Websites for Vision Impaired Persons, Roopa Bose
Cosine Similarity for Article Section Classification: Using Structured Abstracts as a Proxy for an Annotated Corpus, Arthur T. Bugorski
A Vector-Based Approach to Virtual Machine Arrangement, Nicholas Cerilli
Automatic Multi-Model Fitting for Blood Vessel Extraction, Xuefeng Chang
A Software Design Pattern Based Approach to Auto Dynamic Difficulty in Video Games, Muhammad Iftekher Chowdhury
Oligonucleotide Design for Whole Genome Tiling Arrays, Qin Dong
Optimizing the Analysis of Electroencephalographic Data by Dynamic Graphs, Mehrsasadat Golestaneh
Deep Learning via Stacked Sparse Autoencoders for Automated Voxel-Wise Brain Parcellation Based on Functional Connectivity, Céline Gravelines
Efficient algorithms for local forest similarity and forest pattern matching, Fang Han
BM3D Image Denoising using SSIM Optimized Wiener Filter, Mahmud Hasan
Adaptive Edge-guided Block-matching and 3D filtering (BM3D) Image Denoising Algorithm, Mohammad Mahedi Hasan
Energy Based Multi-Model Fitting and Matching Problems, Hossam N. Isack
Dynamic Resource Management in Virtualized Data Centres, Gaston Keller
Proxy-based Mobile Computing Infrastructure, Azade Khalaj
Investigating Genotype-Phenotype relationship extraction from biomedical text, Maryam Khordad
Brain tumor segmentation with minimal user assistance, Liqun Liu
On The Parallelization Of Integer Polynomial Multiplication, Farnam Mansouri
A Computational Linguistic Approach towards Understanding Wikipedia's Article for Deletion (AfD) Discussions, Wanting Mao
Improved Non-Local Means Algorithm Based on Dimensionality Reduction, Golam Morshed Maruf
On The Applications of Lifting Techniques, Esmaeil Mehrabi
High Multiplicity Strip Packing, Devin Price
Protein-Protein Interaction Network Alignment, Yu Qian
Realistic Dialogue Engine for Video Games, Caroline M. Rose
Development of an Emergent Narrative Generation Architecture for Videogames, Nicholas A. Schudlo
Identification of Informativeness in Text using Natural Language Stylometry, Rushdi Shams
Advances in Dynamic Virtualized Cloud Management, Michael Tighe
Computing Intersection Multiplicity via Triangular Decomposition, Paul Vrbik
Extracting Vessel Structure From 3D Image Data, Yuchen Zhong
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Localizing State-Dependent Faults Using Associated Sequence Mining, Shaimaa Ali
A Modular Approach to the Development of Interactive Augmented Reality Applications., Nelson J. Andre
Ratio-based Edge Detection Inspired Speckle Reducing Anisotropic Diffusion, Asaduzzaman Babu
Application of Computer Algebra in List Decoding, Muhammad Foizul Islam Chowdhury
An Architecture for Believable Socially Aware Agents, Arvand Dorgoly
Reinforcement learning with motivations for realistic agents, Jacquelyne T. Forgette
UTIL-DSS: Utilization-Based Dynamic Strategy Switching for Improvement in Data Centre Operation, Graham Foster
New algorithms for structural variation detection by de novo genome assembly, Ehsan Haghshenas
Hardware Acceleration Technologies in Computer Algebra: Challenges and Impact, Sardar Anisul Haque
Multi-Point Stride Coverage: A New Genre of Test Coverage Criteria, Mohammad Mahdi Hassan
Representation, Recognition and Collaboration with Digital Ink, Rui Hu
Performance Comparison of 3D Sinc Interpolation for fMRI Motion Correction by Language of Implementation and Hardware Platform, Andrew B. Kope
Vehicular Instrumentation and Data Processing for the Study of Driver Intent, Taha Kowsari
Hierarchical Classification and its Application in University Search, Xiao Li
A New Algorithm for Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction, Yiwei Li
Advances in Manipulation and Recognition of Digital Ink, Vadim Mazalov
Detecting Multilingual Lines of Text with Fusion Moves, Igor Milevskiy
Collaborative Policy-Based Autonomic Management in IaaS Clouds, Omid Mola
NFA reduction via hypergraph vertex cover approximation, Timothy Ng
Maps of Lessons Learnt in Requirements Engineering, Ibtehal Noorwali
Semi-automatic Tracking of the Hyoid bone and the Epiglottis Movements in Digital Videofluoroscopic Images, Seereen Noorwali
Redesign of Johar: a framework for developing accessible applications, Oladapo Oyebode
Cognitive Activity Support Tools: Design of the Visual Interface, Paul Parsons
Missing Requirements Information and its Impact on Software Architectures: A Case Study, Md Rounok Salehin