According to a 2016 study by the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) one bridge in every ten is structurally deficient. Two major contributors of structural deficiency are corrosion, which causes ...

Recommender systems are intended to help users make effective product and service choices, especially over the Internet. They are used in a variety of applications and have proven to be valuable for predicting the utility ...

The growing complexity of modern real-time embedded systems makes component-based software engineering (CBSE) technology more desirable. Although many ideas have been proposed for building component-based real-time embedded ...

This dissertation presents an approach to the abstraction of the reasoning of a knowledge-based agent that facilitates human-agent collaboration in complex problem solving and decision-making and the development of systems ...

Active, or continuous, authentication is gradually gaining grounds as the preferred method of personal authentication. This is due to the limited nature of standard authentication methods that are unable to guarantee user ...

This thesis addresses digital identity for biometric / face recognition screening and cyberspace security subject to denial and deception characteristic of adversarial behavior. The adversarial aspect concerns defense and ...

Mobile app markets have created a fundamental shift in the way software is delivered to the consumers. The benefits of this software supply model are plenty, including the ability to rapidly and effectively deploy, maintain, ...

An evolutionary algorithm (EA) is a biologically inspired metaheuristic that uses mutation, crossover, reproduction, and selection operators

In sonar array signal processing, one of the essential objectives is mitigating the effect of loud non-stationary interfering sources. The Dominant Mode Rejection adaptive beam- former is a beamformer that is often used ...

This thesis examines the relationship between the architecture of partially dynamic Bayesian networks and the effectiveness of various inference algorithms using these Bayesian networks. The algorithms studied were the ...