• Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings with Universal Concepts and their Applications 

  Sheinidashtegol, Pezhman (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  Enormous amounts of data are generated in many languages every day due to our increasing global connectivity. This increases the demand for the ability to read and classify data regardless of language. Word embedding is a ...
• Mining and Ranking Incidents for High Priority Intrusion Analysis 

  Haque, Md Shariful (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  Threats and intrusions are increasing at an alarming rate, even though related technologies have observed rapid advancement. Hence, advanced threat analysis has become imperative to improve current technologies. These ...
• Designing Lightweight Mitigation Processes for DNS Flooding Attacks 

  Mahjabin, Tasnuva (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are everyday threats in the current cyber world. Massive DDoS flooding attacks on October 21, 2016, were launched to attack Internet Domain Name System (DNS) -- the phone book ...
• Understanding Social Debt in Software Engineering 

  Caballero Espinosa, Eduardo Anel (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  Context: Social debt describes the accumulation of costs to software projects resulting from community smells, i.e., suboptimal working environment conditions. The study of social debt is recent in the software engineering ...
• Intrusion Detection and Protection Systems in Smart Grids 

  Jow, Julius (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  The creation of microgrids, the introduction of multiple renewable energy sources, and Internet of things (IoT) devices have led to the increased vulnerability of Smart Grids. The existing Intrusion Detection and Protection ...
• Change Analysis Across Version Histories of Systems Models 

  Popoola, Saheed (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) elevates models as first-class artifacts throughout the development process of a system’s lifecycle. This makes it easier to develop standard tools for automated analysis and overall ...
• Novel Geospatial Data Science Techniques for Interdisciplinary Applications 

  Sainju, Arpan Man (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  With the advancement of GPS and remote sensing technologies, an enormous amount of geospatial data are being collected from various domains. Examples include crime locations, road temporally detailed networks, earth ...
• An Investigation into Bad Smells in Model-Based Systems Engineering 

  Zhao, Xin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  Systems engineering is a multi-disciplinary approach to design, realize, manage and operate a system, which consists of hardware, software, process and personnel. Engineers and scientists from different domains often create ...
• Wineinformatics: Using the Full Power of the Computational Wine Wheel to Understand 21st Century Bordeaux Wines from the Reviews 

  Dong, Zeqing; Atkison, Travis; Chen, Bernard (2021)

  Although wine has been produced for several thousands of years, the ancient beverage has remained popular and even more affordable in modern times. Among all wine making regions, Bordeaux, France is probably one of the ...
• Trade-Off of Security and Performance of Lightweight Block Ciphers in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks 

  Pei, Chao; Xiao, Yang; Liang, Wei; Han, Xiaojia (2018)

  Lightweight block ciphers play an indispensable role for the security in the context of pervasive computing. However, the performance of resource-constrained devices can be affected dynamically by the selection of suitable ...
• A novel intersection-based clustering scheme for VANET 

  Lee, Michael Sutton (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  Currently, much attention is being placed on the development and deployment of vehicle communication technologies. Such technologies could revolutionize both navigation and entertainment systems available to drivers. ...
• MAC Security and Security Overhead Analysis in the IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks 

  Xiao, Yang; Chen, Hsiao-Hwa; Sun, Bo; Wang, Ruhai; Sethi, Sakshi (2006)

  Sensor networks have many applications. However, with limited resources such as computation capability and memory, they are vulnerable to many kinds of attacks. The IEEE 802.15.4 specification defines medium access control ...
• Temperature-Aware Routing for Telemedicine Applications in Embedded Biomedical Sensor Networks 

  Takahashi, Daisuke; Xiao, Yang; Hu, Fei; Chen, Jiming; Sun, Youxian (2008)

  Biomedical sensors, called invivo sensors, are implanted in human bodies, and cause some harmful effects on surrounding body tissues. Particularly, temperature rise of the invivo sensors is dangerous for surrounding tissues, ...
• Continuous Drug Infusion for Diabetes Therapy: A Closed-Loop Control System Design 

  Chen, Jiming; Cao, Kejie; Sun, Youxian; Xiao, Yang; Su, Xu (2007)

  While a typical way for diabetes therapy is discrete insulin infusion based on long-time interval measurement, in this paper, we design a closed-loop control system for continuous drug infusion to improve the traditional ...
• Botnet: Classification, Attacks, Detection, Tracing, and Preventive Measures 

  Liu, Jing; Xiao, Yang; Ghaboosi, Kaveh; Deng, Hongmei; Zhang, Jingyuan (2009)

  Botnets become widespread in wired and wireless networks, whereas the relevant research is still in the initial stage. In this paper, a survey of botnets is provided. We first discuss fundamental concepts of botnets, ...
• Wireless Network Security 

  Xiao, Yang; Lin, Yi-Bing; Du, Ding-Zhu (2006)
• Quality assurance in research software 

  Eisty, Nasir Uddin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  Breakthroughs in research increasingly depend on complex software libraries, tools, and applications aimed at supporting specific science, engineering, business, or humanities disciplines. Collectively, we call these ...
• Redefining privacy: case study of smart health applications 

  Al-Zyoud, Mahran (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

  Smart health utilizes the unique capabilities of smart devices to improve healthcare. The smart devices continuously collect and transfer large amounts of useful data about the users' health. As data collection and sharing ...
• A state-based approach to context modeling and computing 

  Yue, Songhui (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

  Context-aware computing is one of the most essential computing paradigms in pervasive computing. However, current context-aware computing is still in lack of good representation models, particularly in modeling proactive ...
• Improving intelligent analytics through guidance: analysis and refinement of patterns of use and recommendation methods for data mining and analytics systems 

  Pate, Jeremy (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

  In conjunction with the proliferation of data collection applications, systems that provide functionality to analyze and mine this resource also increase in count and complexity. As a part of this growth, understanding how ...

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