• Discovering geographical topics from social media 

  Williams, Elizabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

  Traditional query-based search engines such as Google are often not able to discover real-time, contextual information such as traffic accidents or severe weather situations. As an alternative, social media can often provide ...
• Mailtrust: attribute-based dynamic encrypted email 

  Hudnall, Matthew (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

  E-mail is generally regarded as an insecure method of electronic communication for numerous reasons. Most notably, the default does not guarantee the authentic identity of either the intended sender or receiver of a message, ...
• Design pattern driven development of model transformations 

  Ergin, Huseyin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

  MDE is considered a well-established software development approach that uses abstraction to bridge the gap between the problem space and the software implementation. These abstractions are represented by models that make ...
• Algorithms on the GPU 

  Robinson, Jeffrey A. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

  General Purpose Programming using Graphical Processing Units (GPGPU) is a fast growing subfield in High Performance Computing (HPC). These devices provide a very high throughput with low cost to many parallel problems, ...
• Customer cost minimization for energy consumption scheduling in smart grid 

  Gao, Jingcheng (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

  The world has been on a fast track of industrial development thanks to human activities. On the back of the same coin is the fact that people are consuming more and more energy to support the fast-paced development. Studies ...
• Evolving legacy software with a generic program transformation framework using meta-programming and domain-specific languages 

  Yue, Songqing (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

  Advances in the software industry over the past half-century have resulted in a large amount of legacy code implemented across hundreds of different programming languages and paradigms running throughout various application ...
• Contemporary peer code review practices and associated benefits 

  Bosu, Amiangshu Shekhar (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

  Prior research indicates that peer code review is an effective method for reducing the number of defects and improving the quality of code. Besides maintaining the integrity of the code, code review spreads knowledge, ...
• Coalition formation, surveillance, and network security: modeling, design, and evaluation 

  Liang, Xiannuan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

  Mobile sensors have been widely applied in sensing applications. The performance of mobile sensors in intrusion detection has drawn a lot of attention from researchers. In this dissertation, we model the behaviors of mobile ...
• A study of accountability in operating systems 

  Zeng, Lei (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

  Logging has become a fundamental feature within the modern operating systems due to the fact that logging may be used through a variety of applications and fashion. Syslog daemon is the logging implementation in Unix/Linux ...
• Surveillance and intrusion detection in wireless sensor networks: design, analysis, and evaluation 

  Zhang, Yanping (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

  Wireless sensor networks have many applications. In our research, we are particularly interested in applications of monitoring a field to detect emergent incidents, such as forest fire, or intrusion objects such as enemy ...
• Exploring efficient and scalable omniscient debugging for MDE 

  Corley, Jonathan Adam (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

  Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) has emerged as a software development paradigm that can assist in separating the issues of the problem space of a software system from a particular solution space of implementation. MDE ...
• Mult-radio vehicular communication and low data-rate traffic sensing network for intelligent transportation systems 

  Zhao, Lei (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

  Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is the integration of advanced communication technologies into the transportation infrastructure and in vehicles. It is aimed to improve transportation safety and to enhance traffic ...
• Software engineering for enabling scientific software development 

  Heaton, Dustin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

  Scientific software is code written by scientists for the purpose of doing research. While the results of this software development have been widely published, there has been relatively little publication of the development ...
• Using the structural location of terms to improve the results of text retrieval based approaches to feature location 

  Eddy, Brian Patrick (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

  Software maintenance and evolution make up a considerable portion of the time and effort spent during the life cycle of a software system. During the maintenance and evolution phase, the majority of a developer’s time is ...
• Thunder: a private cloud architecture designed for high usability 

  Loewen, Gabriel J. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

  Cloud computing is a technological strategy for saving time, money, and resources within an organization. Underfunded and understaffed organizations benefit the most from a cloud architecture because it can help to alleviate ...
• Programming by voice: a hands-free approach for motorically challenged children 

  Wagner, Amber (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

  Computer Science (CS) educators frequently develop new methodologies, languages, and programming environments to teach novice programmers the fundamental concepts of CS. A recent trend has focused on new environments that ...
• Home area network security and accountability in the smart grid 

  McCary, Eric Anthony (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

  The presented dissertation concentrates on the security landscape in smart grid and proposes works to create a more accountable environment in the smart grid home area network (HAN). The principal thought behind the research ...
• Image forensics based on reverse engineering 

  Deng, Zhonghai (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

  Today with the advent of low-cost imaging devices, such as smart phones, digital cameras and surveillance video systems, digital images become quite common in our everyday life. People tend to believe the scene they have ...
• FAPA: flooding attack protection architecture in a cloud system 

  Zunnurhain, Kazi (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

  The rate of acceptance of clouds each year is making cloud computing the leading IT computational technology. While cloud computing can be productive and economical, it is still vulnerable to different types of external ...
• Empirical investigation of causes and effects of code clones 

  Chatterji, Debarshi (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

  Code Clones, also known as Software Clones are similar code fragments mostly formed due to reuse of code. The literature is abundant with ambiguous and vague fundamental definitions of code clones. Over the years, researchers ...

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