• 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 ...
• Free/libre open source software contributors: one-time contributors, gender, and governance 

  Lee, Amanda S. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

  Free/Libre Open Source Software projects are freely available on the internet for anyone to contribute to. However, fringe populations such as females, newcomers, and others struggle to interact with the projects. They ...
• Named data networking in vehicular environment: forwarding and mobility 

  Kuai, Meng (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  Vehicular networking has become an attractive scenario, where Intelligent Transportation Systems can provide tremendous benefits. Realizing this vision needs a careful design of network architecture due to the dynamic ...
• Online topic modeling for software maintenance using a changeset-based approach 

  Corley, Christopher Scott (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  Topic modeling is a machine learning technique for discovering thematic structure within a corpus. Topic models have been applied to several areas of software engineering, including bug localization, feature location, ...
• Application of human error theories in detecting and preventing software requirement errors 

  Hu, Wenhua (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

  Developing correct software requirements is important for overall software quality. Most existing quality improvement approaches focus on detection and removal of faults (i.e., problems recorded in a document) as opposed ...
• The search phase of software engineering systematic literature review: barriers and solutions 

  Al-Zubidy, Ahmed (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

  The Systematic Literature Review (SLR) is an approach for conducting literature reviews that provides less bias and more reliability than the more typical ad hoc approach. One of the first phases of the SLR process is to ...
• Mobile interaction techniques for large displays 

  Zeng, Yuguang (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

  Nowadays, large displays are common in our life and work. The dramatic changes in display sizes hinder users' interaction based on traditional input devices. Recently, mobile devices have been massively adopted and have ...
• Non-technical loss fraud detection in smart grid 

  Han, Wenlin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

  Utility companies consistently suffer from the harassing of Non-Technical Loss (NTL) frauds globally. In the traditional power grid, electricity theft is the main form of NTL frauds. In Smart Grid, smart meter thwarts ...
• Law enforcement deployment algorithms: historic sharing approaches and results 

  Elliott, Terry Beau (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

  Law Enforcement must be vigilant in utilizing their limited resources to address both criminal activity and traffic safety. Past research has concentrated on determining optimal routes for law enforcement entities under ...
• 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 ...

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