• 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 ...
• 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. ...
• 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 ...

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