Social media platforms can expose influential trends in many aspects of everyday life. However, the trends they represent can represent disinformation. Social bots are one of the significant sources of disinformation in ...

Traditional network protocols employ error control techniques for reliable information dissemination over noisy communication channels. In this dissertation, two main topics are investigated for efficient error controls ...

Diurnal variations observed on satellite beacon experiments were often ascribed to changes in satellite antenna beam pointing due to the satellite not being in a truly geostationary orbit, or to variations in pointing due ...

Software Cost Estimation (SCE) uses labor hours or effort required to conceptualize, develop, integrate, test, field, or maintain program components. Department of Defense (DoD) SCE can use initial software data parameters ...

The importance of a sound Requirements Engineering (RE) process to influence a system’s success or failure cannot be understated. The activities include the elicitation, analysis, modeling, verification / validation, and ...

Current regulation established for disposal of solid waste (e.g., municipal solid waste, and coal combustion residuals) requires disposal facilities that include a composite liner consisting of a geomembrane overlying a ...

In 2007, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced a public competition to develop a new cryptographic hash algorithm to become the SHA-3 standard. This algorithm should allow flexibility in the ...

Sequence classification is an important problem in many real-world applications. Unlike

Proteins are the molecular tools of living cells and the path to unraveling their function is through modeling and understanding their structure. Many diseases occur when a protein loses its intended function due to inability ...

Clustering is a fundamental machine learning problem which seeks to discover groups of data based on a notion of similarity. Clustering is ill-posed as the notion of an optimal clustering is subjective to the application ...