This research focuses on an in-depth analysis and investigation of lean construction, specifically the impact of Lean/IPD on project success. It also investigates the influence of owner's choice of project delivery system ...

Improving the quality of decisions made by decision-makers is the ultimate goal of research into decision-making, and the ability to assess the quality of decisions is central to decision research. The ability to assess ...

Enforcement of policy regulations and availability of auditing mechanisms are crucial building blocks for the adoption of distributed payment systems. In this thesis we provide a series of proposals towards implementing ...

In games, training environments, and other virtual simulations, non-player characters (virtual agents) perform actions to interact with the 3-D graphical objects surrounding them to accomplish specified goals. These ...

The rising popularity of Android and the GUI-driven nature of its apps have motivated the need for applicable automated testing techniques. This dissertation describes two automatic techniques for generating inputs for ...

This research details a methodology designed for creating content in support of various phishing prevention tasks including live exercises and detection algorithm research. Our system uses probabilistic context-free grammars ...

The back-end databases of multi-tiered applications are a major data security concern for enterprises. The abundance of these systems and the emergence of new and different threats require multiple and overlapping security ...

Cloud computing has changed the IT industry by providing robust technology solutions at a variety of prices. The technology used to implement a cloud computing infrastructure is based on largely distributed virtual ...

In dose-finding studies with toxicity-efficacy responses, utility functions and Bayesian procedures are used to find a single optimal dose with ethical toxicity-efficacy trade-offs. We demonstrate that the design can have ...

Shape deformation is a widely studied problem in computer graphics, with applications to animation, physical simulation, parameterization, interactive modeling, and image editing. In one instance of this problem, a \cage" ...