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Author:

Fecteau, Anthony Roman

Title:

BDI Plan Update In Dynamic Environments

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

plan abort
plan fail
plan update
multi agent systems
intelligent agents
artificial intelligence
r-cast
BDI
plan task execution
plan step execution
update dispatcher

File:

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Committee Members:

John Yen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tracy Mullen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wang Chien Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Qiu, Baojun

Title:

SOCIAL NETWORK MODELING, LINK PREDICTION, AND SENTIMENT IMPACT ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

temporal data mining
machine learning
Social network analysis
text mining
sentiment analysis
link prediction

File:

Download Baojun-Dissertation-submission.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member
Jia Li, Committee Member
Qiyang He, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Cong

Title:

Intelligent Coaching Agents for Enhancing Helping Behavior in Human Teamwork

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Feedback Generatioin
Diagnosis
Agent-based Coaching
Performance Assessment
Intelligent Training
Teamwork

File:

Download cchen_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Millar Carroll, Committee Member
Brian K Smith, Committee Member
Tracy Mullen, Committee Member
Guohong Cao, Committee Member

Author:

Lai, Chieh-Ping

Title:

THROUGH WALL SURVEILLANCE USING ULTRAWIDEBAND RANDOM NOISE RADAR

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

UWB
Through Wall Surveillance
Noise Radar
RF
Software Defined Radar

File:

Download David_Lai_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Kenneth Breakall, Committee Member
John F Doherty, Committee Member
Shizhuo Yin, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member

Author:

Yu, Chaoqing

Title:

GEOAGENT-BASED KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

geographic process
representation
GeoAgents
GIS
knowledge

File:

Download Dissertation_Geography_ChaoqingYu.pdf

Committee Members:

Donna Jean Peuquet, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan Maceachren, Committee Member
Brenton Yarnal, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Hyun-Woo

Title:

Data Mining on Microblogged Information: Gender Recognition and Suicide Prevention

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

data mining
suicide prevention
gender classification
gender recognition
feature selection
attribute selection
support vector machine
SVM

File:

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Committee Members:

John Yen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernard James Jansen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wang, Hongmei

Title:

A COLLABORATIVE DIALOGUE APPROACH FOR HUMAN-GIS COMMUNICATION OF VAGUE SPATIAL CONCEPTS

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

natural spoken language enabled GIS
human-GIS communication
collaborative dialogue approach
agent-based computational model
vague spatial concept
and context-dependent

File:

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Committee Members:

Guoray Cai, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan Maceachren, Committee Member
Michael Mc Neese, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member

Author:

Gross, Joshua B

Title:

USING DERIVED SOCIAL CLUSTERS IN EMAIL TO SUPPORT HIGH-THROUGHPUT USERS IN MESSAGE MANAGEMENT

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

artificial intelligence
social networks
human computer interaction
email
clustering

File:

Download diss-thesisOffice-jbg-2.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Beth Rosson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Frank Edward Ritter, Committee Member
John Millar Carroll, Committee Member
Richard Alan Carlson, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member

Author:

Kamali, Kaivan

Title:

MULTIPARTY PROACTIVE COMMUNICATION: A PERSPECTIVE FOR EVOLVING SHARED MENTAL MODELS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Distributed AI
Multiagent systems
Agent communication languages (ACL)

File:

Download Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
C Lee Giles, Committee Member
Jia Li, Committee Member
Kon Well Wang, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

Author:

Umapathy, Karthikeyan

Title:

A Study of Language-Action Perspective as a Theoretical Framework for Web Services

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Integration Designer Assistant
Speech Acts
Web Service Architecture
Theoretical Framework
LAP
Language-Action Perspective
Web Services
Design Science

File:

Download KarthikeyanUmapathy-LAPWebServices-May2008.pdf

Committee Members:

Sandeep Purao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Watson Bagby, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member
Russell Richard Barton, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Po-Chun

Title:

Experience-Based Cyber Security Analytics

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Cyber Situation Awareness
Intrusion Detection
Situation Recognition

File:

Download Po-Chun_Chen-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peng Liu, Committee Member
C Lee Giles, Committee Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Stark, Robert Floyd

Title:

Aiding the User Input to Virtual Training Environments: Virtual Role Players with Speech and Gesture Recognition

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

human factors
computer vision
gesture recognition
Java

File:

Download Thesis-BobStark8b.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Frank Edward Ritter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sherry, Richard Ray

Title:

PERFORMANCE AND LIMITATIONS OF DISTRIBUTED INFERENCE AND INFORMATION FUSION IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

wireless sensor networks
information fusion
data fusion

File:

Download Dissertation_Full_09.pdf

Committee Members:

David J Hall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Yen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
C Lee Giles, Committee Member
Tracy Mullen, Committee Member
Lora Weiss, Committee Member

Author:

LIU, RONG

Title:

ESSAYS IN COLLABORATIVE SUPPLY CHAINS: INFORMATION SHARING, EVENT MANAGEMENT AND PROCESS VERIFICATION

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Information sharing
supply chain event management
Petri nets
workflows
process verification
unstructured workflows

File:

Download thesis_Rong_Liu.pdf

Committee Members:

Akhil Kumar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dawn M Russell, Committee Member
Alan J Stenger, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Rui

Title:

Agent-based Collaborative Plan Adaptation with Resource Constraints

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

resource
collaboration
agent
plan adaptation

File:

Download thesis_rui.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Sun, Shuang

Title:

USING COGNITIVELY INSPIRED AGENTS AND INFORMATION SUPPLY CHAINS TO ANTICIPATE AND SHARE INFORMATION FOR DECISION-MAKING TEAMS

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Recognition Primed Decision
Team Decision Making
Cognitive Model
Information Sharing
Multi-agent System
Context-driven Personalization

File:

Download shuang_sun.pdf

Committee Members:

Akhil Kumar, Committee Member
Michael Mc Neese, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tracy Mullen, Committee Member
Madhu Reddy, Committee Member

Author:

Zhu, Shizhuo

Title:

HYPOTHESIS-DRIVEN STORY BUILDING: COUNTERACTING HUMAN COGNITIVE BIASES TO IMPROVE MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Clinical Diagnostic Decision Support System
Hypothesis-Driven Story Building
Cognitive Biases

File:

Download Dissertation-SZhu.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Madhu Reddy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Mc Neese, Committee Member
Christopher N Sciamanna, Committee Member

Author:

Akanmu, Abiola Abosede

Title:

Towards Cyber-physical Systems Integration in Construction

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Virtual Models
Physical Construction
Cyber-Physical Systems
Bi-directional Coordination

File:

Download Abiola_Akanmu_Dissertation_1.pdf

Committee Members:

Chinemelu Jidenka Anumba, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chinemelu Jidenka Anumba, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Messner, Committee Member
Stephen James Treado, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member

Author:

Fang, Qi

Title:

Data Mining on Communication for Identifying Terrorists: A Case Study

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

terrorist identification
data mining
social network analysis

File:

Download qifang.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dinghao Wu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dongwon Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Huang, Shuo

Title:

Detecting Policy Violators in Online Social Community an Extended Bayesian Belief Network Approach

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Social Network
Spam
Page Rank
Bayesian Network
Mutual Information

File:

Download new_final_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhao, Kang

Title:

A multi-level analysis of information and supply flows in social and business networks

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Social networks
supply-chain networks
inter-organizational networks
information flow
influence
online health community.

File:

Download Zhao-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reka Z Albert, Committee Member
C Lee Giles, Committee Member
Akhil Kumar, Committee Member

Author:

Ahn, Eun Yeong Yeong

Title:

Evolutionary-based Feature Extraction for Gesture Recognition Using a Motion Camera

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Global Feature Extraction
Local Feature Extraction
DVS camera
Evolutionary Algorithm
Segmentation

File:

Download 1-ahn_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dinghao Wu, Committee Member
Dongwon Lee, Committee Member
Patrick M Reed, Committee Member
Tracy Mullen, Special Member

Author:

Wu, Anna

Title:

Supporting place sensemaking with multidimensional information representation on mobile devices

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Human Computer Interaction
Mobile application design
Sense-making
Location-based service

File:

Download Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaolong Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Millar Carroll, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member

Author:

Mancuso, Vincent Francis

Title:

An Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Transactive Memory in Distributed Cyber Teams

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

team cognition
transactive memory
scaled-world simulation
cyber security
interdisciplinary
distributed teams

File:

Download vfm_final_dis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Michael Mc Neese, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Mohammed, Committee Member
David J Hall, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member

Author:

Sinsley, Gregory

Title:

Distributed Data Fusion Across Multiple Hard and Soft Mobile Sensor Platforms

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

sensor data fusion
information fusion
soft sensor data fusion
random set theory
particle filter

File:

Download SinsleyThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Lyle Norman Long, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Miller, Committee Member
David J Hall, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Kirubakaran, Deepak Samuel

Title:

Context-Driven Similarity-Based Retrieval of Cyber Analyst Experiences for Multi-Step Attack Analysis

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

human reasoning
experience retrieval

File:

Download Updated_Thesis_-_Deepak.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Carman, Stephen H

Title:

Algseer: An Architecture For Extraction, Indexing And search Of Algorithms In Scientific Literature

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

search
search engine
computer science

File:

Download Carman-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dinghao Wu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sohn, Jung-woo

Title:

A study on how market policy affects human market selection decision

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

multiple markets
game theory
trader market selection
economic experiment
market design
agent based model
bounded rational

File:

Download dissertation-jwsohn-etd-submission.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jens Grossklags, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Committee Member
Anthony Mark Kwasnica, Committee Member

Author:

Pechenkina, Anna O

Title:

The Complexity of Conflict Management

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Mediation
reinforcement
agent-based model
conflict management
genetic algorithms
parameter space
third-party intervention.

File:

Download Pechenkina_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David Scott Bennett Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas William Lemke, Committee Member
Philip A Schrodt, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member

Author:

Dancy, Christopher Lee

Title:

Why the change of heart? Understanding the interactions between physiology, affect, and cognition and their effects on decision-making

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Cogntion
Affect
Emotion
Physiology
Computational Model
Process Model
ACT-R
HumMod
Iowa Gambling Task
Decision-Making

File:

Download Dancy_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Frank Edward Ritter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Frank Edward Ritter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Mc Neese, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Yen, Committee Member
Frank Gerard Hillary, Special Member

Author:

Wan, Yinan

Title:

Exploring Applying MeSH Ontology for Biomedical Patent Citation Recommendation

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Patent
citation
recommendation
MeSH
ontology

File:

Download YinanWAN_thesis_EXPLORE_MESH_IN_CITATION_REC_final.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yu, Nan

Title:

Information Interoperability between Building Information Modeling Authoring Tools and Simulation Tools to Support Energy Efficient Building Design

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Information Interoperability
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Energy Efficient Buildings (EEB)
OpenStudio
Data Exchange

File:

Download M.S._Thesis_Nan_Yu_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dinghao Wu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Messner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Murphy, William P

Title:

Using Supervised Learning To Identify Descriptions Of Personal Experiences Related To Chronic Disease On Social Media

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

machine learning
social media
data mining
health informatics

File:

Download ms_thesis2.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Liu, Haibin

Title:

Exploiting user-generated data for knowledge discovery and recommendation

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

data mining
machine learning
recommender system
social media
user-generated data

File:

Download Haibin-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yen, Committee Member
Guoray Cai, Committee Member
Fuqing Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Dai, Jun

Title:

Gaining Big Picture Awareness in Enterprise Cyber Security Defense

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

cyber security defense
enterprise network diagnosis
situation awareness
big picture
zero-day attack path
service dependency

File:

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Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Yen, Committee Member
Heng Xu, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member

Author:

Luo, Wei

Title:

Geovisual analytics approaches for the integration of geography and social network contexts

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

visual analytics
geo-social visual analytics
geography
GIS
spatial analysis
social network analysis
the first law of geography

File:

Download Wei_L_2014_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Alan Maceachren, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donna Jean Peuquet, Committee Member
Frank Hardisty, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member

Author:

Biyani, Prakhar

Title:

Analyzing Subjectivity and Sentiment of Online Forums

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Subjectivity analysis
sentiment analysis
classification
supervised learning
semi-supervised learning
online forums

File:

Download Dissertation_Biyani.pdf

Committee Members:

Prasenjit Mitra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Yen, Committee Member
Alexander Klippel, Committee Member
Marcel Salathe, Committee Member
Cornelia Caragea, Special Member

Author:

Chen, Yan

Title:

Building Control Knowledge Information Modeling & Control Self-Configuration

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Building
energy
self-configuration
modeling
HVAC
Building control knowledge
data schema
database
information modeling

File:

Download Chen_Dissertation_7-2015_Final_4.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen James Treado, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen James Treado, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jelena Srebric, Committee Member
John Messner, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member

Author:

Xiao, Gaoyao

Title:

Detecting automated agents based insider attacks through adjacency matrix analysis

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Insider attack detection
adjacency matrix analysis

File:

Download YourName-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Liu, Zhe

Title:

Understanding and Modeling User Behavior in Social Question and Answering

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

social question and answering
social search
information seeking
social networks
Twitter
Weibo

File:

Download Dissertation_Zhe_Liu.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernard James Jansen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernard James Jansen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Yen, Committee Member
Heng Xu, Committee Member
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Xiao

Title:

Programming in Eliza

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Program Synthesis
Natural Language
Eliza
LOGO

File:

Download pie.pdf

Committee Members:

Dinghao Wu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bodnar, Todd James

Title:

Data Science with Social Media for Epidemiology and Public Health

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

data mining
data science
data
twitter
google
facebook
apple
amazon
amazon web services
hive
apache
hadoop
java
big data

File:

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Committee Members:

Marcel Salathé, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Fraser Read, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Member
John Yen, Special Member

Author:

Zhao, Changkun

Title:

Understanding Human Spatial Navigation Behaviors: A Cognitive Modeling Approach

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Cognitive Modeling
ACT-R
Navigation
Spatial
Cognitive Model.

File:

Download Thesis_Zhao_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Frank Edward Ritter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member
Richard Alan Carlson, Special Member

Author:

Zhou, Chong

Title:

Extracting Discriminating Features from Contextual Domain Knowledge for Enhancing Topic Discovery of Online Forums

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Information Theory
Topic Modeling
Online Forums

File:

Download thesis_Chong_Zhou.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Prasenjit Mitra, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Joseph Ferrari, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sun, Xiaoyan

Title:

Using Bayesian Networks for Enterprise Network Security Analysis

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Cloud Security
Bayesian Network
Situation Awareness
System Call
Zero-day Attack
Enterprise network security

File:

Download Xiaoyan_Sun-dissertation-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Yen, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Committee Member
George Kesidis, Outside Member

Author:

Zhong, Chen

Title:

A COGNITIVE PROCESS TRACING APPROACH TO CYBERSECURITY DATA TRIAGE OPERATIONS AUTOMATION

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Cyber Situational Awareness
Cybersecurity Data Triage
Cognitive Process Tracing
Operation Analysis
Cyber Operation Automation
Intelligent System

File:

Download Penn_State_University_Thesis__3_.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Yen, Committee Member
John Millar Carroll, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Outside Member
Robert Erbacher, Special Member

Author:

Bui, Ngot Phu

Title:

LABELING ACTORS AND UNCOVERING CAUSAL ACCOUNTS OF THEIR STATES IN SOCIAL NETWORKS AND SOCIAL MEDIA

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Social Network
Graph Kernel
Temporal Causality
Sentiment Analysis
Actor Labeling
Social Media

File:

Download NgotBui-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
C. Lee Giles, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member
Ping Li, Outside Member
Dashun Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Banerjee, Siddhartha

Title:

AUTHORING CONTENT AUTOMATICALLY USING ABSTRACTIVE SUMMARIZATION

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Abstractive summarization
Automatic authoring
Text summarization
Text-to-text generation

File:

Download BanerjeeThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Prasenjit Mitra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member
David Reitter, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Yafei

Title:

Does linguistic alignment facilitate support functions: a big data analysis on online health communities

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Linguistic alignment; online health communities
social support
Linguistic alignment
Social support
Online health communities

File:

Download Yafei_PSU_Thesis_New-5.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Committee Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Member
Xiaofei Lu, Outside Member
David T Reitter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Lee, Sanghack

Title:

Causal Discovery from Relational Data: Theory and Practice

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Causality
Causal Model
Graphical Models
Relational Data
Relational Model

File:

Download sanghack-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clyde Lee Giles, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Outside Member

Author:

Liang, Chen

Title:

Machine Learning Methods for Building Educational Applications: Concept Prerequisite Learning and Automatic Distractor Generation

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Concept Prerequisite Learning
Automatic Distractor Generation
Question Generation

File:

Download Chen_Liang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

C. Lee Giles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
C. Lee Giles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vasant G. Honavar, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member
Rebecca J. Passonneau, Outside Member
Barton K. Pursel, Special Member

Author:

Gur, Shlomit

Title:

Machine-learning-based functional connectivity analyses: challenges and opportunities

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

machine learning
functional connectivity
fMRI
network neuroscience
longitudinal
multi-site

File:

Download ML-Based_FC_Analyses_-_Challenges_and_Opportunities.pdf

Committee Members:

Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Yen, Committee Member
Michele Diaz, Committee Member
Michael Nelson Hallquist, Outside Member
Kevin Douglas Alloway, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kaulakis, Ryan

Title:

Domain-Specific Languages as a Method for Representation and Evolutionary Search Among Global Solution Space of Cognitively Plausible Algorithmic Behaviors

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

AI
ML
Cogsci
Cogarch
actr
dsl

File:

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Committee Members:

Frank Edward Ritter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amulya Yadav, Committee Member
Richard Alan Carlson, Outside Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Frank Edward Ritter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Yen, Committee Member

Author:

Seo, Beomseok

Title:

Interpretable Statistical Learning: From Hidden Markov Models to Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Interpretable Machine Learning
Nonlinear Regression and Classification
Unsupervised Variable Selection
Clustering Stability
Interpretable Neural Networks

File:

Download BeomseokSeo-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ephraim Hanks, Major Field Member
Lin Lin, Co-Chair of Committee
Jia Li, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Yen, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wong, Jian Syuan

Title:

FACILITATING LEARNING ANALYTICS OF LEARNER COMMUNICATION IN MOOCS: A VISUAL ANALYTICS APPROACH

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

MOOCs
MOOC forum
Visual Analytics
Learning Analytics
Visualization

File:

Download Dissertation_JSW.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaolong Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Yen, Committee Member
Fred Fonseca, Committee Member
Anthony C Robinson, Outside Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zou, Qingtian

Title:

Applying Deep Learning to the Detection of Advanced Persistent Threats

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Advanced persistent threat
Deep learning
Adversarial example

File:

Download CertificateOfCompletion.pdfDownload QZ-Dissertation__Jul-05-2023_.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
Peng Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
James Wang, Major Field Member
Sencun Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Yen, Major Field Member