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2. Swimming Upstream: The Case of Black Males in Information Technology (IT) Higher Education

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Open Access
Author:
Cain, Curtis
Title:
Swimming Upstream: The Case of Black Males in Information Technology (IT) Higher Education
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
Black males
career choice
diversity
digital inequality
ethnicity
race
IT workforce
theory development
File:
Download Cain.Thesis.Final.03.29.2016.pdf
Committee Members:
Eileen M Trauth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eileen M Trauth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lynette Marie Yarger, Committee Member
Suzanne Adair, Committee Member
Michael Mc Neese, Committee Member
Kshiti (K D ) Joshi, Special Member

3. Visual Characteristics for Computational Prediction of Aesthetics and Evoked Emotions

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Open Access
Author:
Lu, Xin
Title:
Visual Characteristics for Computational Prediction of Aesthetics and Evoked Emotions
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
Image Aesthetics Assessment
Emotion Prediction
Deep Learning
File:
Download phd_dissertation_xinlu.pdf
Committee Members:
James Z Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Z Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
Reginald Adams Jr., Committee Member
Michelle Gayle Newman, Committee Member
Jia Li, Committee Member

4. Understanding Human Spatial Navigation Behaviors: A Cognitive Modeling Approach

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Open Access
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

5. Occupy MOOCs: Understanding Users' Motivations, Perceptions and Activity Trajectories

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Open Access
Author:
Zheng, Saijing
Title:
Occupy MOOCs: Understanding Users' Motivations, Perceptions and Activity Trajectories
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
MOOCs
Massive Open Online Courses
Motivation
Perceptions
mix-method
File:
Download Dissertation-Saijing_Zheng-Final_Version2.pdf
Committee Members:
John Millar Carroll, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Millar Carroll, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kyle Leonard Peck, Committee Member
Zhenhui Li, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

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

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Open Access
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

14. Towards Achieving Secure Content Discovery in Centralized and Decentralized Systems

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Open Access
Author:
Karumanchi, Sushama
Title:
Towards Achieving Secure Content Discovery in Centralized and Decentralized Systems
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
distributed search
private search
peer-to-peer network security
peer-to-peer network privacy
malicious node detection
information exchange minimization
policy-based routing enforcement
server and client security and privacy
File:
Download Sushama_Karumanchi_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Dr. Anna Squicciarini, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Anna Squicciarini, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Dinghao Wu, Committee Member
Dr. Zhenhui Jessie Li, Committee Member
Dr. Scarlett Miller, Outside Member

15. Using Bayesian Networks for Enterprise Network Security Analysis

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Open Access
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

16. Context Modeling for Semantic Text Matching and Scene Text Detection

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Open Access
Author:
Huang, Wenyi
Title:
Context Modeling for Semantic Text Matching and Scene Text Detection
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
Citation Recommendation
Scene Text Detection
Deep Learning
Neural Networks
Context Modeling
Text in the Wild
File:
Download WenyiHuang-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
C Lee Giles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
C Lee Giles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhenhui Li, Committee Member
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Member

17. A COGNITIVE PROCESS TRACING APPROACH TO CYBERSECURITY DATA TRIAGE OPERATIONS AUTOMATION

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Open Access
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

18. Similarity Search and Satisfaction

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Open Access
Author:
Williams, Kyle Mark
Title:
Similarity Search and Satisfaction
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
Information retrieval
near duplicate detection
similarity search
good abandonment
search satisfaction
File:
Download KyleWilliams_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
C. Lee Giles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
C. Lee Giles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhenhui Li, Committee Member
David T Reitter, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Member

20. A RESOURCE DEPENDENCE PERSPECTIVE ON STATEWIDE HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGES

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Open Access
Author:
Becker, Jonathan David
Title:
A RESOURCE DEPENDENCE PERSPECTIVE ON STATEWIDE HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGES
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
Resource Dependence Theory
Organizational Theory
Health Information Exchanges
State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program
HIE
SHIECAP
RHIO
Regional Health Information Organizations
Board of Directors
Strategy
Organizational Performance
Information systems
File:
Download JB-Dissertation-Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Carleen Frances Maitland, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carleen Frances Maitland, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Irene Petrick, Committee Member
Rosalie Ocker, Committee Member
Shawn Mitchell Clark, Outside Member

21. Making Sense of Conflict in Distributed Teams: A Design Science Approach

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Open Access
Author:
Zhang, Guangxuan
Title:
Making Sense of Conflict in Distributed Teams: A Design Science Approach
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
Conflict
Design Science
CM2
Conflict Management System
Argument Detection
Text Mining
Machine Learning
Distributed Team
Open-source Software Development
File:
Download Dissertation_20161127.pdf
Committee Members:
Heng Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heng Xu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Zhenhui Li, Committee Member
Daniel Cardoso Llach, Outside Member

22. The Sociotechnical Mediation of Lower-Income Pregnancy: A User-Centered Approach to Improving a HCI Design Space

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Open Access
Author:
Peyton, Tamara
Title:
The Sociotechnical Mediation of Lower-Income Pregnancy: A User-Centered Approach to Improving a HCI Design Space
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
Pregnancy
HCI
Design
Sociotechnical Design
Mobile Design
Health
Qualitative Research
Informatics
File:
Download Diss_-__Peyton_-_Digitally_Mediated_Transition_FINAL_PUBLICATION_version.pdf
Committee Members:
Andrea H Tapia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrea H Tapia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lynette Marie Yarger, Committee Member
Jessica Nicole Kropczynski, Committee Member
Michelle Lynn Frisco, Outside Member

23. An Examination Of Cultural Influences On Team Cognition And Information Sharing In Emergency Crisis Management Domains: A Mixed Methodological Approach

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Open Access
Author:
Endsley, Tristan Caroline
Title:
An Examination Of Cultural Influences On Team Cognition And Information Sharing In Emergency Crisis Management Domains: A Mixed Methodological Approach
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
Team Cognition
Culture
Multicultural Teamwork
Emergency Crisis Management
Team Mental Models
Teams
Teamwork
Information Sharing
Team Communication
Hidden Knowledge
Mixed Methodology
Blended Epistemology
Quantitative
Qualitative
Simulation
NeoCITIES
Team Simulation
File:
Download EndsleyDissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Michael David Mcneese, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael David Mcneese, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter Kent Forster, Committee Member
Frederico T Fonseca, Committee Member
Susan Mohammed, Outside Member

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

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Open Access
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

25. Discovering and Mitigating Software Vulnerabilities Through Large-scale Collaboration

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Open Access
Author:
Zhao, Mingyi
Title:
Discovering and Mitigating Software Vulnerabilities Through Large-scale Collaboration
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
software vulnerability
bug bounty
memory corruption
software diversity
crowdsourcing
File:
Download dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jens Grossklags, Committee Member
Xinyu Xing, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Outside Member