CCE Theses and Dissertations

 
This repository hosts dissertations and M.S. theses completed at the school, across Ph.D. programs in computer science, information systems, information assurance, and computing technology in education, as well as the occasional M.S. thesis from computer science and management information systems.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Dissertation: Development of Cybersecurity Footprint Index for Manufacturing Companies to Assess Organizational Cyber Posture, John A. Del Vecchio

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Dissertation: Assessing Organizational Investments in Cybersecurity and Financial Performance Before and After Data Breach Incidents of Cloud SaaS Platforms, Munther B. Ghazawneh

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Dissertation: Student Attitudes and Intentions to Use Continuous Authentication Methods Applied to Mitigate Impersonation Attacks During E-Assessments, Andrea E. Green

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Dissertation: Heed the Warning Signs: The Effectiveness of Message Popup Warnings for Deterring the Spread of Misinformation, Hollis Greenberg

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Enhancing Sign Language Recognition and Hand Gesture Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Data Augmentation Techniques, Oladayo A. Luke

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Dissertation: Empirical Assessment of Remote Workers’ Cyberslacking and Computer Security Posture to Assess Organizational Cybersecurity Risks, Ariel Luna

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Dissertation: Using Ontological Methods to Compare Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 and COBIT 19, Aaron Marshall Ramey

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Dissertation: Design Science Nutrition Label Approach: Satiating U.S. Consumer Concerns for Information Privacy (CFIP) with Privacy Home Automation Assessment Scorecards (PHAATS), Andrew S. Ramos

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Dissertation: Privacy vs. Social Capital: Examining Information Disclosure Patterns within Social Media Influencer Networks, Eidan James Rosado

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Dissertation: Understanding the Role of Tacit and Explicit Knowledge Hiding in Organizations, Darren Wiggins

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Aspect-Advice Interference: Data Interactions in AspectJ, Conrad Bell IV

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Dissertation: Increasing Code Completion Accuracy in Pythia Models for Non-Standard Python Libraries, David Buksbaum

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Dissertation: Optimizing Constraint Selection in a Design Verification Environment for Efficient Coverage Closure, Vanessa Cooper

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Dissertation: A Study of the Effect of Types of Organizational Culture on Information Security Procedural Countermeasures, Sheri James

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Dissertation: Application of Genomic Compression Techniques for Efficient Storage of Captured Network Traffic Packets, James Alfred Loving

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Dissertation: An Investigation of Methods for Improving Spatial Invariance of Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification, David Noel

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Dissertation: An Empirical Assessment of the Use of Password Workarounds and the Cybersecurity Risk of Data Breaches, Michael Joseph Rooney

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Dissertation: Comparing Phishing Training and Campaign Methods for Mitigating Malicious Emails in Organizations, Jackie Christopher Scott

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Dissertation: Adversarial Training of Deep Neural Networks, Anabetsy Termini

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Dissertation: Integrating the Spatial Pyramid Pooling into 3D Convolutional Neural Networks for Cerebral Microbleeds Detection, Andre Accioly Veira

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Influence of Information Availability, Emotional Reviews, and Social Capital (Bridging and Bonding) on Trust in Social Commerce, Ahmed Alattas

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Dissertation: A Universal Cybersecurity Competency Framework for Organizational Users, Patricia A. Baker

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Dissertation: Impact of Knowledge Management Processes Upon Job Satisfaction and Job Performance, George Reid Cooper

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Dissertation: Modified Structured Domain Randomization in a Synthetic Environment for Learning Algorithms, Bryan L. Croft

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Dissertation: Diagnosis of Errors in Stalled Inter-Organizational Workflow Processes, Mudassar Habib Ghazi

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Dissertation: A Validity-Based Approach for Feature Selection in Intrusion Detection Systems, Eljilani Hmouda

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Dissertation: An Empirical Investigation of the Evidence Recovery Process in Digital Forensics, Kevin Parviz

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Dissertation: Experimental Study to Assess the Role of Environment and Device Type on the Success of Social Engineering Attacks: The Case of Judgment Errors, Tommy Pollock

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Dissertation: Factors Affecting Customers’ Decision to Share Personal Data with Mobile Operators, Ammar Ali Qaffaf

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Dissertation: Information Systems Security Countermeasures: An Assessment of Older Workers in Indonesian Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Hari Samudra Roosman

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Dissertation: Exploring the Existing and Unknown Side Effects of Privacy Preserving Data Mining Algorithms, Hima Bindu Sadashiva Reddy

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Dissertation: Social Media Analytics and Information Privacy Decisions: Impact of User Intimate Knowledge and Co-ownership Perceptions, Bradley Alukwe Wangia

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Dissertation: An Approach for Efficient Robust Adversarial Training in Deep Neural Networks, Cesar Zalzalah

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Dissertation: The Empirical Study of the Factors that Influence Threat Avoidance Behavior in Ransomware Security Incidents, Heriberto Aurelio Acosta Maestre

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Dissertation: Improving Employees’ Compliance with Password Policies, Enas Albataineh

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Dissertation: Pause for a Cybersecurity Cause: Assessing the Influence of a Waiting Period on User Habituation in Mitigation of Phishing Attacks, Amy Antonucci

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Dissertation: Neural Network Variations for Time Series Forecasting, David Ason

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Assessing Learner’s Privacy Behaviors Through the Lens of Gender Egalitarianism Cultural Factor in a Blended-Learning Context: Student’s Perspective at Saudi Electronic University During COVID-19 Pandemic, May Bantan

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Dissertation: Auditory Feedback in Integrated Development Environments to Provide Cognitive Support for Novice Developers, Henry F. Bruckman Vargas

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Dissertation: Human Errors in Data Breaches: An Exploratory Configurational Analysis, Gabriel A. Cornejo

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Dissertation: The Construction and Internal Validation of a Model for the Effective Collaboration of Distributed Agile Teams, Ernesto Custodio

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Dissertation: A Study of Factors that Influence Symbol Selection on Augmentative and Alternative Communication Devices for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder, William Todd Dauterman

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Dissertation: Interpretable Machine Learning Model for Clinical Decision Making, Ali El-Sharif

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Dissertation: An Empirical Examination of the Computer Security Behaviors of Telecommuters Working with Confidential Data through Leveraging the Factors from Fear Appeals Model (FAM), Titus Dohnfon Fofung

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Dissertation: Feature Selection on Permissions, Intents and APIs for Android Malware Detection, Fred Guyton

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Dissertation: Investigation of Ant Colony Optimization Implementation Strategies For Low-Memory Operating Environments, Douglas Hale

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: How Non-Compliance Impacts Security Incidents: A Public Sector Case Study of Application Security and Proper Data Governance, Ramon Hurlockdick

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Dissertation: An Assessment of the Impacts of Social Media Inputs and Court Case Information on Mitigating Insider Threats, Robert Jones

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Dissertation: An Empirical Examination of the Impact of Organizational Injustice and Negative Affect on Attitude and Non-Compliance with Information Security Policy, Celestine Kemah

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Dissertation: Orientation and Social Influences Matter: Revisiting Neutralization Tendencies in Information Systems Security Violation, Frank Curtis King

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Dissertation: Investigating the User Experience with a 3D Virtual Anatomy Application, Winnyanne Kunkle

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Dissertation: The Influence of an Individual’s Disposition to Value Privacy in a Non-Contrived Study, John Marsh

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Social Engineering: An Investigation on Information Sharing via Micro-Blogging Within a Geographically Diverse Sales Engineering Organization, Raymond Martinez

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Classifying Financial Software Development Documentation in Knowledge Discovery Systems, Roman Melnyk

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Dissertation: An Empirical Assessment of Users' Information Security Protection Behavior towards Social Engineering Breaches, Nisha Jatin Patel

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Dissertation: Examining the Influence of Perceived Risk on the Selection of Internet Access in the U.S. Intelligence Community, Tyler Michael Pieron

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Dissertation: A Framework for Artificial Intelligence Applications in the Healthcare Revenue Management Cycle, Leonard J. Pounds

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Dissertation: Examination of Corporate Investments in Privacy: An Event Study, Joseph Michael Squillace

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Dissertation: Increasing Software Reliability using Mutation Testing and Machine Learning, Michael Allen Stewart

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Dissertation: Identifying the Impact of Perceived Shared Cultural Values on Knowledge Sharing Through a Social Media Application, Mel Anthony Tomeo

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Application of Blockchain Technology to Improve Authors’ Copyright Protection, Abrar Turkistani

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Dissertation: Enterprise Social Network Systems Implementation Model for Knowledge Sharing among Supply Chain IT Professionals, Edgardo Luis Velez-Mandes

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Dissertation: Development of a Social Engineering eXposure Index (SEXI) using Open-Source Personal Information, William Shawn Wilkerson

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Dissertation: An Approach to Twitter Event Detection Using the Newsworthiness Metric, Jonathan Adkins

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Perspectives of Online Instructors Towards Distance Learning Technologies at the Saudi Electronic University (SEU), Ayman Alfahid

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Dissertation: A COVID-19 Induced Shift: From Introducing High School Females to Computing Careers to an Assessment of Technological Readiness Among STEM Teachers, Jareau Almeyda

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Dissertation: SNS as an Educational Tool: Effect on Academic Performance and Learners’ Perceptions, Nawwaf Mohssen Altalhi

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Dissertation: Identifying Physicians’ User Experience (UX) Pain Points in Using Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems, Elizabeth Janelle Arceneaux

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Dissertation: A Hierarchical Temporal Memory Sequence Classifier for Streaming Data, Jeffrey Barnett

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Dissertation: Improvements to Iterated Local Search for Microaggregation, Tracy Bierman

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Dissertation: Organizational Culture and Knowledge Transfer in Enterprise Social Media, Garry Blackstock

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Dissertation: Protecting the Protector: Mapping the Key Terrain that Supports the Continuous Monitoring Mission of a Cloud Cybersecurity Service Provider, Chris Bush

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Factors Affecting Software Defined Networking Adoption by Research and Educational Networks, Vasilka Chergarova

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Dissertation: An Empirical Assessment of Audio/Visual/Haptic Alerts and Warnings to Mitigate Risk of Phishing Susceptibility in Emails on Mobile Devices, Molly Marie Cooper

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Dissertation: Cybersecurity Risk-Responsibility Taxonomy: The Role of Cybersecurity Social Responsibility in Small Enterprises on Risk of Data Breach, Keiona Davis

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: An Empirical Assessment of Cybersecurity Readiness and Resilience in Small Businesses, Darrell Eilts

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Dissertation: Prediction of Sudden Cardiac Death Using Ensemble Classifiers, Ayman Momtaz El-Geneidy

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Dissertation: Adaptive Batch Size Selection in Active Learning for Regression, Anthony L. Faulds

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Dissertation: An Investigation of the Factors that Contribute to the Perceived Likelihood of Compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule among Healthcare Covered Entities and Business Associates, James Furstenberg

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Dissertation: SNS Use, Risk, and Executive Behavior, Andrew Green

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Dissertation: Smart Privacy for IoT: Privacy Embedded Design for Home Automation Systems, Love James

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Dissertation: Development of Criteria for Mobile Device Cybersecurity Threat Classification and Communication Standards (CTC&CS), Emmanuel Jigo

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Dissertation: Reducing BitTorrent Download Time via Handshake-Based Switching, Elliotte Kim

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Dissertation: The Influence of Cognitive Factors and Personality Traits on Mobile Device User's Information Security Behavior, Nils Lau

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Dissertation: A PCNN Framework for Blood Cell Image Segmentation, Carol D. Lenihan

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Dissertation: Classifying Relations using Recurrent Neural Network with Ontological-Concept Embedding, Mario J. Lorenzo

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Dissertation: UNIX Administrator Information Security Policy Compliance: The Influence of a Focused SETA Workshop and Interactive Security Challenges on Heuristics and Biases, John Palmer McConnell

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Dissertation: Deep Neural Networks for Sentiment Analysis in Tweets with Emoticons, Mutharasu Narayanaperumal

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Dissertation: Predictive Accuracy of Recommender Algorithms, William Blake Noffsinger

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Dissertation: Examining the Creation of Information Privacy Culture in Healthcare Organizations to Achieve Collective HIPAA Compliance Practice, Osborne Obeng

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Dissertation: Usability of Portable EEG for Monitoring Students’ Attention in Online Learning, Arisaphat Suttidee

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Dissertation: The Social Media Machines: An Investigation of the Effect of Trust Moderated by Disinformation on Users’ Decision-Making Process, Zulma Valedon Westney

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Dissertation: Detecting Rogue Manipulation of Smart Home Device Settings, David Zeichick

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Dissertation: Examining the Impact of Learning Management Systems in Computer Programming Courses, Mohammed Naif Alatawi

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Dissertation: An Examination of User Detection of Business Email Compromise Amongst Corporate Professionals, Shahar Sean Aviv

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Dissertation: Motivation Factors for Using Mobile Information Systems in M-Learning, Neelima Bhatnagar

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Dissertation: Adaptable Privacy-preserving Model, Emily Elizabeth Brown

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Dissertation: Examining Shared Understanding and Team Performance in Global Virtual Teams, Alva Bullard

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Dissertation: Reduction of False Positives in Intrusion Detection Based on Extreme Learning Machine with Situation Awareness, Donald A. Burgio

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Dissertation: A Data Mining Framework for Improving Student Outcomes on Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination, James Clark