CCE Theses and Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Dissertation: Improving Employees’ Compliance with Password Policies, Enas Albataineh
Dissertation: Pause for a Cybersecurity Cause: Assessing the Influence of a Waiting Period on User Habituation in Mitigation of Phishing Attacks, Amy Antonucci
Dissertation: Neural Network Variations for Time Series Forecasting, David Ason
Dissertation: Auditory Feedback in Integrated Development Environments to Provide Cognitive Support for Novice Developers, Henry F. Bruckman Vargas
Dissertation: The Construction and Internal Validation of a Model for the Effective Collaboration of Distributed Agile Teams, Ernesto Custodio
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
Dissertation: Feature Selection on Permissions, Intents and APIs for Android Malware Detection, Fred Guyton
Dissertation: Investigation of Ant Colony Optimization Implementation Strategies For Low-Memory Operating Environments, Douglas Hale
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: How Non-Compliance Impacts Security Incidents: A Public Sector Case Study of Application Security and Proper Data Governance, Ramon Hurlockdick
Dissertation: An Assessment of the Impacts of Social Media Inputs and Court Case Information on Mitigating Insider Threats, Robert Jones
Dissertation: An Empirical Examination of the Impact of Organizational Injustice and Negative Affect on Attitude and Non-Compliance with Information Security Policy, Celestine Kemah
Dissertation: Orientation and Social Influences Matter: Revisiting Neutralization Tendencies in Information Systems Security Violation, Frank Curtis King
Dissertation: The Influence of an Individual’s Disposition to Value Privacy in a Non-Contrived Study, John Marsh
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Social Engineering: An Investigation on Information Sharing via Micro-Blogging Within a Geographically Diverse Sales Engineering Organization, Raymond Martinez
Dissertation: Examining the Influence of Perceived Risk on the Selection of Internet Access in the U.S. Intelligence Community, Tyler Michael Pieron
Dissertation: Examination of Corporate Investments in Privacy: An Event Study, Joseph Michael Squillace
Dissertation: Identifying the Impact of Perceived Shared Cultural Values on Knowledge Sharing Through a Social Media Application, Mel Anthony Tomeo
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Application of Blockchain Technology to Improve Authors’ Copyright Protection, Abrar Turkistani
Dissertation: Enterprise Social Network Systems Implementation Model for Knowledge Sharing among Supply Chain IT Professionals, Edgardo Luis Velez-Mandes
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Dissertation: An Approach to Twitter Event Detection Using the Newsworthiness Metric, Jonathan Adkins
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Perspectives of Online Instructors Towards Distance Learning Technologies at the Saudi Electronic University (SEU), Ayman Alfahid
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
Dissertation: SNS as an Educational Tool: Effect on Academic Performance and Learners’ Perceptions, Nawwaf Mohssen Altalhi
Dissertation: Identifying Physicians’ User Experience (UX) Pain Points in Using Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems, Elizabeth Janelle Arceneaux
Dissertation: A Hierarchical Temporal Memory Sequence Classifier for Streaming Data, Jeffrey Barnett
Dissertation: Improvements to Iterated Local Search for Microaggregation, Tracy Bierman
Dissertation: Organizational Culture and Knowledge Transfer in Enterprise Social Media, Garry Blackstock
Dissertation: Protecting the Protector: Mapping the Key Terrain that Supports the Continuous Monitoring Mission of a Cloud Cybersecurity Service Provider, Chris Bush
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Factors Affecting Software Defined Networking Adoption by Research and Educational Networks, Vasilka Chergarova
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
Dissertation: Cybersecurity Risk-Responsibility Taxonomy: The Role of Cybersecurity Social Responsibility in Small Enterprises on Risk of Data Breach, Keiona Davis
Dissertation: An Empirical Assessment of Cybersecurity Readiness and Resilience in Small Businesses, Darrell Eilts
Dissertation: Prediction of Sudden Cardiac Death Using Ensemble Classifiers, Ayman Momtaz El-Geneidy
Dissertation: Adaptive Batch Size Selection in Active Learning for Regression, Anthony L. Faulds
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
Dissertation: SNS Use, Risk, and Executive Behavior, Andrew Green
Dissertation: Smart Privacy for IoT: Privacy Embedded Design for Home Automation Systems, Love James
Dissertation: Development of Criteria for Mobile Device Cybersecurity Threat Classification and Communication Standards (CTC&CS), Emmanuel Jigo
Dissertation: Reducing BitTorrent Download Time via Handshake-Based Switching, Elliotte Kim
Dissertation: The Influence of Cognitive Factors and Personality Traits on Mobile Device User's Information Security Behavior, Nils Lau
Dissertation: A PCNN Framework for Blood Cell Image Segmentation, Carol D. Lenihan
Dissertation: Classifying Relations using Recurrent Neural Network with Ontological-Concept Embedding, Mario J. Lorenzo
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
Dissertation: Deep Neural Networks for Sentiment Analysis in Tweets with Emoticons, Mutharasu Narayanaperumal
Dissertation: Predictive Accuracy of Recommender Algorithms, William Blake Noffsinger
Dissertation: Examining the Creation of Information Privacy Culture in Healthcare Organizations to Achieve Collective HIPAA Compliance Practice, Osborne Obeng
Dissertation: Usability of Portable EEG for Monitoring Students’ Attention in Online Learning, Arisaphat Suttidee
Dissertation: The Social Media Machines: An Investigation of the Effect of Trust Moderated by Disinformation on Users’ Decision-Making Process, Zulma Valedon Westney
Dissertation: Detecting Rogue Manipulation of Smart Home Device Settings, David Zeichick
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Dissertation: Examining the Impact of Learning Management Systems in Computer Programming Courses, Mohammed Naif Alatawi
Dissertation: An Examination of User Detection of Business Email Compromise Amongst Corporate Professionals, Shahar Sean Aviv
Dissertation: Motivation Factors for Using Mobile Information Systems in M-Learning, Neelima Bhatnagar
Dissertation: Adaptable Privacy-preserving Model, Emily Elizabeth Brown
Dissertation: Examining Shared Understanding and Team Performance in Global Virtual Teams, Alva Bullard
Dissertation: Reduction of False Positives in Intrusion Detection Based on Extreme Learning Machine with Situation Awareness, Donald A. Burgio
Dissertation: A Data Mining Framework for Improving Student Outcomes on Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination, James Clark
Dissertation: Comprehending the Safety Paradox and Privacy Concerns with Medical Device Remote Patient Monitoring, Marc Doyle
Dissertation: ORLease: Optimistically Replicated Lease Using Lease Version Vector For Higher Replica Consistency in Optimistic Replication Systems, Diaa Fathalla
Dissertation: Citationally Enhanced Semantic Literature Based Discovery, John David Fleig
Dissertation: User Information Security Behavior in Professional Virtual Communities: A Technology Threat Avoidance Approach, Vivienne Forrester
Dissertation: GAMESPECT: A Composition Framework and Meta-Level Domain Specific Aspect Language for Unreal Engine 4, Benjamin Jay Geisler
Dissertation: Empirical Assessment of Mobile Device Users’ Information Security Behavior towards Data Breach: Leveraging Protection Motivation Theory, Anthony Duke Giwah
Dissertation: Feature Set Selection for Improved Classification of Static Analysis Alerts, Kathleen Goeschel
Dissertation: An Investigation into the Impact of Social Networking on Knowledge Sharing, James Harold Gorham
Dissertation: Assessing the Effects of Communication Media Affordances and the Awareness of Media Security on Knowledge Sharing Behavior, Linda C. Greene
Dissertation: Usability Challenges with Insulin Pump Devices in Diabetes Care: What Trainers Observe with First-Time Pump Users, Helen Birkmann Hernandez
Dissertation: Gene Ontology-Guided Force-Directed Visualization of Protein Interaction Networks, James Lowell King
Dissertation: The Impact of Cross-References on the Readability of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, Jeffrey A. Lasky
Dissertation: Diversification and Intensification in Hybrid Metaheuristics for Constraint Satisfaction Problems, John M. Lynden
Dissertation: An Investigation of Factors Motivating Employee Attitudes and Intentions to Share Knowledge in Homeland Security, Evette Maynard-Noel
Dissertation: The Influence of Identifiable Personality Traits on Nurses’ Intention to Use Wireless Implantable Medical Devices, Vincent Molosky
Dissertation: A Hybrid (Active-Passive) VANET Clustering Technique, Garrett Lee Moore
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Examination of the Effect of Various Social Constructs on Activities at Social Network Sites, Stephen Musembwa
Dissertation: Instructional Designers as Project Managers: A Phenomenology, La Keshia Lynn Nall
Dissertation: Examining Task Conflict and Team Atmosphere in Virtual Teams Engaged in Outsourced Project Work, Harold Carr Osborn
Dissertation: Cyber Situational Awareness and Cyber Curiosity Taxonomy for Understanding Susceptibility of Social Engineering Attacks in the Maritime Industry, Guillermo Francisco Perez
Dissertation: The Factors That Impact Patient Portal Utilization, William Carroll Reed
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Improving Real-Time Intrusion Detection in Dynamic Networks with Highly Imbalanced Data Using a Multi-Agent Architecture Approach, Anh-Hong Nguyen Rucker
Dissertation: An investigation of electronic Protected Health Information (e-PHI) privacy policy legislation in California for seniors using in-home health monitoring systems, Robert Lee Saganich
Dissertation: An Instructional Designer Competency Framework for Complex Learning Designs, David Alan Schubert
Dissertation: A Comprehensive Cybersecurity Defense Framework for Large Organizations, Willarvis Smith
Dissertation: The Evolution of Technology in Call Centers, Julieo Stephen Thompson
Dissertation: LSTM Networks for Detection and Classification of Anomalies in Raw Sensor Data, Alexander Verner
Dissertation: A Newborn Screening Disorders Online Portal for Primary Care Providers and Parents, Jean Becky Whittemore
Dissertation: Assessing the Presence of Mindfulness within Cyber and Non-Cybersecurity groups, Christopher Wilder
Dissertation: Information Systems Security Leadership: An Empirical Study of Behavioral Influences of Leaders on Employees’ Security Compliance, Marcus Alan Winkfield
Dissertation: A Psychosocial Behavioral Attribution Model: Examining the Relationship Between the “Dark Triad” and Cyber-Criminal Behaviors Impacting Social Networking Sites, Kim Withers
Dissertation: Adaptive Strategies of Multi-Objective Optimization for Greener Networks, Hatem Yazbek
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Dissertation: Assessing the Impact of a Geospatial Information System for Improving Campus Emergency Decision-Making of Novice Crisis Managers, Adam R. Albina
Dissertation: A Developmental Research of a Taxonomy for Employees’ Mobile Device Cyberslacking and Commitment to the Organization in the Context of Productivity, Saleh Alharthi
Dissertation: Knowledge Sharing Among Academics in Higher Education Institutions in Saudi Arabia, Fahad M. Alsaadi
Dissertation: Evaluation of Machine Learning Techniques for Early Identification of At-Risk Students, Mansour Hamoud Awaji
Dissertation: An Investigation of the Interaction between Organizational Culture and Knowledge Sharing through Socialization: A Multi-Level Perspective, Ali Baker
Dissertation: An Empirical Assessment of Senior Citizens’ Cybersecurity Awareness, Computer Self-Efficacy, Perceived Risk of Identity Theft, Attitude, and Motivation to Acquire Cybersecurity Skills, Carlene G. Blackwood-Brown
Dissertation: Assessing the Role of Critical Value Factors (CVFs) on Users’ Resistance of Urban Search and Rescue Robotics, Marion A. Brown
Dissertation: Database Streaming Compression on Memory-Limited Machines, Damon F. Bruccoleri
Dissertation: Novel Alert Visualization: The Development of a Visual Analytics Prototype for Mitigation of Malicious Insider Cyber Threats, Karla A. Clarke
Dissertation: Standardizing Instructional Definition and Content Supporting Information Security Compliance Requirements, Theresa Curran
Dissertation: Machine Learning Methods for Septic Shock Prediction, Aiman A. Darwiche
Dissertation: Assistive Technology Guidelines for Higher Education Disability Support Staff, Brenda DeLee