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 2015

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Dissertation: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Accessibility Awareness Among Faculty in Online Learning Environments, Rachael Sessler Trinkowsky

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Dissertation: Motivating the Solicited and Unsolicited Sharing of Tacit Knowledge Through the Process of Externalization, Sheila Yvonne Sorensen

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Dissertation: The Impact of Image Synonyms in Graphical-Based Authentication Systems, Jonathan William Sparks

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Dissertation: Technology and Legal Research: What Is Taught and What Is Used in the Practice of Law, Rebecca Sewanee Trammell

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Dissertation: Building Cloud-Based Information Systems Lab Architecture: Deriving Design Principles that Facilitate the Effective Construction and Evaluation of a Cloud-Based Lab Environment, Thomas J. Trevethan

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Dissertation: Feature Selection and Classification Methods for Decision Making: A Comparative Analysis, Osiris Villacampa

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Dissertation: Implicit Measures and Online Risks, Lucinda W. Wang

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Dissertation: Gathering the Requirements for a Mobile Device Tutorial for Older Adults, Michele A. Washington

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Dissertation: An Empirical Investigation into the Role that Boredom, Relationships, Anxiety, and Gratification (BRAG) Play in a Driver’s Decision to Text, Nathan White

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Dissertation: Investigating the Determinants of Disaster Recovery Technology Investment Choice in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Faranak Afshar

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Dissertation: Information System Security Commitment: A Study of External Influences on Senior Management, Kevin Andrew Barton

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Constructing a Cyber Preparedness Framework (CPF): The Lockheed Martin Case Study, Dawn Marie Beyer

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Dissertation: Understanding Usability-related Information Security Failures in a Healthcare Context, Edward D. Boyer

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Dissertation: Alternative Approaches to Correction of Malapropisms in AIML Based Conversational Agents, Walter A. Brock

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Dissertation: Application of Cellular Automata to Detection of Malicious Network Packets, Robert L. Brown

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Dissertation: The Impact of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems on Small and Medium Enterprises, Miguel Buleje

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Identifying E-Commerce Strategy-making Modes in Small Firms, Robert M. Cartelli

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Dissertation: A Causal Model to Predict Organizational Knowledge Sharing via Information and Communication Technologies, Simon Cleveland

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Dissertation: Secure Mobile Deployment of NFL Training Materials, Alexander R. Corris

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Evaluation of Unsupervised Learning Techniques for Intrusion Detection in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Binh Hy Dang

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Using Speech Recognition Software to Improve Writing Skills, Felix Diaz

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Dissertation: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Telehealth Champions, Ragan A. DuBose-Morris

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Dissertation: A Cognitive Apprenticeship Approach for Teaching Abstract and Complex Skills in an Online Learning Environment, Reinaldo Fernandez

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Impact of Technology on the Study of Talmud, Shmuel Fink

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Spoken Language Identification from Processing and Pattern Analysis of Spectrograms, George Harold Ford

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Dissertation: Assistive Technologies used by Students with Asperger’s Syndrome to Improve Performance in the General Education Classroom, Sara (Beth) Cardwell Foreman

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: A Contextual Model for Identity Management (IdM) Interfaces, Nathaniel J. Fuller

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: A Study of the Impacts of Navigational Links, Task Complexity, and Experience with the Older User on Website Usability in a Community College Domain, Robin Eileen Garrett

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Dissertation: Unsupervised Learning Trojan, Arturo Geigel

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Enhanced Deployment Strategy for Role-based Hierarchical Application Agents in Wireless Sensor Networks with Established Clusterheads, Audrey A. Gendreau

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, but Are They the Words That Matter? - An Analysis of the Effects of Image Comments on Social Networking Sites, Bennet Hammer

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Dissertation: Helping Children with Autism Learn with Mathematics Software, Michelle Hansen

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Dissertation: Factors impacting information security noncompliance when completing job tasks, Martha Nanette Harrell

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Dissertation: Security Policies That Make Sense for Complex Systems: Comprehensible Formalism for the System Consumer, Rhonda R. Henning

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Dissertation: A Method to Reduce the Cost of Resilience Benchmarking of SelfAdaptive Systems, Steve Hernandez

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: An Examination of the Influences of Organizational Context on Knowledge Sharing, Huei-Min Hsu

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Dissertation: Validating the OCTAVE Allegro Information Systems Risk Assessment Methodology: A Case Study, Corland Gordon Keating

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Dissertation: An Investigation of the Key Factors that Affect the Adoption of Smartphones in Global Midmarket Professional Service Firms, Mark S. Kocour

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Dissertation: Improving the Selection of Surrogates During the Cold-Start Phase of a Cyber Foraging Application to Increase Application Performance, Brian Kowalczk

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Improving IT Portfolio Management Decision Confidence using Multi-Criteria Decision Making and Hypervariate Display Techniques, John Andrew Landmesser

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: A Bayesian Approach to International Distributor Selection for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in the Software Industry, Joseph Ping Lui

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Measuring Interestingness in Outliers with Explanation Facility using Belief Networks, Adnan Masood

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: OWL Ontology for Scalable Vector Graphics, Regina Mitzie Mathis

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Dissertation: Evaluating Heuristics and Crowding on Center Selection in K-Means Genetic Algorithms, William McGarvey

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: An Investigation of the Attrition of African-American Students in an Online Undergraduate Program, Diana Moore

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: A Value-focused Assessment of Knowledge Sharing in a Closed Information Environment, Stephen Robert Orr IV

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Dissertation: An Information Security Control Assessment Methodology for Organizations, Angel Rafael Otero

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Dissertation: An Investigation of the Dayton Regional STEM School Public-Private Partnerships, Kimberly S. Poole

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Dissertation: Dynamic Pricing in Heterogeneous Wireless Cellular Networks, David Shrader

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Dissertation: Using Class Interfaces and Mock Objects to Unit Test Aspects, Michael Bryan Snider

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Dissertation: Employee and Organization Security Value Alignment Through Value Sensitive Security Policy Design, Dianne Blitstein Solomon

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: An Investigation of the Role of Technology in Instructional Designers' Decision-Making, Bruce Sowers

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: A Study of the 8th Grade Technology Literacy of a Michigan Charter School, James Edward Spruill

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Dissertation: Serving Military Families: Perceptions of Educational Counseling in a Virtual Environment, Taryn Stevenson

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Dissertation: The User Attribution Problem and the Challenge of Persistent Surveillance of User Activity in Complex Networks, Claudio Taglienti

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Dissertation: Designing for Statistical Reasoning and Thinking in a Technology-Enhanced Learning Environment, Wendy Tu

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Using Simulated Annealing for Robustness in Coevolutionary Genetic Algorithms, Ruth Weldon

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Dissertation: Performance Comparison of Projective Elliptic-curve Point Multiplication in 64-bit x86 Runtime Environment, Ninh Winson

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Dissertation: The Role of Faculty in the Effectiveness of Fully Online Programs, Sami Al Salman

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Advising ePortfolios to Improve First-Generation Student Engagement in Higher Education, George Alex Ambrose

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Population-Based Ant Colony Optimization for Multivariate Microaggregation, Ann Ahu Askut

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Dissertation: Reducing Cognitive Load Using Adaptive Uncertainty Visualization, Gregory Block

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Accessing Geospatial Services in Limited Bandwidth Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Environments, James Darrell Boggs

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Using Online Project-Based Capstone Experiences to Enhance Soft Skills Development, Gwendolyn Suzanne Britton

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Comparison of Text Input and Interaction in a Mobile Learning Environment, James Burrell

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Dissertation: Reducing the cumulative file download time and variance in a P2P overlay via proximity based peer selection, Uriel J. Carasquilla

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Dissertation: Assessing the Role of User Computer Self-Efficacy, Cybersecurity Countermeasures Awareness, and Cybersecurity Skills toward Computer Misuse Intention at Government Agencies, Min Suk Choi

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: A Domain-Specific Language for Aviation Domain Interoperability, Paul H. Comitz

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Informal Learning as Performance: Toward a Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Museum Learning in Second Life, Kathleen Leni Cool

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Motivated Learning in Introductory Online College Courses: Do Motivational Messages Matter?, Alicia Bailey David

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Dissertation: An Aspect Pointcut for Parallelizable Loops, John Scott Dean

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Glogs as Non-Routine Problem Solving Tools in Mathematics, Matthew Terrence Devine

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The NERV Methodology: Non-Functional Requirements Elicitation, Reasoning, and Validation in Agile Processes, Darshan Domah

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: A Framework for the Governance of Information Security, Charles Kumar Edwards

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: An Examination of Leadership Types among Generation Y and its Impact on Virtual Team Effectiveness, Christian Matthew Graham

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Security Design Flaws that Affect Usability in Online Banking, Stephanie Gurlen

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Mining Aspects through Cluster Analysis Using Support Vector Machines and Genetic Algorithms, Yourik Hacoupian

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: A Power Conservation Methodology for Hard Drives by Combining Prefetching Algorithms and Flash Memory, Raymond Halper

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Elements of a Knowledge Management Guide for Public Sector Organizations, Mark Cameron Harris

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Developing and Evaluating Computer-Based Teamwork Skills Training for Long-duration Spaceflight Crews, Katharine Hixson

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Authorship Attribution with Function Word N-Grams, Russell Clark Johnson

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Development of a Media Driven Online Assessment System: Improving Quality, Frequency, and Deployment of Grades and Feedback in Higher Education, James Jay Juarez

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Effectiveness of a Random Forests Model in Detecting Network-Based Buffer Overflow Attacks, Gregory Alan Julock

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: An Investigation of Candidates' Experience of Attrition in a Limited-Residency Doctoral Program, Donna Hosie Kennedy

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Dissertation: Developing Software Requirements for a Knowledge Management System that Coordinates Training Programs with Business Processes and Policies in Large Organizations, James Richard Kiper

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Dissertation: Effectiveness of Evidence-Based Computerized Physician Order Entry Medication Order Sets Measured by Health Outcomes, Jacob Krive

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Dissertation: Code Clone Discovery Based on Concolic Analysis, Daniel Edward Krutz

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Improving the Scalability of an Exact Approach for Frequent Item Set Hiding, Carolyn LaMacchia

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Usability Issues in the User Interfaces of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, Lerone W. LaTouche

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Dissertation: Assessing Behavioral Intention to Use Low Social Presence ICTs for Interpersonal Task Completion Among College Students: With Special Consideration Toward Short Message Service (SMS) Text-Messaging, Jeffrey Scott Linney

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Effects of Concern Crosscutting Homogeneity on the Evolvability of Aspect Oriented Software, Hernan Londono

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: E-Business Reporting: Towards a Global Standard for Financial Reporting Systems Using XBRL, Margaret J. Long

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Examining the Adoption of Donor Management Systems in Not-for-Profit Organizations with an Extended Technology Acceptance Model, Richard Scott MacMillan

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: A Framework for Enforcing Role Based Access Control in Open Source Software, Francis Jay Manning

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: An Investigation of the Factors that Influence Faculty and Student Acceptance of Mobile Learning in Online Higher Education, Kathleen Marrs

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Dissertation: Toward the Implementation of Augmented Reality Training, Charles Randall Mayberry

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Dissertation: Online Deception Detection Using BDI Agents, Richard Alan Merritts

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Development and Assessment of Mobile Device Support for Certification Exam Preparation, Chiou Moh

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: AspectAssay: A Technique for Expanding the Pool of Available Aspect Mining Test Data Using Concern Seeding, David Gerald Moore

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Impact of Military Deployment and Distance Learning on Soldier-Students, August T. Murray