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 2013

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: A Maturity Model for Online Classes across Academic Disciplines, Barbara Burris NeeQuaye

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Measuring End-to-End Ajax Performance in Broadband Satellite Networks, Sang Tuan Nguyen

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Effect of the Use of the 3-D Multi-user Virtual Environment Second Life on Student Motivation and Language Proficiency in Courses of Spanish as a Foreign Language, María T. Parés-Toral

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: An Exploration of the Factors Influencing the Adoption of an IS Governance Framework, Sharon Laureen Parker

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: An Investigation of Run-time Operations in a Heterogeneous Desktop Grid Environment: The Texas Tech University Desktop Grid Case Study, Jerry Felix Perez

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: An Examination of the Design, Development, and Implementation of an Internet Protocol Version 6 Network: The ADTRAN Inc. Case Study, Levi Perigo

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Using Visual Technologies in the Introductory Programming Courses for Computer Science Majors, Kellie W. Price

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Dissertation: Support Services for Millennial Undergraduates, Marie Pullan

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: An evolutionary algorithm for the constrained forest problem, John John Queern

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Dissertation: Pursuing and Completing an Undergraduate Computing Degree from a Female Perspective: A Quantitative and Qualitative Approach, Scott Ragsdale

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Temporal Join Processing with Hilbert Curve Space Mapping, Jaime Antonio Raigoza

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Dissertation: An examination of the acceptance, adoption, and diffusion of smartphone devices with senior citizens., James M. Reneau

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Making the Shift: A Phenomenological Study of Teachers' Experiences in a Student-Centered, 21st Century Laptop Program, Susan Kay Rizzo

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Predicting Realistic Standing Postures in a Real-Time Environment, Jeffrey Wayne Roach

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Dissertation: Promoting the Affective Domain Within Online Education, Stephen Roche

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Development and Evaluation of HawkLearn: A Next Generation Learning Management System, Kimberlee L. Round

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: A Coordinated Reinforcement Learning Framework for Multi-Agent Virtual Environments, William Sause

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Impact of Leadership Social Power on Knowledge Management Success, Vincent Scovetta

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Supervised Learning Methods to Enhance Customer Lifetime Value Models for Multi-Channel Retail Sales Organizations, Billy John Shrewsbury

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Investigating the Role of Multibiometric Authentication on Professional Certification E-examination, Garrett Smiley

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Effectiveness of Virtual Learning Tools for Millennial Generation Students in a Community College Criminal Justice Degree Program, Lawrence Snyder

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Dissertation: Construction of a conceptualization of personal knowledge within a knowledge management perspective using grounded theory methodology, Eric M. Straw

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Dissertation: Application of a Layered Hidden Markov Model in the Detection of Network Attacks, Lawrence Taub

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Authorship Attribution of Source Code, Matthew Francis Tennyson

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Measuring the Impact of email Headers on the Predictive Accuracy of Machine Learning Techniques, Hicham Refaat Tout

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Dissertation: An Examination of Internet Filtering and Safety Policy Trends and Issues in South Carolina's K-12 Public Schools, Mary E. Vicks

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: A Study of the Effect of Information Security Policies on Information Security Breaches in Higher Education Institutions, Stanie Adolphus Waddell

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Dissertation: Employee Determinants to Share Knowledge in a US Federal Government Environment, Kenneth White

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Download Time Reduction Using Recent Performance-Biased Peer Replacement In Stochastic P2P Content Delivery Networks, Richard S. Wilkins

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Examining the Impact of Collaboration Technology Training Support on Virtual Team Collaboration Effectiveness, Sharon L. Wright

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Dissertation: Using Forecasting to Predict Long-term Resource Utilization for Web Services, Daniel Wayne Yoas

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Utilizing Image-based Formats to Optimize Pattern Data Format and Processing In Mask and Maskless Pattern Generation Lithography, Fayez Abboud

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: A Tour Construction Framework for the Travelling Salesman Problem, Barry Ahrens

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Frequent Itemset Hiding Algorithm Using Frequent Pattern Tree Approach, Rami H. Alnatsheh

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Dissertation: A Comparison of Users' Personal Information Sharing Awareness, Habits, and Practices in Social Networking Sites and E-Learning Systems, Albert Ball

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Dissertation: Incorporating Personal Health Records into the Disease Management of Rural Heart Failure Patients, Karen Baron

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Understanding Information Security Culture in an Organization: An Interpretive Case Study, Donald Arlo Bess

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Online Academic Support Peer Groups for Medical Undergraduates, Avril Christine Best

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Dissertation: A Study of Targeted Information System Accessibility and Usage by Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore, Sandra Boesch

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Dissertation: An Examination of Teachers' Integration of Web 2.0 Technologies in Secondary Classrooms: A Phenomenological Research Study, Barbara Ann Boksz

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Influence of Web Site Aesthetics on Impulse Purchase Behavior within Online Retailing Environments, John Bono

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Market Value of Information System (IS) Security: An Event Study of e-Banking Service Providers, Linda Brock

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Dissertation: A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Techniques For Foreclosure Prediction, Dexter Randell Brown

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Correlation of Software Quality Metrics and Performance, Yan Liu Burdett

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Automated Detection of Semagram-Laden Images, Paul Cerkez

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: A Genetic Algorithm that Exchanges Neighboring Centers for Fuzzy c-Means Clustering, Firas Safwan Chahine

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Investigating the Impact of Self-Control and Deterrents on Noncompliant Information Security Behavior, Ramadhan Chuma

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Reasoning for Service-based Situational Awareness Information on the Semantic Web, Stephen Carl Dinkel

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: A Declarative Rules API for Managing Adaptation Relationships in Context-Oriented Programming, Henry Dirska

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: An Approach to Effectively Identify Insider Attacks within an Organization, Gary Doss

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Region-based Crossover for Clustering Problems, Jeevan Dsouza

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Dissertation: Constructing a Community Response Grid (CRG): The Dublin, Ohio Case Study, John Freund

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Dissertation: A Study of Technological Barriers to Instructor E-Readiness in the Online Learning Environment, Glenda H. E. Gay

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Towards an Internet-based Distance Education (IDE) Framework for Religious-based Higher Education Organizations: A Case of the Alliance for Assemblies of God Higher Education, Jeremy William Harris

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: An Experiment Using Webcam-Based Surveillance to Deter Information Systems Misuse, Kenrie Hylton

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Towards an Understanding of Mobile Website Contextual Usability and its Impact on Mobile Commerce, Jack Alan Hyman

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: A Comparison of a Young and Older Adult Population of Computer Users' Recognition Rates of Different Tactons Using Modulation and Simple Waveforms as Stimulus Parameters., Ricardo Jimenez

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Development of an Audit Classification Index (ACI) for Federal e-learning Systems Security Vulnerabilities, Gerald Deawne Johnson

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Dissertation: Instructional Strategies and Activities that Inform the Community of Inquiry (CoI) Framework, Stephan D. Junion

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Code Clone Discovery Based on Functional Behavior, Ronald Michael Krawitz

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Dissertation: Quantifying Performance Costs of Database Fine-Grained Access Control, David Harold Kumka

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Learning Conversational English with Student-Generated Podcasts, Sandra I. Lebron-Lozada

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Dissertation: Securely Handling Inter-Application Connection Credentials, Gary Lieberman

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Implications for Real Project Management Success: A Study of Avatar Identity as an Antecedent of Virtual Team Trust, Michael F. Lohle

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: A Portrait of the Early 21st Century MBA, Robert J. Matthews

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Assessment of Web-Based Authentication Methods in the U.S.: Comparing E-Learning Systems to Internet Healthcare Information Systems, Herbert J. Mattord

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Impact of Data-Driven Decision Making on Educational Practice in Louisiana Schools, Dana James Maxie

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Dissertation: The Interactions Among Information Technology Organizational Learning, Project Learning, and Project Success, Donald Stuart McKay

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Effect of Interactive Television as an Instruction Delivery Method in Rural Secondary Schools on Learner Achievement, Motivation and Anxiety, Douglas Shane Miller

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Underachieving Gifted Science Students and Multi-User Virtual Environments, Gloria Miyares

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: A Study of Requirements Volatility and Footprint Visualization Properties in Evolving Use Case Data Sets, Dennis Mize

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Dissertation: Understanding the Value of Enterprise Architecture for Organizations: A Grounded Theory Approach, Edwin Frank Nassiff

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: An Empirical Study of Privacy Risk Assessment Methodologies in Cloud Computing Environments, Wayne A. Pauley Jr.

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Selecting Online Vendors by Privacy Risks, Syed Qamar Raza

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: An Examination of an Information Security Framework Implementation Based on Agile Values to Achieve Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Security Rule Compliance in an Academic Medical Center: The Thomas Jefferson University Case Study, David W. Reis

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: A Comparative Study on Electronic versus Traditional Data Collection in a Special Education Setting, Hernan Dennis Ruf

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Reducing Incongruity of Perceptions Related to Information Risk: Dialogical Action Research in Organizations, Derek J. Sedlack

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Investigation of a Synchronous Engagement System (SES) to Alleviate Anxiety Among eLearning Students in an MBA Program, Farnaz Sharifrazi

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Transition from Traditional to Blended On-Campus Learning Experience, Devena M. Singleton

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Evolving Credible Facial Expressions with Interactive GAs, Nancy T. Smith

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: A Reading Preference and Risk Taxonomy for Printed Proprietary Information Compromise in the Aerospace and Defense Industry, Joshua D. Stalker

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Dissertation: Minimizing Recommended Error Costs Under Noisy Inputs in Rule-Based Expert Systems, Forest D. Thola

Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Toward an Understanding of Online Word-of-Mouth Message Content and the Booking Intentions of Lodging Consumers, Gerald Van Loon

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: An Investigation of Traditionally-Aged College Students' Perceptions of the Community of Inquiry, Karen Kraus Vignare

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Dissertation: An Empirical Assessment of Factors Contributing to Individuals' Propensity to Commit Software Piracy in The Bahamas, Raymond Cleophas Wells

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Development of a Career-Oriented Instructional Design Model for Game Programming, Penn Pinlung Wu

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Formative Research on an Instructional Design Theory for Online Learning Communities: A Higher Education Faculty Development Case, Elizabeth Yagodzinski

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Analyzing E-voting (Electronic Voting) Outcomes: A Case Study of E-Voting in the State of Missouri, Jill Young

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Collaborative Group Learning and Knowledge Building to Address Information Systems Project Failure, Raymond Fontana Angelo

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Dissertation: An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship between Computer Self-Efficacy and Information Privacy Concerns, Mohammad Abdul Awwal

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: An Adaptive Database Intrusion Detection System, Rita M. Barrios

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Instructional Technologies in Graduate Physical Therapy Courses, Max R. Baumgartner

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: An Evolutionary Algorithm for Feature Subset Selection in Hard Disk Drive Failure Prediction, Harpreet Bhasin

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Dissertation: The Blended Learning Experience of Community College Students, Anita Bleffert-Schmidt

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Dissertation: The Impact of an Osteopathic Medical Program on Information Technology Skills of Physicians Entering the Workforce, Stephen Edward Bronsburg

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Role of Self-Efficacy in Computer Security Behavior: Developing the Construct of Computer Security Self-Efficacy (CSSE), Marlon Renese Clarke

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Using Learner Controlled Progress-Based Rewards to Promote Motivation and Achievement of At-Risk Students in Managed Online Learning Environments, Carlton Cunningham

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Developing an Information Systems Security Success Model for Organizational Context, Kimberley Dunkerley

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Detection of Deviations From Authorized Network Activity Using Dynamic Bayesian Networks, Cris Vincent Ewell

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The NORMAP Methodology: Non-functional Requirements Modeling for Agile Processes, Weam Mohamed Farid