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Feasibility of the SIMSUPER Simulation Model in the Renovation of Building Projects

Keyword:: building renovation, renovation projects, building renovation projects, and simsuper
Creator:: Jimenez, Jose Manuel
Advisor:: Pietroforte, Roberto, Albano, Leonard D., Fitzgerald, Robert W., and Salazar, Guillermo F.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-05-26
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Civil & Environmental Engineering

Risk-Based Fire Research Decision Methodology

Keyword:: Methodology, Analytical Hierarchy Process, Expert Panel, Risk, and Decision
Creator:: Hansen, Richard L.
Advisor:: Noonan, Francis
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-05-13
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Fire Protection Engineering

An Information Theoretic Hierarchical Classifier for Machine Vision

Keyword:: information theory, pattern recognition, and machine vision
Creator:: Andrews, Michael J.
Advisor:: Cyganski, David
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-05-11
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Electrical & Computer Engineering

A Machine Vision System for Capture and Interpretation of an Orchestra Conductor's Gestures

Keyword:: center of mass calculation, virtual orchestra, contour extraction, MIDI, broadway, assembly, Video For Windows, color thresholding, and area calculation
Creator:: Driscoll, Michael T.
Advisor:: Cyganski, David
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-05-11
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Electrical & Computer Engineering

The Effect of Superheat on Liquid Droplets in a Supersonic Freestream

Keyword:: droplet injection, supersonic crossflow, droplet disruption, and superheat
Creator:: Newman, Aaron W.
Advisor:: Hermanson, James C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-05-11
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Mechanical Engineering

A Feasibility Study of Bioremediation in a Highly Organic Contaminated Soil

Keyword:: Biodegradation, Bioremediation, and Petroleum Hydrocarbons
Creator:: Walsh, Jami Beth
Advisor:: O'Shaughnessy, James C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-05-25
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Civil & Environmental Engineering

Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems on Reconfigurable Hardware

Keyword:: elliptic curves, Cryptography, and FPGA
Creator:: Rosner, Martin Christopher
Advisor:: Paar, Christof
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-06-04
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Electrical & Computer Engineering

Generation and Propagation of Optical Vortices

Keyword:: nonlinear optics, optical vortex solitons, phase singularities, singular optics, fluid-like motion, optical vortices, and optical vortex filaments
Creator:: Rozas, David
Advisor:: Swartzlander, Grover A., Jr.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-08-16
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit:: Physics

Modular Exponentiation on Reconfigurable Hardware

Keyword:: Reconfigurable Hardware, Public-Key Cryptography, FPGA, RSA, Montgomery multiplication, and Modular Exponentiation
Creator:: Blum, Thomas
Advisor:: Paar, Christof
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-09-03
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Electrical & Computer Engineering

Langmuir Probe Measurements in the Plume of a Pulsed Plasma Thruster

Keyword:: satellite propulsion systems, Langmuir probe, and Pulsed Plasma Thruster
Creator:: Eckman, Robert Francis
Advisor:: Gatsonis, Nikolaos A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-10-04
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Mechanical Engineering

Use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to Model Flow at Pump Intakes

Keyword:: pump intakes, CFD, and flow
Creator:: Roberge, Jennifer Anne
Advisor:: Mathisen, Paul P.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-09-30
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Civil & Environmental Engineering

Verification and Adaptation of an Infiltration Model for Water at Various Isothermal Temperature Conditions

Keyword:: soils, capillarity, isothermal temperatures, and soil infiltration
Creator:: Schaffer, Joseph F.
Advisor:: Kao, Cindy Sue-Shih
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-10-12
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Civil & Environmental Engineering

Discovery of Design Methodologies for the Integration of Multi-disciplinary Design Problems

Keyword:: methodology discovery, interdisciplinary, multi-agent, Design, and Artificial Intelligence
Creator:: Shakeri, Cirrus
Advisor:: Brown, David C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-10-13
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit:: Mechanical Engineering

Definition of a Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Epitope of the Sin Nombre Hantavirus G2 Glycoprotein

Keyword:: T-cell lines, Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, Sin Nombre, and hantavirus
Creator:: Vollaro, Cindy M.
Advisor:: Rulfs, Jill
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-10-13
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Biology & Biotechnology

Multicast-Based Interactive-Group Object-Replication For Fault Tolerance

Keyword:: multicast, Fault Tolerance, commit protocol, and CORBA
Creator:: Soria-Rodriguez, Pedro
Advisor:: Cyganski, David
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-10-25
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Electrical & Computer Engineering

Negotiation Between Distributed Agents in a Concurrent Engineering System

Keyword:: powder ceramic components design, cooperative multi-agent problem-solving, concurrent design, negotiation, and conflict resolution
Creator:: Victor, Sundar K.
Advisor:: Brown, David C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-11-09
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

Conflicts and Negotiations in Single Function Agent Based Design Systems

Keyword:: multi-agent design systems, single function agents, negotiation, conflict management, and routine parametric design
Creator:: Berker, Ilan
Advisor:: Brown, David C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-11-04
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

The Application of Parametric Software into the Undergraduate Computer-Aided Manufacturing Environment

Keyword:: computer-aided manufacturing, curriculum, CAM, Design, Education, Pro/Engineer, and manufacturing
Creator:: Cournoyer, Richard John
Advisor:: Fofana, Mustapha S.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-11-05
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Manufacturing Engineering

Single Function Agents and their Negotiation Behavior in Expert Systems

Keyword:: multi-agent design systems, types of agents, CLIPS expert system shell, single function agents, negotiation, and agent communication
Creator:: Dunskus, Bertram V.
Advisor:: Brown, David C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-11-05
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

SNEAKERS: A Concurrent Engineering Demonstration System

Keyword:: multi-agent design systems, tower design, concurrent engineering, and manager education
Creator:: Douglas, Robert E., Jr.
Advisor:: Brown, David C. and Zenger, David C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-11-05
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

Characterization of Radioactivity in the Environment

Keyword:: radioactivity, Environment, and quantification of radionuclides
Creator:: Borrelli, Robert Angelo
Advisor:: O'Shaughnessy, James C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-11-10
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Civil & Environmental Engineering

Use of Fire Plume Theory in the Design and Analysis of Fire Detector and Sprinkler Response

Keyword:: fire plume, fire detector, and automatic sprinkler systems
Creator:: Schifiliti, Robert P.
Advisor:: Beyler, Craig L. and Custer, Richard L.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-01-18
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Fire Protection Engineering

Design Simplification by Analogical Reasoning

Keyword:: model based analogical reasoning, simplification, Design, and complexity
Creator:: Balazs, Marton E.
Advisor:: Brown, David C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-02-09
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit:: Computer Science

Efficient Algorithms for Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems

Keyword:: elliptic curves, Cryptography, and Galois Fields
Creator:: Guajardo, Jorge
Advisor:: Paar, Christof
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-03-28
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Electrical & Computer Engineering

Value Engineering for Small Transportation Projects

Keyword:: DOT, highway, value engineering, and transportation
Creator:: Clark, Jennifer Anne
Advisor:: Salazar, Guillermo F.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-03-28
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Civil & Environmental Engineering

Intramolecular Energy Transfer in Polychromophores that Utilize Peptide Bridging Groups

Keyword:: triplet energy transfer, peptides, and chromophores
Creator:: Ferguson, David C
Advisor:: McGimpsey, W. Grant
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-05-05
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Chemistry & Biochemistry

Computation in Optimal Extension Fields

Keyword:: Implementation, finite fields, and Cryptography
Creator:: Bailey, Daniel V
Advisor:: Paar, Christof
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-04-28
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

The Exploration of Tissue pH and its Relationship to Bacterial Contamination

Keyword:: infection, tissue pH, and wound care
Creator:: Shorrock, Susan M.
Advisor:: Kun, Stevan
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-04-26
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Biomedical Engineering

Verification Studies of Computational Fluid Dynamics in Fixed Bed Heat Transfer

Keyword:: Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics, CFD, Fixed bed, and packed bed
Creator:: Nijemeisland, Michiel
Advisor:: Dixon, Anthony G.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-04-26
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Chemical Engineering

Bayesian Analysis of Cancer Mortality Rates from Different Types and their Relative Occurrences

Keyword:: mapping and Bayesian method
Creator:: Delcroix, Sophie M.
Advisor:: Nandram, Balgobin
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-12-14
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Mathematical Sciences

Scalable Visual Hierarchy Exploration

Keyword:: database backend, visual exploration, hierarchical structures, prefetching, recursive queries, and Semantic Caching
Creator:: Stroe, Ionel Daniel
Advisor:: Ward, Matthew O. and Rundensteiner, Elke A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-05-10
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

A 12-b 50Msample/s Pipeline Analog to Digital Converter

Keyword:: Digital, folding, Converter, analog, ADC, and Flash
Creator:: Carter, Nathan R
Advisor:: McNeill, John A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-05-05
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Electrical & Computer Engineering

A Method for Optical Measurement of Urea in Effluent Hemodialysate

Keyword:: urea, hemodialysate, and optical
Creator:: Kupcinskas, Rebecca A
Advisor:: Peura, Robert A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-05-11
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit:: Biomedical Engineering

Analysis of Various Bioreactor Configurations for Heavy Metal Removal Using the Fungus Penicillium ochro-chloron

Keyword:: fungus, Penicillium ochro-chloron, and bioreactor
Creator:: Andersson, Eva Lotta
Advisor:: Crusberg, Theodore C. and Iorio, Alexander A. Di
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-05-12
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Biology & Biotechnology

Association Rule Mining for Collaborative Recommender Systems

Keyword:: Electronic Commerce, Collaborative Recommender Systems, Data Mining, and Association Rules
Creator:: Lin, Weiyang
Advisor:: Ruiz, Carolina
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-05-15
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

A Molecular and Immunological Investigation of Cellular Responses to Dengue Virus: Identification of Potentially Upregulated Host Genes and the Construction of a Vaccinia Virus Expressing the Dengue 1 Hawaii NS3 Protein

Keyword:: dengue and CTL
Creator:: Brown, Jennifer L.
Advisor:: Rothman, Alan
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-03-30
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Biology & Biotechnology

Alternate Computer Models of Fire Convection Phenomena for the Harvard Computer Fire Code

Keyword:: computer, Fire, computer fire modeling, and fire code
Creator:: Beller, Douglas K.
Advisor:: Beyler, Craig L.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-06-15
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Fire Protection Engineering

Improvements to the weak-post W-beam guardrail

Keyword:: Finite Element Analysis, splice connection, post-rail connection, and guardrail system
Creator:: Engstrand, Klas E
Advisor:: Ray, Malcolm H.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-06-23
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Civil & Environmental Engineering

Design of a non-snagging guardrail post

Keyword:: snagging, Finite Element Analysis, and guardrail post
Creator:: Karlsson, Jessica E
Advisor:: Ray, Malcolm H.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-06-23
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Civil & Environmental Engineering

Singlet-Singlet and Triplet-Triplet Energy Transfer in Polychromophoric Peptides

Keyword:: energy transfer and peptides
Creator:: Benco, John S
Advisor:: McGimpsey, W. Grant
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-08-03
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Chemistry & Biochemistry

Determination of Average Lift of a Rapidly Pitching Airfoil

Keyword:: pitching, dynamic, and stall
Creator:: Linn, Anthony Blane
Advisor:: Durgin, William W.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-05-12
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Mechanical Engineering

Ultrasound Characterization of Structure and Density of Coral as a Model for Trabecular Bone

Keyword:: angular decorrelation function, impulse response, BUA, BMD, Ultrasound, trabecular bone, Osteoporosis, and coral
Creator:: Sun, Yurong
Advisor:: Pedersen, Peder C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-08-08
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Electrical & Computer Engineering

The design and development of a direct and continuous sensor for the measurement of inhaled nitric oxide concentrations

Keyword:: Sensor, optical, inhaled, and nitric oxide
Creator:: Parikh, Bhairavi Rajiv
Advisor:: Soller, Babs R. and Peura, Robert A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-08-30
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit:: Biomedical Engineering

Optimal Design of Gradient Fields with Applications to Electrostatics

Keyword:: gradient fields, optimal design, laminates, and functionally graded materials
Creator:: Velo, Ani P.
Advisor:: Lipton, Robert P.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-06-16
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit:: Mathematical Sciences

Spreading of Initially Spherical Viscous Droplets

Keyword:: viscosity, solid, droplets, map, crown, spreading, stable, unstable, Surface, gravity, splash, microgravity, Stability, viscous, surface tension, and oscillatory
Creator:: Kotikalapudi, Sivaramakrishna
Advisor:: Hermanson, James C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-09-30
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Mechanical Engineering

Synthesis Effects on Grain Size and Phase Content in the Anatase-Rutile TiO2 System

Keyword:: titania, rutile, and grain size
Creator:: Farrell, Kimberly A.
Advisor:: Demetry, Chrysanthe
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-08-16
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Materials Science & Engineering

FEM Mesh Mapping to a SIMD Machine Using Genetic Algorithms

Keyword:: FEM mesh elements, mapping, and Genetic Algorithm
Creator:: Dunkelberg, Jr., John S.
Advisor:: Becker, Lee A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2001-01-04
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

VIL: A Visual Inter Lingua

Keyword:: icons, pidgins, interlingua, visual language, iconic communication, and pictorial
Creator:: Leemans, Neil Edwin Michael
Advisor:: Becker, Lee A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2001-04-24
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit:: Computer Science

The Application of the Mordell-Weil Group to Cryptographic Systems

Keyword:: elliptic curves, point multiplication, Frobenius map, and Mordell-Weil group
Creator:: Weimerskirch, Andre
Advisor:: Paar, Christof
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2001-04-26
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

Automated Discovery of Numerical Approximation Formulae Via Genetic Programming

Keyword:: approximations, Genetic Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning
Creator:: Streeter, Matthew J
Advisor:: Becker, Lee A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2001-04-26
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

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