Category: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS

OCCUPY MOOCs: UNDERSTANDING USERS’ MOTIVATIONS, PERCEPTIONS,  AND ACTIVITY TRAJECTORIES ABSTRACT Compared with traditional online courses, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are larger in scale, distributed worldwide, clear of financial …

OBSERVERS’ PRIVACY CONCERNS ABOUT WEARABLE CAMERAS ABSTRACT Recently, wearable cameras and glass-style augmented reality devices such as Narrative Clip and Google Glass have entered the market and attracted much …

Nonprofit Participation In A Web 2.0 Community Portal ABSTRACT Since Putnam‟s observations that suggested a crisis of community was linked to communications technology uses, researchers have tried to assess …

NETWORK ACCESS CONTROL LIST SITUATION AWARENESS ABSTRACT Network security is a large and complex problem being addressed by multiple communities. Nevertheless, current theories in networking security appear to overestimate …

MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS FOR DATA-RICH, INFORMATION-POOR ENVIRONMENTS ABSTRACT The recent development of sensors integrated with memory, power supply and wireless networking capabilities marks a new era in sensor technology, with …

MORAL DECISION MAKING UNDER MONETARY CONSIDERATIONS Abstract A moral decision does not always mean rational decision. The moral decision is a choice made based on a person’s feeling and …

MODELING SPATIOTEMPORALITY FOR MULTIVARIATE TIME SERIES IN URBAN APPLICATIONS Abstract With the rapid development of smart cities, a large amount of urban data is collected and stored. Most collected …

MODELING PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION VIA TRIANGLES Abstract Modeling photographic composition is important to many real-world applications such as digital photography, image retrieval, image understanding, and image aesthetics assessment. The triangle …

MINING USER-GENERATED CONTENTS ON THE WEB AND SOCIAL NETWORKS Abstract In solving diverse data management problems, underlying social network between users and semantics hidden deep in User-generated Contents (UGC) …

MINING TEXTS AND SOCIAL USERS USING TIME SERIES AND LATENT TOPICS Abstract Knowledge discovery has received tremendous interests and fast developments in both text mining and social user mining. …

MINING FEEDBACK IN RANKING AND RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS Abstract The amount of online information has grown exponentially over the past few decades, and users become more and more dependent on …

META-COORDINATION ACTIVITIES: EXPLORING ARTICULATION WORK IN HOSPITALS ABSTRACT Coordination of distributed activities is central to organizational work. The effective functioning of organizations hinges on their ability to manage interdependencies …

MASHUPS FOR THE WEB-ACTIVE END USER ABSTRACT Mashups are essentially combinations of APIs and online data in a single interface.  However, to be able to take advantage of these …

MARKETS AS AN INFORMATION AGGREGATION MECHANISM FOR DECISION SUPPORT Abstract In almost all walks of life, predicting uncertain future events plays an essential role in decision-making processes. However, information …

MANAGING AND LEVERAGING ACTION KNOWLEDGE: THE CASE OF FRONT-LINE OPERATORS IN THE PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY ABSTRACT In the petrochemical industry, improvements in the technology and in production processes over the …

MAKING USE VISIBLE: A TEACHER-CENTERED STUDY OF TECHNOLOGY-ENABLED WORK PRACTICES ABSTRACT Many studies have examined the use of technology in education aimed at preparing students for the 21st century. Some …

MACHINE LEARNING METHODS FOR BUILDING EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS: CONCEPT PREREQUISITE LEARNING AND AUTOMATIC DISTRACTOR GENERATION Abstract The increasing amount of education-related data provides a valuable research opportunity for developing data-driven …