Over the years, data privacy has been a major concern amongst consumers. Applications such as Facebook, Uber, and Instagram collect a huge amount of data from users in return for the free service. Some of this data collection is necessary for the serv . . .

Since the rise of internet and e-commerce, buying and selling goods over the internet has relied heavily on financial institutions acting as 3rd parties to process financial transactions. These 3rd parties often charge a good percentage of the payment . . .

In modern economic times, everyone wants to save their money and keep expenses with in their budget limit. But, due to our busy schedules in our day to day life, we may lose track of our expenses and end up overspending which leads to debts. In this p . . .

Indoor localization has become one of the most talked about services in today’s technology. We have observed that there have been huge demand of Indoor Location services due to increase in smartphone market in last few years. GPS is widely used to fin . . .

USA has been grappling with crime for decades now and had made significant improvement. However, crime remains to be one of the core societal problems. To build a safer society, we need to take advantage of 21st century’s technology. With current tech . . .

Refactoring is a process used by programmers to improve the non-functional qualities of code. It does not affect the actual output of the program, but it is useful for making the code easier to read and maintain. In practice, it often requires a lot o . . .

Active database systems support applications by moving the reactive behavior from applications into database management systems. It is a database system that includes an event-driven architecture that can respond to different types of events automatic . . .

A stochastic prediction modeling method such as Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is a complex system. The HMM is suitable to analyze and predict time-dependent phenomena and has been widely used in applications such as speech recognition, weather and stock m . . .

Security and usability have been on the opposite ends of the spectrum; sometimes, to achieve one, the other must be compromised to some extent. Passwords are a typical example in which usability, psychology, and security meet. Absurd password rules fo . . .

One of the most critical resources that ensure the current working of the internet is the domain name system (DNS). It is a decentralized, hierarchical naming system that is responsible for translating the human-readable domain name to its associated . . .

This project is focusing on creating a chatbot to be used by students to get their queries responded easily from the college website. The College Enquiry Chatbot has the capacity to make friendly conversations; respond the course and faculty details; . . .

The Sequential Ordering Problem (SOP) is a combinatorial optimization problem. Given a directed weighted graph and an unweighted directed graph representing precedence constraints among vertices, find a minimum-cost Hamiltonian path that satisfies the . . .

One of the biggest innovations recently in the field of computer science is cryptocurrencies and Blockchain is at the heart of it. Cryptocurrency is one use case of blockchain and there can be many more. Blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger o . . .

The diagnosis of a disease is the most critical and vital job in medicine and it mostly depends on a doctor’s intuition based on past experiences. The unfortunate case of recognizing the incorrect symptoms results in a misdiagnosis. To avoid such medi . . .

This system will eliminate the need for common platforms to publish pod-cast. The methods create a new ERC-20 token named as 'Pods.' Users will have an ability to create an account and get some specific number of tokens (that is, Pods) as joining bonu . . .

Defending today’s enterprise network has become more and more challenging considering the increasing amount of cyber-attacks. It is critical to understand how an attack happens and how the intrusion propagates inside the enterprise network. System Obj . . .

Nowadays it is very widespread to see attacks in the system. The attackers try automated tools and programs to attempt and gain access to the data of the users. However, for attackers, it is hard to boycott system calls. System calls are used by the u . . .

Students in a university tends to have various resources to trade. Trading has become an essential thing in our day-today life. In this project, I would like to recall barter system which is one of the oldest method of exchange. This has been used bef . . .

Today with fast growing technology and increasing computing needs, industry is opting for deploying and using cloud to fulfill their extensive computing requirements. Deployment of cloud is a lengthy and convoluted process. Manual installation of clou . . .

This work presents a visual analytical tool, to assist instructors of introductory computer science courses to manage students’ learning. The first half of this project is an investigation on various visualization tools which inspired the motivation a . . .

In this generation, when an entrepreneur wants to bring his ideas to life he will start searching for funds. There are people around the globe who have small amounts of money that they can invest in ideas that might grow bigger or solve problems faced . . .

Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) is an access control policy language. Typically, an XACML policy has configurable standard extension points to define new functions, data types and the ways to combine them as a single unit. With this . . .

The PC2 Contest Control System provides for the ability of teams in a programming contest to submit runs – that is, programs which are attempts at solving a contest problem specified by the contest judges. In Version 10 (V10) of PC2, runs are submitte . . .

Information-based systems have allowed researchers from all aspects of sciences to study their data better. Environmental studies is one such area where timely and accurate data is critical for research and development of the science. The energy-water . . .

Self-driving cars has become a trending subject with a significant improvement in the technologies in the last decade. The project purpose is to train a neural network to drive an autonomous car agent on the tracks of Udacity’s Car Simulator environme . . .

This project collects several experiments in Deep Learning Convolutional Neural Network for Image predictions. It makes use of Google TensorFlow and TFlearn Deep Learning libraries for computations, training, and testing of images. The project is deve . . .

The purpose of this project is to learn about OpenStack Cloud infrastructure-as-aService Platform (IaaS) through manual installation of core OpenStack cloud services and to create an automated cloud deployment script using BASH shell scripting. The pr . . .

These days, most software companies work on complex projects that require a collaboration of multiple people across many geographic locations. Managers in such companies are responsible for integrating many complex projects while maintaining high accu . . .

For any statistical study, from predicting the winner of an election, to governing the health statistics, a huge amount of real time data is necessary. Twitter data is extensively used in recent times for such statistical studies. The speed at which n . . .

3D graphics programming is generally done using libraries such as OpenGL, DirectX and Vulkan. Some effects such as lighting, reflection have well defined approaches, however simulating water is known to be a little difficult to achieve. This project o . . .

A graph database presents data and the relationship among data based on the graph model. Graph Databases uses graph structures for semantic queries with nodes, edges, and properties. A graph database has two defining elements: 1) Node, which represent . . .

In 21st century it has become a norm that companies are using virtual assistants such as Siri, Google assistant or Alexa to resolve many problems faced by customers. These technologies are empowered by using natural language processing and are good at . . .

This project to implements a generalized neural network agent that plays different video games using reinforcement learning algorithm. This project uses OpenAIs simulated video game environment ‘gym’ for training and testing the proposed reinforcement . . .

Online reviews are highly influential, with consumers preferring the advice of other consumers rather than information provided through advertisements. Hence, review consistency and trustworthiness became an urgent need and a necessity for both indivi . . .

Skeletal bone age assessment is a common clinical practice to analyze and assess the biological maturity of pediatric patients. This process generally involves taking X-ray of the left hand, along with fingers and wrist, then followed by image analysi . . .

Convolutional neural networks are generally assumed to be the best neural networks for classifying images. In November 2017, Geoffrey Hinton et al. introduced another neural network approach known as Capsule Network. He and his team have claimed that . . .

In this work, we present a novel visual analytical tool, intended to improve the Facebook experience which produces an interactive visual analytic presentation of a user’s newsfeed to help understand bias trends existing among the user’s social group. . . .

The establishment of a secure channel of communication between two parties is a primary goal of modern cryptography. In an ideal world, the secure channel is a dedicated, untappable, and impenetrable method of transmitting data between a sender and re . . .

Statement of Problem The problem of missing data in statistical analysis is one that the field of social research has failed to adequately address despite its potential to significantly affect results and subsequent substantive conclusions. The purpos . . .

The purpose of this project is to develop a data analysis tool for assessment. There are three tiers of users: public, data entry, and faculty. The public can view non-sensitive assessment information. In addition to accessing public information, the . . .

Self-splitting neural networks provide a new method for solving complex problems by using multiple neural networks in a divide-and-conquer approach to reduce the domain space each network must solve. However, choosing optimal points for splitting the . . .

In this project, I am planning to develop a plug in module that can be integrated into the web based application. The aim of this application is to provide email-services, calendar services and chat services dynamically within the browser. I am respon . . .

netGA takes networking theory and artificial intelligence theory and combines them together to form an attack detection system. netGA is an implementation of the method proposed by the paper titled A Software Implementation of a Genetic Algorithm Base . . .

The intent of this project is to explore the tracking capabilities of V1KU a neural network system. V1KU is a product by General Vision Company that comprises of CogniMem neural network chip for real-time image learning and CogniSight image recognitio . . .

This project provides an overview into the life cycle of a cable modem. It demonstrates the initialization stages a cable modem would pass through. Once self-initialization of a cable modem is complete, it comes online. This project discusses the stat . . .

Databases based on relational models support crisp and precise data. In the real world scenario, there exists a lot of uncertainty and imprecise information. Fuzzy logic breaks the rigid crisp logic boundaries and allows decisions to be taken in a mor . . .

The central component of any operating system is the Memory Management Unit (MMU). As the name implies, memory-management facilities are responsible for the management of memory resources available on a machine. Virtual memory (VM) in MMU allows a pro . . .

SQL injection has become a predominant type of attacks that target web applications. It allows attackers to obtain unauthorized access to the back-end database by submitting malicious SQL query segments to change the intended application-generated SQL . . .

Nowadays database management systems are the most crucial factors in managing and storing the data. Security enforcement in a database is very important to assure that the data stored is properly secured. Most of the database management systems are oc . . .

The goal of the project is to monitor the services running on the CCDC (College Cyber Defense Competition) network, using Nagios which uses plugins to monitor the services running on a network. Nagios is configured by building configuration files for . . .

Truck Data Warehouse (TDW) System is a web-based application developed at the California State University Sacramento for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). The TDW System allows Caltrans to use this web-based application system to . . .

A cyber defense competition is a competition where teams compete and learn how to defend and maintain computer security. The competition provides ground to learn the real time scenarios like defending security loopholes and adding new software or serv . . .

The intent of this project is to explore whether the Two Dimensional Chunk Extraction algorithm for the Self-Splitting Modular Neural Network is more effective than the original algorithm. This experiment uses the same data and compares the results of . . .

The multi-core era brings new challenges to the programming community. Parallelization requirements of applications in mainstream computing and applications in emergent fields of high performance computing, such as informatics, must be explored. With . . .

Student transcripts are a critical component of admission, transfer credit processing, and graduation processing. The majority of transcripts come into the University in paper form through multiple points of entry and are processed in multiple areas d . . .

“Combination of cryptography and Steganography for secure communication” is an application, which combines both Cryptography methods (i.e. Encryption, decryption) and Steganography techniques to make the communication more secure. The outcome of this . . .

It is usually observed that small to medium sized organization with many assets do not have a have a reliable and efficient system for tracking orders, their usage within along with inventory of supplies, equipment and assets. As a result, often there . . .

BPEL stands for Business Process Execution Language; it is a standard executable language for specifying interactions with web-services. “BPEL is [1] essentially a workflow graph that describes interactions between various web services, dependencies a . . .

Sharing of information is done in many ways and one such way is the online mock tests. The online practice tests are the model tests that are designed exactly like the online competitive exams. This will help people who are preparing to ace competitiv . . .

In today’s environment, people operate in a hectic environment than ever before. For Lawyers and certain practices, the ability to do online scheduling of appointments may work well. Hence, a web-based scheduling calendar is developed for all the empl . . .

The intent of the project is to study the MySQL design limitations and tradeoffs; and produce a solution of how to tackle these limitations and tradeoffs. Thereby improving the efficiency of the MySQL queries and making the system fast. The goal of th . . .

Steganography is the art of hiding messages inside an image file/Audio file or a Video file such that the very existence of the message is unknown to third party. Cryptography is used to encrypt the data so that it is unreadable by a third party. Keep . . .

Today there are several different databases systems in the market and many organizations work with multiple databases, heterogeneous in nature. Each of these systems store data and have applications running with them. In such a scenario there are inst . . .

Formal languages use mathematical notations to capture the software specifications precisely. Design by Contract is a technique used during software implementation to ensure that the software conforms to the specifications. However, there is a semanti . . .

This report is the written document of the Master Project I have completed for my Masters Degree at CSUS. This report will help future CSUS students pursuing their masters to get valuable knowledge about the report writing. Also this report will provi . . .

The business of software development and maintenance has become increasingly competitive. Software projects need to be cost-effective and provide high-quality products to compete in today's market. Today's software applications are very complex and so . . .

Hundreds of landslides are mobilized along highway corridors that can affect public safety as well as the trip quality, reliability and maintenance cost of the transportation network. Caltrans GeoResearch Group pioneered the project to identify the la . . .

The Defense Information provides expert analysis on various areas like National security, International security and Defense policy. This Information promotes wide-range of discussions and debate on security issues such as nuclear weapons, space secur . . .

To utilize the vast number of resources like multi-processors and large amount of memory that are available with the new age computers, Oracle has come out with Oracle Parallel Execution that enables to enhance the performance of queries by reducing t . . .

Training a neural network with backpropagation algorithm is a systematic process to model a set of given data. This training process involves, among other things, scaling the input and output datasets provided to the neural network. The reason that th . . .

Smart Grid is the modernization of the existing power grid, which utilizes the digital technology for the two-way exchange of information and electricity between the utilities and consumers. It requires a ‘communication overlay’ network, which facilit . . .

This project involves building a lightweight, robust web application for managing the inventory of the College of Engineering & Computer Science. Using progressive enhancement techniques, this project helps managing the lifecycle of equipment: req . . .

Due to the prevalent use of internet-enabled devices, confidentiality and privacy in communication has been more important than ever. Encryption algorithms, such as AES and RSA, are used to ensure the security and privacy of such communications. Howev . . .

The purpose of this Project is to develop and implement the enhanced features of Internet Interpreter Scheduling System as mobile application in healthcare domain and made it synchronize with the existing web application as well. This project includes . . .

In client-server environments, clients need a mechanism to determine that a server can be trusted to provide services to the client. Transport layer security (TLS) provides a mechanism to trust the server’s identity by relying on certificates signed b . . .

Today there are several ways in which the students and the professors communicate. Some of them are emails, instant messages, blogs, groups, etc. This project involves developing a message center and calendar plug-ins for Professor’s website. The mess . . .

Effective communication is an important aspect of any technology that involves exchange of information. Smart Grid is one such technology whose success depends on exchange of messages. This project analyses the transport protocols for sending and rece . . .

Intelligent Intrusion Detection System (IIDS) is a multi-tier enterprise-level Bayesian algorithm based application written in Perl scripting language. A knowledgebased discovery process uses weights added to Snort. rules which Bayesian algorithm proc . . .

Student grade calculation among different subjects is a key part in determining the academic performance of student. Teacher evaluates the student performance grade in a subject on the basis of different elements for example quiz, homework assignments . . .

Oracle Advanced Queuing (AQ) is a queue management facility for Oracle Databases. Oracle Streams AQ enables user applications to enqueue messages into a queue, ande subsequently dequeued by subscribers or recipients. A queue can contain a message of a . . .

Designing the software architecture of a system is an important step in creating a system that will meet both the functional and non-functional requirements. Bass, Clements and Kazman in "Software Architecture in Practice" propose a method to use desi . . .

When electricity demand is peak, utilities and other electric Independent Systems Operators (ISOs) keep electric generators on-line in order to meet the high demand. In some cases, new power plants have to be built. This solution increases costs, wast . . .

Testing has become a major part of any project in IT industry. Testing is done at every phase of SDLC because the cost and risk involved in fixing bugs/ defects will be very high once the project is under production. To make testing more effective and . . .

Data warehousing is one of the important approaches for data integration and data preprocessing. The objective of this project is to develop a web-based interactive courseware to help beginning data warehouse designers to reinforce the key concepts of . . .

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) is a fundamental process used to populate a data warehouse. It involves extracting data from various sources, transforming the data according to business requirements and loading them into target data structures. Insi . . .

In this work a secure photo sharing application has been developed for increasing the privacy of users by empowering them with more controls to protect images than are typically available in other photo sharing applications. The application allows use . . .

Computer Forensics involves analysis of a digital artifact to look for evidence associated with an illegal activity. With the growing role of electronic media in our daily lives, most crimes involve the use of electronic media in the process and hence . . .

In this project, I will be propagating the messages between Oracle Server and WebSphere MQ through a Messaging Gateway. When web based business applications communicate, the producer application enqueue messages and the consumer applications dequeue t . . .

Demand response programs are used in smart grid to improve stability of the electric grid and to reduce consumption of electricity and costs during peak times. One of the key aspects in demand response programs is for utilities to provide secure infor . . .

Breast cancer is a cancer that starts in the tissues of the breast. Over the course of a lifetime, 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. There are existing therapies for treatment of cancer like chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and target . . .

Security is an important non-functional requirement for nearly any software system. There should not be any room for security errors in software systems like databases and other critical systems, where data is stored and should be retrieved through au . . .

This project is an implementation of a software application to provide real-time video chat experience for a user on a local area network (LAN). Generally, chat applications require their users to create detailed profiles before starting to use the ap . . .

My project would be to explore Intel’s open source library (for C++), named TBB (Threading Building Blocks), and make its use to analyze performance gain for the implementation of OCB (Offset Codebook). The analysis would begin with identifying the pa . . .

Databases are fundamental part of managing data. Storing multimedia-based objects like graphics image, videos, audio, etc in databases is a basic need of everyday users. However, storing these objects in the relational databases is not possible becaus . . .

Statement of Problem: Enterprise Job Schedulers and Rule Engines are an expensive class of software. According to an IDC report, the market for job scheduling software licenses in 2009 was 1.5 billion USD. Over the past 25 years, since job schedulers . . .

The project is related to “not-for-profits.” These organizations as their name suggest do things for-purpose and don’t have very extensive financial budget for their entire projects. It is expected that they spend most of the money they have towards r . . .

Online Campus Tour Registration Management system is a web site project, which will help prospective, newly admitted students and their family or a member of group, to schedule an individual or group campus tour. Currently there is a campus tour regis . . .

The V1KU is a product by Cognimem Technologies, Inc., which combines a hardware neural network chip, a Micron/Aptina monochrome CMOS sensor (camera) and CogniSight image recognition engine. It is capable of learning the target either by giving it exam . . .

Smart meters are typically equipped with a ZigBee wireless interface. ZigBee enables a customer to connect intelligent displays (called In-Home Displays, or IHD) wirelessly to the smart meter to receive real-time energy consumption data. ZigBee gives . . .

The web applications are very popular. There are many users who can log into a system and access, update, or delete the information. In traditional approach, users are recognized by the username and password provided to gain access, which were stored . . .