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Research & Partnerships - Theses

Each student has the option of completing a thesis during his or her second year of study. A thesis entails study, research and original solutions to problems in a selected area of interest that is of mutual interest to a student and a faculty member. This list of recent thesis projects illustrates the variety of work being done by current and recent graduate students.

  • Russell Lambright, An Analysis of New and Emerging Operating System Paradigms, 2007
  • Claudia Marin, Database manipulation of visual abstract objects, 2007
  • Douglas Roberts, Agent-based trust and reputation learning in a Wiki environment, 2007
  • Aaron Ruth, Real-world IP security traffic analysis, 2006
  • Morgan Monger, Temporal data management using reference intervals in a relational database, 2006
  • Daniel Ferguson, Security requirements methodologies for software engineering, 2004
  • Rajesh Menon, Proactive approach to network intrusion detection using Honey network, 2004
  • Michael Norton, Composing software design patterns, 2003
  • Rohit Kelkar, Performance evaluation of Oracle and SQL server based on cost-based query optimization criteria, 2002
  • Mike Ware, Enforcing Heuristics for Writing Secure Java Code: An Evaluation of Static Analysis Tools, 2008
  • Mike Smith,  Improving the Accuracy of System Time Measurement of Remote Hosts, 2008
  • Willis Vandevanter, Binary to Text Encoding as a Means of Data Transfer via the Multimedia Message Service, 2008