This collection includes theses, dissertations, and professional papers from the University of Montana Department of Computer Science. Theses, dissertations, and professional papers from all University of Montana departments and programs may be searched here.
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
SEQUENCE SIMILARITY SEARCH OPTIMIZATION: PREFILTERING STRATEGIES AND EXACT MATCHING TECHNIQUES FOR BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCE DATA, Tim Anderson
Representing High-Fidelity Geospatial Data in Unreal Engine: Establishing a Foundation for Numerical Computation and Simulation in a Virtual Reality Environment, Hannah E. Gedlaman
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Assessing the Impact of Parallel Burnout Fires on Flank Rate of Spread, Erik Borke
APPLICATIONS OF TRANSFER LEARNING FROM MALICIOUS TO VULNERABLE BINARIES, Sean Patrick McNulty
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
A Machine Learning Algorithm Improves Surface Freeze-Thaw Classification, Fredrick Bunt
LASSO: Listing All Subset Sums Obediently for Evaluating Unbounded Subset Sums, Christopher N. Burgoyne and Travis J. Wheeler
A NON-DETERMINISTIC DEEP LEARNING BASED SURROGATE FOR ICE SHEET MODELING, Hannah Jordan
FATHMM: Frameshift Aware Translated Hidden Markov Models, Genevieve Krause
SENSITIVITY OF LIDAR DERIVED FUEL CELLS TO FIRE MODELING AT LABORATORY SCALE, Anthony Albert Marcozzi
A Reynolds Number Based Sampling Technique for 3-D Vector Fields in Computational Fluid Dynamic Environments, Trent James Schweitzer
SUBFAMILY CLUSTERING USING LABEL UNCERTAINTY (FOR TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT FAMILIES), Audrey M. Shingleton
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
POLYA: A TOOL FOR ADJUDICATING COMPETING ANNOTATIONS OF BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCES, Kaitlin Carey
SUPER-RESOLUTION IMAGING OF REMOTE SENSED BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE USING A CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK, Kellen A. Donahue
INFERENCE OF SURFACE VELOCITIES FROM OBLIQUE TIME LAPSE PHOTOS AND TERRESTRIAL BASED LIDAR AT THE HELHEIM GLACIER, Franklyn T. Dunbar II
ENSEMBLE PROTEIN INFERENCE EVALUATION, Kyle Lee Lucke
SPARSE FORWARD-BACKWARD ALIGNMENT FOR SENSITIVE DATABASE SEARCH WITH SMALL MEMORY AND TIME REQUIREMENTS, David H. Rich
SODA: an Open-Source Library for Visualizing Biological Sequence Annotation, Jack W. Roddy and Travis J. Wheeler
The Impacts of Integrating Interdisciplinary, Introductory Computer Science in High School Courses, Jan Roddy
A Review and Evaluation of Techniques for Improved Feature Detection in Mass Spectrometry Data, Annika R. Tostengard and Rob Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
A Deep Learning Approach to Mapping Irrigation: U-Net IrrMapper, Thomas Henry Colligan IV
Generating Peptide Mass Spectrometry Ground Truth Data, Jessica L. Henning and Rob Smith
MODELING TWITTER SENTIMENT AS A FUNCTION OF PARTICULATE MATTER 2.5 FOR COMMUNITIES IMPACTED BY WILDFIRE ACROSS MONTANA AND IDAHO, Matthew Kelly
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Development of an Open-source, Custom Environmental Data Logger for Spatially Scalable Data Collection, Tim Anderson
A DUAL STATE HIERARCHICAL ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER ALGORITHM, William J. Cook, Jesse Johnson, Marko Maneta, and Doug Brinkerhoff
XFlow: An algorithm for extracting ion chromatograms, Mathew M. Gutierrez and Rob Smith
ZERO-KNOWLEDGE DE NOVO ALGORITHMS FOR ANALYZING SMALL MOLECULES USING MASS SPECTROMETRY, Patrick Anthony Kreitzberg
OPTIMIZATION OF SIMULATIONS IN OPENSIMPPLLE, Robin Lockwood
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Quantifying effects of using thermally thin fuel approximations on modelling fire propagation in woody fuels, David Blasen, Jesse Johnson, William Jolly, and Russell Parsons
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
XIC Clustering By Baseyian Network, Kyle J. Handy
K-MER ANALYSIS PIPELINE FOR CLASSIFICATION OF DNA SEQUENCES FROM METAGENOMIC SAMPLES, Russell Kaehler
Mirage: A Novel Multiple Protein Sequence Alignment Tool, Alex Nord
EXPLORING POPULATION CHANGE DETECTION BY MONITORING EFFECTIVE NUMBER OF BREEDERS, Brian Trethewey
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
MODELING THE CRYOSPHERE WITH FEniCS, Evan M. Cummings
Hydraulic Conductivity as a Proxy for Drainage System Connectivity in a Subglacial Hydrology Model, Jacob Z. Downs
ChilliSource Game Engine Particle System Study, Angela Gross
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF USING MOODLE AS AN E-LEARNING TOOL FOR STUDENTS IN AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE, Nada I. Alhothli
An Adventurous E-Reader for Non-Linear E-Books, Emily Palmieri
A Case Study Tested Framework for Multivariate Analyses of Microbiomes: Software for Microbial Community Comparisons, Eric M. Spaulding
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
An Adaptive Hybrid Method for Link Prediction in Multi-Modal Directed Complex Networks Using the Graph Traversal Pattern, William Lyon
INTRODUCTION TO PARALLEL COMPUTATION, Clinton McKay
Greenland Subglacial Hydrology Model, Meghan K. Oswalt
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Variational Methods in Ice Sheet Modelling, Douglas John Brinkerhoff
IMPLEMENTATION OF A VERTICALLY INTEGRATED ICE SHEET MOMENTUM BALANCE MODEL, Joshua Charles Campbell
An Investigation of Viscosity Using Measured Velocities on Helheim Glacier, Glen David Granzow
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
CLASSIFYING EMOTION USING STREAMING OF PHYSIOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF EMOTION, Nathan J. Elmore
Functional Encryption as Mediated Obfuscation, Robert Perry Hooker
MEASURING AND QUANTIFYING WEB APPLICATION DESIGN, Craig A. McNinch
Simplifying the Campus Experience through Mobility, Corrine Erin Olson
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Pedestrian Pal: A Route Recommendation System for the Android Mobile Phone, Bradley H. Bahls
Real-Time Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics For CUDA, steven santos garcia
AN EQUIVALENT CLASS SOLUTION FOR A COMPLETE TEST OF A PARALLEL PROGRAM, Peter Michael Wolf
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Integration of Higher-Order Physics in the Community Ice Sheet Model: Scientific and Software Concerns, Timothy Joseph Bocek
Implementation of a Web Application for Testing Memory Retrieval Through the Development and Utilization of Customizable Exams, Kevin Shea O'Reilly
Testing the effect of varying environments on the speed of evolution, Zhongmiao Xiao
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Development of a Higher-Order Ice Sheet Model Using a Rescaled Coordinate System, James Fishbaugh
TESTING xUML: A STUDY OF IMPLEMENTING AND TESTING MODEL DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE, Dylan O. Flaherty
COST ANALYSIS OF REQUIREMENTS, DESIGN, AND CODE REVIEWS AND HOW THIS IMPACTS THE COST OF QUALITY, Mark W. Huston
Implementation of an XML-based user interface with applications in ice sheet modeling, Daniel Ross Lande
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
The Creation of Cargo Scanner Software to Improve the Container Packing Process, Jonathan Adams
Comparison of Strategies for the Constraint Determination of Simulink Models, Charles Joseph Alex
ProjectSnap: Addressing the Project Fragmentation Problem, Erin Michael Brimhall
A User Study on 2D Wind Visualization Methods, Chen Cao
DEVELOPING ELECTRONIC PORTFOLIO SOFTWARE FOR PROGRAM ASSESSMENT, Melissa Elizabeth Holmes
XP PROJECT MANAGEMENT, Craig William Macholz
THE EFFECT OF ORIENTATION-NEUTRAL CURSORS ON MOVEMENT TIME, POSITIONING PERFORMANCE, AND STIMULUS-RESPONSE (S-R) COMPATIBILITY, Kim Joachim Oehmichen
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Range analysis of variables within a program, Yuanzhen Bao
Modeling and visualization of automated feature extraction workflows, Scott W. Bouma
Allometric scaling in river basin models, Ted F. Cosart
The use of a discrete element granular material model to investigate jamming in glacial fjords, Jared Douglas Rapp
A general and age-dependent physiological based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model development, Xianping Tong
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WEB BASED CO2SYS PROGRAM, Shigui Yuan
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Channel networks in ice: Application of river network research to ice streams, Jeremy Carter Mason
Transparent Line Integral Convolution: A new approach for visualizing vector fields in OpenDX, Alexander Petrov Petkov
An estimation of distribution algorithm based on linkage discovery and factorization, S. V. Pulavarty
Weather modeling, Swarna Pulavarty
Numerical experiments in geostrophic turbulence using the finite element method, Jeremy Allen Sauer
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Software system for mining spatio-temporal association rules, Abraham N. Konda
Design and implementation of Smoke Management GIS system using data transformaiton services, Web services, and ArcObjects programming, Haiying Liang
Crossover helps genetic algorithms in non-stationary environment, Yi Long
Breeder algorithm for stellarator optimization, Shengping Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Online Instruction Collaboration Project, Michael David Cassens
Software system for spatio-temporal prediction and analysis, Chellam Balasundaram Chellam
Bistability of the needle function in the presence of truncation selection, Greg Cripe
Parallel Genetic Ensemble Feature Selection, Navin Elango
Assessment and evaluation of computer science education, Jennifer R. Parham
Using Visual Basic & ArcObjects to create ActiveX controls for MAGIS-Express Import Wizard, Li Mei Piao
Genetic programming approach to geospatial data mining, Supat Rattanasuksun
Object-oriented design and implementation of the genetic ensemble feature selection method., Lee Stuart Slater
Adaptive feature extraction: Exploring the search space with change detection using inductive learners and image processing, Joseph D. Zeiler
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Introduction to Web programming with SAS AppDev Studio TM, Frederick E. Pratter
Investigation of an Oracle application's high-level design, Scott W. Schield
Analysis of problem representation in the application of artificial neural networks for feature classification in imagery, Michael D. Sweet
Porting MATT from MatrixX to MATLAB, Jing Tao
Software development as applied to Java Create Report project, Giap Thai
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Computer database security and Oracle security implementation, Mei Ke
Implementation of parallel-distributed computation under load balancing and fault tolerance, Gang Wu
Design and implementation of a web server application for students to submit assignments, Yuehua Yang
Model-based path testing, Jie Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Comparison of three machine learning algorithms for automated feature extraction from digital images, William D. Bain
A computerized tool for the collection and manipulation of physical therapy outcomes data, Doug Lawrence