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Inferring Social and Internal Context Using a Mobile Phone

Description: This dissertation is composed of research studies that contribute to three research areas including social context-aware computing, internal context-aware computing, and human behavioral data mining. In social context-aware computing, four studies are conducted. First, mobile phone user calling behavioral patterns are characterized in forms of randomness level where relationships among them are then identified. Next, a study is conducted to investigate the relationship between the calling behav… more
Date: December 2009
Creator: Phithakkitnukoon, Santi
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Modeling Alcohol Consumption Using Blog Data

Description: How do the content and writing style of people who drink alcohol beverages stand out from non-drinkers? How much information can we learn about a person's alcohol consumption behavior by reading text that they have authored? This thesis attempts to extend the methods deployed in authorship attribution and authorship profiling research into the domain of automatically identifying the human action of drinking alcohol beverages. I examine how a psycholinguistics dictionary (the Linguistics Inqu… more
Date: May 2013
Creator: Koh, Kok Chuan
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Privacy Management for Online Social Networks

Description: One in seven people in the world use online social networking for a variety of purposes -- to keep in touch with friends and family, to share special occasions, to broadcast announcements, and more. The majority of society has been bought into this new era of communication technology, which allows everyone on the internet to share information with friends. Since social networking has rapidly become a main form of communication, holes in privacy have become apparent. It has come to the point tha… more
Date: August 2013
Creator: Baatarjav, Enkh-Amgalan
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Comparative Study of RSS-Based Collaborative Localization Methods in Wireless Sensor Networks

Description: In this thesis two collaborative localization techniques are studied: multidimensional scaling (MDS) and maximum likelihood estimator (MLE). A synthesis of a new location estimation method through a serial integration of these two techniques, such that an estimate is first obtained using MDS and then MLE is employed to fine-tune the MDS solution, was the subject of this research using various simulation and experimental studies. In the simulations, important issues including the effects of sens… more
Date: December 2006
Creator: Koneru, Avanthi
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Extracting Dimensions of Interpersonal Interactions and Relationships

Description: People interact with each other through natural language to express feelings, thoughts, intentions, instructions etc. These interactions as a result form relationships. Besides names of relationships like siblings, spouse, friends etc., a number of dimensions (e.g. cooperative vs. competitive, temporary vs. enduring, equal vs. hierarchical etc.) can also be used to capture the underlying properties of interpersonal interactions and relationships. More fine-grained descriptors (e.g. angry, rude,… more
Date: August 2020
Creator: Rashid, Farzana
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Simulating the Spread of Infectious Diseases in Heterogeneous Populations with Diverse Interactions Characteristics

Description: The spread of infectious diseases has been a public concern throughout human history. Historic recorded data has reported the severity of infectious disease epidemics in different ages. Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was the first to analyze the correlation between diseases and their environment. Nowadays, health authorities are in charge of planning strategies that guarantee the welfare of citizens. The simulation of contagion scenarios contributes to the understanding of the epidemic beh… more
Date: December 2013
Creator: Gomez-Lopez, Iris Nelly
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Understanding and Reasoning with Negation

Description: In this dissertation, I start with an analysis of negation in eleven benchmark corpora covering six Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tasks. With a thorough investigation, I first show that (a) these benchmarks contain fewer negations compared to general-purpose English and (b) the few negations they contain are often unimportant. Further, my empirical studies demonstrate that state-of-the-art transformers trained using these corpora obtain substantially worse results with the instances that… more
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Date: December 2022
Creator: Hossain, Md Mosharaf
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Social Network Simulation and Mining Social Media to Advance Epidemiology

Description: Traditional Public Health decision-support can benefit from the Web and social media revolution. This dissertation presents approaches to mining social media benefiting public health epidemiology. Through discovery and analysis of trends in Influenza related blogs, a correlation to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) influenza-like-illness patient reporting at sentinel health-care providers is verified. A second approach considers personal beliefs of vaccination in social media. A … more
Date: August 2009
Creator: Corley, Courtney David
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