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Three essays on the role of social media in social crises: A collective sensemaking view
(2013)
Flexible, mobile, and distributive social web technologies afforded online users with unprecedented opportunities to connect previously disconnected groups of people at a distance surrounding shared interests or common ...
Traffic Signal Control with Partial Grade Separation for Oversaturated Conditions
(2015)
Increasing individual vehicular traffic is a major concern all around the world. This leads to oversaturation of intersections in no time. Traffic signal control under oversaturated condition is a long lasting challenge. ...
Agent-based Modeling of Social Influence, Traffic Patterns, and Warning Strategies during Hurricane Evacuation
(2013)
As coastal populations experience the growing threat of hurricanes as a consequence of global climate change, research on hurricane evacuation has drawn increasing attention from scientists, emergency management planners, ...
Understanding knowledge sharing: From the perspectives of knowledge complexity, media selection, social capital, exploration and exploitation capabilities
(2015)
Increased interest in knowledge sharing phenomena has developed in the IS field during the last 20 years. The difficulty of successful knowledge sharing lies in the fact that knowledge sharing is a complicated process ...
Communication and Compliance in the contexts of Extreme Events and Healthcare
(2015)
Communication and Compliance is very important in all domains and walks of life. This dissertation investigates communication and compliance using computer based information systems in two distinct domains: Extreme Events ...
A probabilistic measure of similarity for latent fingerprints
(2013)
In forensics a latent print is a mark left on a surface by a human friction ridge pattern such as a fingerprint. The task of latent print examination involves comparing a latent print to a known (or exemplar) print. Latent ...
Workflow pattern mining using e-mail communications
(2008)
The objective of this work is to utilize the abundant "unstructured" information and convert it into a logical and structured representation. This not only results in useful data representation to discover hidden patterns ...
Embodied mobility: A prosthesis to the traveling body
(2009)
Statement of Issue/Problem. The Centaur is a creature from Greek Mythology having characteristics of both human and horse. The interface between the two creatures is seamless because it is biological, just as we intuitively ...
Three essays on the role of information and communication technologies in organizations
(2011)
Information and communication technologies (ICT) have an essential role in today's organizations and ever-changing dynamic environments. ICT has substantial tangible and intangible impact on organizations not only in usual ...
Predicting lane utilization and merge behavior at signalized intersections with auxiliary lanes: A Buffalo, New York, study
(2011)
Auxiliary through lanes (ATLs) are often used to increase the capacity at signalized intersections. The effectiveness of these lanes is a direct function of the level of their utilization by motorists, which tends to be ...