Last updated January 24, 2007
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Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery: (top)
Data mining is a process that uses a variety of data analysis tools to discover patterns and relationships in data that might be useful in making predictions or explaning observations. Data mining can assist businesses with finding patterns and relationships in consumer and client/customer data. It can also help reveal interesting relationships that might be of interest to people conducing basic and applied R&D. It can help sport teams prepare for competition or scout for the desired talent. The domains in which data mining can be truely purposeful is vast.
Students pursuing data mining projects will learn about the core concepts, principles, and methodologies of data mining, data warehousing, and data analysis and reporting techniques. Having data mining knowledge, skils, and experience can make students highly marketable and better prepared to adapt in rapidly changing business and economic climates.
POSSIBLE AREAS FOR PROJECTS INCLUDE:
Consumer Products
Information/Data Management for personal finance, career assessment, recreation, …
Enterprise-based Solution
Aerospace design, genetic engineering, biopharmaceutical (Data Mining In Biopharma Publications), eCRM
Sports
Competition analysis, scouting, …
Activmedia P2AT indoor/outdoor robot herding a simulated animal.Mobile Autonomous Robotics: (top)
The general aim of projects in this area include the design, development, and implementation of an autonomous mobile robot (service robot) that is able to conduct task-specific actions under realtime conditions to assist humans with complex activities. Accomplishing this requires, in part, developing autonomous (or semi-autonomois) vision, map building, map following, sensor integration and interpretation, and planning capabilities to be truly purposeful. Potential applications are services like assistive herding, transportation, and surveillance. Mobile robotics is the meeting ground of software and hardware.
Students pursuing mobile robotics projects will have an opportunity to focus on a subset of core challenging (but interesting and rewarind) topics of computer vision, map building and terrain traversal and map following, planning, sensor fusion (e.g., sonar, laser ranging, and camera-based sensors). Such skills can be very valuable in many hardware & software related disciplines.
POSSIBLE AREAS FOR PROJECTS INCLUDE:
Assistive Herding Of Cattle:
"Autonomous Mobile Robot Assisted Herding," by Pinky Thakkar and Leonard Wesley, In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation, and Robotics, Spain, 1-5 August 2005
Survalence and Tracking/Following Of Objects:
Pickup & Delivery of Objects:
Intelligent Network Intrusion Detection : (top)
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Projects in this topic area are concerned with designing, developing, and implementing knowledge-based and agent-based solutions to unauthorized network intrusions. One example involves developing an intelligent automated means to detect, monintor, and manage unauthorized P2P traffic. Another example is to design, develop, and implement knowledge-based and agent-based solutions that monitor user behaviors in order to infer attempts to thwart network security measures.
Intelligent Network Management : (top)
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Projects in this topic area are concerned with designing, developing, and implementing knowledge-based and agent-based solutions to monitor and manage heterogeneous networks. An example project might be one that develops intelligent agents to take as input SNMP information and use it along with other data and knowledge about the network to: (1) monitor and detect equipment and network failures, (2) isolate the failures, (3) and take corrective action as appropriate.
Web-Applications, Web-Object,
and Wireless Projects : (top)
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Projects in this topic area are concerned with designing, developing, implementing, or enhancing existing web-based, web-object type applications for the above datamining or network-related projects. They can also involve implementing and integrating secure wireless capabilities to client-server (three tier) type applications.
JAVA-GUI Projects : (top)
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Projects in this topic area are for students that wish to enhance and strengthen their Java software development skills and capabilities. Projects can range from enhancing existing Jaba-based GUIs to developing new Java-GUIs for an existing software application.
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