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- | (Listed in order received.) | + | \\ |
+ | ====== DDoS Attack using Google-bots ====== | ||
- | ====== Continuation | + | Project Outline: |
+ | Not long ago, botnets - networks | ||
+ | the most effective (if not the only) means of conducting Distributed Denial | ||
+ | of Service (DDoS) attacks. However, with the growing popularity and prevalence | ||
+ | of application-layer over other types of DDoS attacks, the DDoS execution | ||
+ | landscape is becoming increasingly more diverse. An especially interesting | ||
+ | new trend is the execution of application-layer DDoS attacks by means of | ||
+ | skillfully manipulated Web-crawlers, | ||
+ | The goal of this project is to design, implement and test a real-world | ||
+ | framework consisting of the following: a) the attacker' | ||
+ | domain specially designed to attract Google-bots and then manipulate them | ||
+ | into generating attack traffic towards the target/ | ||
+ | victim' | ||
+ | component, the project will also look into the statistical/ | ||
+ | estimation of the framework' | ||
+ | to an actual (real-world) target/ | ||
- | **Supervisor**: Jeff Edmonds | + | Recommended Background: CSE 3213 or CSE 3214, CSE 3482 |
- | **Required Background**: | ||
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | \\ |
+ | ====== Attentive Sensing for Better Two-Way Communication in Remote Learning Environments ====== | ||
- | Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a statistical technique that is becoming increasingly popular in the educational and behavioral sciences. SEM allows researchers to test the validity of hypothesized models involving complex relationships among multiple variables. Collected data is used to estimate the parameters of the equations and assessing the fit of the model. | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | The software required is an application that allows researchers to define their hypothesized models visually and will output the correct syntax for the analytical software | + | **Required Background**: |
+ | good math skills, knowledge | ||
- | To date a promising functional application has been developed | + | One of the challenges |
+ | |||
+ | The goal of this project is to apply attentive sensing technology | ||
+ | |||
+ | In particular, working with a senior graduate student or postdoctoral fellow, the successful applicant will: | ||
+ | |||
+ | - Study the problem | ||
+ | - Implement algorithms for detecting hand-raises based upon this investigation | ||
+ | - Evaluate these algorithms in a real-classroom setting, using proprietary attentive sensing technology | ||
- | More details {{: | ||
- | ====== | + | ====== |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | **Required Background**: | + | **Required Background**: |
- | **Description** | + | |
+ | The goal of this project is to modify | ||
+ | |||
+ | The general problem is to use attentive sensing technology | ||
+ | |||
+ | The student will work with senior graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and research scientists to help modify the attentive sensing technology to operate in these domains. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 1. | ||
+ | 2. | ||
+ | 3. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | |||
- | Specific tasks include: 1. Writing temperature acquisition card (OMEGA Engineering CIO-DAS-Temp) drivers | + | \\ |
+ | ====== Hunting | ||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
- | ====== Game Playing Framework | + | Description: |
+ | Java PathFinder (JPF) is a tool that can detect bugs in Java code. | ||
+ | The Java library Apache log4j allows developers to control which log | ||
+ | statements are output. | ||
+ | to detect bugs in log4j by means of JPF with very limited succes. | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | + | Recently, in collaboration with Shafiei (NASA) we have developed |
+ | an extension of JPF called jpf-nhandler. | ||
+ | is to apply this extension to log4j. | ||
- | **Required Background**: | + | [1] David A. Dickey, B. Sinem Dorter, J. Michael German, Benjamin D. Madore, Mark W. Piper, Gabriel L. Zenarosa. " |
- | **Description** Game playing frameworks in Eiffel such as Eiffelmedia usually wrap C frameworks in Eiffel. The goal of this project is to develop (initially, a simple) framework using pure Eiffel/EiffelVision so that the framework can be used on any platform (Windows, Linux, Mac) without external dependencies. Games provide a rich source | + | **Required Background:** General CSE408x prerequisites |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ======Hybrid 2D/3D User Interfaces | ||
- | ====== Numerical Methods ====== | + | **Supervisor: |
- | **Supervisor**: Mike McNamee | + | **Required Background:** General 408X prerequisites, |
- | **Required Background**: | + | This project implements and evaluates |
- | of Fortran, C or similar | + | \\ |
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ====== Immersive Virtual Reality Kitchen Planner ====== | ||
- | **Description**: Write, debug and run several Fortran programs related to solving | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | polynomial equations, with a view to comparing different known methods. | + | |
- | ====== Enabling SaaS access to an experimental AI planner ====== | + | **Required Background: |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | This project implements a kitchen planner application for an immersive virtual reality system. The implementation will be based on Unity 4. |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ======3D Interaction in Immersive Virtual Reality====== | ||
- | **Required Background**: Good knowledge of Unix tools / Python, Perl or Awk. Comfort with algorithms and programming. Essential: 2031 -- Software Tools. Desired: | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | 3402 -- Functional & Logic Programming, | + | |
- | 3101 -- Design and Analysis of Algorithms, | + | |
- | 4302 -- Compilers and Interpreters. | + | |
- | **Description**: This project involves enriching and integrating a set of fairly complex scripts, which are components of an Artificial Intelligence | + | **Required Background:** General 408X prerequisites, 3D Computer Graphics |
- | The components are various | + | This project implements and tests various |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | Learning objectives: | ||
- | * Understand the technologies and process involved in turning native code into a web-service (" | ||
- | * Study a state-of-the-art AI planner and understand its workings. | ||
- | * Exercise scripting skills. | ||
+ | ====== Mining Software Repositories Data====== | ||
- | ====== Predicting Angular Error in Rigid Registration ====== | + | **Supervisor: |
- | **Supervisor**: Burton Ma | + | **Required Background:** Good programming skills in Java; Good analytical and communication skills; Knowledge in AI and statistics; Interested in large scale software analysis |
- | **Description**: Registration is a fundamental step in image-based surgical | + | **Short Description:** Software engineering data (e.g., source code repositories and bug databases) contains |
- | navigation. Several | + | |
- | distance errors in registration are known, but for some surgical | + | |
- | procedures, the angular error in registration is more important. | + | |
- | This project | + | |
- | error in registration; | + | |
- | simulated | + | |
- | ====== Calibration of a Tracked Pointer ====== | + | \\ |
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | + | ======Reliably tracking horizontal eye movements====== |
- | **Description**: Tracked pointers are the most common | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | navigation | + | |
- | end and a sharp or ball tip on the other end. Finding | + | **Required Background:** General 408X prerequisites, |
- | of the tip relative to the target | + | |
- | solution | + | **Description: |
- | about the tip while tracking | + | |
- | stationary, then the target moves on the surface | + | \\ |
- | Fitting | + | ------------------ |
- | location | + | \\ |
- | calibrated tip position obtained using such a spherical calibration | + | |
- | has high variance. This project will investigate how much variance | + | ======Model-based Design and Development of Embedded Systems with Code Generation Tools====== |
- | there is in the calibrated tip position, and methods for reducing | + | |
- | the variance | + | **Supervisor: |
+ | |||
+ | **Required Background: | ||
+ | such as Arduino. | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Project Description: | ||
+ | |||
+ | Model-based design with code generation | ||
+ | |||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | ======C2000 Concerto Microcontrollers====== | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Required Background: | ||
+ | strong C programming skills, solid knowledge of microcontrollers | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Description: | ||
+ | two cores on a single-chip with on-chip low latency interprocessor communication between | ||
+ | real-time control with faster/more loops and small sampling window; | ||
+ | and an ARM 32-bit Cortex-M3 host core for communications and general purpose. The selected student will evaluate | ||
+ | C2000 Concerto family of microcontrollers through testing and investigating open source software for real-time control applications | ||
+ | that runs on C2000 Concerto Microcontrollers. | ||
+ | |||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | ======Real-Time Bidding Platform====== | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Required Background: | ||
+ | (CSE3221), strong Ubuntu/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Description: | ||
+ | |||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | ======Circuit and Board Design for a Pulsed Ground Penetrating Radar====== | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Description: | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Required Background** A background in undergraduate-level electronics is very important. | ||
+ | |||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | More project proposals may be added here in the first week of the winter term. | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | \\ |
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