Naval Postgraduate School
Theses and Dissertations
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Source fingerprinting in adobe PDF files
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013-12)
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) documents are increasingly used as a vector for targeted attacks. Although there exist a number of tools and methodologies for performing content-level analysis to identify unwanted or ...
Unsupervised topic discovery by anomaly detection
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013-09)
With the vast amount of information and public comment available online, it is of increasing interest to understand what is being said and what topics are trending online. Government agencies, for example, want to know ...
Curriculum modules in support of tabletop cybersecurity games
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013-09)
The number of bachelor degrees in computer science has continued to decline over the past decade. These trends similarly affect cyber security sub-discipline of computer science. The non-digital computer security board ...
Integrating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles into surveillance systems in complex maritime environments
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013-09)
One of the most important missions all Navies have is to constantly and sufficiently monitor their area of responsibility. This task becomes more challenging when a surveillance system operates in a complex environment ...
Machine learning feature selection for tuning memory page swapping
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013-09)
This thesis is an exploration of the virtual memory subsystem in the modern Linux kernel. It applies machine learning to find areas where better page-out decisions can be made. Two areas of possible improvement are ...
Rapid network design
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013-09)
Network planning is a key element in the Marine Corps_ communications planning process. The ability to design and provide reliable network architecture directly affects the commander_s ability to control operations in an ...
Triage visualization for digital media exploitation
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013-09)
Digital forensic examiners are overwhelmed by case loads and data volumes and must prioritize their work. This thesis hypothesis that digital forensic examiners can employ triage visualizations to prioritize work loads. ...
Application of architectural patterns and lightweight formal method for the validation and verification of safety critical systems
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013-09)
This thesis researches the role of software architectural patterns and lightweight formal methods in safety-critical software development. We present a framework that relates the different activities and products from ...
Developing behavioral metrics for decision-making in Marine Corps small-units
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013-09)
This thesis developed behaviorally anchored-rating scales (BARS) for use in evaluating Marine Corps small-units (SUs) during live and virtual decision-making (DM) training. Currently, the Marine Corps does not mandate the ...
Virtual environment training on mobile devices
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013-09)
Over 100 million tablet computers have been sold in the last three years. They now have the computing power of a state-of-the-art laptop of just a few years ago. This computing power and market saturation allows them to ...
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