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 ...
Social media sentiment analysis and topic detection for Singapore English
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2013-09)
Social media has become an increasingly important part of our daily lives in the last few years. With the
convenience built into smart devices, many new ways of communicating have been made possible via
social-media ...
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 ...
Cross-platform development techniques for mobile devices
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013-09)
Business and the military have become increasingly dependent on mobile technology in the last decade. The proliferation of mobile devices provides application developers a new and growing market for providing solutions. ...
Creating profiles from user network behavior
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013-09)
By measuring network changes, we can get a better understanding of a network. Extending this to the Internet, we are able to understand the constantly occuring changes on an international scale. In this research, we propose ...
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 ...
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. ...
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