Senior Projects for F2013 – S2014 (Round 1)
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1. Project status Available Brief description This project purpose is to design a piece of educational software program for solving a linear programming model with two variables with a step by step geometric approach This involves graphing inequalities solving a system of linear equations determining the feasible set of such a set and determining its corner points and finally determine the solution if any of a given linear programming problem A linear programming problem is a combination of linear inequalities called the constraints and an objective function which you want to maximize or minimise if possible The program should be user friendly and with a nice colourful interface since is planned to be used for demonstrating the corresponding material to students who take BUS111 course Objectives including grade worth and optionally deadlines Objective name amp description Worth Deadline 1 Solve a system of linear equations of two variables 10 Oct20 algebraically using matrices 2 Generalize step 1 for more variables 5 Oct30 3 Graph a linear equation and a linear inequality two 10 Nov15 variables give slope and intercepts 4 Solve a system of linear equations graphically show and 10 Nov30 give common point if any 5 Solve a system of linear inequalities and graph the 15 Jan10 solution in your graph you will need to clearly show the feasible set 6 Locate the corner points of2. Database design 10 Back end development Administrator area 20 Front end development 20 Feeds sent to researchers 20 Website overall usability ease of use aesthetics 10 Dissertation Report 10 Presentation 10 25 Supervisor Vicky Papadopoulou Lesta and Andreas Efstathiou Project title Development of a tool in C for modelling astronomical data Project status Available Brief The aim of this project is to develop a tool implemented in C C which will allow description comparison of a set of data with model spectra which will be drawn from different databases Each database will contain of the order of 1000 models The student should develop the code which will do the calculations for selecting the model that provides the best fit to the data and display the results on a plot The tool should also allow flexibility in entering the data and selecting the database to be used A similar code written in IDL will be available to the student Objectives including grade Objective name amp description Worth Deadline worth and The first objective of the project is to learn the basics on the IDL 15 01 11 optionally Interactive Data Language a popular high level language for data 5 analysis commonly used for sciences such as astronomy This step is deadlines important in order the student to be able to use an existing code in IDL that solves the objective
3. a number of times The aim is to develop an algorithm for tracing the curves as they were drawn using a smooth continuous movement of the hand meaning to produce an ordered list of sufficiently many points on each curve which if traced in the ordered given will trace the curve from one end to the other Project objectives A program will be developed in Java or another high level language agreed upon with the project supervisor which will e Read in an image file containing continuous sufficiently smooth curves which may self intersect a number of times 5 e Identify the beginning and ending points on each curve 15 e Identify a sufficiently large number of a sequence of points spaced sufficiently close together on each curve which if traced in the order given will trace out each curve 40 A detailed analysis of the limitations of the algorithm as well as the software developed will be essential in this project 20 Suggestions and ways to overcome obstacles will count favorably It is expected that the results will be written up in the form of a Dissertation where analysis of all of the above steps is given 10 The grading of the project will take into account various parameters such as student effort originality and clarity in presentation of material correctness and initiative in carrying out further work research on the subject as well as the level of success achieved in carrying out all tasks requir
4. been offered before and a student has developed the system as a stand remember to include alone The objective of this project is to continue the previous student s work by making the a 80 grading system online improving its aesthetics functionality and optimization matening tie e Database design 10 RCNA e Back end development Administrator area 30 e Front end development 30 e Website overall usability ease of use aesthetics 10 e Dissertation Report 10 e Presentation 10 Required Excellent knowledge of a Web programming language and databases preferably ASP NET knowledge VB Access JavaScript course s Recommended CSC231 CSC209 24 Supervisor Dr Stephanos Mavromoustakos Project title A Research Mashup System Brief The system should be able to connect to various websites and get information on description Conferences Journals and funded projects calls This information should be distributed to the subscribing researchers according to their profiles The system should be dynamic allowing the full customization by the administrator in terms of content feeds etc Objectives The student should be able to find the relevant sites design the website and the P to include Necessary functionalities to distribute the information to the researchers and to design a 80 grading the profile of each researcher ere e Requirements Elicitation 10 objectives
5. collecting information on the 15 Oct25 history theory of prime numbers and the primality tests 2 For each primality test create a running program with 40 Dec20 output either the prime number or the number together with its divisors 3 You need to compare the complexity and running time of 10 Jan20 your algorithms 4 Discuss on different kind of primes Mersenne primes 10 Feb10 twin primes Gaussian primes happy primes etc How do your algorithms behave with these primes 5 Find applications of prime numbers in different areas 5 Feb28 Pre requisite CSC205 Mathematically mature Course s Recommended AT205 Course s Other 1 Mandatory weekly meetings with the instructor or otherwise as agreed comments 2 The instructor maintains the right to assign an F grade at any time if the student fails to provide sufficient work 23 Supervisor Dr Stephanos Mavromoustakos Project title Development of an Online Faculty Scheduling System Brief Currently the Department of Computer Science and Engineering performs scheduling for its description faculty using Excel As a result the process is too slow and mistakes happened quite often The purpose of this project is to computerize this process using a programming language and a database system so it can provide fast and accurate scheduling considering all peculiarities of scheduling and be accessible through the Internet Objectives The project has
6. the project 15 01 11 is to learn and or use a web programming API which will be used for developing the web tool Develop capability for entering the parameters The next 15 01 12 objective is to develop the capability for entering the parameters of the model that will be used in the calculation Read necessary data and calculate spectrum of a galaxy The 35 01 02 next objective is to read all necessary data and carry out the calculation of the spectrum of the galaxy Plot spectrum and make it available Finally the tool should 15 01 03 display the spectrum on a plot and make the spectrum available to the user for download Write up dissertation The student should finally write up a 20 01 04 technical report dissertation and present it Pre requisite Course s The project requires good web programming skills Recommended Course s CSC209 CSC134 CSC135 Other comments Attendance of the course CSC450 or ECE450 Data Analysis and Data Mining which is offered in Fall 2013 is recommended 3 Supervisor Andreas Gregoriades Project title Develop a Driving simulator using a 3D game engine Brief Driving simulators are being increasingly used worldwide for evaluating driving description behavior among other uses Research has shown that driving simulators are proven to be excellent practical and effective tools to analyse road safety issues This project aims in enhancing a developed d
7. time and place jointly decided reserve the right to withdraw before the 15 of January 2014 or fail after the 15 of January 2014 the student from this course in case she he misses two consecutive project meetings without previous notice for official reasons 9 Only by Computer Engineering students Supervisor Dr Christos Dimopoulos Project title Using Logisim as the basis for teaching digital logic and computer architecture concepts Aim The aim of this project is to provide an electronic Teaching Support system which will help students understand digital logic and computer architecture concepts through the use of the Logisim educational software Taught Theoretical Writing for Computer Science CSC135 Knowledge Covered Digital Logic CSC213 Digital Circuit Design ECE273 Computer Organisation and Architecture CSC214 New Knowledge Gained Review of digital logic educational tools Mastering of the Logisim educational software Activities 1 Review of the Logisim software and its functionality Deadline 1st of November 2013 Deliverable 2 Logisim Review 2 Review of existing digital logic and computer architecture educational tools Deadline 1st of February 2014 Deliverable 1 Digital Logic Educational Tools 3 Digital Logic course design and implementation of exercises Deadline 1 of January 2014 Deliverable 3 Digital Logic Course Design Deliverable 4 Digital Logic Ex
8. 50 Data Analysis and Data Mining which is offered in Fall 2013 is recommended 26 Supervisor Vicky Papadopoulou and George Stylianou Co advisor Project title Investigating Nash Equilibria in Facility location Games Project status Available Brief description The Facility Location problem is the problem of assigning locations to set of facility services e g gas stations in a given network e g city road network so that the facilities benefits from the clients is optimized E g the set of clients assigned to each gas station is the optimal We assume that each client decides to be served by the nearest facility to it Such network settings can be modeled trough Game Theory as a non cooperative game The project is focus on the facility location problem modeled as a strategic non cooperative game The student will implement this game in a particular programing language such as java or C on particular network topologies of the problem such as grids and torus graphs and networks obtained by a real data given by the user Next the student will investigate the suitable configuration of the game where all involving entities are satisfied These configurations should be given by the user or by a particular known The program implemented should show graphically the satisfiability of the all involving entities Objectives including grade worth and optionally deadlines Objective name amp de
9. EUROPEAN UNIVESITY CYPRUS Department of Computer Science and Engineering Senior Projects for F2013 S2014 Round 1 Potential CSC ECE490 students please note the following 4 steps to start Find a project See the supervisor and take the project Sign the contract Get registered for 490 You cannot register before you sign the contract You cannot sign the contract unless you have senior standing 96 credits and GPA gt 2 00 You cannot take a project over the phone or email This list and relative updates to it will be posted on http faculty euc ac cy agrondoudis index htm Any courses mentioned as required in a project must be passed with a grade C or greater Supervisor Number Project title if the title is missing then the project has been allocated Efstathiou 1 Development of photometric redshift code 2 Development of an online version of fastPheonix Gregoriades 3 Develop a driving simulator using a 3D game engine 4 An embedded system to provide basic fleet management functionalities Grondoudis 5 Apartment Building Management Systems ABMS 6 Visual Scheduler 7 Research Center Website and CMS Dimopoulos 8 Developing an evolutionary computation scheduling algorithm for a real life industrial environment 9 Using Logisim as the basic for teaching digital logic and computer architecture concepts Christou 10 The gaming habits of C
10. SC134 19 Supervisor Katerina Papanikolaou Project title Creating a distance learning platform for primary school maths Project status Available Brief The project will require client and server side scripting Starting with the creation of web description pages testing the pupil s knowledge of certain mathematical 3rd grade maths 8 9yrs old concepts available material at akida org These pages will have the form of quizzes 20 will be needed The student will have to use xampp for recording the pupils answers and provide feedback to both student and teacher The feedback given to the teacher will be per pupil and in total and there will be an extra tool providing feedback on pupil progress across time Objectives including grade Objective name amp description Worth Deadline worth and optionally Literature review e Learning Platforms 15 16 10 13 deadlines Literature review Tools for Platform development 10 30 10 13 Review of 20 topics for 3 grade maths 10 20 11 13 Install XAMPP 5 27 11 13 e Learning Platform Requirements analysis 10 18 12 13 e Learning Platform Design 10 29 01 14 e Learning Platform Implementation 10 12 03 14 e Learning Platform Testing 10 02 04 14 Thesis write up 20 Pre requisite Course s CSC209 CSC331 Recommended Course s Co requisite CSC411 Other comments write up will start from day one and will be compl
11. and produce a vector of position of the trees Depending on the resolution of the photo and the angle that the image has been taken your code must be able to distinguish their positions identify the high density and low density regions In addition based on the colours of the trees your code must be able to distinguish the health of the forest and define the level of flammability Your data will be used to simulate fires on real case forests some related links http remotesensing spiedigitallibrary org article aspx articleid 1352336 http www imageprocessingplace com DIPUM 2E dipum2e_main_page htm Project objectives e Student will look into Forests and look into the literature regarding their natural or artificial positioning In addition he she will look into the health status of the forests based on current research work available in GIS literature 10 e Student will identify techniques of digital image processing and signal processing in general Further more he she will implement one or more of these in MATLAB 10 e Student will carry out the design implementation and testing of a simulation tool that will be devised in a technical programming language MATLAB and or C o Simulation Scenarios to be investigated 10 o Design of Simulator 10 o Implementation in MATLAB 25 o Testing 5 o Comparison of results 10 e Student will appreciate and learn the process of using background knowledge res
12. ated in the greenhouse Sensors Air and Ground Temperature Humidity sensors water actuators and fertiliser actuators a small fan for generating air etc A small scale greenhouse e g 1m Project objectives Student will appreciate and learn the process of designing and implementing a device by using existing knowledge researching and finding solutions to overcome and practical problems Student will recall principles from Electronics and Programming and apply them in real life 15 Student will carry out the design implementation and testing of a multifaceted project that involves both software and hardware programming a micro processor o Hardware Design 10 Hardware Implementation 15 Hardware Testing 5 Software Design 5 Software Implementation 15 Software Testing 5 o System Testing 5 Through this project the student will be able to plan and organise the lifecycle of the project and distinguish any problems 5 Student will learn to present findings through a technical report and an oral presentation 20 0000 0 Required knowledge Pre requisite course s ECE416 CSC326 17 Supervisor Dr Konstantinos Katzis Project 2 title Tree Mapping using Digital Image Processing in MatLab Brief description The department of forestry is looking for a way to digitize its forests using aerial images You are required to write a program that will process these aerial images
13. b development skills CSC209 Willingness to learn about embedded systems Dedication and enthusiasm in learning new technologies are necessary characteristics you need to possess The student should be able to work hard in order to meet rigid project deadlines as these will be discussed and agreed between the supervisor and the student Failure to meet these deadlines will result in discontinuation of the project which will result in an automatic F grade Supervisor Andreas Grondoudis Project title Apartment Building Management System ABMS Project status Available Brief Create a database management system to manipulate the data for a company that description manages multiple apartment buildings You are to design the database to accommodate the data and create a front application end to enable the easy quick and efficient manipulation of the data by the user The system will enable the manipulation of multiple apartment buildings Each building will have basic demographics and multiple apartments For each apartment apart from the demographics the system will also hold and manipulate details pertaining to the common expenses of the building operation electricity sewage cleaning maintenance and other Objectives including grade Objective name amp description Worth Deadline worth and The student must perform an investigation of how are 10 20 Oct optionally common expenses est
14. d optionally Literature review 10 Fall 13 deadlines Definition of a user profile 10 Fall 13 Generation of user requirements 5 Fall 13 Implementation of the user profile 20 Fall 13 Generation of a database with Points of Interest POI and offers 5 Fall 13 Matching offers ads to user profile 20 Feb 14 Region based alerts 10 Feb 14 Thesis document 10 Mar 14 Presentation 10 May 14 Pre requisite C9392 CSC205 CSC331 Course s Recommended CSC407 Course s Other comments 16 Supervisor Dr Konstantinos Katzis Project 1 title iGreenHouse an electronically controlled greenhouse Brief description An electronically controlled greenhouse is required to be designed implemented and built for a local farmer The prototype green house must be modelled on a small scale The green house must be equipped with an intelligent system that will control the health of the plants This will be achieved with a number of sensors and actuators to enable automatic treatment of the plants The farmer requires you to design and build the mechanism that does all these based on a number of parameters that will be further discussed during the requirement and analysis process of your project Some of the main features of this mechanism are 1 2 3 LCD screen that displays information about the plants currently situated in the greenhouse Button that allows the user to select the types of plants situ
15. detailed analysis of the algorithm as well as the software developed will be essential in this project 20 Suggestions and ways to overcome obstacles as well as a comparison of Dijkstra s algorithm with the improved Dijkstra algorithm using min priority queue will count favorably It is expected that the results will be written up in the form of a Dissertation where analysis of all of the above steps is given 10 The grading of the project will take into account various parameters such as student effort originality and clarity in presentation of material correctness and initiative in carrying out further work research on the subject as well as the level of success achieved in carrying out all tasks required It is also expected that the student will give a presentation of the project on the senior project open day 10 Pre requisite courses CSC120 MAT101 CSC407 CSC132 Required knowledge Discrete Structures Calculus I Algorithms and Java Programming 14 Supervisor Dr Georgios Stylianou Project title Development of a tourist information mobile application Project status Available Brief description The mobile application must be able to inform a tourist visiting old Nicosia at least the following e Provide information about historical monuments Image history visiting times entrance fee etc e Show on map the location of these monuments e Provide walkin
16. earching and solving a complex theoretical problem e Student will learn to present findings through a technical report and an oral presentation 20 Required knowledge Pre requisite course s e CSC322 e CSC134 18 Supervisor Dr Konstantinos Katzis Project 3 title Automated Road Traffic Embedded Management Intelligent System ARTEMIS Brief description An automated road traffic embedded management intelligent system must be developed based on a low cost platform such as Arduino UNO to control the flow of traffic in real time based on a number of traffic models and input from a series of sensors Previous work 1 has investigated the efficiency of traffic lights and introduced three phases The algorithm developed emulates real time information collected by a wireless sensor network to determine the sequence and length of traffic signals The sequence of phases is determined using three priority levels The first is the number of times that a phase did not get the green light indication The second level is the waiting saturation degree and the third is the saturation degree The algorithm calculates the length of each phase using dynamic programming The algorithm tries to minimize the intersection delay by calculating the delay for each phase for all seconds available in the traffic cycle Based on these findings a new system must be developed that can be easily adapted by existing traffic li
17. ed It is also expected that the student will give a presentation of the project on the senior project open day 10 Pre requisite Courses CSC120 MAT101 CSC407 CSC132 Required knowledge Discrete Structures Calculus I Algorithms and Java Programming 13 Project supervisor s Demetris Hadjiloucas Project title Detecting the shortest path connecting two points Brief project description This project deals with detecting paths which connect two points in a two dimensional network and selecting the shortest one The network is made up of a family of line segments drawn in the plane which intersect at a number of nodes The network is given in the form of an image and the program must detect all nodes in the network It must then use an algorithm to find the shortest path via which the two points are connected Project objectives A program will be developed in Java or another high level language agreed upon with the project supervisor which will e Read in an image file containing the network 5 e Identify all nodes on this network and give a way for the user to specify the points to be path connected the development of a user friendly GUI will be necessary 15 e Use an algorithm to determine whether the two points are path connected 10 e f points are path connected use Dijkstra s algorithm to identify the shortest path which connects the two points 30 A
18. endation on what will be the best approach for the wanted site This report will be used in the thesis as the background information Based on the initial investigation the student will 20 Nov Learn to use software to deliver a CMS to be used for the website Design a database that will be used as the basis for a manually created by the student CMS and website to the specific end of creating the website Design build program a CMS and a respective website 40 20 Feb according to client requirements The work will provide complete coverage of client needs and wants and also cater for future maintenance update and possible expandability of the site The work will deliver a user based access system whereby registered users can login and update profile and or website content The student must also design and provide 10 30 Mar Backup and restore facilities Import export facilities if applicable A detailed user manual that can be used in the future to guide non technical personnel through the process of maintaining the site Pre requisite Course s CSC209 CSC331 CSC411 Recommended Course s CSC135 Other comments This will be a challenging and very interesting project as it will get you involved in the creation of a website either manually programming with PHP MySQL and Apache or semi automatically Joomla or other tools Needless to say that the skills obtained from this project along with the
19. ercises 4 Computer Architecture course design and implementation of exercises Deadline 1 of March 2014 Deliverable 3 Computer Architecture Course Design Deliverable 4 Computer Architecture Exercises 5 Development of a technical report dissertation which will describe all activities undertaken Deadline 30th of April 2014 Deliverable 6 Project s dissertation Draft Dissertation Structure amp Grading 1 Introduction Grade Percentage 5 2 Digital Logic amp Computer Architecture Educational Tools Grade Percentage 10 3 Logisim Software User Manual Grade Percentage 10 4 Using Logisim for teaching digital logic concepts Grade Percentage 30 5 Using Logisim for teaching computer architecture concepts Grade Percentage 30 6 Conclusions Grade Percentage 5 10 of the final grade is allocated for the quality of the final presentation Registration Requirements This project can only be undertaken by Computer Engineering students ECE490 Interested students must have successfully passed all course and laboratories related to digital logic and computer organization and architecture The absolute non negotiable case specific deadlines which are indicated in the objectives section apply for this project reserve the right to withdraw before the 15 of January 2014 or fail after the 15 of January 2014 the student from this course in case any of these deadline
20. eted according to department policy 20 Supervisor Katerina Papanikolaou Project title Network Simulation Using Ns3 Project status Available Brief The project starts by introducing the student to the world of simulation its function use and description importance The student will subsequently focus in the area of network simulation by downloading installing and building a network simulator In the last stage the student will be required to write his own scripts compile and verify their operation and obtain results Objectives including grade Objective name amp description Worth Deadline worth and optionally Introduction to computer simulation 5 16 10 13 deadlines Literature review of network simulators 10 30 10 13 Literature review of TCP protocol and its versions 10 20 11 13 NS 3 installation and building 5 04 12 13 Traffic generation 10 18 12 13 TCP simulation with script writing 20 12 02 14 Obtain results 10 26 02 14 Compare results 10 19 03 14 Thesis write up 20 i Pre requisite Course s CSC322 CSC326 CSC327 Recommended Course s ECE362 Other comments write up will start from day one and will be completed according to department policy Programming C Python Operating System Unix based operating system 21 Supervisor Marina Appiou Nikiforou Project title Hands on Linear Programming A step by step solution
21. experience is invaluable for the industry Supervisor Dr Christos Dimopoulos Project title Developing an evolutionary computation scheduling algorithm for a real life industrial environment Aim The aim of this project is to develop an evolutionary scheduling algorithm which will solve a real life scheduling problem in a Cypriot manufacturing company The operation of the solver will be integrated within an existing IT scheduling decision support system which has already been developed for the manufacturing environment in consideration Taught Theoretical Knowledge Covered Writing for Computer Science CSC135 Programming Principles CSC131 amp CSC132 Data Structures CSC205 Systems Analysis amp Design CSC230 Programming in Unix like environments CSC326 New Knowledge Gained Basic theoretical concepts of production scheduling Understanding amp design of evolutionary computation algorithms Activities 1 Review of evolutionary computation algorithms Deadline 1st of December 2013 Deliverable 1 Evolutionary computation review 2 Development of evolutionary computation algorithm for the solution of the real life scheduling problem Deadline 1 of January 2014 Deliverable 2 Evolutionary computation solver 3 Testing amp Results Deadline 1 of February 2014 Deliverable 3 Results of algorithm s testing 4 Integration of solver with existing support system Deadline 1 o
22. f March 2014 Deliverable 4 T support system with solver capability 5 Development of a technical report dissertation which will describe all activities undertaken Deadline 30th of April 2014 Deliverable 5 Project s dissertation Draft Dissertation Structure amp Grading 1 Introduction Grade Percentage 10 2 Evolutionary Computation Concepts Grade Percentage 10 3 Design of an evolutionary computation algorithm for the design of a real life scheduling problem Grade Percentage 30 4 Implementation testing results Grade Percentage 30 5 Conclusions Grade Percentage 10 10 of the final grade is allocated for the quality of the final presentation Registration Requirements Interested students must have successfully passed all courses related to the taught theoretical knowledge covered as these were described earlier The absolute non negotiable case specific deadlines which are indicated in the objectives section apply for this project reserve the right to withdraw before the 15 of January 2014 or fail after the 15 of January 2014 the student from this course in case any of these deadlines are not met due to student s liability As with any departmental courses a student can refer the case to the Departmental Grievance Committee if she he feels that she he has been unfairly treated A weekly meeting will take place between the supervisor of the project at a
23. g directions allow the user to create an itinerary e Inform on events taking place Objectives including grade Objective name amp description Worth Deadline worth and optionally Generate user requirements 5 Fall 13 deadlines Generate UI design 10 Fall 13 Generate and populate web database data will be provided on a 10 Fall 13 map Generate the mobile phone database 5 Fall 13 Create web services for updating information on the phone 15 Jan 14 Provide information show on map walking directions 10 Feb 14 Inform on events taking place 10 Mar 14 Generation of itinerary 15 Mar 14 Thesis report 10 Mar 14 Presentation 10 May 14 Pre requisite CSC392 CSC205 CSC331 Course s Recommended CSC209 Course s Other comments 15 Supervisor p Georgios Stylianou Project title Adaptive Location Aware Services Project status Available Brief The base scenario is A user interested in cheap gasoline gets an alert when is in the description proximity of a cheap gas station A user interested in gadgets gets an alert when is in the proximity of a gadget store that has offers or new products This requires the generation of a user profile that will be used to send notifications these may include advertisements adapted to the user s needs Objectives including grade Objective name amp description Worth Deadline worth an
24. ghts in order to control the local traffic flow The system must be equipped with a number of sensors that can detect incoming vehicles It must also be able to detect their noise levels and their size weight Based on these findings and based on the 3 levels defined in 1 you must be able to demonstrate practically a complete road traffic management system on a small scale using possibly radio controlled cars Project objectives e Student will look into implementing a complete Road Traffic Management system The student will appreciate and learn the process of designing and implementing a device by using existing knowledge researching and finding solutions to overcome and practical problems Student will recall principles from Electronics and Programming and apply them in real life 15 e Student will carry out the design implementation and testing of a multifaceted project that involves both software and hardware programming a micro processor Hardware Design 10 Hardware Implementation 15 Hardware Testing 5 Software Design 5 Software Implementation 15 Software Testing 5 System Testing 5 Through this project the student will be able to plan and organise the lifecycle of the project and distinguish any problems 5 e Student will learn to present findings through a technical report and an oral presentation 20 Required knowledge Pre requisite course s e CSC322 ECE416 e C
25. imated in Cyprus apartment deadlines buildings The findings will be entered in a report that will form the background chapter of the final thesis and formulate a guide for the further development of the database and the software in general Based on the initial investigation the student must design 20 20 Nov a relational database that will hold and enable the programmatic manipulation of information Based on the database design the student must design 40 20 Feb and implement a front end application which will be linked to the database and will allow for the easy quick efficient correct and possible customisable manipulation of the database entries The student must design and implement a reporting 10 20 Mar module for the system The module will include fixed reports for outputting listings and or other receipt like documents The module must also include ability to filter data according to certain criteria inputted by the user Pre requisite Course s CSC231 CSC331 CSC411 Recommended Course s CSC135 Other comments The interesting aspect of this project will be the ability of the software to enable the user to customise certain calculations for shared bills according to user needs and what exactly happens on their specific apartment building Supervisor Andreas Grondoudis Project title Visual Scheduler Project status Available Brief Create an application that
26. n cases where photometry in a number of bands is available it is possible to determine a so called photometric redshift The aim of this project is to develop a web tool that will carry out this task Objectives including grade worth and optionally deadlines Objective name amp description Learn a Web programming API The first objective of the project is to learn and or use a web programming API which will be used for developing the web tool Develop capability for entering data The next objective is to develop the capability for entering the data The data will consist of three real numbers for each data point wavelength or frequency flux and its associated error The tool should allow the flexibility of either entering the data interactively or reading them from a text file In either case the user should be informed and given an example of the form in which the data should be entered Develop the capability to select templates To determine the redshift of the source the tool will compare the photometric data with spectra of different classes of galaxies in which the redshift is known templates The tool should therefore provide the flexibility to select the templates to be used and should also allow the user to import his or her own templates Carry out calculations The next objective is to carry out the calculations for estimating the photometric redshift To do this the tool should shift the wavelength of the tem
27. n learning new technologies are necessary characteristics you need to possess The student should be able to work hard in order to meet rigid project deadlines as these will be discussed and agreed between the supervisor and the student Failure to meet these deadlines will result in discontinuation of the project which will result in an automatic F grade 4 Supervisor Andreas Gregoriades Project title An embedded system to provide basic fleet management functionalities Brief description Fleet management is the management of a company s transportation fleet Fleet management includes commercial motor vehicles such as cars ships vans and trucks Fleet vehicle management can include a range of functions such as vehicle maintenance vehicle telematics tracking and diagnostics driver management speed management fuel management and health and safety management Fleet Management is a function which allows companies which rely on transportation business to remove or minimize the risks associated with vehicle investment improving efficiency productivity and reducing their overall transportation and staff costs This project aims to program a prototype embedded system component that provides basic fleet management functions by collecting data through the use of in vehicle sensors The aim of the project is to monitor the location acceleration and deceleration patterns of a bus operated by OSEL in Nic
28. osia and communicate these to a central server The sensors that will be used for monitoring are already available on the bus To undertake the project the student will be provided with a prototype monitoring component developed by DELPHI http delphi com The monitoring component is equipped with 3G and GPS antennas and operates a Linux micro operating system The component will be placed on a Nicosia buss operated by OSEL The component will communicate its position and other observed conditions from its sensors to a central server in real time The infrastructure for this project will be provided and the focus will be on the programming C programming language of the DELPHI embedded system to communicate with the server and the development of a visualization algorithm to project the bus s location Project objectives 1 Learn how to manipulate the DELPHI component 10 2 Develop the algorithm to collect data from sensors 35 connected to the DELPHI component The algorithm will be in C and will be running on the component 3 Develop the algorithm that will communicate the 35 location and sensors state to a web server The algorithm will be running on the DELPHI component 4 Develop a simple web interface to display the monitored data in real time 5 Dissertation report 10 6 Presentation 10 Required knowledge Pre requisite course s Very good programming skills especially in C CSC326 Good we
29. plates in small steps of redshift from say 0 to 10 For each shift and for each template the tool should compare the real data with the template and calculate the x statistic Display the best solution Finally the tool should display the best solution on a plot and give the minimum x Write dissertation The student should write up a technical report dissertation and present it Worth Deadline 15 15 20 15 15 20 01 11 01 12 01 01 01 02 01 03 01 04 Pre requisite Course s The project requires good web programming skills Recommended Course s CSC209 MAT217 CSC134 CSC135 Other comments Attendance of the course CSC450 or ECE450 Data Analysis and Data Mining which is offered in Fall 2013 is recommended Supervisor Andreas Efstathiou Project title Development of an online version of fastPhoenix Project status Available Brief fastPhoenix is a code that calculates the emission of a galaxy over most of its spectrum description given its star formation history and certain other parameters The code has been developed by the supervisor in the Interactive Data Language IDL environment The aim of this project is to develop an online version of this code Objectives including grade Objective name amp description Worth Deadline worth and optionally deadlines Learn a Web programming API The first objective of
30. riving simulator implemented using a 3D game engine UNITY The simulator mimics a road section of the Cyprus roadway network for which the accident statistics are high black spot The simulator will be used to evaluate different in vehicle driver assistive technologies IVAT using Cypriot road users in different scenarios The IVATs specification will focus on different ways to augment drivers situation awareness drivers ability to realize what is happening around him her and forecast this into the future The project aims in the design and implementation in UNITY of a number of prototype versions of future IVAT These IVAT will mimic future designs to be used in vehicles and in this way help vehicle manufacturers validate the effectiveness of these systems prior to their implementation The implemented virtual IVAT will be evaluated with users in an experiment Project 1 Identify specification of 10 objectives future IVAT that aim to enhance situation awareness of driver 2 Design and develop 40 selected IVAT in UNITY 3 Conduct a series of 30 experiments with users to examine the effectiveness of the virtual in vehicle driver assistive technologies in realistic conditions Analyze the collected data 4 Dissertation report 10 5 Presentation 10 Required Good programming skills CSC326 and knowledge of game design knowledge CSC391 Willingness to learn 3D game design Pre requisite course s Dedication and enthusiasm i
31. s are not met due to student s liability As with any departmental courses a student can refer the case to the Departmental Grievance Committee if she he feels that she he has been unfairly treated A weekly meeting will take place between the supervisor of the project at a time and place jointly decided reserve the right to withdraw before the 15 of January 2014 or fail after the 15 of January 2014 the student from this course in case she he misses two consecutive project meetings without previous notice for official reasons 10 Supervisor Dr Georgios Christou Project title The gaming habits of Cypriot Students Project status Available Brief The student will have to compose a questionnaire and disseminate it to schools all over description Cyprus to gauge the gaming habits of Cypriot students Objectives including grade tae ue Objective name amp description Worth Deadline worth and optionally deadlines Questionnaire creation 10 Questionnaire dissemination 20 Questionnaire results tabulation 20 Questionnaire results analysis 30 Final Report 15 Presentation 5 Pre requisite Course s Recommended Course s CSC134 CSC135 MAT217 Other comments The student will learn how to conduct a large scale investigation learn how to gather and analyse data using specific Statistics software and will also learn how to conduct statistical analyses using said
32. scription Worth Deadline The student should understand the mathematical modeling of the 10 1 11 13 facility location problem as a strategic non cooperative game Then she he will implement this modeling using a standard 5 1 12 13 programming language The game is already partially implemented in Java and the student will have this code available for use Then the student will focus on the following particular network topologies of the problem e grids and torus graphs These network topologies are already partially implemented in Java and the student will have this code available for use e A network obtained by a real data given by the 15 15 1 14 user representing e g a road network of Nicosia showing the positions of the gas station The network topology should be presented to the user graphically 10 1 1 14 Then the student will investigate which are the suitable placements of each of the facilities eg the gas stations so that to maximize their benefit on the set of clients that they decide to be served by them We assume that each client decides to be served by the nearest facility to it Such beneficial configurations of the network are called Nash equilibria of the game Suggested placements will be the following e Placements given by the user 15 e Placements given by a known algorithm The code of this 10 15 2 14 algorithm is also partially implemented On each placement investigated gi
33. software 11 Supervisor Dr Georgios Christou Project title An Android video game that allows content updates Project status Available Brief The student will have to take a video game that was created in the CSC 391 course in Flash description and produce the following changes 1 Allow additions of new storylines 2 Allow additions of new puzzles 3 Create additional content for the game 4 Create an online repository from where the game will receive the updated content Objectives including grade Objective name amp description Worth Deadline worth and optionally Allow addition of new storylines 20 deadlines Allow additions of new puzzles 20 Create additional content for the game 20 Create an online repository 20 Final report 15 Presentation 5 Pre requisite Course s CSC 391 Recommended Course s CSC 133 Other comments The student will learn the whole process of game development in Flash and learn how to create an online repository from where flash files can be downloaded and input into an application without changing the application 12 Project supervisor s Demetris Hadjiloucas Project title Tracing continuous sufficiently smooth curves in an image Brief project description This project as the title suggests deals with tracing continuous sufficiently smooth curves that appear in an image Each curve may self intersect
34. task which is written in IDL as a guide for his implementation 15 The next objective is to develop the capability for entering the data The data will consist of three real numbers for each data point wavelength 15 01 12 or frequency flux and its associated error The tool should allow the flexibility of either entering the data interactively or reading them from a text file In either case the user should be informed and given an example of the form in which the data should be entered The next objective is to select the database of models to be used 20 01 01 interactively The models will be given in the form of a text file which will give for each model a total of N pairs of values wavelength and flux This information should then be transformed in the appropriate form for further manipulation 15 01 02 The next objective is to select the model that provides the best fit to the data by minimizing the x statistic 20 Finally the tool should display the best fit model and dataonaplotand 15 01 03 give the minimum x value so that the user should be able to see whether the best fit is good statistically speaking 15 20 01 04 Write dissertation The student should write up a technical report dissertation Pre requisite Course s The project requires good programming skills especially in C C language CSC326 MAT217 Recommended Course s Other comments Attendance of the course CSC450 or ECE4
35. the solution in step 4 10 Jan30 7 Maximize Minimize the given objective function for 10 Feb15 those corner points 8 Graph everything together constraints and objective 10 Feb28 function show the solution if any Pre requisite CSC205 MAT206 Course s Recommended BUSI11 Course s Other 1 Mandatory weekly meetings with the instructor or otherwise as agreed comments 2 The instructor maintains the right to assign an F grade at any time if the student fails to provide sufficient work 22 Supervisor Marina Appiou Nikiforou Project title Testing for prime numbers Project status Available Brief description Given a positive integer your program should be able to determine whether this integer is prime or composite and if composite determine its prime factorization You should use a variety of tests many primality tests are known like the Sieve of Eratosthenes or other sieves square root test Fermat s Little theorem and its extension using Euler function Miller Rabin test AKS primality test and so on All of the tests must appear on the same interface for the user to pick the ones to be used You should also provide the history theory variations and applications of prime numbers especially in cryptography Objectives including grade worth and optionally deadlines Objective name amp description Worth Deadline 1 Background reading and
36. urse s CSC231 CSC331 CSC411 Recommended Course s CSC135 Other comments The interesting aspect of this project will be to manipulate scheduling constraints programmatically and enable the visual manipulation of courses according to user input as well as constraint referencing Supervisor Andreas Grondoudis amp Christos Kassimeris Project title Research Center Website and CMS Project status Available Brief description The department of Social and Behavioural Sciences headed by Dr Kassimeris will be establishing the Euro Mediterranean Research Center EMRC In an effort to further promote the center and its activities Dr Kassimeris hereinafter referred to as the client is looking to create a website and a CMS to manage the site This project will create a website and provide means for the update and maintenance of the site even after the project has finished We will be looking for a will be skilled web developer that will create or utilise a content management system The system will be in place for future updates by non technical personnel Objectives including grade worth and optionally deadlines Worth 10 Objective name amp description Deadline The student will initially perform and investigation of the state of 30 Oct the art in content management systems available for free This will be documented and presented to the client along with a recomm
37. ven by the user or provided by the program the program should show graphically to which facility gas station each user is assigned to and also whether the current placement is a Nash equilibrium of the game or not Write a thesis report of his project Presentation 15 15 3 14 10 15 4 14 10 15 5 14 Pre requisite Course s Familiar to a standard programming language MAT217 CSC407 Recommended Course s Other comments
38. will allow the visual scheduling of courses for the department of description computer science and engineering The system will have a database to store information relating to courses instructors constraints etc The application will use import and export capabilities to read in and or output scheduling requirements The application will also use drag and drop functionality to manipulate the courses and their physical arrangement in the weekly schedule Objectives including grade worth and Objective name amp description Worth Deadline optionally deadlines The student will initially perform an investigation of the state of the 10 30 Oct art in visual scheduling Also time will be spent in obtaining exact requirements for the system so as to provide ease of use effectiveness and automation for the process Based on the initial investigation the student must design a 20 20 Nov relational database that will hold and enable the programmatic manipulation of information Based on the database design the student must design and 40 15 Mar implement a front end application which will be linked to the database and will enable the drag and drop scheduling of courses based on a set of predefined constraints The student must design and implement an importing exporting 10 30 Mar module for the application The development of this will go in parallel with the tool as the import functionality will be needed at the beginning Pre requisite Co
39. ypriot students 11 An Android video game that allows content updates Hadjiloucas 12 Tracing continuous sufficiently smooth curves in an image 13 Detecting the shortest path connecting two points Stylianou 14 Development of a tourist information mobile application 15 Adaptive location aware services Katzis 16 iGreenHouse an electronically controller greenhouse 17 Tree Mapping using digital image processing in Matlab 18 Automated Road Traffic Embedded Management Intelligent System ARTEMIS Papanikolaou 19 Creating a distance learning platform for primary school mathematics 20 Network simulator using NS3 Nikiforou 21 Hands on linear programming a step by step solution 22 Testing for prime numbers Mavromoustakos 23 Development of an online faculty scheduling system 24 A research Mashup system Papadopoulou 25 Developing of a tool in C for modeling astronomical data co Efstathiou 26 Investigating Nash equilibria in Facility location games co Stylianou If your GPA is close to 2 00 talk the matter over with the potential supervisor aif you have passed the course with D or D discuss the issue with the supervisor of the project Supervisor Andreas Efstathiou Project title Development of a photometric redshift code Project status Available Brief description Quite often in astronomy it is not possible to take a spectrum of an object and measure its redshift and therefore its distance luminosity etc I
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