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Evolving Learning Neural Networks
(2004-12)Supervised learning has long been used to modify the artificial neural network in order to perform classification tasks. However, the standard fully connected layered design is often inadequate when performing such tasks. ... -
Implementation of a New 8021X Port Authentication Method
(2004-12)With increasing usage of wireless devices, security issues have become a major challenge for wireless network. In order to solve security defects of the 802.11 standard, the 802.1X authentication standard is adapted to ... -
Autonomous Image Transcoding for the Improvement of Web Content Server Availability
(2005-12)Due to the exponential growth of the web and the Internet, content delivery performance is a dominant theme in Internet processes development. This thesis investigates the practices and research on the topic of web ... -
Balancing Data Locality and Parallelism for Improved Application Performance on Multi-Core Platforms
(2009-05)No abstract prepared. -
Human Emotion Recognition from Physiological Biosignals
(2018-12)The goal of this research is to develop and evaluate methods of classifying human emotions using physiological bio-signals. As computing technology has been steadily growing and becoming more ubiquitous, it is essential ... -
An Assessment of Web-based Collaboration Tools to Support Software Development Using the Personal Software Process/Team Software Process
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Personalized and Collaborative Clustering of Search Results
(2011-08)Organizing and presenting search results plays a critical role in the utility of search engines. Due to the unprecedented scale of the Web and diversity of search results, the common strategy of ranked lists has become ... -
Similarity Detection Based on Semantic Distance
(2007-08)Combining basic language processing methodologies with the conceptual framework of WordNet, semantic distance is used to measure the similarity between documents. Noun and verb word concepts are transformed into paths ... -
Polygon Reduction Algorithm for Layout Extraction and Parasitic Signal Calculation
(2002-05)The design of a specific polygon reduction algorithm to be applied to the process of layout extraction is proposed. The algorithm is tested with the Star-RCXT parasitic signal extraction tool and the impact of the reduction ... -
Dynamic Web Service Invocation
(2005-12)With the relentless growth in Internet functionality, distributed computing systems have attracted more and more attention in the Information Technology world. This has resulted in the recent standardization effort of ...
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Design and Simulation of Multi-root Multi-generation Package Routing Algorithm for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
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Movement Classification and Analysis from RGB – D Video Data
(2019-05)The aim of this thesis is to develop and evaluate methods of human movement classification using motion tracking data captured using a RGB-D sensor. As hardware solutions evolve and improve, so too must the software solutions ... -
Solving Cyber-Alert Allocation Markov Games with Deep Reinforcement Learning
(2019-04-19)Most large scale networks employ some kind of intrusion detection software on their computer systems (e.g., servers, routers, etc.) that monitor and flag suspicious or abnormal activity. When possibly malicious activity ... -
Securing the ADS-B Protocol for Attack-resilient Multiple UAV Collision Avoidance
(2019-04-11)The Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) protocol is being adopted for use in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as the primary source of information for emerging multi-UAV collision avoidance algorithms. The ... -
Dynamic Unbounded Integer Compression
(2016-07-22)One of the important applications of data compression is inverted indexes compression, which is a lossless compression. Presently, most of the internet search engines such as Google and Wikipedia process a large amount of ... -
Distributed Symbolic Execution For Property Checking
(2017-04-20)Symbolic execution is a powerful technique for checking properties in the form of assertions. It can systematically explore the program’s state space to find paths to assertion violations, and provide users with a ... -
Data-transformation algorithms for minimizing bit flips on GPU data buses
(2017-07-24)Excessive power consumption and cooling costs in computing centers as well as limited battery life in mobile devices make energy optimization an important area of research. In CMOS technology, dynamic energy is primarily ... -
GPU Execution Tracing and Compression
(2017-04-13)Program tracing is widely used for debugging and performance optimization. Whenever a program is traced, the overhead in terms of extra runtime and in terms of storage for the generated trace information are a concern. ... -
Energy efficiency analysis and optimization of relational and NoSQL databases
(2016-11-28)As big data becomes the norm of various industrial applications, the complexity of database workloads and database system design has increased significantly. To address these challenges, conventional relational databases ... -
Defragmenting Social Networks
(2017-11-20)The scale of Online Social Networks, like Facebook, requires splitting users across many servers; unfortunately, this can spread one user's friends across hundreds of servers, increasing both the latency of retrieving all ...
