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Gradient Boosting Public Data Modeling for the Policy Planning in Education
(2022-12)Teacher retention rate and student learning gain rates in the U.S. public school systems plummeted during COVID-19 pandemic, erasing years of improvements. In this body of research, we collect, integrate, and analyze all ... -
Designing toward an emotionally usable e-commerce architecture
(2000-05)This research investigates the possibility of influencing consumers' emotions when interacting with business to consumer e-commerce systems by modifying architectural elements underlying the visual design. The focus is ... -
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Motion and Activity Understanding in 360° Videos: An Egocentric Perspective
(2022-08)Activity recognition is one of the popular fields in computer vision research. Though recent development in deep learning-based methodologies has shown tremendous progress in traditional video-based activity recognition, ... -
Massively Parallel LZ77 Compression and Decompression on the GPU
(2022-08)Parallelizing data compression algorithms is difficult because algorithms like LZ77 have iterative dependencies that cannot easily be circumvented. Previous computation steps directly impact later steps in the algorithm, ... -
A Massively Parallel Exact TSP Solver for Small Problem Sizes
(2022-08)The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a combinatorial optimization problem tasked with finding the shortest tour for visiting a set of cities such that each city is visited exactly once, and the tour ends in the starting ... -
Real-time Movement Classification and Analysis from RGB – D Video Data
(2021-05)Physical therapy is a form of rehabilitative treatment that includes specially designed and prescribed exercises to help patients recover from diseases that disturb their movements of daily life or enhance their physical ...
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An Instruction Profiling Based Framework to Promote Software Portability
(2022-05)In recent history, most software has been built for a single hardware class and developers rarely needed to consider cross-platform development. With emerging paradigms like Edge computing and the introduction of ...
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Compa: A Comparative Retrieval and Analytical Engine for Consumer Products
(2022-05)Often people need to make comparisons in order to make selections and decisions. Increasingly such comparison activities are conducted online. For example, consumers typically read many reviews and compare various models ... -
Quality and compressibility analysis of checkerboard-based digital halftoning algorithms
(2002-05)This study considers the quality and compressibility of bi-level images produced by checkerboard-based halftoning algorithms. The specific halftone methods of this study are those described by R.M. Case. The bi-level images ... -
Median filtering and wavelet filtering: A study of noise reduction in prostate ultrasound images
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Variable hidden layer sizing in feedforward and Elman recurrent neuro-evolution
(1998-08)Artificial neural networks are learning systems composed of layers of neurons, modeled after the human brain. The relationship between the size of the hidden layer in a neural network and performance in a particular ...
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Identification of gene sets that predict Acute Myeloid Leukemia prognosis using integrative gene network analysis
(2018-08)Orthogonal data types can potentially provide new opportunities to pinpoint the underlying molecular mechanisms of diseases. However, currently-available techniques to capitalize on information from different data types ... -
Adaptive Single-Pass Compression of Unbounded Integers
(2017-12)Due to webpage creation, data gathering and storage, and the increasing data needed for machine learning, the amount of data in the world is rapidly growing. Organizations such as Google, Wikipedia, and the National ...
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An Experimental Study on Optimizing Energy Consumption of Edge IoT Devices
(2021-12)Recent advances in the world of IoT have significantly improved what one can do with the help of personal gadgets such as smartwatches and other edge devices. This improvement has lead to the inclusion of additional ... -
BLOC: A Game Theoretic Approach to Orchestrate CPS Against Cyber Attacks
(2019-08)One important aspect in protecting CPS is ensuring that the proper control and measurement signals are propagated within the control loop. The CPS research community has been developing a large set of check blocks that can ... -
Rigorous Analysis Of Combined Software Processes Via Model Checking
(2021-08)The ability to automatically combine and analyze multiple concurrent processes, perhaps written by different people, becomes increasingly important in the modern mobile, distributed, and ad-hoc computational environments. ... -
Setting Priority Points for Global EDF-like Scheduling of Sporadic Tasks with Arbitrary Deadlines on Multiprocessors
(2021-05)Under the well-studied global earliest-deadline-first (G-EDF) scheduling, the deadline of each job serves for two functionalities simultaneously. First, it specifies the response-time requirement of the job; second, ...
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Evaluating the tradeoffs of mobile code design paradigms in electronic commerce applications
(2005-08)Mobile Code has the ability to relocate dynamically and change bindings between computational environments and code fragments. The flexibility of Mobile Code to relocate and execute code in different patterns has introduced ...
