Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Computer Science"
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(2019-11-19)Department: Computer ScienceMedical ultrasound is a noninvasive, affordable, portable, and real-time diagnostic modality that provides a cross-sectional view of tissues. Ultrasound beamforming is a widely used approach to acquire and process ultrasound ...
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Optimization Techniques for Enhancing Middleware Quality of Service for Product-line Architectures (2005-12-01)Department: Computer ScienceProduct-line architectures (PLA)s are an emerging paradigm for developing software families by customizing reusable artifacts, rather than hand-crafting the software from scratch. In this paradigm, each product variant ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Computer ScienceIn an era where data increasingly drives our world, the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is undeniable. AI has become integral, not just in our digital lives but in mission-critical domains from medical ...
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(2008-11-17)Department: Computer ScienceSoftware Product-Lines (SPLs) are software architectures that provide reusable components that can be configured into variants to meet different requirement sets. A key part of an SPL is a specification of the rules governing ...
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(2017-01-06)Department: Computer ScienceIn the past decade, we have witnessed a rapid growth in the quantity, quality, and diversity of personal data we shed through our daily activities. At the same time, it is increasingly recognized that personal data has ...
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(2011-08-01)Department: Computer ScienceWireless mesh networks have attracted increasing attention and deployment as a high-performance and low-cost solution to last-mile broadband Internet access. The capability of balancing the traffic load along different ...
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(2011-12-13)Department: Computer ScienceFor any mobile robot application it is important that a robot knows its location in an operating environment. The map for the operating environment may not be available every time, so the robot needs to build a map as it ...
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(2013-05-03)Department: Computer ScienceThis dissertation studies classes of partial orders defined by the precedence of paths in trees, using two different notions of precedence. Strict precedence uses the same notion that interval orders use, where one path ...
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(2023-11-16)Department: Computer ScienceCochlear implants (CIs) use an array of electrodes implanted in the cochlea to directly stimulate the auditory nerve. After CI surgery, patients typically need several appointments with an audiologist over the following ...
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(2014-12-24)Department: Computer ScienceImmersive virtual environments (IVEs) have many applications in the real world, especially with the development of commodity level displays like the Oculus Rift. For these applications to be successful, IVEs must have ...
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(2011-04-25)Department: Computer ScienceThe goal of this work was to improve computer graphics by better understanding how internal rendering parameters affect the visual perception of animation. The scope of our work was constrained to the perception of object ...
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(2021-03-22)Department: Computer ScienceIn elite cycling, due to the influence of personal and terrain factors, performance forecasting needs to be personalized and course-specific. We design and empirically assess a variety of personalized and course-specific ...
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(2022-11-17)Department: Computer ScienceIn the last few decades, with the introduction of machine learning, research on the design and monitoring of civil structures and mechanical systems has evolved into a new era. One of the main challenges in developing ...
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(2011-04-15)Department: Computer ScienceThe implicit contract between an individual and a website is that a viewer will remain anonymous unless they choose to identify themselves. On the other hand, there are many advantages to allowing websites to tailor content ...
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(2007-06-26)Department: Computer ScienceThe rapid wireless technology development and wide wireless networks deployment provide to us emerging composite networks permeated by wireless communications. The current Internet will remain and serve as the ``communication ...
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(2022-08-12)Department: Computer ScienceTechnological advancements in sensors, data collection, and embedded computers have enabled research in societal scale cyber-physical systems (SCPS), also known as Smart Cities. The problem category of interest to this ...
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(2020-02-05)Department: Computer ScienceAdvances in distributed simulations and machine learning techniques have enabled a new class of workloads to migrate to cloud computing platforms to take advantage of their scalability and elastic properties. These ...
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(2023-10-23)Department: Computer ScienceAlthough cloud-native frameworks like Kubernetes (K8s) have become the de facto solutions to orchestrate containerized, cloud-native deep learning (CNDL) applications, five unresolved challenges exist in realizing ...
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(2012-04-23)Department: Computer ScienceDeveloping distributed applications, particularly those for distributed, real-time and embedded (DRE) systems, is a difficult and complex undertaking due to the need to address four major challenges: the complexity of ...
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(2018-04-06)Department: Computer ScienceModern scientific investigations have increasingly relied upon the expanded collection and analysis of data (“big data”). In the genetics community, there is evidence to suggest that increased statistical power can be ...