Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Computer Science"
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(2015-11-30)Department: Computer ScienceEmbedded systems are usually composed of deeply integrated hardware and software components. Design tools that offer co-simulation of hardware and software are very popular due to increase in time-to-market limits and ...
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(2011-04-04)Department: Computer ScienceThere exist a large number of unmapped tunnels across the US-Mexican border used primarily for smuggling, which the US Government desires to map using robots. This thesis presents two novel approaches to generate 3D maps ...
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(2010-06-01)Department: Computer ScienceOver the past decade we have witnessed the evolution of wireless sensor networks, with advancements in hardware design, communication protocols, resource efficiency, and other aspects. Recently, there has been much focus ...
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(2022-11-18)Department: Computer ScienceThe study on traffic events has been an important topic in urban studies. Traffic events, ranging from disabled vehicles to abnormal driving behaviors at a local scale, to extreme events such as hurricanes or large civic ...
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(2007-08-08)Department: Computer ScienceLarge-scale networks of low-power, wireless devices integrated with sensors and actuators have emerged as a new platform that promises to seamlessly integrate computational devices with our environment. Information about ...
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(2011-07-24)Department: Computer ScienceBuilding preliminary mathematical models to simulate system behavior is an essential part of designing dependable cyber-physical systems (CPS). This thesis presents the implementation of a visual modeling environment that ...
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(2020-07-20)Department: Computer ScienceRecently there has been a call among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers for the integration of science and engineering education in K-12 curricula. Similarly, computational thinking (CT) has been recognized as a ...
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(2021-03-23)Department: Computer ScienceCochlear implants are surgically implanted neural prosthetic devices that are used to treat severe hearing loss. These devices are programmed post-implantation, and estimations of patient-specific neural activation patterns ...
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(2022-06-09)Department: Computer ScienceThe past decade has witnessed a dramatic rise in the adoption of electronic medical record (EMR) systems. EMR data assists in the development and evaluation of clinical information systems, supports novel biomedical research, ...
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(2021-03-17)Department: Computer ScienceThis research examines terrain roughness prediction for off-road autonomous vehicles as an image classification problem, labeling monocular images of upcoming drivable terrain with a measure of roughness derived from the ...
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(2019-02-15)Department: Computer ScienceEducational reading materials are increasingly available to students in digital environments. The use of digital education materials is likely to increase as economic trends continue to drive down the price of electronic ...
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(2015-12-02)Department: Computer ScienceAnimated digital self-representations of the user in immersive virtual environments, called self-avatars, have been shown to be an aid in perceptual judgments in virtual environment and provide critical information for ...
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(2011-04-14)Department: Computer ScienceAs distributed and real-time systems become more pervasive, there is growing interest in their performance and reliability. The workloads found in these environments can exhibit variability that results in unpredictable ...
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(2012-12-04)Department: Computer ScienceStandardizing the care of patients with complex problems in hospital settings is a difficult challenge for physicians, nurses and other medical professionals. Diverse conditions further complicate patient management. While ...
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(2007-08-16)Department: Computer ScienceThis thesis presents a systemic study of the structural semantics of model-based design. Structural semantics have a long history in computer science, and were studied early on under the moniker of language syntax. This ...
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(2019-07-30)Department: Computer ScienceWith rapid urbanization, route planning is gaining more importance. As transportation networks become more complex and mobility in our society more important, the demand for efficient methods in route planning increases ...
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(2011-04-16)Department: Computer ScienceHumans rely upon embedded computational systems for everything from mundane tasks, like building temperature control, to safety-critical tasks, like flight control systems. Design and validation of safety-critical ...
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(2010-04-17)Department: Computer ScienceStandardized component middleware technologies, such as CORBA Component Model (CCM), Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), and Component Object Model (COM) are used to build large Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems. A ...
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(2019-07-22)Department: Computer ScienceGame-theoretic analysis is widely used to model outcomes of strategic interactions among multiple self-interested players. An important challenge in studying such interactions is in designing the rules of encounter which ...