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An Intelligent Multimodal Upper-Limb Rehabilitation Robotic System
(2017-08-08)A traffic accident, a battlefield injury, or a stroke can lead to brain or musculoskeletal injuries that impact motor and cognitive functions and can drastically change a person's life. In such situations, rehabilitation ... -
AN MRQL VISUALIZER USING JSON INTEGRATION
(2017-05-08)In today’s world where there is no limit to the amount of data being collected from IOT devices, social media platforms, and other big data applications, there is a need for systems to process them efficiently and effortlessly. ... -
ANALYSIS AND CATEGORIZATION OF DRIVE-BY DOWNLOAD MALWARE USING SANDBOXING AND YARA RULESET
(2019-05-08)With the increase in the usage of websites as the main source of information gathering, malicious activity especially drive-by download has exponentially increased. A drive-by download refers to unintentional download of ... -
Analysis And Modeling Techniques For Geo-spatial And Spatio-temporal Datasets
In recent years, spatio-temporal data has received a lot of attention and increasingly plays an important role in our everyday lives as we can witness from the fast-growing mobile technologies and its location-based ... -
Analysis of Complex Data Sets using Multilayer Networks: A Decoupling-based Framework
(2020-08-06)We are on the cusp of analyzing a variety of data being collected in every walk of life - social, biological, health-care, corporate, climate, to name a few. The data sets are becoming diverse and complex in addition to ... -
Analyzing Differences In Color Variation Sensitivity Between Experts And Novices To Find A Differentiating Process In Pigmented Skin Lesion Diagnosis
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Fatal skin lesions such as melanomas appear as having high color variation to experts but often as having low variation to novices. This thesis investigated if it is possible to find a function representing an expert's ... -
Anytime Top-k Queries On Exact And Fuzzy Data
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Top-k queries on large multi-attribute data sets are fundamental operations in information retrieval and ranking applications. In this thesis, we initiate research on the anytime behavior of top-k algorithms on exact and ... -
Application Of Graph-based Data Mining To Biological Networks
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)A huge amount of biological data has been generated by long-term research. It is time to start to focus on a system-level understanding of bio-systems. Biological networks are networks of biochemical reactions, containing ... -
An Application Of Parallel And Distributed Computing Methods To Approximate Pattern Matching Of Genetic Regulatory Motifs
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Bioinformatics is a relatively new scientific field concerned with providing computational means and support to research in molecular biology and genetics. It draws from many different areas of computer science, including ... -
Application Of Software Engineering Best Practices And Principles To Small Development Teams
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)The motivation of this thesis comes from the professional experience of the author. Having worked with very small software development teams in various capacities, he realized that significant improvements could be achieved ... -
Applications of deep learning in large-scale object detection and semantic segmentation
(2018-08-13)With the massive storage of multimedia data and increasing computational power of mobile devices, developing scalable computer vision applications has become the primary motivation for both research and industrial community. ... -
Applying Combinatorial Testing To Systems With A Complex Input Space
Combinatorial testing, which has been shown very effective in fault detection, is a testing strategy that applies the theory of combinatorial design to test software programs. Given a program under test with k parameters, ... -
Approaches For Validating Frequent Episodes Based On Periodicity In Time-series Data
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)There is ongoing research on sequence mining of time-series data. We study Hybrid Apriori, an interval-based approach to episode discovery that deals with different periodicities in time-series data. Our study identifies ... -
Approximate Query Processing Using Deep Learning and Database Techniques
(2022-12-15)Data is generated at an unprecedented rate surpassing our ability to analyze them. In real applications, it is often impractical to find an exact answer by traversing the entire data. As a result, Approximate Query ... -
ApproxML: Efficient Approximate Ad-Hoc ML Models Through Materialization and Reuse
(2019-12-10)Machine Learning (ML) has become an essential tool in answering complex predictive analytic queries. Model building for large scale datasets is one of the most time-consuming parts of the data science pipeline. Often data ... -
Architectures And Methods For Energy-efficient Querying And Indexing In Wireless Sensor Networks
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2008-09-17)Wireless sensor networks have been an active research area for about a decade due to their adaptability to applications involving long-term environmental monitoring. Recent technologies make it possible that a small device ... -
Artificial Intelligence For Cognitive Behavior Assessment In Children
(2018-06-25)Cognitive impairments in early childhood can lead to poor academic performance and require proper remedial intervention at the appropriate time. ADHD affects about 6-7% of children and is a psychiatric neurodevelopmental ... -
An Assistive Navigation Paradigm For Semi-autonomous Wheelchairs Using Force-feedback And Goal Prediction
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2008-08-08)As computer technology advances and facilitates an increased amount of autonomous sensing and control, the interface between the human and autonomous computer systems becomes increasingly important. This applies in particular ... -
Attributes Selection And Package Design To Maximize Visibility Of Objects
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2010-03-03)In recent years, there has been significant interest in the development of ranking functions and efficient top-k retrieval algorithms to help users in ad-hoc search and retrieval in databases (e.g., buyers searching for ... -
An Auction Mechanism For Grid Scheduling And Resource Allocation In The Context Of Atlas
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2009-09-16)The technological advancements in the areas of computing and networking over the recent years have led to an emerging infrastructure known as Computational Grids, which provides users with the flexibility of pervasive ...