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Performance Tuning Of An Embedded Template Analysis Tool
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2011-07-14)As multi core processors become ubiquitous, programs must be designed to utilize the additional power at their disposal. Extracting maximum performance out of these processors requires utilizing latest parallel programming ... -
PERSON IDENTIFICATION AND ANOMALY DETECTION USING GAIT PARAMETERS EXTRACTED FROM TIME SERIES DATA
(2017-05-31)Gait generally refers to the style of walk and is influenced by a number of parameters and conditions. In particular, chronic and temporary health conditions often influence gait patterns. As such conditions increase with ... -
PERSON IDENTIFICATION AND TINETTI SCORE ASSESSMENT USING BALANCE PARAMETERS TO DETERMINE FALL RISK
(2020-09-03)This thesis is aimed at a substantial health problem among the elderly population that is “Fall”, a major cause of accidental home deaths. Studies show approximately one-third of community-dwelling people over 65 years of ... -
Personalizing (Re-ranking) Web Search Results Using Information Present On A Social Network
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)We describe a social search engine paradigm which can be built on top of a classic search engine (e.g. Google, Yahoo, etc.) and a social information network (such as FriendSter). In this thesis, the objective was to design ... -
Point Of Gaze Applications For Assistive Interaction
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2012-07-25)Eye tracking has many useful applications in human-machine interfaces and assistive technologies. Traditional input methods, such as the keyboard and mouse, are not practical in certain situations and can be completely ... -
PORTABLE ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSING PLATFORM: FROM HARDWARE TO SOFTWARE
(2020-05-21)Recent advances in the electrochemical biosensors is increasing the popularity of the point of care devices since the electrochemical sensor can provide low cost, portability, detectability, experimental simplicity, and ... -
PORTABLE WIRELESS ANTENNA SENSOR FOR SIMULTANEOUS SHEAR AND PRESSURE MONITORING
(2017-12-07)Microstrip antenna-sensor has received considerable interests in recent years due to its simple configuration, compact size, and multi-modality sensitivity. Having a simple and conformal planar configuration, antenna-sensor ... -
PREDICT BEHAVIOURAL SCORES IN SLEEP APNEA PATIENTS FROM RESTING STATE NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY (fNIRS)
(2021-05-07)Sleep disorders are common among adults and children; it has serious consequences on their heath, cognitive development and quality of life. However, some sleep disorders are challenging to diagnose and more challenging ... -
Predicting Human Behavior Based on Survey Response Patterns Using Markov and Hidden Markov Models
(2016-12-09)With technological advancements in World Wide Web (www), connecting with people for gathering information has become common. Among several ways, surveys are one of the most commonly used way of collecting information from ... -
Privacy For Location Based Services With Smartphones
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2011-07-14)In recent years, mobile devices and smartphones enabled with GPS and Inter-net access have become extremely common. People use these devices as they woulda personal computer for easy access to information. Location Based ... -
PROCESSING QUERIES OVER PARTITIONED GRAPH DATABASES: AN APPROACH AND IT'S EVALUATION
(2016-05-12)Representation of structured data using graphs is meaningful for applications such as road and social networks. With the increase in the size of graph databases, querying them to retrieve desired information poses challenges ... -
Prominent Streaks Discovery On Blog Articles
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2013-03-20)We are surrounded by data in various forms such as instant messages, Twitter tweets, Facebook status updates, news, media, blogs and much more. Extracting meaning from such a massive collection of unstructured data would ... -
Pseudo-hierarchical Ant-based Clustering Using A Heterogeneous Agent Hierarchy And Automatic Boundary Formation
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2009-09-16)The behavior and self-organization of ant colonies has been widely studied and served as the inspiration and source of many swarm intelligence models and related clustering algorithms. Unfortunately, most models that ... -
Pushpop: A Card Game
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2012-07-25)In this thesis we have designed and implemented an Android card game called PushPop. This game is meant to stimulate the interest of kids in math learning. The Android game has cards with mathematical signs instead of the ... -
QP-SUBDUE: PROCESSING QUERIES OVER GRAPH DATABASES
(2015-12-09)Graphs have become one of the preferred ways to store structured data for various applications such as social network graphs, complex molecular structure, etc. Proliferation of graph databases has resulted in a growing ... -
Quantitative Analysis of Scalable NoSQL Databases
(2015-12-15)NoSQL databases are rapidly becoming the customary data platform for big data applications. These databases are emerging as a gateway for more alternative approaches outside traditional relational databases and are ... -
Quantitative Comparison Of Two Approaches To Agent Cooperation
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Multi-agent systems (MASs) are characterized by collections of autonomous agents that interact with each other in simple ways, but the collection of agents as a whole is characterized by emergent behavior (EB) which will ... -
Query Auditing Against Partial Disclosure
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2009-09-16)Many government agencies, businesses, and nonprofit organizations need to collect, analyze, and report data about individuals in order to support their short-term and long-term planning activities. Statistical Databases ... -
Querying Entity-relationship Graphs By Example Tuples: Experimental Evaluation And User Study
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2013-03-20)The World Wide Web today has evolved into a rich repository of entities where many knowledge bases containing entity-related information are directly available. Such knowledge bases are often in the form of entity-relationship ... -
Querying Microarray Databases
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Microarray technology has rapidly taken a key position among bioinformatics research tools. After the completion of the Human Genome Project, microarray databases have become particularly important to the management and ...