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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 ... -
A Random Walk Approach To Sampling Hidden Databases
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)A large part of the data on the World Wide Web is hidden behind form-like interfaces. These interfaces interact with a hidden back-end database to provide answers to user queries. Generating a uniform random sample of this ... -
Randomized and Evolutionary Approaches to Dataset Characterization, Feature Weighting, and Sampling in K-Nearest Neighbors
(2020-06-05)K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) has remained one of the most popular methods for supervised machine learning tasks. However, its performance often depends on the characteristics of the dataset and on appropriate feature scaling. ... -
Rate Control Algorithms For IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-09-17)This thesis evaluates software driven rate selection algorithms used in IEEE 802.11 wireless network interface cards. The motive of the bit-rate selection techniques is to optimize the throughput over the wireless network ... -
Reactive Control Composition For Mobile Manipulators
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2010-07-19)A mobile manipulator is a manipulator mounted on a mobile platform. Due to this combination it has increased mobility compared to a fixed manipulator and increased dexterity compared to a mobile platform. At the same time ... -
Real Time Hardware And Software Systems For Micro Air Vehicle Flight Control Testing
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2010-07-19)The trend of increasing capabilities of micro scale electrical, mechanical, and computing systems is opening up the possibilities of new unmanned vehicle platforms. Both unmanned aerial and ground vehicles have traditionally ... -
A Real-time Embedded Data Acquisition System For Surface Measurements Using Multiple Line Lasers
In the last few years there has been a significant increase in the number of hand held devices. These devices boast of delivering features such as high performance, low power consumption, high memory availability, serial ... -
Recommender Systems: An Algorithm To Predict "Who Rate What"
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2011-03-03)Recommender systems are systems that recommend content for us by looking at certain factors including what other people are doing as well as what we are doing. Examples of such systems present today are Amazon.com recommending ... -
Reducing The Complexity Of Reinforcement Learning In POMDPs By Decomposition Into Decision And Perceptual Processes
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2013-03-20)Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) and Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) are very powerful and general frameworks to model decision and decision learning tasks in a wide range of problem domains. As a ... -
A Relational Database Approach For Frequent Subgraph Mining
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Data mining aims at discovering interesting and previously unknown patterns from data sets. Further more, graph-based data mining represents a collection of techniques for mining the relational aspects of data represented ... -
Relative Clock Drift Rate Based Secure Time Synchronization For Wireless Sensor Networks
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Time synchronization is critical issue to many wireless sensor network applications such that target tracking, TDMA radio scheduling, and secure localization. However, the most of existing time synchronization algorithms ...