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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 ... -
Remote Patient Monitoring using Health Bands with Activity Level Prescription
(2016-12-19)With the advent of new commercially available consumer grade fitness and health devices, it is now possible and very common for users to obtain, store, share and learn about some of their important physiological metrics ... -
REPCLASS: Cluster And Grid Enabled Automatic Classification Of Transposable Elements Identified De Novo In Genome Sequences
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)In the last few years many computer and laboratory improvements in the production and analysis of DNA sequences have made possible the complete sequencing of whole genomes. This provides us with a wealth of raw genomes ... -
The Reputation System For Robust, Structured P2p Systems
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2010-03-03)Structured peer-to-peer systems are distributed communication systems that typically use Distributed Hash Table (DHT) indexing to efficiently locate the resources. These networks are highly scalable and can route the ... -
Resource Adaptive Agent Based Fault Tolerant Architecture
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2008-04-22)Pervasive environment consists of increasing number of mobile, tiny and heterogeneous devices communicating through interconnected network. As ubiquitous computing has seeped into various aspects of everyday life, there ... -
ROBOTICS CURRICULUM FOR EDUCATION IN ARLINGTON: Experiential, Simple and Engaging Learning Opportunity for Low-Income K-12 Students
(2016-05-10)Engineering disciplines (such as biomedical, civil, computer science, electrical, mechanical) are instrumental to society’s wellbeing and technological competitiveness; however the interest of K-12 American students in ... -
Runtime Optimization And Load Shedding In MavStream: Design And Implementation
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)In data stream processing systems Quality of Service (or QoS) is extremely important. The system should try its best to meet the QoS requirements specified by a user. On account of this difference, unlike in a database ... -
SCALABLE CONVERSION OF TEXTUAL UNSTRUCTURED DATA TO NoSQL GRAPH REPRESENTATION USING BERKELEY DB KEY-VALUE STORE FOR EFFICIENT QUERYING
(2017-12-13)Graph database is a popular choice for representing data with relationships. It facilitates easy modifications to the relational information without the need for structural redefinition, as in case of relational databases. ... -
Searching and Classifying Mobile Application Screenshots
(2016-12-16)Searching for a particular application layout image is a challenging task. No search provider gives an adequate method to filter the query results to the look of a mobile application. Searching for a particular style of ... -
SEES - An Adaptive Multimodal User Interface For The Visually Impaired
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)The enormous amount of electronic data present today can be a daunting task to access and process for a regular person, let alone someone with a disability. The World Wide Web and Electronic Mail have transformed the way ... -
Selective Cross Correlation In Passive Timing Analysis Attacks Against Low-latency Mixes
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2010-07-19)A mix is a communication proxy that hides the relationship between incoming and outgoing messages. Routing traffic through a path of mixes is a powerful tool for providing privacy. When mixes are used for interactive ...