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A Game Theoretic Framework for Temporal and Agent Abstractions in Multiagent Learning
(2016-05-10)A major challenge in the area of multiagent reinforcement learning is addressing the issue of scale as systems get more and more complex. Systems with multiple agents attempting to explore and learn about the world they ... -
A Personalized Profile Based Learning System For Power Management In Android
Mobile computing devices are becoming more ubiquitous everyday due to the phenomenal growth in technology powering them. With the amount of computing power available in these devices, users are capable of achieving a ... -
A Real-time Activity Recognition in a Congested Wireless Environment
(2022-08-16)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 8/16/2024** ABSTRACT: This dissertation reports on how to achieve real-time activity recognition in a congested wireless environment. Recently, human activity recognition ... -
Accurate And Cost Efficient Object Localization Using Passive UHF RFID
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2011-07-14)In a smart environment, accurate locations of objects are a fundamental and critical issue. To achieve this goal, we present several methods based on passive far-field UHF RFID technologies, which can satisfy accuracy, ... -
Adaptive Dialogue Systems For Assistive Living Environments
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-03-12)Adaptive Dialogue Systems (ADS) are intelligent systems, able to interact with users via multiple modalities, such as speech, gestures, facial expressions and others. Such systems are able to make conversation with their ... -
ADAPTIVE GRAPH CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK AND ITS BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS
(2020-12-08)As the rise of graph neural networks, many deep learning frameworks have been extended to graph-structured data. The research in many diverse regimes have been tremendously reshaped, especially in areas like medical image ... -
Adaptive High Level Context Reasoning In Pervasive Environments
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2011-10-11)It is hard to believe that the Internet is now in its adolescent stage. This information age is replete with communication capable, intelligent, sensor equipped devices. Social networks, web services, and global information ... -
ADVANCED ALGORITHMS FOR COMBINATORIAL AND SEQUENTIAL TEST GENERATION WITH CONSTRAINTS
(2021-05-05)Combinatorial and sequential testing are software testing strategies that have attracted significant interests from both academic and industrial communities. This dissertation addresses the problem of how to efficiently ... -
Advanced Combinatorial Testing Algorithms And Applications
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2013-10-23)Combinatorial testing (CT) has been shown to be a very effective testing strategy. Given a system with n parameters, t-way combinatorial testing, where t is typically much smaller than n, requires that all t-way combinations, ... -
Advanced Software Testing Techniques Based On Combinatorial Design
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2010-11-01)Combinatorial testing refers to a testing strategy that applies the principles of combinatorial design to the domain of software test generation. Given a system with k parameters, combinatorial testing requires all the ... -
Algorithms For Building Compact Representatives And Processing Ranking Queries
(2017-10-25)Ranked retrieval model has rapidly replaced the traditional Boolean retrieval model as the de facto way for query processing when a large portion of (big) data matches a given query. Returning all the query results in ... -
Algorithms for Exploratory Queries over Web Database
(2019-02-06)In recent years we have seen an increase in the popularity of many web applications. The functionality of these applications range from allowing users to interact using online social network, to assist users in their ... -
AN INTELLIGENT FRAMEWORK TO ASSESS EMBODIED COGNITION FROM PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES IN CHILDREN
(2021-05-11)Cognition refers to "The mental actions or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses". It encompasses many aspects of intellectual functions and processes such as attention, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ...