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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF MATRIX OPERATIONS ON MAP-REDUCE QUERY LANGUAGE
(2016-05-12)Non-Negative matrix factorization is well-known complex machine learning algorithm which is also used in collaborative filtering. Collaborative filtering technique is used in recommendation systems and these techniques aim ... -
PERFORMANCE MODELING AND RESOURCE PROVISIONING FOR DATA-INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS
(2019-12-06)Performance evaluation and resource provisioning are two most critical factors to be considered for designers of distributed systems at modern warehouse data centers. The ever-increasing volumes of data in recent years ... -
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 ... -
Personalization and Data Relation Exploration using Predictive Analytics for the Production and Distributed Analysis System (PanDA)
(2016-08-26)Efficient data distribution among computing centers is one of the biggest challenges in large-scale scientific distributed computing systems. Such data distribution issues include: i) the rational utilization of storage ... -
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 ... -
Phishing in the Free Waters: A Study of Phishing Attacks Created using Free Website Building Services
(ACM, 2023-10)Free Website Building services (FWBs) provide individuals with a cost-effective and convenient way to create a website without requiring advanced technical knowledge or coding skills. However, malicious actors often abuse ... -
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 ... -
Power And Distortion Optimized Video Coding For Pervasive Computing Applications
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)This dissertation investigates video encoding schemes for pervasive computing applications that must ensure low power consumption in addition to high compression efficiency. The contribution of the dissertation is the ... -
Practical End-To-End Performance Evaluation Of Backend Software Applications
This dissertation makes contributions to four areas of performance testing - the test process itself, monitoring, automation and end-to-end performance evaluation of backend applications. The first contribution deals with ... -
Practical Indirect Control Flow Analysis for Binary Executables
(2023-04-27)Resolving indirect control flow is one of the fundamental challenges in binary analysis. Improving the accuracy of the indirect control flow analysis is vital to the binary analysis domain. Many analysis algorithms and ... -
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 ... -
A Privacy Enhanced Situation-aware Middleware Framework For Ubiquitous Computing Environments
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2010-07-19)The Ubiquitous Computing paradigm integrates myriads of small, inexpensive, heterogeneous networked devices, including sensors, distributed throughout the environment, with the intent of enabling context awareness in systems ... -
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 ... -
Probabilistic Localization Of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)The mobile ad hoc network localization problem deals with estimating the physical location of the nodes that do not have a direct way (e.g., GPS) to determine their own locations. Being an enabling technology that is ... -
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 ...