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Monitoring Health By Detecting Drifts And Outliers In Patterns Of An Inhabitant In A Smart Home
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)
The elderly, along with people with disabilities or chronic illness, are most often dependent on some kind of formal or informal care. They are forced to move to a place where they can be cared for. Automatic health ...
Top K Query Processing In Distributed Database
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-09-19)
Today's data is rarely stored in centralized location due to the enormous amount of information that needs to be stored and also to increase reliability, availability and performance of the system. Same data is stored in ...
Game Theoretical Data Replication Techniques For Large-scale Autonomous Distributed Computing Systems
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-10-08)
Data replication in geographically dispersed servers is an essential technique for reducing the user perceived access time in large-scale distributed computing systems. A majority of the conventional replica placement ...
Medical Decision Support System Using Augmentable Guideline Engine
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)
Increasing life expectancy accompanied by existing growth of wireless infrastructure and ubiquitous computing technologies has given healthcare providers access to vital information within their healthcare networks. Medical ...
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 ...
Enhancements To The SAM-grid Infrastructure
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)
SAM-Grid is a grid computing infrastructure for high energy physics (HEP) experiments in Fermilab. It is composed of data handling, job management and information management components. There are several challenges when ...
Anytime Top-k Queries On Exact And Fuzzy Data
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)
Top-k queries on large multi-attribute data sets are fundamental operations in information retrieval and ranking applications. In this thesis, we initiate research on the anytime behavior of top-k algorithms on exact and ...
Game Theoretical Models And Algorithms For Rate Control In Video Compression
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)
This thesis investigates game theory based rate control algorithms for optimizing the bit allocation in video compression. The first algorithm utilizes the cooperative bargaining game in a MB level rate control algorithm ...
Distributed Streaming For Video On Demand
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)
With the advent of digital media, implementing reliable Video on Demand (VoD) systems over the best effort Internet is a potential issue. Distributed streaming for Video on Demand presents a combination of two techniques. ...
Utility Based Resource Aware Framework For Information Caching And Sharing In Mobile And Distributed Systems
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)
Along with the technology advancements in mobile and wireless networks, ubiquitous information service is becoming a reality in which users can access the information anytime anywhere. However, the user mobility, network ...