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Customization Of A Generic Search Engine By Adding User Categories
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)The current search engines available on the Net are generic in nature. They do not consider user preferences and treat all users information needs in the same way. As a result they frequently return a large number of ... -
Automating Inhabitant Interactions In Home And Workplace Environments Through Data-driven Generation Of Hierarchical Partially-observable Markov Decision Processes
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Markov models provide a useful representation of system behavioral actions and state observations, but they do not scale well. Utilizing a hierarchy and abstraction through hierarchical hidden Markov models (HHMMs) improves ... -
CSEgrid Portal: A Secure Web-based Solution For Providing Ubiquitious Access To Grid Services (Design, Development And Implementation Of A Prototype)
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Grid computing is emerging as a revolutionary concept for performing high performance computations on the grid. The grid infrastructure comprises of a large set of distributed computing resources that are shared across ... -
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. ... -
Bridging Two Grids: The SAM-grid/LCG Integration Project
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)SAM-Grid is an integrated data, job, and information management system. SAM-Grid addresses the distributed computing needs of the Dzero experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL. The system typically ... -
Alternative Architectures For Improving Document Readability
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)A number of tools have been developed to improve the readability of documents. These tools assist users to make changes which result in an easy to read document. Most of these tools were developed for users who work ... -
Monitorexplorer: A State-space Exploration Based Tool To Test Java Monitors Implementations
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)A monitor is a concurrency construct that encapsulates data. There are many application classes which are written using the Java Monitors and these are difficult to test due to the inherent complexities of the concurrent ... -
Adaptive Agent Communities For Providing Services In Dynamic Networks
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)New network applications are being created everyday to accommodate diverse user needs. Delivering services to the user in a timely manner taking into account network conditions, resources allocated and network load is a ... -
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 ... -
End-to-end Optimal Algorithms For Traffic Engineering, Failure Detection And Recovery In Connectionless Networks
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)In this thesis we propose a novel scheme to achieve intra-domain Traffic Engineering (TE), Failure Detection and Recovery (FR) in connectionless networks. This scheme addresses rate adaptation, load balancing and stability ... -
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 ... -
Infosearch: A System For Searching And Retrieving Documents Using Complex Queries
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)The colossal amount of information available online has resulted in overloading users who need to navigate this information for their routine requirements. Although search engines have been effective in reducing this ... -
Computing Best Coverage Path In The Presence Of Obstacles In Wireless Sensor Networks
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Given a set S = {S1,...,Sn} of n homogeneous wireless sensors deployed in a two dimensional area, a source point s and a destination point t, the least protected point p along a path (s,t) is that point such that the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A Framework For Supporting Quality Of Service Requirements In A Data Stream Management System
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Currently, a large class of data-intensive applications, in which data are presented in the form of continuous data streams rather than static relations, has been widely recognized in the database community. Not only is ... -
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 ... -
Monitoring And Analyzing Distributed Cluster Performance And Statistics Of Atlas Job Flow
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Grid3 is a Grid facility used by many High Energy Physics experiments to enable physicists to process data intensive and CPU intensive jobs more effectively as well as more efficiently. Amongst other things, the highlights ... -
Application Of Software Engineering Best Practices And Principles To Small Development Teams
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)The motivation of this thesis comes from the professional experience of the author. Having worked with very small software development teams in various capacities, he realized that significant improvements could be achieved ... -
EStream: An Integration Of Event And Stream Processing
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Event and stream data processing models have been researched extensively and are utilized in diverse application domains. Advanced applications require both event and stream processing, which is currently not supported. ...