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  • Update programming -- a safe approach to software maintenance

    Creator:
    Ren, Deling
    Abstract:
    Software maintenance accounts for a large portion of the software development cost, particularly the process of updating programs either to adapt for requirement change or to enhance design or efficiency. Currently, program updates are generally performed manually by programmers using text editors. This is an unreliable method because syntax and...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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  • A SAT-based planning framework for optimizing resource production

    Creator:
    Ventura, Christopher
    Abstract:
    Domain-independent automated planning is concerned with computing a sequence of actions that can transform an initial state into a desired goal state. Resource production domains form an interesting class of such problems, in that they typically require reasoning about concurrent durative-actions with continuous effects while minimizing some cost function. Although...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Activity recognition in desktop environments

    Creator:
    Shen, Jianqiang
    Abstract:
    Knowledge workers are struggling in the information flood. There is a growing interest in intelligent desktop environments that help knowledge workers organize their daily life. Intelligent desktop environments allow the desktop user to define a set of “activities” that characterize the user’s desktop work. These environments then attempt to identify...
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    Dissertation
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  • Towards reliable and survivable ocean wave energy converters

    Creator:
    Brown, Adam C.
    Abstract:
    Ocean wave energy is a new and developing field of renewable energy with great potential. The energy contained in one meter of an average wave off the coast of Newport Oregon could supply dozens of homes with electricity. However, ocean waves are usually quite irregular which leads to large bursts...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    . Abstract approved: Robert Paasch Ocean wave energy is a new and developing field of

  • Mechanical design under changing customer requirements case study : BugID

    Creator:
    Fagan, Chris R.
    Abstract:
    Customer requirements and engineering specifications will influence the direction of the design in any product, so it is crucial to make the requirements as stable as possible so quality designs can be produced on time within a budget. It would be optimal for requirements and specifications to remain constant but...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Abstract approved: _______________________________________ Robert K. Paasch Customer requirements and

  • Learning ranking functions for efficient search

    Creator:
    Xu, Yuehua
    Abstract:
    This dissertation explores algorithms for learning ranking functions to efficiently solve search problems, with application to automated planning. Specifically, we consider the frameworks of beam search, greedy search, and randomized search, which all aim to maintain tractability at the cost of not guaranteeing completeness nor optimality. Our learning objective for...
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    Dissertation
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    with a feature vector f(v) and nodes are ranked according to w · f(v) where w is a weight vector. Each

  • Toward computer vision for understanding American football in video

    Creator:
    Hess, Robin W.
    Abstract:
    In this work, I examine the problem of understanding American football in video. In particular, I present several mid-level computer vision algorithms that each accomplish a different sub-task within a larger system for annotating, interpreting, and analyzing collections of American football video. The analysis of football video is useful in...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Robin W. Hess for the

  • Web-PST : Web-based Pesticide Screening Tool

    Creator:
    Manda, Ashwin Prasad
    Abstract:
    We have developed a web-based software tool for evaluating the potential risk of pesticides on the surrounding environment. The software tool is called Web-based Pesticide Screening Tool (Web-PST). It uses the formulas and standards specified by the Soil/Pesticide Interaction Screening Procedure Version II (SPISP II). Web-PST closely models the stand-alone...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    condition true. “W” denotes it in the adjustment matrix. Slope greater than 15%: If the slope of the

  • A numerical approach to Tamme's problem in euclidean n-space

    Creator:
    Adams, Patrick Guy
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    of this thesis. Dr. Robert Burton provided helpful suggestions. Dr. Adel Faridani volunteered his

  • Resource placement, data rearrangement, and Hamiltonian cycles in torus networks

    Creator:
    Bae, Myung Mun
    Abstract:
    Many parallel machines, both commercial and experimental, have been/are being designed with toroidal interconnection networks. For a given number of nodes, the torus has a relatively larger diameter, but better cost/performance tradeoffs, such as higher channel bandwidth, and lower node degree, when compared to the hypercube. Thus, the torus is...
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    Dissertation
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