This paper surveys the activity recognition task from a machine learning perspective. I give a definition of this problem, and I classify different activity recognition problems into two categories. I show the activities ...

Many important application problems in engineering can be formalized as nonlinear optimization tasks. However, numerical methods for solving such problems are brittle and do not scale well. For example, these methods d ...

Magnetically programmable surface acoustic wave (MP SAW) devices were designed, fabricated and characterized in this thesis using integrated giant magnetoresistive (GMR) bits with interdigital reflectors. This provides a ...

An 8 bit microcontroller slave unit was designed, constructed, and tested to demonstrate advantages and feasibility of master/slave parallel processing using conventional processors and relatively slow inter-processor ...

This thesis presents and examines the concept that the output of a wound-rotor induction generator (WRIG) can be limited by means of linking to external impedances for wind-turbine generating system application. An 80 ...

Ultra-wideband (UWB) radio has become an attractive alternative for wireless communications due to the robustness to multipath fading, low power transmission, mostly-digital implementation, and low cost. Furthermore, sho ...

We present a meta-model as a process maturity framework that can be effectively used to identify the key practices to initiate and sustain a software process improvement effort focused on a single process area. Our app ...

Variability in circuit performance due to process defects is a major concern in integrated circuit (IC) fabrication. Advanced IC manufacturing processes employ Chemical-Mechanical Polishing (CMP) for planarization of oxi ...

A methodology for rapid estimation of substrate noise generated by digital circuitry in mixed-signal circuits is presented. This methodology is incorporated into the Silencer! framework, and also provides for future impr ...