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Optimizing Interconnection Topology using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Creator:: Zeng, Kai
Abstract:: As the number of nodes in high-performance computing (HPC) systems continues to grow, it becomes increasingly important to design scalable interconnection network topologies. Prior work has shown promise in adding random shortcuts on top of an existing topology to reduce average hop count and network diameter, but has been limited...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Delay-Aware Resource Management Frameworks for Intelligent Vehicular Networks

Creator:: Almasari, Shahad A.
Abstract:: Autonomous vehicles bring great societal benefits but also potential impact and disruption to road safety, traffic congestion, and driving behaviors. One important technology that is indispensable to the success of such systems is vehicular networks. Vehicular networks provide the backbone for ensuring communication and connectivity among vehicles, all crucial to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Customizable Visual Traces for Program Explanations

Creator:: Bajaj, Divya
Abstract:: Correctness and efficiency are important properties of programs. However, to support maintenance and debugging, the programs should also be understandable. Program explanations also play a vital role in educational settings, enhancing the understanding of programs among students. Proof trees provide a sound basis for generating dynamic explanations of programs. But...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Meeting End-to-End Deadlines in Real-Time Networks Using Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Creator:: Almahdi, Rafid M.
Abstract:: Network flows in Real-Time (RT) systems need to meet stringent end-to-end deadlines in order for such systems to operate safely and reliably. Today, such systems use custom or domain specific network system designs to meet end-to-end deadlines and other constraints of real-time flows. In this work we explore the design...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Three-Dimensional Network-on-Chip Architectures for Cycle Accurate Full-System Simulator

Creator:: Agarwal, Akash
Abstract:: High Performance Computing can find ubiquitous applications in the industry. HPC-applications are specifically designed to take advantage of the parallel nature of the computing systems which is often enabled by Multi-core/Many-core architectures. With this advent of Multi-processors in the mainstream systems, inter-core communication has been one of the major challenges...
Resource Type:: Presentation and Capstone Project

Information Theoretical Analysis of Self-Similar Trees

Creator:: Chunikhina, Evgenia V.
Abstract:: Tree-like patterns are ubiquitous in nature. Botanical trees, river networks, and blood systems are the most well-known examples of complex hierarchical systems met in observations. Interestingly, many of such systems exhibit statistical self-similarity. There are two main types of self-similarity: Horton self-similarity and Tokunaga self-similarity. Although there is an increased...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

CoprHD: ScaleIO Driver based on Southbound SDK

Creator:: Patkar, Prathamesh Pramod
Abstract:: Software Defined Storage is a term for data storage software to manage policy-based provisioning and management of heterogeneous data storage system abstracting underlying hardware. CoprHD is a software defined storage controller and API platform which enables policy-based management and cloud automation of storage resources for block, object and file storage...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

ScaleIO Storage Driver Based on CoprHD Southbound SDK

Creator:: Rajgopal, Varun
Abstract:: CoprHD is an open source software defined storage controller platform. It holds an inventory of all storage devices in the data center and understands their connectivity. It is an operating system for a storage cloud. It is designed with two key goals in mind: • Make an enterprise or a...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Design and Analysis of Distributed Resource Allocation Techniques for Large-Scale Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks

Creator:: NoroozOliaee, MohammadJavad
Abstract:: The widespread use of wireless devices that we have recently been witnessing, such as smartphones, tablets, laptops, and wirelessly accessible devices in general, is causing an unprecedented growth in the required amount of the wireless radio spectrum. On the other hand, the spectrum resource has, for the last several decades,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Efficient, secure and covert channel capacity bounded protocols for multilevel security cross-domain environments - an experimental system

Creator:: Nandakumar Thampi, Archana
Abstract:: The communication in MLS cross-domain environments faces many challenges. The three most important challenges are efficient key management, privacy preserving and covert channel. We propose an Efficient, Secure and Covert Channel Capacity Bounded Protocol which has three algorithms that addresses these challenges: The Efficient Attribute-based Fine-Grained Authentication (EAFA) algorithm, Anonymous...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Cross-layer aware routing approach for lifetime maximization in wireless sensor networks with multiple sinks

Creator:: Hamid, Arwa Zakaria
Abstract:: In wireless sensor networks (WSNs) nodes are battery powered. Therefore, the available energy resources of sensor nodes should be managed efficiently in order to increase the network lifetime. As a result, researchers have proposed routing schemes in order to maximize network lifetime. Even though these schemes increase the network lifetime,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Coordinating secondary-user behaviors for inelastic traffic reward maximization in large-scale DSA networks

Creator:: NoroozOliaee, MohammadJavad
Abstract:: We develop efficient coordination techniques that support inelastic traffic in large-scale distributed dynamic spectrum access DSA networks. By means of any learning algorithm, the proposed techniques enable DSA users to locate and exploit spectrum opportunities effectively, thereby increasing their achieved throughput (or "rewards" to be more general). Basically, learning algorithms...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Maximum flow in planar digraphs

Creator:: Harutyunyan, Anna
Abstract:: Worst-case analysis is often meaningless in practice. Some problems never reach the anticipated worst-case complexity. Other solutions get bogged down with impractical constants during implementation, despite having favorable asymptotic running times. In this thesis, we investigate these contrasts in the context of finding maximum flows in planar digraphs. We suggest...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Empirical study - pairwise prediction of fault based on coverage

Creator:: Shamasunder, Shalini
Abstract:: Researchers/engineers in the field of software testing have valued coverage as a testing metric for decades now. There have been various empirical results that have shown that as coverage increases the ability of the test program to detect a fault also increases. As a result numerous coverage techniques have been...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Optimal load and resource balance in internet distributed systems

Creator:: Nishida, Hiroshi
Abstract:: A distributed system is a network of multiple autonomous computational nodes designed primarily for performance scalability and robustness. The performance of a distributed system depends critically on how tasks and resources are distributed among the nodes. Thus, a main thrust in distributed system research is to design schemes for distributing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Implementation and performance measurement and analysis of OLSR protocol

Creator:: Sinky, Hassan Hussein
Abstract:: This paper provides a measurement-based performance evaluation of the Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol. Two versions of OLSR, OLSR-ETX and OLSR-ETT, are implemented and evaluated on a mesh network that we built from off-the-shelf commercial components. OLSR-ETX uses the Expected Transmission Count (ETX) metric whereas, OLSR-ETT uses the Expected...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

On error bounds for linear feature extraction

Creator:: Thangavelu, Madan Kumar
Abstract:: Linear transformation for dimension reduction is a well established problem in the field of machine learning. Due to the numerous observability of parameters and data, processing of the data in its raw form is computationally complex and difficult to visualize. Dimension reduction by means of feature extraction offers a strong...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Designing and understanding information retrieval systems using collaborative filtering in an academic library environment

Creator:: Jung, Seikyung
Abstract:: Accessing information on the Web has become ingrained into our daily lives, and we seek information from many different sources, including conference and journal publications, personal web pages, and others. Increasingly, web-based information retrieval systems such as web-based search engines, library on-line catalog systems, and subscription-based federated search systems are...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Natural language date-time parsing in Chandler™

Creator:: Chhajed, Darshana
Abstract:: The increasing need to share and synchronize personal information, such as schedules, tasks and events, amongst users has lead to the development of inter-personal information management software like ChandlerTM. Chandler is being developed in Python at the Open Source Applications Foundation, San Francisco. Before I started working on the project...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Reinforcement Learning for Network Routing

Creator:: Yalamanchi, Hema Jyothi
Abstract:: Efficient routing of information packets in dynamically changing communication networks requires routing policies that adapt to changes in load levels, traffic patterns and network topologies. Reinforcement Learning (RL) is an area of artificial intelligence that studies algorithms that dynamically optimize their performance based on experience in an environment. RL, thus,...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Multimedia streaming using multiple TCP connections

Creator:: Tullimalli, Sunand
Abstract:: Packet loss, delay and time-varying bandwidth are three main problems facing multimedia streaming applications over the Internet. Existing techniques such as Media-aware network protocol, network adaptive source and channel coding, etc. have been proposed to either overcome or alleviate these drawbacks of the Internet. But these techniques either need specialized...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Efficient content distribution on source constraint networks: peer communication

Creator:: Kamath, Rohit Vinodanand
Abstract:: Popular applications such as P2P file sharing, multiplayer gaming, videoconferencing, etc. rely on the efficiency of content distribution from a single source to multiple receivers. Most users of these applications are on the widely prevalent source constraint networks such as the Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) and wireless networks. Overlay multicast...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Automation of Blanket Credit Registration

Creator:: Somashekar, Shwetha
Abstract:: Almost every student in the School of EECS undergoes the process of Blanket Credit Registration wherein the student has to fill out the form for registration, meet the concerned professor and obtain his approval. The staff of the department has to maintain the details of the student and the Professor...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Secure socket layer protocol simulation in Java

Creator:: Karri, Nagendra
Abstract:: This project aims to study the performance of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Protocol implemented in JAVA for web applications. Secure Sockets Layer protocol allows client/server applications to communicate in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery. In particular, this project focuses on an implementation of...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Advanced separation of concerns and the compatibility of aspect-orientation

Creator:: Dechow, Doug
Abstract:: The appropriate separation of concerns is a fundamental engineering principle. A concern, for software developers, is that which must be represented by code in a program; by extension, separation of concerns is the ability to represent a single concern in a single appropriate programming language construct. Advanced separation of concerns...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

WebWEPP version 2.0 : Web-based water erosion prediction project

Creator:: Gyu Han, Hong
Abstract:: The WEPP (Water Erosion Prediction Project) application computes soil loss and sediment yield from a field based on the data on crops, management practices, and operations. In order to make WEPP, which is a Windows-based application, easily accessible, Web WEPP (Web-based WEPP) was developed by our research group. Web WEPP...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Hardwood lumber grading program

Creator:: Zhou, Weicheng
Abstract:: Hardwood lumber is a major forest product, and board grading is an important part of its manufacturing and marketing. Computer grading programs have been used to train graders and to grade lumber for board data banks, but they have not been used to machine-grade boards in an industrial environment because...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Java byte code obfuscator

Creator:: Mundle, Maithily
Abstract:: This paper discusses Java Bytecode Obfuscation techniques that make the reverse engineering task more difficult. This paper is structured as follows: Java virtual machine and Java language specifications are discussed first. Then the paper talks about different techniques for protecting software and then details one promising approach named Obfuscation. The...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Responder tracking application

Creator:: Wanalertlak, Naroot
Abstract:: We have developed a prototype web-based GIS application for tracking the locations of moving entities. This application, which is called the Responder application, consists of two parts: the Responder client and the Responder server. The Responder client is a .NET application written in C#. It reads the location data from...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Learning cost-sensitive diagnostic policies from data

Creator:: Zubek, Valentina Bayer
Abstract:: In its simplest form, the process of diagnosis is a decision-making process in which the diagnostician performs a sequence of tests culminating in a diagnostic decision. For example, a physician might perform a series of simple measurements (body tem- perature, weight, etc.) and laboratory measurements (white blood count, CT scan,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

How to Render Mathematical Symbols in Java

Creator:: Sun, Yuemei
Abstract:: Current math software provides limited interactivity and dynamics when conveying math ideas. We are developing prototype Java toolkits to display math-embedded documents in a more dynamic and interactive way. The core task of current project is to create a Java implementation of a MathML (in which a math expression is...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Metacontent based techniques for the regression testing of component based software : a case study

Creator:: Williams, Vasanth
Abstract:: Component based software technologies are viewed as essential for creating the software systems of the future. However, the use of externally provided component has serious drawbacks for a wide range of software engineering activities often because of a lack of information about the components. One such drawback involves validation of...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Collaborative filtering with probability and collaborative filtering with privacy

Creator:: Yang, Min
Abstract:: "Collaborative filtering has seen considerable success in the areas regarding information overload and e-commerce, while the current developed systems are flawed in several respects. Two approaches, the distribution-based algorithm and the blurring profile solution, are proposed to address several outstanding issues. The main findings of this research include: • The...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

A Java based mobile wireless messaging model

Creator:: Prabhu, Ramya
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

The Event Listener

Creator:: Zhang, Li
Abstract:: Events are an important concept in the Microsoft windows operating system. When a program runs interactively, it uses a user interface or a console to communicate with the user. Background services, however, do not have such mechanisms; instead, they use events to notify the user about changes and to report...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Java/MP : A Multiparadigm Programming Language

Creator:: Naik, Roshan
Abstract:: In this report we present Java/MP, a multiparadigm language designed as an extension to Java. Java/MP is an upward compatible superset of Java and incorporates the object oriented, functional and logical paradigms. Java/MP programs are compatible with the standard Java virtual machine. Many of the ideas in Java/MP have been...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project and Presentation

A visual XML query interface

Creator:: Zhao, Shiwei
Abstract:: As XML becomes more and more popular, easy-to-use and powerful XML query languages are in great need. Xing is a visual query and restructuring language for XML documents. The objective of this project is to develop a basic version of Xing, including a user-oriented XML query interface and a simple...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Design and implementation of Surface Irrigation Soil Loss (SISL) and Soil Condition Index (SCI), (SISL-SCI) database

Creator:: Nkansah, Alexander K.
Abstract:: The Soil Conditioning Index (SCI) aids the conservationist in designing crop rotations and residue management practices when low organic matter, poor soil tilt, and crusting problems are identified. The Natural Resources and Conservation Services (NRCS) field staff and others use the SCI as a qualitative tool during conservation planning. In...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Visual SQL analyzer project report

Creator:: Li, Xiaoyan
Abstract:: Structure Query Language (SQL) is widely used to access data stored in relational database systems. Although a powerful and flexible language, SQL can also be complex and hard to learn. For most new SQL users, it's easy to write SQL statement by following SQL grammar and syntax rules, but it's...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

A grading tool for the Translators course

Creator:: Wang, Haiyan
Abstract:: This report addresses the design and implementation of an internet-based grading tool for the "Translators" course. The motivation is to avoid exposing the instructor's Java byte-code to possible reverse-engineering tools and enable students to submit their homework virtually from any machine across the internet. This tool is intended to replace...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

LacEDAemon : a programming environment for the multiparadigm language leda

Creator:: Pandey, Rajeev K.
Abstract:: Multiparadigm programming languages are a recent development in the realm of programming languages. A multiparadigm programming language allows the use of multiple, differing programming paradigms without departing from a single, unified linguistic framework. Multiparadigm programming languages are claimed to have benefits to both pedagogy and complex application creation. The beneficial...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Learning hierarchical decomposition rules for planning : an inductive logic programming approach

Creator:: Reddy, Chandrasekhara K.
Abstract:: Artificial Intelligence (AI) planning techniques have been central to automating a gamut of tasks from the mundane route planning and beer production to the ethereal image processing of space-ship images. Of all the planning techniques, hierarchical- decomposition planning has been the technique most employed in industrial-strength planners. Hierarchical-decomposition planning is...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Translating MATLAB scripts into SPMD-style parallel programs

Creator:: Seelam, Nagajagadeswar Reddy
Abstract:: In this report., we address the issues of translating MATLAB scripts into SPMD-style C programs. The resulting programs, when linked with our run-time library are suitable for execution on parallel computers. We describe the design of the compiler and improvements made to it in the current version. We also describe...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Software composition with extended entity-relationship diagrams

Creator:: Muenchaisri, Pornsiri
Abstract:: I introduce a compositional approach to application software development. In this approach, an extended entity-relationship diagram (EERD), which represents the component types and the relationship types within an application domain, is used as a template of executable programs in that application domain. As we use structural active objects as the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Little Smalltalk in Java

Creator:: Pandrangi, Phani Srikanth
Abstract:: Little Smalltalk is a small, reasonably fast, easy-to-understand, easy-to-modify Smalltalk system. The system was originally developed in 1984 as a part of an implementation project to develop a minimal Smalltalk system, closely resembling Smalltalk-80. The system was developed in C. The current project is an experiment to port the Little...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Smalltalk-like collection classes in Java

Creator:: Sirimalle, Vinod
Abstract:: Data structures are essential for any programming task. Most of modem programming languages have a library of reusable data structures. In this project, Smalltalk-like collection classes have been implemented as a Java package. This package, collections, contains several useful data structures such as binary tree, B-Tree, bag, list, hash table...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

A study of model-based average reward reinforcement learning

Creator:: Ok, DoKyeong
Abstract:: Reinforcement Learning (RL) is the study of learning agents that improve their performance from rewards and punishments. Most reinforcement learning methods optimize the discounted total reward received by an agent, while, in many domains, the natural criterion is to optimize the average reward per time step. In this thesis, we...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Electra : integrating constraints, condition-based dispatching, and features exclusion into the multiparadigm language Leda

Creator:: Zamel, Nabil M.
Abstract:: Multiparadigm languages are languages that are designed to support more than one style of programming. Leda is a strongly-typed multiparadigm programming language that supports imperative, functional, object-oriented, and logic programming. The constraint programming paradigm is a declarative style of programming where the programmer is able to state relationships among some...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

AOPS : an abstraction oriented programming system for literate programming

Creator:: Shum, Stephen M.
Abstract:: The practice of literate programming is not widespread because existing literate programming systems have some undesirable characteristics such as programming language and text processor dependence and lack of flexible tools for viewing and manipulation of the source file. This dissertation describes the literate programming system AOPS (Abstraction Oriented Programming System)...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Active object systems

Creator:: Choi, Sungwoon
Abstract:: An active object system is a transition-based object-oriented system suitable for the design of various concurrent systems. An AOS consists of a collection of interacting objects, where the behavior of each object is determined by the transition statements provided in the class of that object. A transition statement is a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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