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  • Advanced separation of concerns and the compatibility of aspect-orientation

    Creator:
    Dechow, Doug
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    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...
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    . Dechow A DISSERTATION submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements

  • A study of model-based average reward reinforcement learning

    Creator:
    Ok, DoKyeong
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    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...
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    Dissertation submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the

  • AOPS : an abstraction oriented programming system for literate programming

    Creator:
    Shum, Stephen M.
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    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)...
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    Programming by Stephen M. Shum A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of

  • Software composition with extended entity-relationship diagrams

    Creator:
    Muenchaisri, Pornsiri
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    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...
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    permanent collection of Oregon State University libraries. My signature below authorizes release of my

  • Comprehensive support for developing graphical highly interactive user interface systems

    Creator:
    Keh, Huan-chao
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    The general problem of application development of interactive GUI applications has been addressed by toolkits, libraries, user interface management systems, and more recently domain-specific application frameworks. However, the most sophisticated solution offered by frameworks still lacks a number of features which are addressed by this research: 1) limited functionality --...
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    Systems by Huan-Chao Keh A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of

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

    Creator:
    Reddy, Chandrasekhara K.
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    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...
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    collection of Oregon State University libraries. My signature below authorizes release of my thesis to any

  • Information Theoretical Analysis of Self-Similar Trees

    Creator:
    Chunikhina, Evgenia V.
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    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...
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    V. Chunikhina A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the

  • Detecting piecewise linear approximate fibrations

    Creator:
    Nam, Kiwon
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  • The dynamic speculation and performance prediction of parallel loops

    Creator:
    Zier, David A.
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    General purpose computer systems have seen increased performance potential through the parallel processing capabilities of multicore processors. Yet this potential performance can only be attained through parallel applications, thus forcing software developers to rethink how everyday applications are designed. The most readily form of Thread Level Parallelism (TLP) within any...
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    submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor

  • Offloading of I/O transactions in current CPU architectures

    Creator:
    Larsen, Steen K.
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    IO transactions within a computer system have evolved along with other system components (i.e., CPU, memory, video) from programmed IO (PIO). In current mainstream systems (spanning from HPC to mobile) the IO transactions are CPU-centric descriptor-based DMA transactions. The key benefit is that slower IO devices can DMA write system...
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    understand that my dissertation will become part of the permanent collection of Oregon State University