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  • Algorithms for massive biological datasets

    Creator:
    Bryant, Douglas W. (Douglas Wesley)
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    Within the past several years the technology of high-throughput sequencing has transformed the study of biology by offering unprecedented access to life's fundamental building block, DNA. With this transformation's potential a host of brand-new challenges have emerged, many of which lend themselves to being solved through computational methods. From de...
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    Dissertation

  • Towards architecture-adaptable parallel programming

    Creator:
    Kumaran, Santhosh
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    There is a software gap in parallel processing. The short lifespan and small installation base of parallel architectures have made it economically infeasible to develop platform-specific parallel programming environments that deliver performance and programmability. One obvious solution is to build architecture-independent programming environments. But the architecture independence usually comes at...
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    Dissertation
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    approved Michael J. Quinn There is a software gap in parallel processing. The short lifespan and small

  • Distributed OpenCL : a platform for distributed, heterogeneous computing for domain scientists

    Creator:
    Dillon, William H.
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    It is possible to purchase, for as little as $10,000, a cluster of computers with the capability to rival the supercomputers of only a few years ago. Now, users that have little to no experience developing distributed applications or managing a cluster are in a position to do so. To...
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    Abstract approved: __________________________________________ Michael J. Bailey It is possible to

  • Voxel based indirect illumination using spherical harmonics

    Creator:
    Rauwendaal, Randall
    Abstract:
    Realistic (ideally photorealistic) real-time rendering has remained an elusive goal in computer graphics. While photorealistic rendering has certainly been achieved at the expense of tremendous computational resources and corresponding rendering times; real-time rendering typically must accept a great number of compromises to achieve adequate performance, such as aliasing artifacts, the...
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    Dissertation
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    Harmonics Abstract approved: Michael J. Bailey Realistic (ideally photorealistic) real-time rendering

  • Data decomposition and load balancing for networked data-parallel processing

    Creator:
    Crandall, Phyllis E.
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    Dissertation
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    and Load Balancing for Networked Data-Parallel Processing Abstract approved. - Michael J. Quinn The

  • The inclusion of expertise in a decision support system for strategic decision making

    Creator:
    Goul, Kenneth Michael
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    A decision support system (DSS) incorporating domain expertise guides, tutors, and consults a decision maker in opportunity, problem, and crisis identification activities. The objective for the system is to promote improved decision making. Using an "Independent Groups" design, an experimental study was conducted to investigate the effects of DSS use...
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    Dissertation
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    for Strategic Decision Making AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kenneth Michael Goul for the degree of

  • Machine learning in engineering : techniques to speed up numerical optimization

    Creator:
    Cerbone, G. (Giuseppe)
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    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 depend critically on choosing a good starting point from which to perform the optimization search. In high-dimensional spaces, numerical...
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    Dissertation
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    Tadepalli provided useful feedback on EBL related issues and proof-read most of my papers. Michael Scanlan

  • Automatic program generation for scientific computing

    Creator:
    Fu, Zhe
    Abstract:
    The code reuse problem is a common software engineering problem in scientific computing. As a prevailing programming language in many scientific fields, Fortran does not provide support to address this problem. One particular reason is that Fortran lacks the support for generic programming. By applying program-generation techniques, we developed two...
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    Dissertation

  • Optimal inference with local expressions

    Creator:
    Borujerdi, Mohammad
    Abstract:
    Probabilistic inference using Bayesian networks is now a well-established approach for reasoning under uncertainty. Among many e ciency-driven tech- niques which have been developed, the Optimal Factoring Problem (OFP) is distinguished for presenting a combinatorial optimization point of view on the problem. The contribution of this thesis is to extend...
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    Approved by Committee: Major Professor (Bruce D'Ambrosio) Committee Member (Michael Quinn) Committee

  • 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...
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    and encouragement was invaluable include Margaret Burnett, Lawrence Crowl and David Sandberg. Michael