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  • Exact learning of tree patterns

    Creator:
    Amoth, Thomas R.
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    Tree patterns are natural candidates for representing rules and hypotheses in many tasks such as information extraction and symbolic mathematics. A tree pattern is a tree with labeled nodes where some of the leaves may be labeled with variables, whereas a tree instance has no variables. A tree pattern matches...
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  • A taxonomic analysis of typographic programming style

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    Oman, Paul W.
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    Program comprehension is important in program testing, debugging, and maintenance. Programming style impacts program understanding. However, there has not been any systematic identification of individual style factors and their contribution to program comprehension. In this thesis we present a programming style taxonomy composed of three classes: typographic (program layout and...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Paul W. Oman. Jr, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer

  • Probabilistic computation in stochastic pulse neuromime networks

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    Hangartner, Ricky Dale
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    Neuromime Networks Abstract approved- Paul Cull. Biological neural networks embody a unique combination

  • A linear equation model for a family of interconnection networks

    Creator:
    Larson, Shawn M.
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    The most important part of parallel computation is communication. Except in the most embarassingly parallel examples, processors cannot work cooperatively to solve a problem unless they can communicate. One way to solve the problem of communication is to use an interconnection network. Processors are located at nodes of the network,...
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    Interconnection Networks Abstract approved. Dr. Paul Cull The most important part of parallel computation is

  • Walking tree methods for biological string matching

    Creator:
    Hsu, Tai C.
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    Approximate string matching is commonly used to align genetic sequences (DNA or RNA) to determine their shared characteristics. In contrast with the standard dynamic programming methods which use local edit distance models, the Walking Tree heuristic method was created to handle non-local changes, e.g., translocations, inversions, and duplications, altogether and...
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    Biological String Matching Abstract approved Paul Cull Approximate string matching is commonly used to

  • Algorithms for string matching with applications in molecular biology

    Creator:
    Holloway, James Lee
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    As the volume of genetic sequence data increases due to improved sequencing techniques and increased interest, the computational tools available to analyze the data are becoming inadequate. This thesis seeks to improve a few of the computational methods available to access and analyze data in the genetic sequence databases. The...
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    Abstract approved: Paul Cull. Abstract approved: Walter Rudd. As the volume of genetic sequence data

  • 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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    Redacted for Privacy Paul Cull Abstract Many important application problems in engineering can be

  • Evaluation functions in aerial image segmentation

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    Langford, William T.
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    Remote sensing is the most practical way to acquire large amounts of land cover data for monitoring and understanding environmental change, so it is important to be able to map land cover from imagery. Maps defining land cover patches as polygons rather than pixels greatly improve processing efficiency in models...
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    members Paul Cull and Prasad Tadepalli gave me constant encouragement and taught me many things. Paul in

  • Some contributions to asymmetric error control codes

    Creator:
    Elmougy, Samir
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    In some practical systems, most of the errors are of 1 → 0 type and 0 → 1 errors occur very rarely. In this thesis, first, the capacity of the asymmetric channel is derived. The capacity of the binary symmetric channel (BSC) and the Z-channel can be derived from this...
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    errors using r = 2 check bits and up to m2 + r 2 errors using r > 2 check bits. Some upper bound on the

  • Adaptation-based programming

    Creator:
    Bauer, Tim
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    Partial programming is a field of study where users specify an outline or skeleton of a program, but leave various parts undefined. The undefined parts are then completed by an external mechanism to form a complete program. Adaptation-Based Programming (ABP) is a method of partial programming that utilizes techniques from...
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    Decision Processes (MDPs). An MDP M consists of the following elements (S,A,T,R). • S represents a set of