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  • Personalizing machine learning systems with explanatory debugging

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    Kulesza, Todd
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    How can end users efficiently influence the predictions that machine learning systems make on their behalf? Traditional systems rely on users to provide examples of how they want the learning system to behave, but this is not always practical for the user, nor efficient for the learning system. This dissertation...
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    Debugging AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Todd Kulesza for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

  • Algorithms for massive biological datasets

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    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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    : Algorithms for Massive Biological Datasets Abstract approved: Weng-Keen Wong Todd C. Mockler Within the

  • Understanding Software Development and Testing Practices

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    Hilton, Michael
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    A bad software development process leads to wasted effort and inferior products. In order to improve a software process, it must be first understood. In this work I focus on understanding software processes. The first process we seek to understand is Continuous Integration (CI). CI systems automate the compilation, building,...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Michael Hilton for the

  • Toward end-user debugging of machine-learned programs

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    Kulesza, Todd
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    The results of a machine learning from user behavior can be thought of as a program, and like all programs, it may need to be debugged. Providing ways for the user to debug it matters because without the ability to fix errors, users may find that the learned program’s errors...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Todd Kulesza for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science

  • Generating and manipulating painterly renderings of images

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    Todd, Grace
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    We present a tool that converts any image into a painterly rendered one, or one that looks as though it was hand-painted. To do this, we implemented the Sobel filter to calculate the edge field that is used to create streamlines, which serve as the foundation for brush strokes. We...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    of Images By Grace Todd A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University Honors College in partial

  • High-Dimensional Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback

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    Curran, William
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    State-of-the-art personal robots need to perform complex manipulation tasks to be viable in complex scenarios. However, many of these robots, like the PR2, use manipulators with high degrees of freedom. High degrees of freedom are desirable from a functionality standpoint, but make the learning task more difficult by adding a...
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    ]. Reinforcement learning addresses the problem of finding an optimal policy, π∗(s, a) = P (a|s), that maximizes a

  • Incorporating and Learning Behavior Constraints for Sequential Decision Making

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    Pinto, Jervis
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    Writing a program that performs well in a complex environment is a challenging task. In such problems, a method of deterministic programming combined with reinforcement learning (RL) can be helpful. However, current systems either force developers to encode knowledge in very specific forms (e.g., state-action features), or assume advanced RL...
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    Constraints for Sequential Decision Making Abstract approved: Alan P. Fern Writing a program that performs

  • Characterizing Server Compromise: Resilience Models, Instantiations, and Impossibilities

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    McQuoid, Ian M.
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    One of the pervasive problems arising in our modern, digital world surrounds data breaches where an adversary, through zero-day exploitations, phishing, or old-fashioned social engineering attacks, gains access to a service’s data stores. Our society increasingly relies on these cloud-based services for everything from our taxes to personal communication. As...
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    Dissertation

  • New Approaches to Depth-Based Render Techniques Using Pixel Synchronization

    Creator:
    Pawlowski, Bryan
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    As the nonstop advancement of graphics hardware continues, new features are being added to the graphics pipeline on a regular basis. One of these advancements is called Pixel Synchronization, which allows a graphics programmer more power with certain types of data structures that may be accessed by multiple shader units...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Depth-Based Render Techniques Using Pixel Synchronization Abstract approved: Michael Bailey As the

  • New constructions and applications for homomorphic secret sharing and function secret sharing

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    Singh, Jaspal
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    A secret sharing scheme allows a dealer to distribute a secret with a set of parties, such that only a certain subset of parties can collaborate and learn the shared secret. Traditional secret sharing schemes have been used as building blocks in various subdomains of cryptography. Recently, two new extensions...
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    implicit in sparse-OT PSI [PRTY19]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 5 (p, 1)-bFSS implicit in Chase-Miao PSI

  • Domain-Independent Planning for Markov Decision Processes with Factored State and Action Spaces

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    Raghavan, Aswin
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    Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) are the de-facto formalism for studying sequential decision making problems with uncertainty, ranging from classical problems such as inventory control and path planning, to more complex problems such as reservoir control under rainfall uncertainty and emergency response optimization for fire and medical emergencies. Most prior research...
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    pruning operator P(D,π) ≡ Pπ(D) for any ADD D and a policy constraint BDD π

  • High-performance data-parallel input/output

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    Moore, Jason Andrew
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    Existing parallel file systems are proving inadequate in two important arenas: programmability and performance. Both of these inadequacies can largely be traced to the fact that nearly all parallel file systems evolved from Unix and rely on a Unix-oriented, single-stream, block-at-a-time approach to file I/O. This one-size-fits-all approach to parallel...
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    - Michael J. Quinn Existing parallel file systems are proving inadequate in two important arenas

  • Analytical performance prediction of data-parallel programs

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    Clement, Mark J.
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    Programs ftAbstract approved- Michael J. Quinn A combination of static and dynamic performance

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

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

  • Computational methods for protein-protein interface prediction

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    Tribelhorn, Benjamin
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    Protein-protein interactions underlie all biological processes and are a field of study that has wide implications throughout many other fields including medicine, genetics, biology, and ecology. Proteins are the building blocks and primary actors of life. They work together to accomplish virtually every task within a cell, including, metabolism, signal...
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    Methods for Protein-Protein Interface Prediction Abstract approved: Michael J. Bailey Protein-protein

  • Parallel performance tuning using moments of utilization data

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    Godin, T. J.
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    Many performance tuning tools for parallel software use visual representations of trace data to guide a developer towards code improvements. Most widely used visualization schemes, however, either omit useful information about time dependence of processor use, or include that information but do not scale well to long run times or...
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    Capstone Project
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    Utilization Data T. J. Godin Major Professor: Dr. Michael J. Quinn A Research Paper submitted to

  • SIDUR--a formalism for structuring knowledge bases

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    Kogan, Dan D.
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    A new class of information intensive applications is emerging [Fuch82; Ohsu82] for which neither Artificial Intelligence (AI) nor Database technologies alone are well suited. Database systems do not provide the general inferential capabilities required for problem solving, while AI techniques have not been adapted to handle massive amounts of structured...
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    . Redacted for Privacy Michael i".1"reiling A new class of information intensive applications is emerging

  • Towards architecture-adaptable parallel programming

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    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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    approved Michael J. Quinn There is a software gap in parallel processing. The short lifespan and small

  • Voxel based indirect illumination using spherical harmonics

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    Rauwendaal, Randall
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    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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    Harmonics Abstract approved: Michael J. Bailey Realistic (ideally photorealistic) real-time rendering

  • Hybrid computational voxelization using the graphics pipeline

    Creator:
    Rauwendaal, Randall
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    This thesis presents an efficient computational voxelization approach that utilizes the graphics pipeline. Our approach is hybrid in that it performs a precise gap-free computational voxelization, employs fixed-function components of the GPU, and utilizes the stages of the graphics pipeline to improve parallelism. This approach makes use of the latest...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Graphics Pipeline Abstract approved: Michael J. Bailey This thesis presents an efcient computational

  • Developing simple load sharing utilities (SLSU) for SWARM

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    Zhao, Yan
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    With the strong shift toward network-centric cluster-computing workload management has become increasingly important in both industrial and academic environments. To fully harness the distributed computing resources of the 32 PC's in our department, I developed a workload monitoring system together with a few utilities for users to submit either sequential...
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    Capstone Project
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    stimulating discussions with Prof. Michael J. Quinn. His encouragement and direction have been invaluable

  • States, side effects and multiple contexts in programming languages

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    Chakrabarti, Sankar L.
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    In von Neumann Languages, side effects occur if one or more non local variables change value(s) during the execution of a procedure or a function. Side effects can occur only if the programming language provides a notion of memory (or state) where the effect will be stored. Side effects complicate...
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    - cedure P, then the value of X is supposed to be consumed by the P; i.e., the procedure removes the value

  • Implementing a semantic data model

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    Roth, Shirley L.
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    OSIRIS is an integrated information architecture which was developed at Oregon State University. SIDUR is the data model upon which the semantic level is based. The semantic level is the mediating level between user's information needs and the stored data. The advantages of providing a semantic database environment include flexibility...
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    , 1986 Title: IMPLEMENTING A SEMANTIC DATA MODEL Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy Michael J

  • Random access machine in secure multi-party computation

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    Hu, Zhangxiang
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    Secure multi-party computation (MPC) is a conceptual framework in cryptography. It allows distrusting parties engage in a protocol to perform a computational task while still maintain some secure properties. Most existing approaches are required to interpret functions as a boolean circuit. With the recent state-of-art circuit garbling scheme, the performance...
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    Masters Thesis
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    approved: Michael J. Rosulek Secure multi-party computation (MPC) is a conceptual framework in

  • Translating MATLAB scripts into SPMD-style parallel programs

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    Seelam, Nagajagadeswar Reddy
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    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...
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    Programs N agajagadeswar Reddy Seelam Major Professor: Dr. Michael J. Quinn A Research Paper

  • Implementing a Run-time Library for a Parallel MATLAB Compiler

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    Malishevsky, Alexey
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    Programming parallel machines has been a difficult and unrewarding task. The short lifespan of parallel machines and their incompatibility have made it difficult to utilize them. Our goal here is to create an environment for parallel computing which allows users to take advantage of parallel computers without writing parallel programs....
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    Alexey Malishevsky Major Professor: Dr. Michael J. Quinn A Research Paper submitted to Oregon State

  • PedVac - a graphical interface and front-end to a parallel pedestrian evacuation simulator

    Creator:
    Vimawala, Ankush V.
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    The World Trade Center disaster brought into focus, tragically, the need for well-designed evacuation systems in modem buildings. Today, designing an efficient evacuation system has become an integral part of designing large buildings. Simulation software enables an evacuation system to be evaluated. Modern day buildings, whether airports, auditoriums, public office...
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    , Dr Michael J. Quinn, Oregon State University, that he has put forth in guiding me throughout the

  • A method for dithering colored pictures

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    Zocchi, Karen
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    Charge of Major Date research paper i~ completed __ s_e~p~t_e_m_b_e_r_2_1_,_1_9_8_4 ________ _ 1

  • LIL : a LISP implementation language

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    Mirashrafi, Mojtaba
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    High-level languages provide a convenient environment for program development as well as ease of source code portability. Unfortunately the degree of portability of the programs written in conventional high-level languages change depending on the programming style of the programmer. The Operating System interface also has an effect on the ease...
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    Masters Thesis
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    virtual machine definitions 2 1.1.1 Pascal P-CODE [1] 2 1.1.2 Utah TLISP [2] [3] 3 1.1.3 The INTERLISP

  • Layered rendering model for human teeth

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    Shetty, Sudarshanram
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    This study introduces a layered model for rendering human teeth. Human teeth exhibit complex light interaction due to their layered structure. While the lighting responses of teeth have been studied in the dental industry for the production of realistic looking dentures, to our knowledge this is the first study of...
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    Model for Human Teeth Abstract approved: Michael J. Bailey This study introduces a layered model for

  • Compiling Dataparallel C for efficient execution on tightly coupled multiprocessors

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    Seevers, Bradley K.
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    We describe a set of data flow techniques and code transformations that translate a single instruction stream, multiple data stream (SIMD) Dataparallel C program into a semantically equivalent single program, multiple data stream (SPMD) C program suitable for execution on shared memory multiprocessor computers, such as the Sequent Balance and...
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    Coupled Multiprocessors Bradley K. Seevers Major Professor: Dr. Michael J. Quinn A Research Paper

  • A parallel implementation of a fluid flow simulation using smoothed particle hydrodynamics

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    Vertanen, Keith D.
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    The reaction of fluid or gas flowing around an obstacle is a common engineering problem. Computer simulations are often used to measure and visualize the physical processes involved. In this report, we will discuss a parallel implementation of a simulation using the Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) approach to fluid flow....
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    using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Keith D. Vertanen Major Professor: Dr. Michael J. Quinn A

  • A dataflow mechanism for supporting query optimization

    Creator:
    Kalvin, Patricia M.
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    The objective of this thesis is to develop a tool which can be used to implement query processing algorithms produced by a query optimizer. The tool should have the following properties: (1) it should support a description of the query solution in a dataflow-like language, (2) it should support data...
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    Abstract approved: Michael J. Freiling The objective of this thesis is to develop a tool which can be

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

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    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

  • ASTEK : a multi-paradigm knowledge aquisition tool for complex structured knowledge

    Creator:
    Jacobson, Chris E.
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    Knowledge based systems can require large, highly complex and varied forms of knowledge. An effective knowledge acquisition tool to support such a system should allow the user to transfer and manipulate the different forms knowledge in a manner that is clear and intuitive. ASTEK is a knowledge acquisition tool that...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Acquisition Tool for Complex Structured Knowledge Redacted for Privacy Abstract approved: /j/ Dr. Michael J

  • Re-understanding Finite-State Representations of Recurrent Policy Networks

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    Danesh, Mohamad H.
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    We propose an approach for understanding control policies represented as recurrent neural networks. Recent work has approached this problem by transforming such recurrent policy networks into finite-state machines (FSM) and then analyzing the equivalent minimized FSM. While this led to interesting insights, the minimization process can obscure a deeper understanding...
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    Masters Thesis
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    -understanding Finite-State Representations of Recurrent Policy Networks Abstract approved: Alan P. Fern We

  • FluffyHome : Find a pet‐sitter for free

    Creator:
    Zhang, Chendi
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    More than 50% of American families have at least one pet nowadays, and the number is still rising. Pet caring needs are also growing with it. When people need to leave home for work or vacation, leaving pets home alone might bother some pet owners. Unfortunately, existing approaches all have...
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    ).  3. AVMA. "U.S. pet ownership statistics." (2019).  4. Baker, Reg, Stephen Blumberg and J. Michael

  • Toward computer vision for understanding American football in video

    Creator:
    Hess, Robin W.
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    In this work, I examine the problem of understanding American football in video. In particular, I present several mid-level computer vision algorithms that each accomplish a different sub-task within a larger system for annotating, interpreting, and analyzing collections of American football video. The analysis of football video is useful in...
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    Vision for Understanding American Football in Video Abstract approved: Alan P. Fern In this work, I

  • Scheduling and Online Planning in Stochastic Diffusion Networks

    Creator:
    Xue, Shan
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    Diffusion processes in networks are common models for many domains, including species colonization, information/idea cascade, disease propagation and fire spreading. In diffusion networks, a diffusion event occurs when a behavior spreads from one node to the other following a probabilistic model, where the behavior could be species, an idea, a...
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    Online Planning in Stochastic Diffusion Networks Abstract approved: Alan P. Fern Diffusion processes

  • Learning and Improving Policies for Probabilistic Planning Problems

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    Issakkimuthu, Murugeswari
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    In this work, we study the problem of learning and improving policies for probabilistic planning problems. In the first part, we train neural network policies for probabilistic planning problems modeled as factored Markov decision problems. The objective is to train problem-specific neural networks via supervised learning to imitate the action...
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    . Title: Learning and Improving Policies for Probabilistic Planning Problems Abstract approved: Alan P

  • New learning modes for sequential decision making

    Creator:
    Judah, Kshitij
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    This thesis considers the problem in which a teacher is interested in teaching action policies to computer agents for sequential decision making. The vast majority of policy learning algorithms o er teachers little flexibility in how policies are taught. In particular, one of two learning modes is typically considered: 1)...
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    Modes for Sequential Decision Making Abstract approved: Alan P. Fern This thesis considers the

  • Learning Topical Social Media Sensors for Twitter

    Creator:
    Iman, Zahra
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    Social media sources such as Twitter represent a massively distributed social sensor over diverse topics ranging from social and political events to entertainment and sports news. However, due to the overwhelming volume of content, it can be difficult to identify novel and significant content within a broad topic in a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Media Sensors for Twitter Abstract approved: Scott P. Sanner Social media sources such as Twitter

  • Helping end-user programmers find and fix performance problems in visual code

    Creator:
    Chambers, Chris
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    End-user programmers often struggle to create programs that run quickly and effectively, which can be a major deterrent in completing their tasks as desired. Current research has primarily focused on catching user mistakes, such as errors or misused formulas. However, end users deal with issues other than just correctness. In...
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    Performance Problems in Visual Code Abstract approved: Christopher P. Scaffidi End-user programmers

  • Automatic Detection of Possessions and Shots from Raw Basketball Videos

    Creator:
    Terhuja, Vikedo
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    Sports analytics is rapidly evolving today through the use of computer vision systems that automatically extract huge amount of information inherently present in multimedia data without much human assistance. This information can facilitate a better understanding of patterns and strategies in various sports. However, for non-professional teams, due to expense...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Raw Basketball Videos. Abstract approved: Alan P. Fern Sports analytics is rapidly evolving today

  • Object detection in biological images using a search-based framework

    Creator:
    Lam, Michael
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    This thesis addresses a basic problem in computer vision, that of semantic labeling of images. Our work is aimed at object detection in biological images for evolutionary biology research. In particular, our goal is to detect nematocysts in Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) images. This biological domain presents challenges for existing...
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    Framework AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Michael Lam for the degree of Master of Science in Computer

  • Learning classification rules by randomized iterative local search

    Creator:
    Chisholm, Michael (Michael Andrew), 1974-
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    Learning easily understandable decision rules from examples is one of the classic problems in machine learning. Most learning algorithms for this problem employ some variation of a greedy separate-and-conquer algorithm. In this paper, we describe a system called LERILS that learns highly accurate and comprehensible rules from examples using a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Microsoft Word - MS Thesis 6.doc AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Michael

  • Mental Models of Mere Mortals with Explanations of Reinforcement Learning

    Creator:
    Anderson, Andrew A.
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    How should reinforcement learning (RL) agents explain themselves to humans not trained in AI? To gain insights into this question, we conducted a 124 participant, four-treatment experiment to compare participants’ mental models of an RL agent in the context of a simple Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game. The four treatments isolated...
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    checking with Levene’s test that the variances were not significantly2 different (F (3, 120) = 0.4252, p

  • Learning MDP action models via discrete mixture trees

    Creator:
    Wynkoop, Michael S.
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    This thesis addresses the problem of learning dynamic Bayesian network (DBN) models to support reinforcement learning. It focuses on learning regression tree models of the conditional probability distributions of the DBNs. Existing algorithms presume that the stochasticity in the domain can be modeled as a deterministic function with additive noise....
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    OF Michael S. Wynkoop for the degree of Masters of Science in Computer Science presented on June 9

  • Derivative-based relief mapping

    Creator:
    Tichenor, Michael
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    This project presents a new, and more versatile, method for performing Relief Mapping (also known as Parallax Occlusion Mapping), utilizing rates of change in texture coordinates across a polygon surface to calculate the texture sampling offsets used in the ray-tracing portion of the Relief Mapping algorithm. This new technique relies...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE PROJECT REPORT OF Michael Tichenor for the

  • Multiple Instance Multiple Label Learning with Limited Supervision

    Creator:
    Nguyen, Tam
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    In weak supervision learning, label information can be provided at different levels of granularity. For example, in multi-instance multi-label learning, samples are organized into bags and labels for each class are provided at the bag level. For small datasets, this approach offers means of reducing the labeling efforts. However, in...
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    Dissertation
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    Page 1 Calculating P (zbi = c|Xb,Yb,w′) for i = 1, . . . , nb . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 2

  • 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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    for Strategic Decision Making AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kenneth Michael Goul for the degree of

  • Fine-Grained Object Recognition Under Limited Training Data

    Creator:
    Lam, Michael Q.
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    This dissertation addresses object recognition in challenging settings, where distinct object classes are visually very similar (e.g., species of birds and insects) and/or access to training examples of object classes is limited (e.g., due to the associated high costs of data annotation). In this dissertation, we present a variety of...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Michael Lam for the

  • Physical activity recognition of free-living data using change-point detection algorithms and hidden Markov models

    Creator:
    Anderson, Michael M.
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    Physical activity recognition using accelerometer data is a rapidly emerging field with many real-world applications. Much of the previous work in this area has assumed that the accelerometer data has already been segmented into pure activities, and the activity recognition task has been to classify these segments. In reality, activity...
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    Change-Point Detection Algorithms and Hidden Markov Models AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Michael M

  • Development of the TQM document manager

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    Bialek, Michael J.
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    Michael J. Bialek Department of Computer Science Oregon State University November 29, 1994 ' I

  • Developing true diagnostic software

    Creator:
    Prusynski, Michael
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    This document describes the need for, and design of, diagnostic software that provides circuit verification, fault isolation, and troubleshooting aids. The difference between verification software and true diagnostic software is explained. A modular design of diagnostic software is proposed, consisting of a series of 3-part tests, a test manager, results...
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    Michael Prusynski Oregon State University MSCS Research Paper & Project (CS501) Submitted in partial

  • Computers and planning : a study of the computer simulation methodology for land use planning in Bendel State, Nigeria

    Creator:
    Obi, Gabriel Michael
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    In this work we propose a computer based approach by means of which the decision maker in Bendel State, Nigeria, can best be assisted in the formulation of policies related to land use. In Chapter I we briefly discuss the role of the computer in planning and state the problem....
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    Michael Obi for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science presented on AtIgust 1, 1978. Title

  • Porting and optimizing a routing library for Dataparallel C on the nCUBE 2 system

    Creator:
    Sivaramapuram, Krishna
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    Dataparallel C has been designed for various kinds of architectures and was devel­oped jointly at University of New Hampshire and Oregon State University. This project dealt with porting the libraries to the nCUBE 2 system and helping a user compile his programs on nCUBE 2 directly from a Sun workstation...
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    Professor : Dr. Michael J. Quinn Minor Professor : Dr. Lawrence A. Crowl Committee Member : Dr. Tadepalli

  • Wavelet expansion of long-range boundary potentials on self-gravitating system

    Creator:
    Liu, Hongbo
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    Algorithms and MP1 parallel C programs are developed for constructing wavelet expansions of long-range potential functions with O(n) time complexity. A new high frequency correction algorithm is introduced. The emphasis is on the common potential expansion encountered in physics that behaves as l/r in three-dimensions. The central B-Splines are used...
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    . Michael Quinn Committee member Dr. Paul Cull Department of Computer Science Oregon State University

  • Strengths and weaknesses of Dataparallel C

    Creator:
    S, Seetharamakrishnan
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    Dataparallel C is a SIMD style data-parallel programming language for MIMD com­puters. Dataparallel Chas been implemented on both shared memory (Sequent) and distributed memory (Intel and nCUBE) computers. Here we analyze the strengths and weaknesses of Dataparallel C by comparing the performance of compiled Data­parallel C programs with the performance...
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  • A C* development environment for the Meiko CS-2 multicomputer

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    Zhang, Chung
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    With sequential computing technology reaching its speed limits, parallel processing is emerg­ing as the key to very-high-speed computation. However, developing a parallel program is by no means a simple task; neither is analyzing the performance of parallel programs. C* is a high-level data-parallel language that hides explicit message passing and...
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    Corvallis, OR 97331 zhangch@research. cs. orst. edu Major Professor: Dr. Michael J. Quinn Minor

  • Porting and optimizing a routing library for C* on the iPSC/860

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    Uberoy, Chetan
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    High level data-parallel languages are easy to use and shield the programmer from machine specific details. A simple and efficient way of providing an interface to such languages is to develop a machine-independent compiler and a routing library, which isolates the low-level machine dependent communication functions, The compiler translates the...
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    requirements for the degree of Master of Science Major Professor: Dr. Michael J. Quinn Minor Professor

  • Painterly rendering using space-time varying style parameters

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    Kagaya, Mizuki
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    Automatic painterly rendering systems have been proposed but they opted for selecting a single style to generate paintings from images, which lacks the ability of creatively using multiple styles to focus important objects and deemphasize unimportant part of the scenes. We provide a multi-style painting framework to address this issue...
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    the multi-style funtionality included in my current framework. Todd Kesterson has provided his

  • Visualization and design systems for road infrastructure

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    Esch, Gregory
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    Transportation infrastructure provides a vital service for the functionality of a city. The efficient design of road networks poses an interesting topic in computer science for digital content developers. For civil engineers, the visualization of analysis results on infrastructure both efficiently and intuitively is crucial. The following contributions are made...
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    visualization, I would like to thank Eugene Zhang and Michael Scott. Without Michael, the bridge visualization

  • Analysis of bio-based composites for image segmentation with the aid of games

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    Inouye, Jennifer A.
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    A fundamental problem in computer vision is to partition an image into meaningful segments. While image segmentation is required by many applications, the thesis focuses on segmentation of computed tomography (CT) images for analysis and quality control of composite materials. The key research contribution of this thesis is a novel...
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    square regions so that it appears to the p moving on to a new image. In this case, the overlapping

  • A parallel implementation of the multiple polynomial quadratic sieve

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    Perkins, Virgina E.
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    Cryptographic systems are used for secure communications in the government, in industry, and by individuals. Many cryptographic systems base their security on our inability to factor quickly. For this reason, in the last few decades several fast factoring algorithms have been developed. The Quadratic Sieve is one of the best...
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    . RSA works as follows. Let p and q be distinct primes and let n = pq. Assume that we have an ineger

  • Design and implementation of a simplified Kalman filter for an ocean circulation model

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    Yao, Yunda
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    A Kalman filter was developed to recover information on short period variations of ocean circulation from the satellite altimeter signals for the North Pacific Ocean. The ocean circulation at each grid point is specified by three variables: sea level height h, zonal velocity u, and meridional velocity v. In our...
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    matrix P for a system with N state elements, and hence O(N 2 ) operations to update the matrix P

  • Empirical studies of a WYSIWYT testing methodology

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    Rothermel, Karen J.
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    Is it possible to achieve some of the benefits of formal testing within the informal programming conventions of the spreadsheet paradigm? We investigate an approach that attempts to do so via the development of a testing methodology for this paradigm. The "What You See Is What You Test" (WYSIWYT) methodology...
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    professor Dr. Curtis Cook, minor professor Dr. Margaret Burnett, and committee members Dr. Michael Quinn

  • A tool for visualizing sequence alignments and associating annotations

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    Zhang, Wenpeng
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    Alignment of genomic sequences from different species is becoming an increasingly powerful method in biology, and is being used for many purposes. The result of sequence alignments is a list of pairs of matched locations between the pattern string and the text string. However, without any proper visualization tools to...
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    committee members, Dr. Michael Quinn and Dr. Alan Fern, for their time and advice on my project report. I

  • Simulation of the Oracle data buffering mechanism

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    Yang, Qing
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    Data, buffering is an important mechanism to enhance performance of a database system. In this project, we studied the data buffering mechanism of the Oracle database system and created an Oracle data buffering simulation program in Java. The data obtained from the simulation program w re compared with the perfor­mance...
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    like to thank Dr. Timothy Budd and Dr. Michael Quinn for being on my committee. I would also like

  • Redesigning the Structure and Access Paths of Databases for Effective and Efficient Query Processing

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    Ghadakchi, Vahid
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    Many database users are not familiar with formal query languages, the concept of schema, or the exact content of their database. Thus, it is challenging for these users to formulate their information needs over semi-structured and structured databases. To address this problem, researchers have proposed usable query interfaces over which...
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    StackOverflow queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 2.5 P@20 of INEX Queries

  • Volume analysis and visualization

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    Khare, Ankit
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    3D datasets acquire great importance in the context of medical imaging. In this thesis we survey and enhance solutions to problems inherently associated with 3D datasets-processing time,noise and visualization. Efforts include development of a tool kit to provide a multi-threaded processing platform to cut processing time, produce real time visualization...
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    Ron Metoyer, Dr Michael J. Quinn and Dr Michael K. Gross for their time and inputs. TABLE OF

  • Auxiliary Tasks for Efficient Learning of Point-Goal Navigation

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    Desai, Saurabh Satish
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    Top-performing approaches to embodied AI tasks like point-goal navigation often rely on training agents via reinforcement learning over tens of millions (or even billions) of experiential steps – learning neural agents that map directly from visual observations to actions. In this work, we question whether these extreme training durations are...
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  • AI, Robot: A Rhetorical Analysis of Jeopardy! Matches Featuring IBM’s Artificial Intelligence

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    Steele, Evan T.
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    The relationship between the public and new technologies has historically been a tumultuous one, with public perceptions ranging from excited rapid adoption to standoffish pessimism. In 2011, IBM tried to use competition as a means of showcasing a new technology to the public. This thesis is a work of rhetorical...
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    Micro, vol. 19, no. 2, 1999, p. 72. 2 Gubbi, Jayavardhana, et al. "Internet of Things (IoT): A

  • PlanView & HViews : graphical user interfaces for viewing plan data

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    Tabayoyon, Al
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    Visualizing and navigating through a plan is difficult without graphics. Two X applications, PlanView and HViews, are graphical user interfaces to an AI planner, OPIE, developed at the University of Oregon. In addition to a plan generator, OPIE includes a facility to generate operator abstractions which in turn are used...
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    refinement of a plan. Therefore, P Zan View orchestrates a collection of windows that allows its user to

  • Web-based GIS/database application : motels in Oregon

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    Kritphonchai, Thitisak
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    We developed a Web-based GIS/database application designed to help motel businesses reach target customers effectively. By using an interactive map along with a relational database, users can view any particular area of the map and perform some basic operations as their groups privileges permit. With different types of privileges, users...
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    Professor Paul Cull and Professor Michael Quinn for serving on my committee and for their valuable

  • Assessing mental workload and situation awareness in the evaluation of real-time, critical user interfaces

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    Strawn, Jordan J.
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    While there are many ways to evaluate a user interface design, the user's mental workload and situation awareness (SA) are particularly important considerations in the supervisory control of safety-critical systems. Typically, operators of these systems must monitor high-volume, time-sensitive status information. Interface design for this domain can be challenging and...
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    . Mei-Ching Lien, Psychology; Dr. Michael Scott, Structural Engineering (Graduate Council

  • From shape-based object recognition and discovery to 3D scene interpretation

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    Payet, Nadia
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    This dissertation addresses a number of inter-related and fundamental problems in computer vision. Specifically, we address object discovery, recognition, segmentation, and 3D pose estimation in images, as well as 3D scene reconstruction and scene interpretation. The key ideas behind our approaches include using shape as a basic object feature, and...
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    =1,...,|V |). To find Y , we maximize the posterior distribution p(Y |G), 24 as Y ∗ = argmax Y

  • Accuracy versus cost in distributed data mining

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    Deutschman, Stephanie
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    A basic tradeoff to consider when designing a distributed data-mining framework is the need for a compromise between the cost of communication and computation resources and the accuracy of the mining results. This is essentially a decision of whether it is more efficient to communicate all of the data to...
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    and J. Zurada, 2005, p. 8). Every organization is restricted by regulations such as privacy

  • Part-based and Uncertainty-Aware Few-shot Object Segmentation in Images

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    Nguyen, Khoi D.
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    This dissertation addresses few-shot object segmentation in images. The goal of segmentation is to label every image pixel with a class of the object occupying that pixel, where the class may represent a semantic object category or instance. In few-shot segmentation, training and test datasets have different classes. Every new...
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    , Tieqiao Wang, Peng Lei, Dimitrios Trigkakis, Michael Lam, Anirban Roy, and Behrooz Mahasseni. I would

  • User interface design considerations for emerging input technologies in iTV

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    Wolford, Justin
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    Streaming media and interactive television viewing experiences are becoming more commonplace with the introduction of services such as Netflix Streaming, the Apple TV, and Google TV aided by the increase adoption of broadband internet. As these services make their way into the living room, and developers struggle to accommodate more...
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    have put into this research. I would like to thank my committee members Ron Metoyer, Michael Bailey

  • Assessing quality attributes of open source software by mining low ceremony evidence

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    Karve, Sanchit
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    Programmers often have to choose components online for reuse based on software quality. To help with this choice, most component repositories (SourceForge, CodeProject, etc.) provide information such as user ratings and reviews of components. However, the reusability of components is not immediately obvious from this material. To make things worse,...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Christopher P. Scaffidi Programmers often have to choose components online for reuse

  • A data-driven model of pedestrian movement

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    Casburn, Ledah
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    This thesis presents a model for simulating individual pedestrian motion based on empirical data. The model keeps track of a pedestrian’s position, orientation, and body configuration and leverages motion capture data to generate plausible motion. Our model can automatically incorporate a pedestrian’s physical limitations when making movement decisions, since it...
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    - ages faster movement, and another term, P , which incorporates interference from neighboring

  • Node and topology management for content distribution in source constraint networks

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    Kolazhi, Krishnan
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    As broadband Internet becomes widely available, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications over the Internet are becoming increasingly popular. Such an example is a video multicast application in which, one source streams a video to a large number of destination nodes through an overlay multicast tree consisting of peers. These overlay multicast-based applications,...
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    would like to thank Dr. Michael Quinn, Dr. Tim Budd, Dr. Toshimi Minoura and Dr. Rajeev Pandey whose

  • Efficient content distribution on source constraint networks: peer communication

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    Kamath, Rohit Vinodanand
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    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...
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    . I would like to thank Dr. Michael Quinn, Dr. Timothy Budd and Dr. Rajeev Pandey for their insights

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

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    Hamid, Arwa Zakaria
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    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,...
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    thank my thesis committee members Dr. Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez, Dr. Bella Bose, and Dr. Michael Olsen

  • Studying electricity feedback for the home with an emphasis on the user

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    Hunter, Josie Elizabeth
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    As non-renewable resources dwindle and costs increase, it becomes ever more important for people to understand and control their electricity usage. Eco-feedback devices are being developed to increase user awareness and reduce consumption. In order for feedback devices to be successfully adopted into the home, however, they must be appealing...
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  • Model-based approximation methods for reinforcement learning

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    Wang, Xin
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    The thesis focuses on model-based approximation methods for reinforcement learning with large scale applications such as combinatorial optimization problems. First, the thesis proposes two new model-based methods to stablize the value–function approximation for reinforcement learning. The first one is the BFBP algorithm, a batch-like reinforcement learning process which iterates between...
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    learn- ing algorithm. In our approach, we learn the models P (s′|s, a) and R(s′|s, a), and then use

  • Computational Approaches for RNA Structure Prediction with Dynamic Programming and Deep Neural Networks

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    Deng, Dezhong
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    Our goal is to build a system to model the RNA sequences that reveals their structural information by using efficient dynamic programming algorithms and deep learning approaches. We aim to 1) achieve linear-time for RNA secondary structure prediction based on existing minimum free energy models; 2) utilize deep neural networks...
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  • Update programming -- a safe approach to software maintenance

    Creator:
    Ren, Deling
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    Software maintenance accounts for a large portion of the software development cost, particularly the process of updating programs either to adapt for requirement change or to enhance design or efficiency. Currently, program updates are generally performed manually by programmers using text editors. This is an unreliable method because syntax and...
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  • Automatic program generation for scientific computing

    Creator:
    Fu, Zhe
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    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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    of the approaches pre- sented in this thesis. My thanks also go to Boon Chua and Ben P�aum, who

  • Visualization of N-ary Relationships

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    Qu, Botong
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    N-ary relationships, which relate N entities where N is not necessarily two, are omnipresent in real life. In this thesis, we develop a visualization technique for N-ary relationships. First, we propose a visual metaphor that utilizes vertices and polygons to represent entities and N-ary relationships. Based on this visual metaphor,...
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    research work. I want to thank my other committee members, Pankaj Jaiswal, Amir Nayyeri, and Michael Scott

  • A domain-specific embedded language for probabilistic programming

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    Kollmansberger, Steven
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    Functional programming is concerned with referential transparency, that is, given a certain function and its parameter, that the result will always be the same. However, it seems that this is violated in applications involving uncertainty, such as rolling a dice. This thesis defines the background of probabilistic programming and domain-specific...
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    Committee, namely, Margaret Burnett, Michael Quinn and Tim Budd, for taking time out of their busy

  • System reliability through Algorithm-Based Fault tolerance and reconfiguration

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    Ramanathan, Gowri
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    show significant improvement over the existing bounds. We have derived the bounds for both P and P9

  • Optimal inference with local expressions

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    Borujerdi, Mohammad
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    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

  • 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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    Tadepalli provided useful feedback on EBL related issues and proof-read most of my papers. Michael Scanlan

  • Divergence Reduction and Dependency Management in GPU Programs using Asynchronous Work Scheduling

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    Cuneo, Braxton
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    With continuing improvements in performance and capability, GPU processing has gained significant and growing interest across science and industry. With this interest, research has increasingly focused upon methods of processing algorithms with stochastic, non-uniform branching while maintaining low divergence. Central among these methods is thread-data remapping (TDR), whereby data is...
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  • Web-based Deep Segmentation of Building Structure

    Creator:
    Chen, Zehuan
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    Deep learning and neural network has been widely used in research, deep learning has empowered many tasks such as point clouds segmentation and shape recognition. One of the main advantages of deep interaction point cloud segmentation is that it allows the feature extraction can be learned through neural network based...
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    works, on which this thesis is based. Thanks to Michael James Olsen, Associate Professor and his

  • Collaborative Online Learning For Join Processing

    Creator:
    Xie, Mian
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    Relational binary operators, such as join, are arguably the most costly and frequently used operations in relational data systems. In many join algorithms, the majority of the process time is spent on scanning and attempting to join the parts of the relations that do not satisfy the join condition and...
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    technology in my major. I would like to thank my collaborators Rashmi Jadhav and Michael Burton since I

  • Learning to Estimate Multi-Relation Aggregation Functions

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    Jadhav, Rashmi Suresh
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    Multi-relation aggregation queries process the join operator before computing the aggregation function. This join is arguably the most costly operation since traditional join algorithms spend majority of their time trying to join the parts of the relations that do not generate any output tuples. This causes slow response times with...
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    interesting. I would like to thank my collaborators Mian Xie and Michael Burton since I truly liked working

  • Gender differences in robot teleoperation

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    Showkat, Dilruba
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    Gender issues have recently received increased attention in human robot interaction (HRI). Because robots are becoming part of our homes and daily lives, it is important to understand how different groups of people use them. To the best of our knowledge, almost no research has been done that investigates gender...
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    information before using the robot than males (p = 0.0002). Females processed information comprehensively and