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  • A C source code browsing system

    Creator:
    Steinkamp, James M.
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    A project is described wherein a source code browser was implemented based upon tasks performed by software engineers looking for source code modules with only UNIX utilities. These tasks were discovered by observing the actions of software engineers looking for code modules in a library, The success of the implementation...
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    ) A C Source Code Browsing System Produced for an Oregon

  • PC++ : an extension of C++ for parallel programming

    Creator:
    Bae, Myungmun
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    Understanding of techniques that can be used to develop software for various parallel machines has not fully matched the dramatic progress in hardware in recent years. Most parallel programming techniques have been closely tied to specific hardware. Different machines have different primitives and architectures. Programming and porting an application with...
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    ) PC++: An Extension of c++ for Parallel Programming

  • A Comparative Study of Non-Normal Distributions in Continuous Dropout

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    Guyer, Alexander D.
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    Recent studies have shown that novel continuous dropout methods can be viewed as a Bayesian interpretation of model parameters, though most such studies have shown results using normal distributions. As the posterior distributions over neural network nodes and parameters are intractable, given that they are a result of artificial construction...
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    : William Smart Recent studies have shown that novel continuous dropout methods can be viewed as a Bayesian

  • MARLA : a chess playing program

    Creator:
    Rood, Andrew Lloyd
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    MARLA is a collection of FORTRAN routines which implements the Shannon-type-chess program with alphabeta cutoffs occurring dynamically. Board positions are updated incrementally. Also involved in position analysis is a production system which models the human chess player's advice-taking, theme, and chess learning in a general sense. Interfacing these two sections,...
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    , 1977 Title: MARLA: A Chess Playing Program b stract approves for PrivacyA Dr. William Bregar MARLA

  • Robotic path-planning through dynamic maps

    Creator:
    Bowie, Cameron Scott
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    Robotic global navigation is often based on the assumption that the world is static. It assumes that obstacles present in maps will be there later and new obstacles will be dealt with by a local planning algorithm. When robots interact in an environment inhabited by people, this assumption does not...
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    25, 2016. Title: Robotic Path-Planning Through Dynamic Maps. Abstract approved: William Smart

  • Exploratory Study to Uncover Student Mental Models of Singly Linked Lists in the C Programming Language

    Creator:
    Almadhoun, Eman
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    In computer science, learning abstract fundamental programming concepts requiring students to understand memory management can be very difficult and lead to misunderstandings that carry on into advanced topics. This is especially true in data structures with abstract data types. Understanding how novice students think and reason about data structures is...
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    : Exploratory Study to Uncover Student Mental Models of Singly Linked Lists in the C Programming Language

  • Experdite : a model based expert diagnostic system using a high level test description language

    Creator:
    Tilp, Philip
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    To be competitive in the development and production of complex electronic systems, a company must constantly scrutinize its manufacturing processes to find ways to reduce costs and increase productivity. One of the more costly problems is the inability to troubleshoot and repair faulty circuit boards on the spot. Rather, they...
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    abstracted and then modeled with a high level T~st Description Language, or TDL. A TDL to C++ translator

  • An implementation of a parallel processing package in LISP

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    Harney, Donald William
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    The concept of a process is often used in connection with operations of parts of a computer system. This thesis discusses processes in terms of their use as representations of a physical object or system. Five primitives are introduced as operators for allowing processes to be run in a piecemeal...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Donald William Harney for the

  • IGS - a lesson generating system for computer assisted instruction

    Creator:
    Liu, Min-Hsiang
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    This paper describes a Lesson Generating System for CAI, which, by relieving the course author from the burden of programming, provides an efficient means for developing courseware to augment classroom instruction.
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    : Dr. William s. Br~ . Department of Computer Science in Charge of Major J

  • Al-Khorezmi : an intelligent algebra tutoring system

    Creator:
    Bayley, Garland J.
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    This thesis presents our investigation of the problem of creating an intelligent tutor for solving algebra word problems that employs effective pedagogy. Among our major concerns are the problems of sufficient knowledge and proper knowledge organization. From student protocols and test papers, we derived sets of general purpose strategic rules...
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    Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy William S. 10egar This thesis presents our investigation of the

  • QCRITIC : a rule-based design critic for bipolar analog circuits

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    Bergquist, Sue
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    QCritic is a rule-based critic for analog bipolar circuits. It functions as a post-processor for the SPICE simulator, making use of netlist, current, and voltage data. The program was written in OPS83, and demon­strates good run-time performance on a VAX 11/780. At present, the system contains rules for analyzing circuits...
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    ............................................................. 36 Appendix C: OPS83

  • Personalized information management systems with tutorial capabilities

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    Oman, Paul W.
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    Technological advances of the last three decades have caused an enormous increase in the amount of published and unpublished information generated by our society. This inflation has created the need for improved information management systems. Existing systems are inadequate primarily because they are discipline-oriented and lack the flexibility that is...
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    with Tutorial Capabilities Redacted for Privacy Abstract approved: William Si Bregar Technological

  • Clustering by density - an artificial intelligence approach to the clustering problem

    Creator:
    Poon, Chi Sing
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    In analyses of multivariate data, a classification of the data into related groups is frequently desired. This is generally referred to as the clustering problem. It has been studied in detail and many clustering algorithms exist. Most of these algorithms, however, require experi­menting with the actual data before satisfactory results...
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    ) APPROVED: William S. Bregar, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science in Charge of Major

  • 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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    used to order nodes c, d, e, and, f and the results are illustrated with the third graph. C d a 1

  • A tutorial interface for a problem-solving production system

    Creator:
    Lantz, Brian Scott
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    The system described is an interface between a student and a problem-solving production system that solves some class of problems. Its purpose is to help a student learn some part of the realm of problem solving. As a student attempts to solve a problem the system controls the firing of...
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    Production System Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy Dr. William S. Bregar LI The system described is

  • Effectiveness of index size reduction techniques

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    Jacobson, Bryan L.
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    Index size savings from three techniques are measured. The three techniques are: 1) eliminating common, low information words found in a "stop list" (such as: of, the, at, etc.), 2) truncating terms by eliminating word stems (such as: -s, -ed, -ing, etc.), and 3) simple data compression. Savings are measured...
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    to: The Oregon State Computer Science Department My advisor, Dr. William S. Bregar and Sequent

  • Augmenting self-study materials with microcomputer-based lessons: a case study

    Creator:
    Giangrande, Ernest
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    An experiment was conducted at Oregon State University to evaluate the effectiveness of Computer Aided Instruction based lessons in a self study environment. The 47 student subjects were assigned to one of three groups: a CAI-EXP group which used a CAI lesson for teaching introductory FORTRAN formatted input and output;...
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    and Goals 7 C. CS190 A Self-paced Programming Course 10 II. Lesson Development 16 A. Microcomputers

  • Object files in UNIX

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    Eifrig, Bob
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    Object files are named active entities (processes) in the UNIX file system graph which provide services. Services are solicited by using the object file's pathname in any system call. Other continuing services can be obtained by opening an object file (which creates an communication path to the object) or by...
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    . Title: Object files in UNIX Abstract Approved: Redacted for Privacy William S. Bregai\ Object files

  • An experimental string processing extension to Pascal

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    Weems, Charles Chilton
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    The need for and problems related to string processing are discussed and a definition of the term "string" is derived. A brief review of some existing string processing systems leads to the presentation of a design for a string processing extension to the programming language Pascal. A rationale for the...
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    Privacy Abstract approved: William S. Bregar The need for and problems related to string processing are

  • Transient decay of persistent photo conductance in AIGaAs

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    Dobson, Thomas William
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    1988 best estimate for issue date and commencement year based on available information.
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    make it useful for many types of heterojunction device stru c tures, e.g. lasers, bipolar

  • High-Dimensional Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback

    Creator:
    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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    interface that uses this timeline interface paradigm. c©Copyright by William Curran June 5, 2017 All

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

    Creator:
    Williams, Vasanth
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    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...
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    ...... . ..................... ........................ 17 4. Implementation of Dispenser in C

  • Specifications for a fuzzy system modeling language

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    Fellinger, William Lowell
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    Specifications for a simulation language capable of modeling fuzzy systems are presented. Actions occurring in the running model are to be displayed on a graphics terminal in the .form of modified E-nets. The concept of partial execution of predicates is introduced in connection with the underlying continuously valued logic. Fuzzy...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF WILLIAM LOWELL FELLINGER for

  • Algorithmic Problems on Simplicial Complexes

    Creator:
    Maxwell, William
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF William Maxwell for

  • From multitarget tracking to event recognition in videos

    Creator:
    Brendel, William
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    This dissertation addresses two fundamental problems in computer vision—namely, multitarget tracking and event recognition in videos. These problems are challenging because uncertainty may arise from a host of sources, including motion blur, occlusions, and dynamic cluttered backgrounds. We show that these challenges can be successfully addressed by using a multiscale,...
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    benchmarks with new challenges. c©Copyright by William Brendel April 25, 2011 All Rights Reserved From

  • Using RUBI to partition agents in air traffic problems with hard constraints and reward shaping

    Creator:
    Curran, William
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    Air traffic flow management over the U.S. airpsace is a difficult problem. Current management approaches lead to hundreds of thousands of hours of delay, costing billions of dollars annually. Weather and airport conditions may instigate this delay, but routing decisions balancing delay with congestion contribute significantly to the propagation of...
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    of delay saved in a single day. c©Copyright by William Curran June 4, 2013 All Rights

  • Benchmarking and Programming Practices for the Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor

    Creator:
    Leslie, William
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    The Intel Xeon Phi is a relative newcomer to the scientific computing scene. In the recent years, GPUs have been used extensively for mathematical simulations. The Xeon Phi is Intel’s response to the use of these cards. Like the GPU, it is highly parallelizable but can be programmed like a...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE MASTERS PROJECT OF William

  • 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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    William H. Dillon for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science presented on May 29, 2012

  • Generalizing the Idea Garden : Principles and Contexts

    Creator:
    Jernigan, William
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    In previous work, the Idea Garden was created to help those relatively new to programming overcome their barriers in CoScripter. The goal of this thesis was to generalize the Idea Garden's success to other users and environments. We present a set of principles on how to help EUPs like this...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF William Jernigan for the degree of Master of Science in Computer

  • Evaluation functions in aerial image segmentation

    Creator:
    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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    ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF William T. Langford for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer

  • The Development of Computational Methods for Studying Plant-Pathogen Interactions

    Creator:
    Pankow, Rebecca C.
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    Modern technology has enabled the advancement of biological research through the use of powerful machines and computers as well as innovative computer programs. Advances in sequencing technology and software enable us to make de novo assemblies of organism genomes, and the development of specialized computer programs can automate routine but...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Rebecca C. Pankow for

  • Routerless Network-on-chip

    Creator:
    Alazemi, Fawaz
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    Traditional bus-based interconnects are simple and easy to implement, but the scalability is greatly limited. While router-based networks-on-chip (NoCs) offer superior scalability, they also incur significant power and area overhead due to complex router structures. In this thesis, a new class of on-chip networks, referred to as Routerless (RL) NoCs,...
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    . Rakesh Bobba, and William H. Warnes. • Prof. Ziad Najem for being a role model. • Prof. Mehmet Karaata

  • On the Role of Spatial Clustering Algorithms in Building Species Distribution Models from Community Science Data

    Creator:
    Roth, Mark
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    This paper discusses opportunities for developments in spatial clustering methods to help leverage broad scale community science data for building species distribution models (SDMs). SDMs are critical tools that inform the science and policy needed to mitigate the impacts of climate change on biodiversity. Community science data span spatial and...
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    lat-long occ lat-long det DBSC occ DBSC det clustGeo occ clustGeo det kmSq occ kmSq det (c

  • Computer performance and evaluation utilizating the resource planning and management system

    Creator:
    Elliott, Jimmie Lynn
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    A review of current computer performance and evaluation techniques reveals a lack of an acceptable analytic tool for optimal computer system performance and evaluation. A generalized approach to the formulation of a third generation computer system model is proposed. The approach is used to optimize computer resource utilization and to...
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    Dr. L. C. Hunter, Major Department Representative Dr. J. F. Engle, Graduate School Representative

  • PEESHTAZ : the interactive computer programming system in Farsi

    Creator:
    Ayromloo, Shahram Shawn
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    Abstract approved: SYSTEM IN FARSI Redacted for Privacy c. T- E. Coheen Most of the computer programming

  • Active learning with committees : an approach to efficient learning in text categorization using linear threshold algorithms

    Creator:
    Liere, Ray
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    We developed and investigated machine learning methods that require minimal preprocessing of the input data, use few training examples, run fast, and still obtain high levels of accuracy. Most approaches to designing machine learning programs are based on the supervised learning paradigm – training examples are chosen randomly and given...
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    committee – Prof. Prasad Tadepalli, Prof. Curtis Cook, Prof. Toshimi Minoura, Dr. William Hersh, Prof

  • Learning Based Anomaly Detection for Industrial Arm Applications

    Creator:
    Narayanan, Vedanth
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    Smart Manufacturing (SM) is envisioned to make manufacturing processes more efficient through automation and integration of networked information systems. Robotic arms are integral to this vision. However the benefits of SM, enabled by automation and networking, also come with cyber risks. In this work, we propose an anomaly detection framework...
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    actuation commands appropriate for the arm. The high level ROS-I architecture is shown in Figure 6. C. ROS

  • Multiagent learning for locomotion and coordination in tensegrity robotics

    Creator:
    Iscen, Atil
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    Tensegrity structures are composed of pure compressional elements that are connected via a network of pure tensional elements. The concept of tensegrity promises numerous advantages to the field of robotics. Tensegrity robots are, however, notoriously difficult to control due to their oscillatory nature and nonlinear interaction between the components. Multiagent...
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    : SUPERBall. c©Copyright by Atil Iscen May 14, 2014 All Rights Reserved Multiagent Learning for

  • 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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    agent’s next action worse than all other treatments’ participants. c©Copyright by Andrew A. Anderson

  • 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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    the number of vertices of the tree grows to infinity. c©Copyright by Evgenia V. Chunikhina August

  • A comparison of box-cox and additive exponential models to estimate the depreciation of farm machinery

    Creator:
    Wu, Jing
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    Farm machinery continues to increase in its importance to the agricultural sector. Depreciation, the decline in value of a durable asset over time, represents one of the largest costs of agricultural production. The general objectives of this study were to update and expand the number of Remaining Value (RV) functions...
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    the depreciation patterns for Box-Cox (B-C) and Additive- Exponential (A-E) functional forms; and

  • The expressive power and declarative attributes of exception handling in Forms/3

    Creator:
    Agrawal, Anurag
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    Exception handling is a programming language feature that can help increase the reliability of programs. However, not much work has been done on exception handling in visual programming languages. We present an approach for improving the exception handling mechanism in Forms/3, a declarative visual programming language based on the spreadsheet...
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    exception handling mechanism with the mechanisms available in Java, C++, Prograph, Haskell and Microsoft

  • A study of distance-based machine learning algorithms

    Creator:
    Wettschereck, Dietrich
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    Distance-based algorithms are machine learning algorithms that classify queries by computing distances between these queries and a number of internally stored exemplars. Exemplars that are closest to the query have the largest in uence on the classi cation assigned to the query. Two speci c distance-based algorithms, the nearest neighbor...
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    existing distance-based algorithms, (b) several new distance-based algorithms, and (c) an experimentally

  • An Object-Oriented Compiler Construction Toolkit

    Creator:
    Justice, Timothy P.
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    Although standard tools have been used for lexical and syntactic analysis since the late 1970's, no standard tools exist for the remaining parts of a compiler. Part of the reason for this de ciency is due to the di culty of producing elegant tools capable of handling the large amount...
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    collection of C++ classes de�nes a common interface to these tools. Variations in implementation are

  • #ifdef Confirmed Harmful - Promoting Understandable Software Variation

    Creator:
    Le, Duc
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    Maintaining variation in software is a difficult problem that poses serious challenges for the understanding and editing of software artifacts. Although the C preprocessor (CPP) is often the default tool used to introduce variability to software, because of its simplicity and flexibility, it is infamous for its obtrusive syntax and...
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    editing of software artifacts. Although the C preprocessor (CPP) is often the default tool used to

  • Integrating learning and search for structured prediction

    Creator:
    Doppa, Janardhan Rao
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    We are witnessing the rise of the data-driven science paradigm, in which massive amounts of data - much of it collected as a side-effect of ordinary human activity - can be analyzed to make sense of the data and to make useful predictions. To fully realize the promise of this...
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    cost function C and returns the minimum-cost solution. There are three key learning challenges in this

  • Simulator-Defined MDP Planning with Applications in Natural Resource Management

    Creator:
    Alkaee Taleghan, Majid
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    This work is inspired by problems in natural resource management centered on the challenge of invasive species. Computing optimal management policies for maintaining ecosystem sustainable is challenging. Many ecosystem management problems can be formulated as MDP (Markov Decision Process) planning problems. In a simulator-defined MDP, the Markovian dynamics and rewards...
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    drawn to shrink the confidence interval as quickly as possible? (c) how can we find the optimal policy

  • 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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    candidate labelings, and then applies a cost function (C) to select the best- scoring prediction among the

  • An empirical study into learning through experimentation

    Creator:
    Ruff, Ritchey Alvin
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    A key aspect of how we understand the world revolves around an ability to manipulate our surroundings to experiment. From the scientific method through theories of child development, the ability to experiment is deemed critical; however, few studies have been performed to understand the strengths and weaknesses of different experimental...
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    number of hypotheses were possible, (b) each experiment had a large number of outcomes, and (c

  • A Decade of Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities, their Mitigation and Open Problems

    Creator:
    Raj, Abhilash
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    The aim of this thesis is to study past 10 years of security vulnerabilities reported against Linux Kernel and all existing mitigation techniques that prevent the exploitation of those vulnerabilities. To systematically study the security vulnerabilities, they were categorized into classes and sub-classes based on their type. This thesis first...
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    open problems for future research. c©Copyright by Abhilash Raj December 15, 2017 All Rights