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

    Creator:
    Wu, Jing
    Abstract:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    Depreciation of Farm Machinery ory M. Perry I Toshimi Minoura Farm machinery continues to increase in its

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

    Creator:
    McQuoid, Ian M.
    Abstract:
    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
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Ian M

  • A linear equation model for a family of interconnection networks

    Creator:
    Larson, Shawn M.
    Abstract:
    The most important part of parallel computation is communication. Except in the most embarassingly parallel examples, processors cannot work cooperatively to solve a problem unless they can communicate. One way to solve the problem of communication is to use an interconnection network. Processors are located at nodes of the network,...
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    Dissertation
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    networks AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Shawn M. Larson for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

  • Computing Bounded Chains and Surfaces in a Simplicial Complex with Bounded-treewidth 1-skeleton

    Creator:
    Black, Mitchell
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    We consider three problems on simplicial complexes: the Optimal Bounded Chain Problem, the Optimal Homologous Chain Problem, and 2-Dim-Bounded-Surface. The Optimal Bounded Chain Problem asks to find the minimum weight d-chain in a simplicial complex K bounded by a given (d−1)-chain, if such a d-chain exists. The Optimal Homologous Chain...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Convergence Analysis Framework for Fixed-Point Algorithms in Machine Learning and Signal Processing

    Creator:
    Vu, Trung
    Abstract:
    Iterative algorithms are simple yet efficient in solving large-scale optimization problems in practice. With a surge in the amount of data in past decades, these methods have become increasingly important in many application areas including matrix/tensor recovery, deep learning, data mining, and reinforcement learning. To optimize or improve iterative algorithms,...
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    Dissertation
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  • Update programming -- a safe approach to software maintenance

    Creator:
    Ren, Deling
    Abstract:
    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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    Dissertation
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  • Cost-cognizant test case prioritization for regression testing : an empirical study

    Creator:
    Ruthruff, Joseph Ronald
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    Regression testing is a common and necessary task carried out by software practitioners to validate the quality of evolving software systems. Unfortunately, regression testing is often an expensive, time-consuming process, particularly when applied to large software systems. Consequently, practitioners may wish to prioritize the test cases in their regression test...
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis
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  • Creating and editing motion machines for 3D characters

    Creator:
    Korada, Suman
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    Recent efforts in user-control of data-driven characters have focused on designing high-level graph data-structures that we call a Behavior Finite State Machine (BFSM). A BFSM is an interactive data-structure that benefits from the advantages of both motion graphs and blend-based techniques for generating animated motion. Each node in a BFSM...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , the edge matrix. The edge matrix is a m x 3 matrix, where m is number of edges in the graph. The first

  • Communication-Efficient Secure Two-Party Computation From Minicrypt and OT

    Creator:
    Roy, Lawrence
    Abstract:
    Secure two-party computation (2PC) is the task of performing arbitrary calculations on secret inputs provided by two parties, while maintaining secrecy if at least one party is honest. 2PC has been applied to privacy-preserving record linkage and machine learning, in areas such as medicine where maintaining privacy is crucial. One...
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    Dissertation
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  • A modification of Veto logic for a committee of threshold logic units and the use of 2-class classifiers for function estimation

    Creator:
    Osborne, Martin
    Abstract:
    The well-known local adjustment algorithm for training a threshold logic unit, TLU, is extended to a local adjustment algorithm for training a network of TLUs Computer simulations show that the extension is unsatisfactory. A new logic for a committee of TLUs, called modified veto logic, and a local adjustment algorithm...
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    Dissertation
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