Technical Reports (Computing Science)

2002

Zhang, Yue

Technical report TR02-17. Image mosaic or image montage is an image made up of many other images. An image mosaic has its own visual content as a whole while each of its building images also has a meaningful content. This thesis address the design and implementation of an image mosaic generating...

2013

Nascimento, Mario, Wang, Zhiyu, MacGregor, Mike

Mobile objects can be equipped with sensors enabling them to collect data, as well as answer queries remotely and in real-time. For that, one needs to be able to effectively route queries from a base station to the queried object in an efficient way, i.e., with minimum energy-cost and/or minimum...

2009

MacGregor, Mike, Ye, Qinghua

Technical report TR09-12. Optimal utility-based congestion control is an optimization approach to congestion control problems where the objective is to maximize the aggregate source utility over their transmission rates. It has been used to analyze Internet congestion control schemes. In this...

2009

Alencar, Romulo, Nascimento, Mario, Brayner, Angelo

Technical report TR09-05. It is a well known fact that minimizing energy consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is crucial for its usability; and minimizing the flow of data is one way to achieve that. Most WSN models assume the existence of a base station where query results could in...

2002

Antoniuk, Jeffery

Technical report TR02-16. Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) are becoming increasingly popular and with this increase in popularity comes the increased number of applications that store textual data within the PDA. The research area of information retrieval has developed a number of effective and...

2017-04-10

Ady, Nadia M.

Curiosity is a critical component of intelligence. One method of motivating curious behaviour in computational systems is to use reinforcement learning to learn which decisions maximize the amount of unexpected error observed by a predictive component. However, reinforcement learning algorithms...

2000

Amalraj, Justin Vimal

Technical report TR00-15. Caching is a simple and effective way to provide faster access to information on the Internet, and it has been used effectively to improve the performance of E-commerce servers. However, there is a growing concern by today's Web service providers to ensure that the...

1995

Stewart, Lorna, Elmallah, Ehab

Technical report TR95-03. For any fixed integer k >= 2, define the class of k-polygon graphs as the intersection graphs of chords inside a convex k-polygon, where the endpoints of each chord lie on two different sides. The case where k=2 is degenerate; for our purpose, we view any pair of...

2006

Poulin, Brett, Wan, Xiang, Kolacz, Tom

Technical report TR06-03. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are genetic markers that may be used to identify the causes and risks of cancer. The sheer volume of data generated by SNP studies is difficult to analyze by hand. Machine learning techniques have been developed to address the types...

2003

Greiner, Russell, Wishart, David, Eisner, Roman, Lu, Z., Lu, Paul, Macdonell, Cam, Poulin, B., Szafron, Duane, Anvik, J.

Technical report TR03-14. Identifying the destination or localization of proteins is key to understanding their function and facilitating their purification. A number of existing computational prediction methods are based on sequence analysis. However, these methods are limited in scope, accuracy...