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Fall 2010
A cluster-based router is a new router architecture that is composed of a cluster of commodity processing nodes interconnected by a high-speed and low-latency network. It inherits packet processing extensibility from the software router, and forwarding performance scalability from clustering. In...
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Spring 2010
This thesis presents Pathway Informed Analysis (PIA), a classification method for predicting disease states (diagnosis) from metabolic profile measurements that incorporates biological knowledge in the form of metabolic pathways. A metabolic pathway describes a set of chemical reactions that...
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Spring 2010
We propose a framework for semi-automatically verifying relational database schema mappings for data exchange. Schema mappings for data exchange formally describe how to move data between a source and target database. State-of-the-art schema mapping tools propose several mappings, but require...
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Spring 2010
In this work, we present a unified, general approach to variance reduction in agent evaluation using machine learning to minimize variance. Evaluating an agent's performance in a stochastic setting is necessary for agent development, scientific evaluation, and competitions. Traditionally,...
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Fall 2010
With the emergence of a new service delivery model, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), interest in quality management in the planning and operation of SaaS systems is increasing significantly. Most current quality management approaches for SaaS focus primarily on the perspective of service provider....
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A tightness continuum measure of Chinese semantic units, and its application to information retrieval
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Chinese is very different from alphabetical languages such as English, as there are no delimiters between Chinese words. So Chinese segmentation is an important step for most Chinese natural language processing (NLP) tasks. We propose a tightness continuum for Chinese semantic units. The...
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Adaptive local threshold with shape information and its application to oil sand image segmentation
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This thesis is concerned with a novel local threshold segmentation algorithm for digital images incorporating shape information. In image segmentation, most local threshold algorithms are based only on intensity analysis. In many applications where an image contains objects with a similar shape,...
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Applying support vector machines to discover just-in-time method-specific compilation strategies
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Adaptive Just-in-Time compilers employ multiple techniques to concentrate compilation efforts in the most promising spots of the application, balancing tight compilation budgets with an appropriate level of code quality. Some compiler researchers propose that Just-in-Time compilers should...
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Fall 2010
Performance and stability of many iterative algorithms such as stochastic gradient descent largely depend on a fixed and scalar step-size parameter. Use of a fixed and scalar step-size value may lead to limited performance in many problems. We study several existing step-size adaptation...
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Fall 2010
Virtual machines are gaining a growing importance in modern business IT infrastructure. They facilitate multiple operating system instances on one physical host, which provides more efficient use of the computing power of the physical host but increases the amount of network traffic as well. To...