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- 1Bayat, Samaneh
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- 1Boers, Nicholas M.
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Fall 2011
3D model is a promising type of multimedia content for entertainment, research and education purposes. This thesis addresses the representation and manipulation of 3D models based on skeletonization, which is a commonly used technique to extract a compact descriptor and effectively capture the...
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Fall 2011
This thesis work presents a novel and efficient circuit similarity algorithm to detect topological similarity between two circuits. Targeting placement, our proposed circuit similarity algorithm, namely CSBP, is able to significantly accelerate placement based on this similarity. Moreover,...
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Fall 2011
Dynamic service composition involves the run-time selection of service elements that are combined to form a larger more complex composite application. There are several issues in dynamic service composition that are examined in this thesis. First, the existence of a large number of service...
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Spring 2011
Real-time rendering of static volumetric data is generally known to be a memory and computationally intensive process. With the advance of graphic hardware, especially GPU, it is now possible to do this using desktop computers. However, with the evolution of real-time CT and MRI technologies,...
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Spring 2011
In this thesis, we study theoretically and empirically the additive abstraction-based heuristics. First we present formal general definitions for abstractions that extend to general additive abstractions. We show that the general definition makes proofs of admissibility, consistency, and...
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Algorithms towards haplotype-sharing based association studies of case-control traits on pedigree data
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Association studies that attempt to link genes with traits are expected to unearth various genomic roots for various diseases. Recently, haplotype based association studies have become popular due to the inheritance information innate to haplotypes. In this work, we provide a summary of recent...
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Fall 2011
In this thesis, we present a variety of approximation algorithms for the Unsplittable Flow on Paths problem and some Traveling Salesman problems. The main contribution to the Unsplittable Flow on Paths problem is a logarithmic approximation algorithm which is the first non-trivial approximation...
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Fall 2011
With increasing software size and complexity, corrective software maintenance has become a challenging process. When a failure is reported, it takes time and expertise for human operators to collect the right information and pinpoint the root cause. Typically, the operators are overloaded with...
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Fall 2011
Speaker identification is the task of attributing utterances to characters in literary narratives. Although only some of the utterances are explicitly attributed in novels, humans readers are able to determine the speakers of the remaining utterances because of their understanding of the plot....
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Fall 2011
Several research projects explore the application of uncertain databases which contain probabilistic attributes. Uncertainty in data can be caused by inherent randomness, imprecision in measuring equipment, ambiguity, information extraction from unstructured data, etc. The classification and...