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This report shall discuss the threats to information and services in open systems. In it we shall provide an illustration where these threats are confronted, describe the three basic techniques of authentication, and comment on the...
This dissertation is concerned with efficient compilation of our Java-based, high- performance, library-oriented, SPMD style, data parallel programming language: HPJava. It starts with some historical review of data-parallel languages...
Closed domain question answering (QA) systems achieve precision and recall at the cost of complex language processing techniques to parse the answer corpus. We propose a query-based model for indexing answers in a closed domain factoid...
This research examines the development of a system architecture for collaborative learning that combines feedback, group awareness, and chat in the form of both textual and auditory input. The goals are to evaluate the capability of...
The objective of my doctoral dissertation research is to formulate, implement, and validate metrics and techniques towards perceiving some of the influences on software development, predicting the impact of user initiated changes on a...
This thesis presents the Sampling-Based Model Predictive Control (SBMPC) Algorithm, a novel sampling-based planning algorithm. This algorithm was originally designed for dynamic system which are described by a set of system states and a...
The performance of a content-based image retrieval system depends on the representation of images. As a typical image consists of different objects, an image segmentation is needed for more accurate representations of contents. The first...
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