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Title
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An Approach to Reducing Parameter Uncertainty for Robotic Surface Assembly Tasks
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Author
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Saric, Amar
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Robotics
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Description
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In contrast to hard automation, which relies on the precise knowledge of all parameters and special-purpose machinery, the goal of flexible assembly is to overcome the inherent uncertainty in the location of the parts. The main result of this diss...
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Automated Meta-Actions Discovery for Personalized Medical Treatments
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Author
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Touati, Hakim
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Health services administration
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Description
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Healthcare, among other domains, provides an attractive ground of work for knowledge discovery researchers. There exist several branches of health informatics and health data-mining from which we find actionable knowledge discovery is underserved....
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DECISION SUPPORT FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE RECOVERY
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Author
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Pala, Okan
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Geodesy, Information science
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Description
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Protecting critical infrastructure systems, such as electrical power grids, has become a primary concern for many governments and organizations across a variety of stakeholder perspectives. Critical infrastructures involve multi dimensional, highl...
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ESSAYS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GOVERNANCE: MEASUREMENT AND IMPACTS
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Author
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Zhang, Peiqin
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Information technology
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Description
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Information Technology (IT) governance, defined as "the organizational capacity exercised by the Board, executive management and IT management to control the formulation and implementation of IT strategy and in this way ensure the fusion of busine...
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Personalized Indexing of Music by Emotions
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Author
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Mostafavi, Amanda
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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How a person interprets music and what prompts a person to feel certain emotions are two very subjective things. This dissertation presents a method where a system can learn and track a user's listening habits with the purpose of recommending song...
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STABILITY AND PERFORMANCE OF NETWORKED CONTROL SYSTEMS
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Author
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Bai, Libin
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Information technology
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Description
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Network control systems (NCSs), as one of the most active research areas, are arousing comprehensive concerns along with the rapid development of network. This dissertation mainly discusses the stability and performance of NCSs into the following ...
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Topology-aware approach for the emergence of social norms in multiagent systems
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Author
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Hasan, Mohammad
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Information technology
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Description
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Social norms facilitate agent coordination and conflict resolution without explicit communication. Norms generally involve restrictions on a set of actions or behaviors of agents to a particular strategy and can significantly reduce the cost of co...
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Using audience-centric design and community feedback to manage complex privacy settings
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Author
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Watson, Jason
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Information technology
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Description
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Today, technology is enabling people to share information on an unprecedented scale. Although much of this information is intended to be shared with a large group of people or even the public, some disclosure is intended for smaller audiences-a su...