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Title: An Approach to Reducing Parameter Uncertainty for Robotic Surface Assembly Tasks
Author: Saric, Amar
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Robotics
Description: 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...

Title: Automated Meta-Actions Discovery for Personalized Medical Treatments
Author: Touati, Hakim
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Health services administration
Description: 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....

Title: DATA ANALYSIS WORKFLOW FOR GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY MASS SPECTROMETRY-BASED METABOLOMICS STUDIES
Author: Ni, Yan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: Metabolomics has emerged as an integral part of systems biology research that attempts to comprehensively study low molecular weight organic and inorganic metabolites under certain conditions within a biological system. Technological advances in t...

Title: DECISION SUPPORT FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE RECOVERY
Author: Pala, Okan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geodesy, Information science
Description: 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...

Title: DEVELOPING AND VALIDATING JOINT DYNAMIC AMBULANCE RELOCATION AND FLEXIBLE DISPATCHING STRATEGIES: A SIMULATION-OPTIMIZATION APPROACH
Author: Li, Xun
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Information technology, Business
Description: Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system's mission is to provide timely and effective treatment to anyone in need of urgent medical care throughout their jurisdiction. The main goal of most EMS deployment is to reduce mortality, disability, pain an...

Title: ESSAYS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GOVERNANCE: MEASUREMENT AND IMPACTS
Author: Zhang, Peiqin
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: 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...

Title: Hierarchical Learning of Discriminative Features and Classifiers for Large-scale Visual Recognition
Author: Zhou, Ning
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Enabling computers to recognize objects present in images has been a long standing but tremendously challenging problem in the field of computer vision for decades. Beyond the difficulties resulting from huge appearance variations, large-scale vis...

Title: Personalized Indexing of Music by Emotions
Author: Mostafavi, Amanda
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: 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...

Title: STABILITY AND PERFORMANCE OF NETWORKED CONTROL SYSTEMS
Author: Bai, Libin
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: 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 ...

Title: Topology-aware approach for the emergence of social norms in multiagent systems
Author: Hasan, Mohammad
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: 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...

Title: Using audience-centric design and community feedback to manage complex privacy settings
Author: Watson, Jason
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: 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...