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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 REPLICATION FOR COPING WITH UNCERTAINTY IN SCHEDULING
Author: Chaubey, Manmohan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Scheduling theory is a common tool to analyze the performance of parallel and distributed computing systems, such as their load balance. How to distribute the input data to be able to execute a set of tasks in a minimum amount of time can be model...

Title: EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF VALENCE AND AROUSAL ON PAIN PERCEPTION USING VIRTUAL REALITY MOOD INDUCTION
Author: Porter, Anne
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Psychology
Description: Virtual reality (VR) distraction has successfully decreased chronic and acute pain perception in clinical and experimental settings, but the precise elements of VR that optimize distraction have not been fully explored. Research has suggested that...

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: LOWERING THE BARRIER TO DEVELOPMENT AND ADOPTION OF PARTICIPATORY SENSING APPLICATIONS
Author: Heggen, Scott
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Participatory sensing has the potential to support human-driven sensing and data collection at an unprecedented scale. In this emerging class of software systems, participants use an application on their mobile phone to collect digital samples of ...

Title: PARTICIPATORY SENSING: DEMOGRAPHIC DETERMINANTS OF INCENTIVE EFFECTIVENESS AND A FRAMEWORK FOR ESTABLISHING INCENTIVE DESIGN GUIDELINES
Author: Omokaro, Osarieme
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Participatory sensing, in which volunteers use the sensors on their smartphones to capture and transmit digital samples of the surrounding environment, shows promise for large-scale data collection. Recently, researchers have begun to explore the ...

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: TOPIC MODELS FOR TAGGED TEXT
Author: Ma, Zhiqiang
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Our world has been experiencing a dramatic and continually increasing growth of digital textual information. This phenomenon raises challenges in analyzing, understanding, organizing, and summarizing these large bodies of textual information. A la...

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...