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Coding-Based System Primitives for Airborne Cloud Computing
(2013-02-25)
The recent proliferation of sensors in inhospitable environments such as disaster or battle zones has not been matched by in situ data processing capabilities due to a lack of computing infrastructure in the field. We ...
Computational Questions in Evolution
(2012-10-23)
Darwin's theory (1859) proposes that evolution progresses by the survival of those individuals in the population that have greater fitness. Modern understanding of Darwinian evolution is that variation in phenotype, or ...
Computational Environment Design
(2012-10-26)
The Internet has evolved into a platform on which large numbers of individuals take action and join in collaborations via crowdsourcing, social media, and electronic commerce. When designing social and economic systems on ...
Content-Aware Manipulations for Image and Video Collections
(2012-08-17)
Digital photography and videography have become ubiquitous. With ever-cheaper and
more capable cameras, found in dedicated devices and, increasingly, in multipurpose
smartphones and tablets, it is now easier than ever ...
Deploying Affect-Inspired Mechanisms to Enhance Agent Decision-Making and Communication
(2012-12-20)
Computer agents are required to make appropriate decisions quickly and efficiently. As the environments in which they act become increasingly complex, efficient decision-making becomes significantly more challenging. This ...
Face Identification in the Internet Era
(2013-02-11)
Despite decades of effort in academia and industry, it is not yet possible to build machines that can replicate many seemingly-basic human perceptual abilities. This work focuses on the problem of face identification that ...
Framing Human-Robot Task Communication as a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process
(2012-08-10)
As general purpose robots become more capable, pre-programming of all tasks at the factory will become less practical. We would like for non-technical human owners to be able to communicate, through interaction with their ...
Models of Visual Appearance for Analyzing and Editing Images and Videos
(2012-08-15)
The visual appearance of an image is a complex function of factors such as scene geometry, material reflectances and textures, illumination, and the properties of the camera used to capture the image. Understanding how ...
Probabilistic Algorithms for Information and Technology Flows in the Networks
(2012-10-16)
This thesis studies several probabilistic algorithms for information and technology flow in the networks. Information flow refers to the circulation of information in social or communication networks for the purpose of ...
Coordinated Resource Management in Networked Embedded Systems
(2012-11-06)
This dissertation shows that with simple programming abstractions, network-wide resource coordination is efficient and useful for programming embedded sensor networks. Existing systems have focused primarily on managing ...