The applications deployed in modern data centers are highly diverse in terms of architecture and performance needs. It is a challenge to provide consistent services to all applications in a shared environment. This thesis ...

Most cancers lack effective early disease markers, prognostic and predictive signatures, primarily due to tumor heterogeneity. As a result, we fail treating cancer heterogeneity due to multiple ways cancer initiates and ...

In the context of crowd simulation, there is a diverse set of algorithms that model steering, the ability of an agent to navigate between spatial locations, while avoiding static and dynamic obstacles. The performance of ...

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are gaining popularity as a flexible and inexpensive replacement for Ethernet-based infrastructures. As the use of mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets is becoming ubiquitous, mobile ...

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) addresses the task of incrementally building a map of the environment with a robot while simultaneously localizing the robot relative to that map. SLAM is generally regarded as ...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) require precise pose estimation when navigating in indoor and GNSS-denied / GNSS-degraded outdoor environments. The possibility of crashing in these environments is high, as spaces are ...

Behavioural equivalences like probabilistic bisimilarity rely on the transition probabilities and, as a result, are sensitive to minuscule changes of those probabilities. Such behavioural equivalences are not robust, as ...

Affect detection from text is the task of detecting affective states such as sentiment, mood and emotions from natural language text including news comments, product reviews, discussion posts, tweets and so on. Broadly ...

This dissertation presents research on learning of interactive layouts. I develop two models based on a theory of cognition known as ACT-R (Adaptive Control of Thought–Rational). I validate them against experimental data ...

This dissertation focuses on the effect of errors in character-based text entry techniques. The effect of errors is targeted from theoretical, behavioral, and practical standpoints. This document starts with a review of ...