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AUTOMATED FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF SMART HOME RESIDENTS
(2015)This dissertation proposes smart home-based intelligent techniques that perform automated assessment of a resident's well-being by monitoring their behavior inside the home. We hypothesize that the everyday behavior of ... -
SCALABLE PARALLEL METHODS FOR ANALYZING METAGENOMICS DATA AT EXTREME SCALE
(2015)The field of bioinformatics and computational biology is currently experiencing a data revolution. The exciting prospect of making fundamental biological discoveries is fueling the rapid development and deployment of ... -
A Collaborative Defense Framework Against DDoS Attacks in Networks
(2013)Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks pose one of the most serious security threats to the Internet. In this work, we aimed to develop a collaborative defense framework against DDoS attacks in networks. We focus on ... -
Computational approaches for the prediction of apicoplast-targeted proteins
(2013)Motivation:The cells of eukaryotic organisms contain subunits called organelles. The apicoplast is a unique organelle found in a group of parasites, known as Apicomplexa, that are responsible for a wide range of serious ... -
Design Techniques and Tradeoffs of FinFET SRAM Memories
(2013)Nine novel eight-transistor (8T) FinFET SRAM cell schemes using different shorted gate (SG) or low power (LP) FinFET configurations are studied and evaluated comprehensively in terms of leakage current, delay, read and ... -
Real-Time Optimal Control of Large Scale Power Systems with Application to Improving Transient Stability Response
(2013)Electric power systems are large nonlinear dynamical systems and therefore require unique control designs compared to the linear systems engineers often encounter. A special characteristic of the power system is structural ... -
Electromagnetic Modeling Based on Directional Time-Distance Energy Transfer Analogies
(2013)A new electromagnetic model is established based on an average rate of directional time-distance energy transfers. A directional time-distance energy transfer is defined as an energy carrier mediator (boson) exchange. ... -
Towards Autonomous Management of Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks Utilizing Multi-Parent Recursive Area Hierarchies
(2013)Large scale, duty-cycled, wireless sensor networks distributed across a large geographic area have been proposed for applications ranging from anomaly detection to vehicle tracking. In order to support the requirements of ... -
HIGH-PERFORMANCE LOW-POWER CARBON NANOTUBE FET SRAM WITH TOLERANCE TO METALLIC CNTS
(2013)In this dissertation, an in-depth study of the design of Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) cell using Carbon Nanotube (CNT) technology is presented. Due to their superior transport properties, low voltage bias and improved ... -
WIDE AREA VOLTAGE MONITORING AND OPTIMIZATION
(2013)With the continual global increase in the demand for electricity, power systems are becoming more complex. In addition, factors such as power market deregulation, unscheduled voltage regulation, transmission line outages ... -
On-Chip Network-Enabled Many-Core Architectures for Computational Biology Applications
(2013)Large-scale integration of multiple cores on a single chip is the current answer to the challenge of attaining higher computation throughput while restricting power consumption within acceptable limits. Network-on-Chip ... -
METABOLITE IN SILICO IDENTIFICATION SOFTWARE (METISIS): A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH TO TANDEM MASS SPECTRAL IDENTIFICATION OF METABOLITES
(2012)Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry-based metabolomics has gained importance in the life sciences, yet it is not supported by software tools for high throughput identification of metabolites based on their fragmentation ... -
DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF PACKET CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS ON MULTI-CORE ARCHITECTURE
(2012)Packet classification (PC) is the core mechanism used by network devices such as edgerouters, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems to classify incoming traffic based on the classificationpolicy. In decision-tree-based ... -
MILLIMETER-WAVE WIRELESS NETWORK-ON-CHIP: A CMOS COMPATIBLE INTERCONNECTION INFRASTRUCTURE FOR FUTURE MANY-CORE PROCESSORS
(2012)Multi-core platforms are emerging trends in the design of Systems-on-Chip (SoCs). Interconnect fabrics for these multi-core SoCs play a crucial role in achieving the target performance. The Network-on-Chip (NoC) paradigm ... -
ISSUES REGARDING SYNCHRONIZATION PROBLEMS FOR NETWORKS AND INTERNAL STABILITY OF LINEAR SYSTEMS WITH CONSTRAINTS
(2012)My Ph.D. thesis research accomplishments span two different disciplines. The first one is synchronization in multi-agent systems and the other one is internal stabilization of linear systems with constraints. These two ... -
Computational methods for estimating genetic relationships
(2012)The advent of molecular methods has altered our approach to the studyof the genetic relationships of microbes. In particular, we now havethe unprecedented ability to estimate genetic relationships from wholegenome sequences ... -
A MODULAR PIPELINED MEDIUM GRAIN RECONFIGURABLE PROCESSOR CORE
(2012)This research focuses on a modular and scalable implementation of a MIPS compliant processor core for a medium-grain reconfigurable hardware. The core of this research is built upon the design of four autonomous modular ... -
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND DESIGN TRADE-OFFS FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS ON CHIP
(2012)Massive levels of integration are making modern multi-core chips all pervasive in several domains. High performance, robustness, and energy-efficiency are crucial for the widespread adoption of such platforms. Networks-on-Chip ... -
REAL TIME VOLTAGE STABILITY MONITORING AND CONTROL USING SYNCHROPHASORS
(2012)One new real-time Voltage Stability Monitoring framework and its corresponding Advanced Voltage Control scheme provide the possibility of improvement in voltage stability, security and control in power systems. They take ... -
EXTERNAL DATA EXCHANGE ISSUES FOR STATE ESTIMATION IN POWER SYSTEMS
(2012)Nowadays, large interconnections comprise several reliability coordinators and many balancing authorities. Each reliability coordinator and balancing authority has its own control center with its own state estimator for ...