College of Computing Theses and Dissertations
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BROWNIAN DYNAMICS STUDIES OF DNA INTERNAL MOTIONS
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-12-04)Earlier studies by Chow and Skolnick suggest that the internal motions of bacterial DNA may be governed by strong forces arising from being crowded into the small space of the nucleoid, and that these internal motions ... -
Incremental Design Revision in Biologically Inspired Design
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-11-09)Design is the process by which solutions get developed to solve social challenges, and its products can be seen across our world from toothbrushes to computers to spaceships. Conceptual design is an early phase of design ... -
Interpretation, Grounding and Imagination for Machine Intelligence
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-11-08)Understanding how to model computer vision and natural language jointly is a long-standing challenge in artificial intelligence. In this thesis, I study how modeling vision and language using semantic and pragmatic ... -
The hourglass effect in source-target dependency networks
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-11-13)Many hierarchically modular systems are structured in a way that resembles the shape of an hourglass: the system generates many outputs from many inputs through a relatively small number of intermediate modules that are ... -
Optimization-Driven Emergence of Deep Hierarchies with Applications in Data Mining and Evolution
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-11-09)It is well known that many complex systems, in both nature and technology, exhibit hierarchical modularity: smaller modules, each of them providing a certain function, are used within larger modules that perform more complex ... -
DESIGNING TEXTILE-BASED WEARABLE ON-BODY ELECTRONIC INTERFACES UTILIZING VIBRO-TACTILE PROPRIOCEPTIVE DISPLAY
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-11-01)With the advent of commercially available heads-up-displays and other mobile information systems, there arises a need for on-body interfaces that can be used accurately and quickly without visual attention. In this ... -
Constructing and Evaluating Executable Models of Collective Behavior
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-10-19)Multiagent simulation (MAS) can be a valuable tool for biologists and ethologists studying collective animal behavior. However, constructing models for simulation is often a time-consuming manual task. Current state-of-the-art ... -
Extending 3D Reconstruction to Temporal and Multi-model Sensor Data for Precision Agriculture
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-09-12)Crop monitoring is one of the most important tasks in precision agriculture, and to reduce cost, such task is often performed autonomously by unmanned aerial and ground vehicles. To capture 3D geometric information about ... -
EvalAI: Evaluating AI Systems at Scale
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-12-06)Artificial Intelligence research has progressed tremendously in the last few years. There has been the introduction of several new multi-modal datasets and tasks due to which it is becoming much harder to compare new ... -
Hardness and Tractability for Structured Numerical Problems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-08-24)We study structured linear systems and structured linear programs (LPs) from both algorithm and complexity perspectives. These structured problems commonly arise in combinatorial optimization, machine learning, and operation ... -
High Performance Computing algorithms for Discrete Optimization
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-11-03)This thesis concerns the application of High Performance Computing to Discrete Optimization, and the development of massively parallel algorithms designed to accelerate the solving process of Mixed-Integer Programs (MIPs). ... -
Method and software for predicting emergency department disposition in pediatric asthma
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-04-21)An important application of predictive data mining in clinical medicine is predicting the disposition of patients being seen in the emergency department (ED); such prediction could lead to increased efficiency of our ... -
A comprehensive querying database system based on the entity relationship model
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-04-23)This work proposes a comprehensive querying database system based on an enhanced entity relationship (EER) model. The DBMS is fully operational and performs all queries that are illustrated in the paper. This work is also ... -
Learning over functions, distributions and dynamics via stochastic optimization
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-07-27)Machine learning has recently witnessed revolutionary success in a wide spectrum of domains. The learning objectives, model representation, and learning algorithms are important components of machine learning methods. To ... -
Mobile device clusters as edge compute resources: Design, deployment, and role in the computing ecosystem
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-07-27)Edge computing offers an alternative to centralized, in-the-cloud compute services. Among the potential advantages of edge-computing are lower latency that improves responsiveness, reduced wide-area network congestion, and ... -
Sketching mental maps of urban spaces for the visual analysis of spatial data
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-07-31)Quantitative spatial data can be used to substantially augment our understanding of topics of interest to civic planning, including human behavior. However, it does not necessarily capture the qualitative values or ... -
Physical computing education: Designing for student authorship of values-based learning experiences
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-07-31)No one should have to conform or assimilate in order to participate in the design and creation of technology; however, this is the reality facing many students today. Prior research suggests that the issues surrounding ... -
An image-based approach for 3D reconstruction of urban scenes using architectural symmetries
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-07-23)In this dissertation, I focus on an important, generalizable and freely available sub-category of semantic information in addressing modern reconstruction challenges: the notion of symmetry. The emphasis in the 3D modeling ... -
Scalable tensor decompositions in high performance computing environments
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-07-31)This dissertation presents novel algorithmic techniques and data structures to help build scalable tensor decompositions on a variety of high-performance computing (HPC) platforms, including multicore CPUs, graphics ... -
Markov chains and emergent behavior for problems from discrete geometry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-07-02)The problem of generating random samples from large, complex sets is widespread across the sciences, where such samples provide one way to begin to learn about the sets' typical properties. However, when the samples generated ...
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