Browsing College of Computing Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Object categorization for affordance prediction
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-07-01)A fundamental requirement of any autonomous robot system is the ability to predict the affordances of its environment, which define how the robot can interact with various objects. In this dissertation, we demonstrate that ... -
An object infrastructure for high-performance interactive applications
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1998) -
Obtaining Architectural Descriptions from Legacy Systems: The Architectural Synthesis Process (ASP)
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004-10-29)A majority of software development today involves maintenance or evolution of legacy systems. Evolving these legacy systems, while maintaining good software design principles, is a significant challenge. Research has ... -
On conceptual design of active databases
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992) -
On concurrency control in logbased databases
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999) -
On mutation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1980-08) -
On sparse representations and new meta-learning paradigms for representation learning
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-05-15)Given the "right" representation, learning is easy. This thesis studies representation learning and meta-learning, with a special focus on sparse representations. Meta-learning is fundamental to machine learning, and it ... -
On the security and efficiency of encryption
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-09-24)This thesis is concerned with the design and analysis of practical provably-secure encryption schemes. We give several results that include new schemes with attractive tradeoffs between efficiency and security and new ... -
On Using Inductive Biases for Designing Deep Learning Architectures
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-15)Recent advancements in field of Artificial Intelligence, especially in the field of Deep Learning (DL), have paved way for new and improved solutions to complex problems occurring in almost all domains. Often we have some ... -
On-line monitoring and interactive steering of large-scale parallel and distributed applications
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995-08) -
On-line tuning of data placement in parallel databases
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996) -
On-the-go text entry: evaluating and improving mobile text input on mini-qwerty keyboards
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-11-13)To date, hundreds of millions of mini-QWERTY keyboard equipped devices (miniaturized versions of a full desktop keyboard) have been sold. Accordingly, a large percentage of text messages originate from fixed-key, mini-QWERTY ... -
Online and offline algorithms for circuit switch scheduling
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-05-14)Motivated by the use of high-speed circuit switches in large scale data centers, we consider the problem of {\em circuit switch scheduling}. In this problem, we are given demands between pairs of servers and the goal is ... -
OOCFA2: a PDA-based higher-order flow analysis for object-oriented programs
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-02-04)The application of higher-order PDA-based flow analyses to object-oriented languages enables comprehensive and precise characterization of program behavior, while retaining practicality with efficiency. We implement one ... -
Operating system principles and constructs for dynamic multi-processor real-time control systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996) -
Operational survivability in gracefully degrading distributed processing systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1980) -
Opportunistic interfaces for promoting community awareness
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001) -
Opportunistic Overlays: Efficient Content Delivery in Mobile Environments
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005-04-13)Middleware has become a key enabler for the development of distributed applications. Unfortunately, conventional middleware technologies do not yet offer sufficient functionality to make them suitable for mobile ... -
Optical flow templates for mobile robot environment understanding
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-10-01)In this work we develop optical flow templates. In doing so, we introduce a practical tool for inferring robot egomotion and semantic superpixel labeling using optical flow in imaging systems with arbitrary optics. In order ... -
Optical waveguides in general purpose parallel computers
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992)