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Selective Evolutionary Generation Systems: Theory and Applications.
(2010)
This dissertation is devoted to the problem of behavior design, which is a generalization of the standard global optimization problem: instead of generating the optimizer, the generalization produces, on the space of ...
Kernel Methods for Classification with Irregularly Sampled and Contaminated Data.
(2011)
Design of a classifier consists of two stages: feature extraction and classifier learning. For a better performance, the nature, characteristics, or underlying structure of data should be taken into account in either of ...
Scalable Algorithms for Communication Networks.
(2010)
Network scalability has emerged as the essential problem in designing architectures and protocols for large-scale communication systems. Minor efficiencies, that can be tolerated in small networks, can accumulate and become ...
Full-System Critical-Path Analysis and Performance Prediction.
(2009)
Many important workloads today, such as web-hosted services, are limited not by processor core performance but by interactions among the cores, the memory system, I/O devices, and the complex software layers that tie these ...
The Fast, Efficient, and Representative Benchmarking of Future Microarchitectures.
(2008)
A methodology is introduced to reduce the overall simulation time of large benchmarking suites. Previous work shows that it is possible to simulate only small sections of a benchmark's dynamic instruction stream in detail, ...
Cache Resource Allocation in Large-Scale Chip Multiprocessors.
(2009)
Chip multiprocessors (CMPs) have become virtually ubiquitous due to the
increasing impact of power and thermal constraints being placed on processor
design, as well as the diminishing returns of building ever more ...
Computer-aided Diagnosis of Pulmonary Nodules in Thoracic Computed Tomography.
(2008)
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. The five-year survival rate is 15% because most patients present with advanced disease. If lung cancer is detected and treated at its earliest stage, ...
Information and Decision Theoretic Approaches to Problems in Active Diagnosis.
(2012)
In applications such as active learning or disease/fault diagnosis, one often encounters the problem of identifying an unknown object while minimizing the number of ``yes" or ``no" questions (queries) posed about that ...
Yield Enhancement through Pre- and Post-Silicon Adaptation.
(2011)
Achieving a consistently high yield is always a key design objective. However, circuits designed in aggressively scaled technologies face more stringent design constraints and increased process variability. Hence, design ...
Efficient Data Center Architectures Using Non-Volatile Memory and Reliability Techniques.
(2011)
The cost of running a data center is increasingly dominated by energy consumption, contributed by power provisioning, cooling and server components such as processors, memories and disk drives. Meanwhile, emerging classes ...