This study presents a hybrid concurrent programming model combining the previously developed Fork-Join model (FJM) and Actor model (AM). With the advent of multi-core computers, there is a renewed interest in programming ...

To make storage management transparent to users, enterprises rely on expensive storage infrastructure, such as high end storage appliances, tape robots, and offsite storage facilities, maintained by full-time professional ...

Energy consumption and network latency are important issues in wireless sensor networks. The mechanism duty cycling is generally used in wireless sensor networks for avoiding energy consumption due to idle listening. Duty ...

This dissertation centers on two major aspects dictating the computational time of applications based on the solution of systems of coupled nonlinear parabolic equations: nonlinear and linear iterations. The former aspect ...

As the World Wide Web experiences increasing commercial and mission-critical use, server systems are expected to deliver high and predictable performance. The phenomenal improvement in microprocessor speeds, coupled with ...

Java has become the dominant language for teaching introductory computer science at both the high school and college levels. Yet Java's development tools and syntax often distract beginning students from the programming ...

This work concerns efficiently solving a class of nonlinear integer programming problems: min $\{f(x)$: $x \in \{0,1\}\sp{n}\}$ where $f(x)$ is a general nonlinear function. The notion of subgradient for the objective ...

This thesis presents a new method of myoelectric signal recognition. Myoelectric signals are electric signals generated by the motion of a person's muscle and can be used as control input for prosthetic hands. It uses ...

The deficiency of the widely used LQG method is that it depends heavily on the precision of plant parameters and the noise spectrum. The robustness problem can be formalized in singular value analysis. With the help of ...

This thesis considers duality properties and their application to the sequential gradient-restoration algorithms (SGRA) for optimal control problems. Two problems are studied: (P1) the basic problem and (P2) the general ...