Dissertations from 2013
Privacy-Aware Collaboration Among Untrusted Resource Constrained Devices, Andres David Molina-Markham
Software Techniques to Reduce the Energy Consumption of Low-Power Devices at the Limits of Digital Abstractions, Mastooreh Salajegheh
Bridging The Gap Between Autonomous Skill Learning And Task-Specific Planning, Shiraj Sen
Dissertations from 2012
Information Retrieval with Query Hypergraphs, Michael Bendersky
Decision-Theoretic Meta-reasoning in Partially Observable and Decentralized Settings, Alan Scott Carlin
Weakly Supervised Learning for Unconstrained Face Processing, Gary B. Huang
Towards Large-Scale Validation of Protein Flexibility Using Rigidity Analysis, Filip Jagodzinski
Resource-Bounded Information Acquisition and Learning, Pallika H. Kanani
Retrieval and Evaluation Techniquesfor Personal Information, Jinyoung Kim
Variable Risk Policy Search for Dynamic Robot Control, Scott Robert Kuindersma
Topic Regression, David Mimno
Leveraging Relational Representations for Causal Discovery, Matthew John Hale Rattigan
On the Analysis and Management of Cache Networks, Elisha Rosensweig
Modeling reformulation as query distributions, Xiaobing Xue
Designing Novel Mobile Systems By Exploiting Sensing, User Context, and Crowdsourcing, Tingxin Yan
Dissertations from 2011
Automated Negotiation for Complex Multi-Agent Resource Allocation, Bo An
Architecting Protocols to Enable Mobile Applications in Diverse Wireless Networks, Aruna Balasubramanian
Query-Dependent Selection of Retrieval Alternatives, Niranjan Balasubramanian
Adaptive Balancing of Exploitation with Exploration to Improve Protein Structure Prediction, TJ Brunette
Improving Processes Using Static Analysis Techniques, Bin Chen
Computational Affect Detection for Education and Health, David G. Cooper
Generalized Expectation Criteria for Lightly Supervised Learning, Gregory Druck
Interactive Perception of Articulated Objects for Autonomous Manipulation, Dov Katz
Autonomous Robot Skill Acquisition, George D. Konidaris
Enabling Peer-to-Peer Swarming for Multi-Commodity Dissemination, Daniel Sadoc Menasche
Exploiting Structure in Coordinating Multiple Decision Makers, Hala Mostafa
Hardening Software Against Memory Errors and Attacks, Albert Eugene Novark
Variations on Stigmergic Communication to Improve Artificial Intelligence and Biological Modeling, Megan Marie Olsen
Search Using Social Media Structures, Jangwon Seo
Biologically inspired vision systems, Piyanuch Silapachote
A Teleological Approach to Robot Programming by Demonstration, John Douglas Sweeney
Expressiveness and Succinctness of First-Order Logic on Finite Words, Philipp P. Weis
Improving Data Center Resource Management, Deployment, and Availability with Virtualization, Timothy Wood
Discovering and Using Implicit Data for Information Retrieval, Xing Yi
Scaling Multi-Agent Learning in Complex Environments, Chongjie Zhang
Dissertations from 2010
Bounds on Service Quality for Networks Subject to Augmentation and Attack, George Dean Bissias
Whole-Body Strategies for Mobility and Manipulation, Patrick Deegan
Learning the Structure of Bayesian Networks with Constraint Satisfaction, Andrew Scott Fast
Enabling Accurate Analysis of Private Network Data, Michael Hay
Discovery of Complex Regulatory Modules from Expression Genetics Data, Manjunatha Jagalur
Using Context to Enhance the Understanding of Face Images, Vidit Jain
Basis Construction and Utilization for Markov Decision Processes Using Graphs, Jeffrey Thomas Johns
The Role of Perceived Collective Anger and Fear on Policy Support in Response to Terrorist Threat, Jaeshin Kim
Data Management and Wireless Transport for Large Scale Sensor Networks, Ming Li
A Behavioral Approach to Human-Robot Communication, Shichao Ou
Optimization-based Approximate Dynamic Programming, Marek Petrik
On the Design of Methods to Estimate Network Characteristics, Bruno F. Ribeiro
Generalized Instruction Selector Generation: The Automatic Construction of Instruction Selectors from Descriptions of Compiler Internal Forms and Target Machines, Timothy David Richards
System Support for Perpetual Mobile Tracking, Jacob Sorber
Foundations and applications of generalized planning, Siddharth Srivastava
Problems in Generic Combinatorial Rigidity: Sparsity, Sliders, and Emergence of Components, Louis Simon Theran
A Geometric Framework for Transfer Learning Using Manifold Alignment, Chang Wang
Paying Attention to What Matters: Observation Abstraction in Partially Observable Environments, Alicia Peregrin Wolfe
Dissertations from 2009
Interactions in Decentralized Environments, Martin William Allen
Improved Network Consistency and Connectivity in Mobile and Sensor Systems, Nilanjan Banerjee
The Development of Hierarchical Knowledge in Robot Systems, Stephen W. Hart
Sensor Control and Scheduling Strategies for Sensor Networks, Victoria U. Manfredi
Action-Based Representation Discovery in Markov Decision Processes, Sarah Osentoski
Resource Management in Complex and Dynamic Environments, Mohammad Salimullah Raunak
Structured Topic Models: Jointly Modeling Words and Their Accompanying Modalities, Xuerui Wang
Operating System Support for Modern Applications, Ting Yang
Dissertations from 2008
Combinatorial Markov Random Fields and their applications to information organization, Ron Bekkerman
Low-cost and robust evaluation of information retrieval systems, Benjamin A Carterette
PROPEL: An approach supporting user guidance in developing precise and understandable property specifications, Rachel L Cobleigh
Learning and inference in weighted logic with application to natural language processing, Aron Culotta
Distributed data collection: Archiving, indexing, and analysis, Peter Desnoyers
Autocorrelation and regularization of query-based information retrieval scores, Fernando Diaz
Automatic capture and creation of presentations from multimedia lectures, Paul E Dickson
Incident threading in news, Ao Feng
Statistical models for text query-based image retrieval, Shaolei Feng
Scalable techniques for network control and evaluation, Yu Gu
A statistical approach to improving accuracy in classifier ensembles, Gary F Holness
Interactive reformulation of long queries, Giridhar Kumaran
Geometric constraint systems with applications in CAD and biology, Audrey Lee
Low-latency anonymity systems: Statistical attacks and new applications, Marc D Liberatore
On joint coding and combinatorial optimization in communication networks, Junning Liu
Cluster-based retrieval from a language modeling perspective, Xiaoyong Liu
Behavioral building blocks for autonomous agents: Description, identification, and learning, Ozgur Simsek
Evaluation of find-similar with simulation and network analysis, Mark D Smucker
Efficient processing of complex features for information retrieval, Trevor Strohman
Efficient training methods for conditional random fields, Charles A Sutton
Unified detection and recognition for reading text in scene images, Jerod J Weinman
Retrieval performance prediction and document quality, Yun Zhou
Dissertations from 2007
Exploiting structure: A guided approach to sampling-based robot motion planning, Brendan Burns
Automating and evaluating assume-guarantee reasoning, Jamieson M Cobleigh
Searching question and answer archives, Jiwoon Jeon
SensEye: A multi-tier heterogeneous camera sensor network, Purushottam Kulkarni
Pachinko allocation: DAG-structured mixture models of topic correlations, Wei Li
Beyond bags of words: Effectively modeling dependence and features in information retrieval, Donald A. Metzler
Tandem learning: A learning framework for document categorization, Hema Raghavan
Communication management in distributed sensor interpretation, Jiaying Shen
Monitoring, measurement, and control of multimedia traffic in IP networks, Kyoungwon Suh
Topic models in information retrieval, Xing Wei
Routing in mobile DTNs: Performance modeling, network coding benefit, and mobility trace modeling, Xiaolan Zhang
Dissertations from 2006
Scalable cooperative multiagent reinforcement learning in the context of an organization, Sherief Abdallah
Exploiting structure in decentralized Markov decision processes, Raphen Becker
An efficient and privacy-preserving framework for information dissemination among independent entities, Weifeng Chen
Planning and learning for weakly-coupled distributed agents, Anyuan Guo
Improving access to organized information, Brent Heeringa