This dissertation presents the Q-Compiler, which is a novel meta-data QoS programming and compilation framework for developing and deploying quality-aware applications. The Q-Compiler extends standard component construction ...

Component-based software development has evolved from tightly coupled object-oriented style to loosely coupled service-oriented style in the past few years. The new service-oriented paradigm will eventually allow heterogeneous ...

Resampling raw surface meshes is one of the most fundamental operations used by nearly all digital geometry processing systems. The vast majority of work in the past has focused on triangular remeshing; the equally important ...

Surface remeshing is a fundamental problem in computer graphics, and can be found in most digital geometry processing systems. The majority of work in this area has focused on remeshing with triangle elements, yet quadrilateral ...

In order for a program to interact with the world as well as people do, we must provide it with a great deal of commonsense about the way things work. Reasoning about the geometric interactions and motions of objects is ...

Traditional studies on mechanism diagnoses have been based on the "single failure" assumption even though multiple failures are main concerns in the real world. In this research, we concentrate on a subclass of ...

This dissertation presents QoS(Quality of Service) provisioning in integrated service networks from network design and management perspectives. The main features of this work are summarized below. (1) A systematic procedure ...

A finite difference approximation to the semiconductor device equations using the Bernoulli function approximation to the exponential function is described, and the robustness of this approximation is demonstrated. Sheikh's ...