The past two decades in the United States have ushered in an era of increasing ubiquity of digitized healthcare as the speed and sophistication of technology follows an ever-growing trend. Electronic health records (EHRs) are ...

Reliability is an important requirement in network communication. Many distributed applications rely on exchanging information reliably in the presence of host crashes and network failures. In this thesis, our concern is ...

Failures in computing systems are unavoidable. Therefore, it is important to detect and diagnose failures early to improve the reliability of systems. In this dissertation, new approaches on root-cause diagnosis for two ...

Communication hardware and software have a significant impact on the performance of clusters and supercomputers. Message passing model and the Message-Passing Interface (MPI) is a widely used model of communications in the ...

Optimization of high-level autonomous tasks requires solving the optimal motion planning problem for a mobile robot. For example, to reach the desired destination on time, a self-driving car must quickly navigate streets ...

Polarizable force fields are considered to be the single most significant development in the next-generation force fields used in biomolecular simulations. The self-consistent computation of induced atomic dipoles in a ...

The basic technique of scale-space filtering has been modified to render it suitable for detecting instances of short-duration "patterns" in one-dimensional waveform data. Scale-space filtering involves convolving ...

FFT implementations today generally fall into two categories: Library generators (such as FFTW and Spiral) and specialized FFTs (such as prime95). Specialized FFTs have the obvious limitation of being specialized. However ...

Fault collapsing, test generation, and fault simulation were traditionally developed at the gate-level based on the stuck-at fault model. However, with the advent of VLSI MOS technology, this fault model is not applicable. ...