# Browse College of Engineering by Title

• (2013-08-22)
Bridges in low- to moderate-seismic zones, such as Mid-America, commonly employ elastomeric expansion bearings to accommodate service-level thermal deformations in the superstructure. Any potentially beneficial effect of ...
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• (2014-05-30)
In this dissertation, we study the dynamic coverage problem for multi-agent systems, where the main objective of a group of mobile agents is to explore a given compact region. Qualitatively, the coverage goal can be described ...
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• (2011-01-14)
The advent of computerized medical devices has resulted in better accuracy and increased safety for patients and clinicians, yet medical accidents are still not uncommon. With the computerized medical devices and their ...
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• (2011-12)
The III-V heterojunction-bipolar (HBT) has become the standard industry device in high-speed applications, due to its superior current gain and faster electron transit times. Many high-frequency applications also require ...
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• (2006-09)
Many computing systems today are written in weakly typed languages such as C and C++. These languages are known to be unsafe'' as they do not prevent or detect common memory errors like array bounds violations, pointer ...
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• (2006-08)
In trust negotiation and other distributed proving systems, networked entities cooperate to form proofs that are justified by collections of certified attributes. These attributes may be obtained through interactions with ...
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• (2013-01)
The safety benefits and costs associated with implementing adaptive signal control technology (ASCT) were evaluated in this study. A user-friendly online survey was distributed to 62 agencies that had implemented ASCT in ...
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• (2011-04)
The single greatest category of highway vehicle crashes is run-off-the-road incidents. Significant material differences and elevation changes in shoulder edges pose a potential safety hazard when a vehicle leaves the travel ...
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• (University of Illinois Engineering Experiment Station. College of Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1974-11)
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• (2014-01-16)
Computational modeling of visual attention has been a very active area over the past few decades. Numerous models and algorithms have been proposed to detect salient regions in images and videos. We present a unified view ...
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• (Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,, 1992)
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• (2008-10)
In its original formulation, the motion planning problem considers the search of a robot path from an initial to a goal configuration. The study of motion planning has advanced significantly in recent years, in large part ...
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• (2008-10)
In its original formulation, the motion planning problem considers the search of a robot path from an initial to a goal configuration. The study of motion planning has advanced significantly in recent years, in large part ...
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• (2006-02)
Data mining is an emerging research area, whose goal is to discover potentially useful information embedded in databases. Due to the wide availability of huge amounts of data and the imminent need for turning such data ...
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• (2005-08)
Kinodynamic and nonholonomic planning problems have differential constraints which restrict admissible velocities and accelerations of robotic systems. Since these differential constraints are ignored in the path planning ...
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• (2011-05-25)
The littoral zone plays an integral role in the success of today's thriving society, providing a stable food supply as well as points of trade/transport for goods around the world. Key environmental processes in this ...
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• (2013-02-03)
In today's data-intensive cloud systems, there is a tension between resource limitations and strict requirements. In an effort to scale up in the cloud, many systems today have unfortunately forced users to relax their ...
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• (2013-08-22)
Multicore machines have become pervasive and, as a result, parallel programming has received renewed interest. Unfortunately, writing correct parallel programs is notoriously hard. Looking ahead, multicore designs should ...
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• (2006-06)
Testing using manually generated test cases is the primary technique used in industry to improve reliability of software---in fact, such ad hoc testing accounts for over half of the typical cost of software development. ...
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• (2012-02-06)
Governments, universities, and companies expend vast resources building the top supercomputers. The processors and interconnect networks become faster, while the number of nodes grows exponentially. Problems of scale emerge, ...
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