The purpose of this dissertation is to define homology functors for the category of definable sets and definable continuous maps in an o-minimal expansion of an ordered field. Both simplicial and singular homology functors ...

In Tacitus’ treatment of the various military conflicts of 69-70 CE, the military oath of allegiance (sacramentum) assumes tremendous significance throughout. The historian pointedly begins his narrative with Galba’s failure ...

This thesis presents an investigation of the Collection of Parts Model for object categorization. Multiclass categorization is performed using the Collections of Parts model. Results using Support Vector Machines, L1 ...

Object localization algorithms aim at finding out what objects exist in an image and where each object is. Object localization is fundamental to many computer vision problems. Simply knowing what is in the image is not ...

As the web evolves, increasing quantities of structured information is embedded in web pages in disparate formats. For example, a digital camera’s description may include its price and megapixels whereas a professor’s ...

This dissertation is an attempt to make sense of why (sometimes) philosophers reject past theories of x (reality, knowledge, morality, etc.) while they acknowledge at the same time that the theories being rejected contain ...

This thesis defines an extensible transaction model and shows that an extensible and customizable transaction system based on the model can be built using an object-oriented framework.

Protection is the mechanism employed by operating systems to control access to resources. Object encapsulation in object-based systems requires control of access to every object. The incremental definition of objects through ...

This thesis describes an experiment to use object-oriented programming and design techniques to design and implement an operating system. This experiment uses object-oriented techniques to address problems of operating ...