To meet electricity demand, electric utilities develop growth strategies for generation, transmission, and distributions systems. For a long time those strategies have been developed by applying least-cost methodology, ...

Combinatorial scientific computing plays an important enabling role in computational science, particularly in high performance scientific computing. In this thesis, we will describe our work on optimizing matrix-vector ...

This qualitative study examines the writing and writing experiences of six bilingual (Spanish-English), immigrant university students. Immigrant students are a growing segment of university populations, but explicit/implicit ...

Effective poverty reduction programs require careful measurement of poverty status. Commonly used consumption or income-based classifications of poverty aggregate together households that are persistently poor with those ...

Correlated parameters are often expected when modeling a natural system. However, correlation among the variables often blurs the model uncertainty and makes it difficult to determine parameter sensitivity. In simple ...

This thesis considers the application of L1 adaptive control methodology to a model of the X-48B Blended Wing Body aircraft. We explicitly verify the performance bounds of the adaptive flight control system at various ...

This thesis presents a study of a novel summarization problem called contrastive opinion summarization (COS). Given two sets of positively and negatively opinionated sentences which are often the output of an existing ...

With the advent of the Internet, open distributed computing such as peer-to-peer file sharing and grid computing has become increasingly popular. As these systems exhibit an increasing level of online interactions and ...

The mechanical and piezoelectric behavior of freestanding Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT) composite films comprised of SiO2, Pt, PZT and Pt, for MEMS applications was investigated by microscale uniaxial tension experiments. ...

Automated surveillance has long been an application goal of computer vision. An integral part of such surveillance systems is concerned with accurately segmenting foreground objects from the static background in the ...