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Showing 1 to 20 of 374 for “"Computational resources"”.
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Allocation of Computational Resources in the Nervous System.
… the organism. This dissertation focuses on the resources underlying these computations, and the task-dependent allocation of these resources. We present evidence that principles from optimal coding and optimal estimation account for overt and covert orienting phenomena, as observed from both …
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Robotic Search Planning In Large Environments with Limited Computational Resources and Unreliable Communications
… planning is a popular approach to addressing the computationally expensive task of planning long paths because it allows robotic agents with limited computational resources to iteratively construct a long path by solving for an optimal short path, traversing a portion of the short path, and …
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A Scoping Study to Develop a Computational Fluid Dynamics Based Model to Predict Radiological Materials Packaging Temperatures within a Generic Staging Building
The objective of this work is to perform computational fluid dynamics simulations of a ventilated radiological-material-package staging building to determine the effect of including or excluding a variety of physical effects and computational methods on both the predicted package temperatures and …
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Monkey: A Distributed Orchestrator for a Virtual Pseudo-Homogenous Computational Cluster Consisting of Heterogeneous Sources
… a researcher increasingly depends upon immense computational requisites to develop, train, and evaluate such algorithms. As a result, research labs are faced with the challenge of providing ample computational resources, and researchers are detracted from their core research in order to design, …
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Resource-Efficient Machine Learning via Count-Sketches and Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH)
… classification space is straining our limited computational resources. Given vast amounts of data and limited computational resources, how do we scale machine learning algorithms to gain meaningful insights? Randomized algorithms are an essential tool in our algorithmic toolbox for solving …
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Methods and applications in computational protein design
… our work on applications and methods for computational protein design. First, we apply computational protein design to address the problem of degradation in stored proteins. Specifically, we target cysteine, asparagine, glutamine, and methionine amino acid residues to reduce or eliminate a …
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Three-Dimensional Volume Reconstruction From Fluorescent Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy Imagery
… 3D volume reconstructions using the tools and computational resources at NCSA.
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Resource sharing platform architecture for an information product factory
Efforts to share resources in collaborative pursuits are hindered by differing data representations, redundant applications, and software incompatibilities. Members of a collaborative effort often span different computational environments and the heterogeneity of contexts disrupts software …
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Service ORiented Computing EnviRonment (SORCER) for Deterministic Global and Stochastic Optimization
… process. Primary challenges of MDO include computational expense and poor scalability. The introduction of a distributed, collaborative computational environment results in better utilization of available computational resources, reducing the time to solution, and enhancing scalability. …
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Qos-Aware Service Management for Internet-Scale Distributed Applications
… resource sharing, both in network bandwidth and computational resources, by proposing a special type of multicasting---service-added multicasting. Resource sharing is further maximized as we integrate traditional data multicasting into service multicasting. We call the integrated solution hybrid …
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Development of Dynamic Traffic Signal Control Procedures for Oversaturated Arterials and Genetic Algorithms Solutions
… on experiments with DSCA, and with sufficient computational resources, micro-GAs performed best when the population is sized around the square root of the string length.
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Numerical Analysis of an Airfoil Response to an Impinging Gust
… space of gust intensity and frequency. Computational resources, involving a Linux cluster, were set up and maintained. The code was corrected and adapted to this particular problem. Results are compared with linear solution from the GUST3D solver.</p>
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A Middleware for Large-scale Simulation Systems & Resource Management
… systems. Here, we describe SIMFRASTRUCTURE -- a computational infrastructure that supports high performance computing oriented decision and analytics environments to study socially coupled systems. Simfrastructure provides a middleware with multiplexing mechanism by which modeling environments …
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Implementing rate-distortion optimization on a resource-limited H.264 encoder
… and distortion of a macroblock given limited computational resources. It derives the macroblock rate and distortion as a function of the residual SAD and H.264 quantization parameter QP. From the resulting equations, this thesis implements and verifies rate-distortion optimization on a …
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Enseñanza y aprendizaje en ecuaciones diferenciales con abordaje gráfico, numérico y analítico
… problem-solution of situations with the use of computational resources. The methodology follows assumptions from the Vygotsky's Theory and the materials based on Ausubel's Meaningful Learning Theory. We used tools for information cellection: questionnaire, interviews, guide to activities, …
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Dynamic Switching of GOP Configurations in High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) using Relational Databases for Multi-objective Optimization
… with smart devices that provide significant computational resources that require optimal video communications solutions. Optimal and dynamic management of video bitrate, quality and energy needs to take into account their inter-dependencies. With emerging network generations providing higher …
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On a Selection of Advanced Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms for Everyday Use: Weighted Particle Tempering, Practical Reversible Jump, and Extensions
… and the like. The confluence of increasing computational resources, volumes of data, and variety of statistical procedures has brought us to a modern enlightenment. Within the next century, these tools will combine to reveal unforeseeable insights into the social and natural sciences. …
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Scalable foundation models
The continual growth in computational resources and human annotators, driven by advances in hardware architecture and the increasing accessibility of crowdsourcing platforms, has created unprecedented opportunities for artificial intelligence (AI) models. However, without scalable AI solutions …
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Graphite : a parallel distributed simulator for multicores
… of multicore architectures by leveraging computational resources from multiple machines and making efficient use of the parallelism available in the host platforms. This thesis describes in detail the design and implementation of the functional aspects of Graphite. Experiment results using …
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Efficient computing for autonomous navigation using algorithm-and-hardware co-design
… autonomous navigation algorithms are computationally expensive, requiring powerful CPUs and GPUs to enable them to run in real time. As a result, it is prohibitive to deploy them on miniature robots with limited computational resources onboard. To tackle this challenge, this thesis …
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