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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Decentralized Networks"”.
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Boston's urban wilds : the persistence of an idea over time
… protection of urban open space that focuses on decentralized advocacy and activism rather than on a centralized city program. This thesis analyzes the forty-year history of the urban wilds, investigating how the idea first captured people's attention and how advocates have kept it relevant over …
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Improvement of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) for regional food systems in the northeastern United States
… or regionally adaptive traits is crucial. Decentralized networks of seed savers and regional seed companies in North America are an underutilized resource for important and useful genetic material. Chapter III analyzes genotypic and phenotypic diversity of 18 seed sources of ‘Jacob’s …
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Non-Profit Hospitals and Community Health: Hospital Strategy Under the Affordable Care Act's Enhanced Community Benefit Regulations
… The resulting data was first used to group the networks formed between nonprofit hospitals and stakeholder organizations in response to the requirement to assess community health. The second component of this dissertation utilized a community orientation framework to measure different aspects of …
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Unlocking Collective Intelligence in Decentralized AI
… the development of efficient methods for decentralized learning while preserving privacy to generate wisdom whose quality is on par with the case of data centralization. It involves first identifying and creating essential building blocks that encourage collaboration while preserving the …
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Foundations of Multiple-Time-Scale Stochastic Approximation for Fast and Resilient Distributed Optimization Algorithms
… optimization algorithms for large-scale networks. The central focus is on understanding and leveraging two-time-scale dynamics, which may arise naturally from the underlying network structure or be introduced through algorithmic design. Motivated by challenges in large-scale decentralized …
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The refusal of the work of art: aesthetics and autonomy in Italy, 1965-1985
… counter-cultural publications, and mail art networks. Grouped under the name Italian Actionism, as they all downplay the work of art as object in favor of action, these collective practices are construed as forms of refusal (of theatre, of the composer, of the artists, of architecture, of the …
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Building Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence of Things Systems in Adversarial Environments
… two fundamental components, including IoT networks and AI algorithms, we naturally decompose our research into two parts: IoT network security and AI security. For IoT security, we explore new network attacks against the critical IoT network protocols and propose defense mechanisms to …
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Secure Computation in Decentralized Systems
Decentralized systems like Bitcoin and Ethereum are real-world examples of secure distributed systems deployed at scale. Over the past decade, these systems and others have proven to provide a trust-minimized solution for computing. They ensure the correct execution of code (correctness), maintain …
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Communication-Aware, Scalable Gaussian Processes for Decentralized Exploration
In this dissertation, we propose decentralized and scalable algorithms for Gaussian process (GP) training and prediction in multi-agent systems. The first challenge is to compute a spatial field that represents underwater acoustic communication performance from a set of measurements. We compare …