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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"flexible mechanism"”.
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An Axiomatic Approach to Information Retrieval
… effective retrieval functions, and provides a flexible mechanism to incorporate more information to further improve the performance through defining a set of additional constraints.
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School choice : a discrete optimization approach
An equitable and flexible mechanism for assigning students to schools is a major concern for many school districts. The school a student attends dramatically impacts the quality of education, access to resources, family and neighborhood cohesion, and transportation costs. Facing this intricate …
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Leveraging metadata in NoSQL storage systems
… important features such as data provenance, flexible data operations, and new administration tools. Our system has a general design that can be made compatible with most NoSQL data stores without imposing heavy performance overhead. We implement a customized version of the Cassandra data …
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Hierarchical Error Detection in a Software Implemented Fault Tolerance (Sift) Environment
… system. The thesis shows how the detection mechanisms are applicable to the components of the SIFT layer and how to extend them to applications executing on such a layer. A flexible mechanism for combining the different levels in the hierarchy to ensure the environment's adaptivity is …
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Disk Storage and File Systems with Quality-of-Service Guarantees
… order of the requests, and it provides a flexible mechanism to combine the execution of requests with different quality-of-service requirements. Finally, the file system addresses both the needs of the former two elements of the storage system and of the various file types used by the …
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Simulation-Based Decision Making with Streaming Data
… The Bayesian risk formulation provides a flexible mechanism to account for uncertainty while avoiding excessive conservativeness. We further extend this framework to online learning settings, where data are collected adaptively through interaction with the environment, and develop …
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Delivering Consistent Network Performance in Multi-tenant Data Centers
… this thesis introduces several software-based mechanisms that were inspired by techniques used to regulate traffic in the interconnects of scalable Internet routers. In particular, we borrow two key concepts that serve as the basis for our approach. First, we investigate packet-level routing …
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The Design and Development of a Maturity Model Tool to Assess Financial Management within South African Schools
… contributions. It offers a structured yet flexible mechanism that can assist schools to grow towards greater accountability, transparency, and long-term financial stability.
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A Policy-Based Resource Brokering Environment for Computational Grids
… <p>In this thesis, we propose and prototype a flexible and extensible <em>Policy-based Resource Brokering Environment</em> (<em>PROBE</em>) that can be utilized by various grid systems. In designing PROBE, we follow a policy-based approach that provides PROBE with the intelligence to not only …
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Accuracy improvement strategies for a laser cutting robot prototype: design analysis and optimization
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Investigating the ecology of partial and full myco-heterotrophy among Orchidaceae and Ericaceae using the stable isotope natural abundance analysis approach
… not a static nutritional mode but a surprisingly flexible mechanism allowing a well balanced utilization of carbon resources available in nature. Although many questions in this broad and novel scientific field remain to be answered, results of this thesis substantially contribute to our knowledge …
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Návrh mikrorobotů – technologie v mikrosvětě
Tato práce si klade za úkol představit problematiku návrhu mikrorobotů a mikrosystémů. Práce klade důraz především na technologie, které jsou vhodné pro aplikaci v mikrosvětě a jejich výrobu. V závěru práce je shrnutí směřování budoucího vývoje mikrorobotů.