Providing for the common defense of the United States and its interests is a vital, though expensive, endeavor. To that end, the U.S. Army is expected to grow and shrink as necessary to conform to changing circumstances. ...

In 2007, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the Secure Hash Function-3 (SHA-3) competition to select a successor of the SHA-2 standard after vulnerabilities were discovered in the related ...

Real estate is a huge domain, and people think of selling, renting and purchasing the property which includes huge investments. The most important part comes while dealing with the property is “Searching”. There are ...

The global financial system appears to be heading for a major financial crisis. This crisis is being driven by a growing global debt. This crisis is not limited to nations that are heavily in debt such as Greece, Spain, ...

There is a growing interest in light weight implementation of cryptographic algorithms for low-resource ubiquitous computing devices such as a wireless sensor nodes (WSN) or radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. ...

The need for automated Bayesian Network (BN) construction from data has increased for a variety of reasons. Elicitation of networks from experts can be time consuming and expensive. With large, complex problems, construction ...

This thesis establishes algorithms and analytical methods for implementing and evaluating distributed information fusion in networks with non-deterministic communications connectivity. The methods developed in this thesis ...

Deriving analytical performance models requires detailed knowledge of the architecture and behavior of the computer system being modeled as well as modeling skills. In autonomic computing environments, this detailed knowledge ...

The Minkowski sum is an important operation in a wide variety of applications, including

Localization and mapping has been an area of great importance and interest to the robotics and computer vision community. Localization and mapping has traditionally been accomplished with range sensors such as lasers and ...