As the scaling of the microelectronics is reaching nano regime, low-dimensional materials have been of increasing interest for future electronics applications. The low-dimensional materials, such as Si nanowires (SiNWs), ...

Since the development of the Service Oriented Architecture concept, business analysts and system developers have looked forward to the day when they could reconfigure applications to adapt to new business by combining ...

In this thesis, I propose a novel method for estimating motions between image contours. The method is fast and can handle both small and large displacements. It uses the distance transform and its gradients to estimate ...

Establishing robust quantitative metrics which allow decision makers to determine the amount of risk in a system with extreme loss events is a problem of interest in many scientific fields. One of the fundamental metrics ...

This dissertation presents methodologies to estimate gate-waiting delays from historical data, to identify gate-waiting-delay functional causes in major U.S. airports, and to evaluate the impact of gate operation disruptions ...

Until now, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) are the main platform for

Complex and expensive systems’ development suffers from a lack of method for making good system-architecture-selection decisions early in the development process. Failure to make a good system-architecture-selection ...

Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) can be applied to almost any optimization or learning problem by making some simple customizations to the underlying represen- tation and/or reproductive operators. This makes them an appealing ...

Soldiers in theater face the threat of mines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) which grow more sophisticated and more dangerous each year. In current conflicts, insurgents regularly use IEDs along well-traveled roads ...

The development of integrated, miniaturized, and portable DNA analysis systems is crucial to alleviate massive backlog of unanalyzed samples and to address ever increasing demand for these assays. This thesis work ...