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A Case for Fine-Grain Adaptive Cache Coherence
(2012-05-22)
As transistor density continues to grow geometrically, processor manufacturers are already able to place a hundred cores on a chip (e.g., Tilera TILE-Gx 100), with massive multicore chips on the horizon. Programmers now ...
Optimal Parametric Auctions
(2012-05-08)
We study the problem of profit maximization in auctions of one good where the buyers' valuations are drawn from independent distributions. When these distributions are known to the seller, Myerson's optimal auction is a ...
Cryptographic Treatment of CryptDB's Adjustable Join
(2012-03-25)
In this document, we provide a cryptographic treatment of the adjustable join protocol from CryptDB. We also discuss how our scheme could be used outside of CryptDB because it provides a simple functionality that may be ...
Preliminary MEG decoding results
(2012-04-20)
Decoding analysis has been applied to electrophysiology and fMRI data to study the visual system, however, this method has only been applied to MEG visual data in a few instances. Here we use the Neural Decoding Toolbox ...
Robust, Goal-directed Plan Execution with Bounded Risk
(2012-02-02)
There is an increasing need for robust optimal plan execution for multi-agent systems in uncertain environments, while guaranteeing an acceptable probability of success. For ex- ample, a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles ...
Learning and recognition of hybrid manipulation tasks in variable environments using probabilistic flow tubes
(2012-08-23)
Robots can act as proxies for human operators in environments where a human operator is not present or cannot directly perform a task, such as in dangerous or remote situations. Teleoperation is a common interface for ...
Risk-minimizing program execution in robotic domains
(2012-02-02)
In this thesis, we argue that autonomous robots operating in hostile and uncertain environments can improve robustness by computing and reasoning explicitly about risk. Autonomous robots with a keen sensitivity to risk can ...
Energy-efficient Control of a Smart Grid with Sustainable Homes based on Distributing Risk
(2012-01-20)
The goal of this thesis is to develop a distributed control system for a smart grid with sustainable homes. A central challenge is how to enhance energy efficiency in the presence of uncertainty. A major source of uncertainty ...
Multiple functionally divergent and conserved copies of alpha tubulin in bdelloid rotifers
(2012-08-17)
AbstractBackgroundBdelloid rotifers are microscopic animals that have apparently survived without sex for millions of years and are able to survive desiccation at all life stages through a process called anhydrobiosis. ...