<p>This thesis explores a few geometric optimization problems that arise</p><p>in robotics and sensor networks. In particular we present efficient</p><p>algorithms for the hitting-set problem and the budgeted hitting-set ...

<p>In this thesis we explore and extend the theory of persistent homology, which captures topological features of a function by pairing its critical values. The result is represented by a collection of points in the extended ...

<p>Over the next decade, it is estimated that the number of servers (virtual and physical) in enterprise datacenters will grow by a factor of 10, the amount of data managed by these datacenters will grow by a factor of 50, ...

<p>Denial-of-Service (DoS) flooding attacks have become a serious threat to the reliability of the Internet. For instance, a report published by Arbor Networks reveals that the largest DoS flooding attack observed in 2010 ...

<p>Many biological processes are effectively modeled as networks, but a frequent assumption is that these networks do not change during data collection. However, that assumption does not hold for many phenomena, such as ...

<p>Synthetic biology is an emerging technology field whose goal is to use biology as a substrate for engineering. Self-assembly is one of the many methods for fabricating such synthetic biosystems.</p><p>Self-assembly is ...

<p>One of the most difficult tasks in value function based methods for learning in Markov Decision Processes is finding an approximation architecture that is expressive enough to capture the important structure in the value ...

<p>Computational protein design aims at identifying protein mutations and conformations with desired target properties (such as increased protein stability, switch of substrate specificity, or novel function) from a vast ...

<p>In this paper, we propose a new learning algorithm for non-stationary Dynamic Bayesian Networks is proposed. Although a number of effective learning algorithms for non-stationary DBNs have previously been proposed and ...

<p>Despite the exceptional prominence of the cloud computing, the customers are</p><p>lack of direct sense to select the cloud that delivers the best performance,</p><p>due to the performance heterogeneity of each cloud ...