Candidacy Exam Proposal

Adaptive partitioning and indexing for raw data querying

Traditional database management systems approach to data analytics assumes that the input would be loaded within the DBMS, and then queried upon. However, data analytics depend on the interaction with the data analyst and as data collections grow larger and larger, data loading acts as a bottleneck and it incurs significant data-to-query delay. In this paper, we examine the NoDB paradigm, which...

PhD Candidacy Exam: Host and Network Defense Systems For Intrusion Reaction

The focus of this candidacy exam is the investigation of the state of the art in intrusion reaction systems. Intrusion reaction, the design and careful selection of mechanisms to automatically respond to network attacks, has recently received an amount of attention that rivals its equally difficult sibling intrusion detection. Response systems vary from the low–tech (manually shut down misbehav...

Doctoral Candidacy Written Exam: Research Problems in Distributed Control for Energy Systems

and Problem Statement This document is a tutorial on research problems in distributed control for energy systems. It also includes a critique of two examples papers from the area.

The University of Chicago Maximizing Performance in Power Constrained Systems a Dissertation Proposal Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the the Physicial Science in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor’s

Exploration of Unknown Environments by an Autonomous Mobile Robot: Candidacy Exam Syllabus

In this talk I will focus on the use of a mobile robot for autonomous exploration of an initially unknown environment. Here, by “exploration” I mean a task whose final or intermediate result is a model of this environment. I will consider the following aspects: • mobile robot sensors for environmental modeling • types of explored environments • types and structure of environment models • approa...