•9 ABSTRACT (Continue on reverie if necestary and identity by Nock number) ) Advanced algorithms for twoand three-dimensional modeling of semiconductor devices have been developed, implemented on parallel computers and tested using several high performance technologies. Computational limitations for semiconductor device analysis have been extended to greater than KJ nodes and speedup factors gr...

We study techniques, approximation algorithms, structural properties and lower bounds related to applications of linear programs in combinatorial optimization. The following Steiner tree problem is central: given a graph with a distinguished subset of required vertices, and costs for each edge, find a minimum-cost subgraph that connects the required vertices. We also investigate the areas of ne...

Robust control theory considers a fundamental and practically important issue in control engineering: plant uncertainty. It turns out that many of the simplest questions are very di cult to solve, but researchers have made considerable progress over the last twenty years. Nevertheless the theory has so far had less impact on practice than one might imagine. (Simulation and modeling tools, for e...

Advances in DNA synthesis have enabled the construction of artificial genes, gene circuits, and genomes of bacterial scale. Freedom in de novo design of synthetic constructs provides significant power in studying the impact of mutations in sequence features, and verifying hypotheses on the functional information that is encoded in nucleic and amino acids. To aid this goal, a large number of sof...

translating and translation are transformed with information and communication technology (ict). within three decades, a new work environment is shaking up the translator’s world. new types of translators are emerging. the balance between supply and demand is changing. however, we need adequate tools and methods to investigate the new hierarchy which has become established between translators, ...

This paper describes the first version of the TextMOLE (Text Mining Operations Library and Environment) system for textual data mining. Currently TextMOLE acts much like an advanced search engine: it parses a data set, extracts relevant terms, and allows the user to run queries against the data. The system design is open-ended, robust, and flexible. The tool is designed as a utility for quickly...

The number of telecommunication networks deployed in a dynamic environment is quickly growing. This is true in our everyday life (e.g., smartphones, vehicles, or satellites) as well as in the military context (e.g., dismounted soldiers or swarms of UAVs). Unfortunately, few theoretical tools enable, to date, the study of dynamic networks in a formal and rigorous way. As a result, it is hard and...

Comparative analysis of protein networks has proven to be a powerful approach for elucidating network structure and predicting protein function and interaction. A fundamental challenge for the success of this approach is the development of efficient algorithms and tools for comparing multiple networks. In this thesis we present two novel tools for comparative network analysis. The first tool is...

Nowadays machine learning (ML), including Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) of different architectures and Support Vector Machines (SVM), provides extremely important tools for intelligent geoand environmental data analysis, processing and visualisation. Machine learning is an important complement to the traditional techniques like geostatistics. This paper presents a review of several contempor...