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Field service is gaining importance as after sales service is starting to be recognized as a major source of revenue. This motivates planning problems for companies that employ mobile technicians who provide service on clients’ sites. These planning problems share the common characteristic that service levels corresponding to technician response times are explicitly expressed in contracts. More...

ZHENG, JIANG. In Regression Testing without Code. (Under the direction of Dr. Laurie Williams.) Software products are often built from commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components. When new releases of these components are made available for integration and testing, source code is usually not provided by the COTS vendors. Various regression test selection techniques have been developed and have b...

Two optimal algorithmic schemes (GPRA and SPRA) for scheduling a chain of n coarse-grained tasks on a linear array of k recon gurable FPGAs are presented. Each scheme supports several realistic problem formulations and cost functions. GPRA, the more general of the two schemes, reduces the problem to computing a shortest path in a DAG and requires O(nk4) time and O(n4) storage; SPRA, the less ge...

Hydraulic machines have been widely used in a variety of high power applications. Typically these machines are operated by an operator. In past research the interaction safety between the operator and the machine was seldom investigated. This dissertation addressess the interaction stability issue by exploiting the safety guarantees offered by passive systems. The hydraulic machine considered i...

In-vivo Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy of Cerebral Hemodynamics Chao Zhou Arjun G. Yodh Functional optical imaging techniques, such as diffuse optical imaging and spectroscopy and laser speckle imaging (LSI), were used in research and clinical settings to measure cerebral hemodynamics. In this thesis, theoretical and experimental developments of the techniques and their in-vivo applications r...

Dr Manoel Pimentel Neto's career as a researcher and adviser is recalled in this summary of his professional life. He adored his work, to which he dedicated himself fully as an exemplary public employee. In 1958, he graduated in veterinary medicine from the Rural University of Brazil (Universidade Rural do Brasil; URB), which today is the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Universidade...

OF THE DISSERTATION Personalized Situation Recognition By Vivek Kumar Singh Doctor of Philosophy in Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine, 2012 Professor Ramesh Jain, Chair With the growth in internet-of-things, social media, mobile devices, and planetaryscale sensing, there is an unprecedented opportunity to assimilate spatio-temporally distributed streams into acti...