Doctor of philosophy

“Doctor of Philosophy”

The recent transition to “cloud computing” is changing the way people store and use digital data. Data is more often stored remotely (on a cloud server) and accessed by very weak devices over the internet (e.g. smartphones). In addition to storage, the cloud is expected to manipulate and process the data per the user’s requests, since local processing on the end user’s device is infeasible. Thi...

Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation

Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering

This thesis considers the problem of restoring an image distorted by a linear spatially invariant point spread function PSF and corrupted by noise A principle aim is to develop techniques that are practical and require a minimum amount of prior knowledge The process of deconvolution is attempted using least squares and maximum likelihood iterative algorithms A survey of the literature introduce...

Doctor of Philosophy Thesis Examination

Techniques for writing reverse compilers or decompilers are presented in this thesis These techniques are based on compiler and optimization theory and are applied to decompilation in a unique way these techniques have never before been published A decompiler is composed of several phases which are grouped into modules dependent on language or machine features The front end is a machine depende...

Thesis for the degree Doctor of Philosophy