Hierarchical crowdsourcing networks (HCNs) provide a useful mechanism for social mobilization. However, spontaneous evolution of the complex resource allocation dynamics can lead to undesirable herding behaviours in which a small group of reputable workers are overloaded while leaving other workers idle. Existing herding control mechanisms designed for typical crowdsourcing systems are not effe...

Today's programs are implemented in a variety of languages and contain serious vulnerabilities which can be exploited to cause security breaches. These vulnerabilities have been exploited in real life and resulted in damages to related stakeholders such as program users. As most vulnerabilities belong to program code, many techniques have been applied to mitigate vulnerabilities before and afte...

An approach to mitigating noise, the effects of vignetting and illumination non-uniformity, reflections, and distance in surgical fluorescence imaging is proposed and explored experimentally.

This paper presents novel techniques for mitigating system effects of soft errors in memory and logic devices for lowend to high-end computer servers.

This article reviews scientific literature for evidence of the therapeutic value of Lactobacillus plantarum in treating inflammatory disease and mitigating pathogenic infection.

.......................................................................................................................................................... V CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................... 1 CHAPTER 2: EFFECT OF SEMI-LABELED SAMPLES IN REDUCING THE SMALL SAMPLE SIZE PROBLEM AND MITIGATI...