When using Built-In Self Test (BIST) for testing VLSI circuits the circuit response to an input test sequence, which may consist of thousands to millions of bits, is compacted into a signature which consists of only tens of bits. Usually a linear feedback shift register (LFSR) is used for response compaction via polynomial division. The compacting function is a many-to-one function and as a res...

The age of ground water in any given sample is a distributed quantity representing distributed provenance (in space and time) of the water. Conventional analysis of tracers such as unstable isotopes or anthropogenic chemical species gives discrete or binary measures of the presence of water of a given age. Modeled ground water age distributions provide a continuous measure of contributions from...

Face verification is different from face identification task. Some traditional subspace methods that work well in face identification may suffer from severe over-fitting problem when applied for the verification task. Conventional discriminative methods such as linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and its variants are highly sensitive to the training data, which hinders them from achieving high v...

In this paper we study a variety of novel online algorithm problems inspired by the game Mousehunt. We consider a number of basic models that approximate the game, and we provide solutions to these models using Markov Decision Processes, deterministic online algorithms, and randomized online algorithms. We analyze these solutions’ performance by deriving results on their competitive ratios.

Conformance checking techniques compare observed behavior (i.e., event logs) with modeled behavior for a variety of reasons. For example, discrepancies between a normative process model and recorded behavior may point to fraud or inefficiencies. The resulting diagnostics can be used for auditing and compliance management. Conformance checking can also be used to judge a process model automatica...

SOI means Silicon on Insulator. This type of transistors has Silicon-Insulator-Silicon substrate which is different from conventional MOSFET structure where metal layer is used on the top of Insulator [1, . Now a days, the width of the oxide of a MOSFET is reduced from 300nm to 1.2nm and even less with scaling in technology. If it is further reduced, the leakage problems (majorly Sub-threshold ...