Designing products to fit human needs, preferences and capabilities is an essential key to competitiveness. In contested product markets, the management of user-related knowledge is therefore critical. Studies have shown that the identification and implementation of user requirements are significant issues for determining successful product development, especially during the conceptual design p...

Title of thesis: Jointly optimal placement and power allocation of nodes of a wireless network Sina Firouzabadi, Master of Science, 2007 Dissertation directed by: Professor Nuno Martins Department of Electrical Engineering In this thesis, we investigate the optimal design of wireless networks. We consider wireless networks that have fixed and movable nodes, and we assume that all nodes feature ...

The release consistency model is the generally accepted hardware-centric relaxed memory consistency model because of its performance and implementation complexity. By extending the release consistency model, in this paper, we propose a hardware-centric memory consistency model particularly for shared-memory multiprocessor systems with parallel-multithreaded processing elements. The new model us...

In this paper, we investigate the optimal design of wireless networks. We consider wireless networks that have fixed and movable nodes, and we assume that all nodes feature adjustable transmission power. Hence, we aim at maximizing network centric objectives, by optimizing over admissible choices of the positions of the movable nodes as well as the transmission power at all the nodes. We adopt ...

The progress monitoring (PM) of construction projects is an essential aspect project control that enables the stakeholders to make timely decisions ensure successful delivery, but ongoing practices are largely manual and document-centric. However, integration technologically advanced tools into has shown potential automate PM (CPM) using real-time data collection, analysis, visualization for ef...

Feature extraction is one of the fundamental challenges in improving the accuracy of document classification. While there has been a large body of research literature on document classification, most existing approaches either do not have a high classification accuracy or require massive training sets. In this paper, we propose a simple feature extraction algorithm that can achieve high documen...

We develop the foundations for a theory of Group-Centric Secure Information Sharing (g-SIS), characterize a specific family of models in this arena and identify several directions in which this theory can be extended. The traditional approach to information sharing, characterized as Dissemination-Centric in this paper, focuses on attaching attributes and policies to an object (sometimes called ...