Dissertation Defenses

Hardware/Software Techniques for Memory Power Optimizations in Embedded Processors

Distributed Access to Parallel File Systems

Exposing Internet Address Use to Enhance Network Security

Flexible Query facilities for Heterogeneous Semi-Structured Data

Efficient and Expressive Extensions of Constraint-Based Temporal Reasoning

A Baseband Processor for Software Defined Radio Terminals

Architecting Energy Efficient Servers

Managing Complex Databases in a Schema Management Framework

On the Performance of Local Synchronization with Stochastic Task Times

Network Transparency in Wide Area Collaborations

Using Graphs and Random Walks For Discovering Latent Semantic

XML Data Warehousing

QoS Support in Large-Scale Computer Network Based on Aggregate Scheduling and BGP Routing Enhancement

Declarative Querying of Biological Data

Collaborative Power Management: Piercing Abstraction Barriers for Fast and Energy-Efficient Pervasive Data Access

Enhancing Intelligent Agents with Episodic Memory

Efficient Algorithms for Temporal Skyline Query Evaluation

Customizing the Computation Capabilities of Microprocessors

Mobility Modeling of Mobile Users

Cooperative Data and Computation Partitioning for Decentralized Architectures

Functional Error Diagnosis, Correction and Layout Repair of Digital Circuits

Managing Complex Scheduling Problems with Dynamic and Hybrid Constraints

Improving the Storage Manageability, Flexibility, and Security in Virtual Machine Systems

Speculative execution in a commodity operating system

Advances in Surface Penetrating Technologies for Imaging, Detection, and Classification

Quantum Communication Complexity and Nonlocality of Bipartite Quantum Operations

Exponential Family Predictive Representations of State

Efficient Query Processing for Spatio-Temporal Databases