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10 May 2010
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Water distribution system optimization using Tabu search

Thesis - 4 pages - Physics

Water distribution systems are complex interconnected networks that require extensive planning and maintenance to ensure the required quantity of water is delivered at the required demand nodes. Good maintenance practices can extend the life of water distribution system components and optimal...

10 May 2010
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Rule-extraction from support vector machines through consistency based feature selection approach

Thesis - 6 pages - Computer science

In this paper, a new approach is proposed to extract rules from the support vector machines through consistency based feature selection. To reduce the computational time and increase the performance of classification model, a two step classification approach is followed. First step includes...

10 May 2010
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Image restoration using knowledge from the image

Thesis - 3 pages - Computer science

There are various real world situations where, a portion of the image is lost or damaged which needs an image restoration. A prior knowledge of the image may not be available for restoring the image, which demands for a knowledge derivation from the image itself. Restoring the lost portions of...

06 May 2010
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Privacy preserving distributed data mining by using tree based randomization

Thesis - 8 pages - Computer science

Due to increasing concerns related to privacy, organizations are forced to take actions to protect the privacy of individuals when revealing customers' records during data mining activities. In this paper we present a methodology that preserves statistical relationship between attributes using...

06 May 2010
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Evaluate fuzzy-due time by using genetic learning algorithm

Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is a complex combinatorial optimization problem which can be seen as a merge of two well-known problems: the traveling sales problem (TSP) and the Bin Packing Problem (BPP). The paper will introduce the problem starting with the type time window and presented...

06 May 2010
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Transient stability improvement with unified power flow controller using fuzzy logic and Anfis approach

Thesis - 15 pages - Computer science

Transient stability is an important aspect in planning and operation of an electric power system. The application of Fuzzy logic and Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) approach to power system problems has received increased attention in recent years. This paper investigates the fuzzy...

06 May 2010
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Sensitivity based approach for congestion management in deregulated environment

Thesis - 5 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

This paper proposes a sensitivity based approach for congestion management in deregulated environment. The congestion management problem is formulated to minimize the cost of re-dispatching the participating generators subject to operational and security constraints and considering the presence...

06 May 2010
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A comparative evaluation of digital redesign techniques for LTI systems

Thesis - 7 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology

In this paper, a comparative evaluation of various redesign techniques is available in the literature of LTI control system. The redesign techniques like Tustin transform, step invariant method and Euler's method are evaluated based on the Energy Resemblance Index (ERI) at different sampling...

06 May 2010
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Online inspection and pattern recognition of Jig bored holes using Mahalanobis Taguchi system

Thesis - 4 pages - Computer science

The functional behavior of mating surfaces is substantially determined by the nature of the dimensional features characterized by the geometrical specifications and metallurgical conditions. High temperature and pressures in the zone of interaction between the mating surfaces leads to heavy...

29 Apr 2010
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Implementing minimum energy load balanced routing in MANETs

Thesis - 4 pages - Computer science

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) are infrastructure-less networks. The dynamic topology and multi-hop communications make routing a challenging task. Because MANET nodes are characterized with limited resources, heavily-loaded nodes may make up a bottleneck situation lowering the network...

29 Apr 2010
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Design and implement architecture of knowledge based system to identify water quality for irrigation in the Indian context

Thesis - 4 pages - Computer science

Planning and management of water resources and its optimal use are a matter of urgency for most countries of the world, and even more so for India with a huge population and the need for increased food production is apparent. The suitability of water for irrigation will greatly depend on climatic...

29 Apr 2010
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Ways to increase the network capacity of WDM optical network

Thesis - 4 pages - Computer science

This article discusses the possible applications for optical networks based on wavelength division multiplexing and how they compete and complement current high speed networks (SONET, ATM). We first outline the best-case scenario for this technology and describe the spectrum of optical networks...

29 Apr 2010
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Analysis of FOSS: An open standard for network security and monitoring

Thesis - 5 pages - Computer science

The aim of the project is to provide a cost effective, secure and easy working environment over a network. This FOSS is very much helpful for educational institutes, non profit organizations and small industries. The GUI provides options to choose from monitoring, blocking, filtering and...

29 Apr 2010
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Study formal methods for multilingual software

Thesis - 5 pages - Computer science

Globalization drives the software developers to give a new face to the software through multilingualization. So multilingual software developments were put under the lime light and it got support from academic institutes and software development organizations as either commercial or research...

29 Apr 2010
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Evaluate stability based DSR with multiple routes in wireless network

Thesis - 4 pages - Computer science

The Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) algorithm finds out the shortest path of communication between a source node and a destination node based on number of hops. However, a shortest path does not necessarily guarantee a stable path. This is because, the topology of a mobile ad hoc network changes...

29 Apr 2010
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Review algorithms for image segmentation methods

Thesis - 4 pages - Computer science

Image segmentation is one of the key stages in computer vision processes. Segmentation is the task of recognizing objects in an image. The rest of the image is background. Image segmentation algorithms are generally based on one of two basic properties of intensity values, discontinuity and...

29 Apr 2010
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An adaptive incremental fuzzy controller for output voltage regulation of boost converters

Thesis - 5 pages - Physics

In this paper an adaptive incremental fuzzy controller (IFC) for output voltage regulation (OVR) in DC-DC boost converters is proposed. The method, first determines a base duty cycle (BDC) for nominal system parameters and voltage regulation specifications, to which, fractional duty cycle...

29 Apr 2010
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Fuzzy modeling for sensor fault tolerant adaptive control- proposal of a general framework

Thesis - 6 pages - Computer science

In this paper an attempt is made to bring together two independently pursued research topics viz., (1) type I fuzzy modeling and (2) sensor fault tolerant adaptive control. First a brief but succinct review on type I fuzzy modeling is carried out. The same is presented under the following heads,...

29 Apr 2010
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Software effort estimation modeling technique for performance analysis with case studies

Thesis - 6 pages - Computer science

Software projects are controlled by time, requirements and risks. Estimation of time and resources required for a project is a challenge due to the neglected effect or under/over quantification of intangible parameters like inexperience, unclear requirements, unfamiliar technologies, development...

29 Apr 2010
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Study of PRSAE: Performance related software architecture engineering

Thesis - 3 pages - Computer science

Current methods for software architecture analysis often falls short of providing objective and quantitative performance information. The paper describes how to bring together techniques in software performance engineering and software architecture analysis in order to support performance-related...

29 Apr 2010
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Implementation and analysis of PDA algorithm for CDMA based mud under AWGN channel

Thesis - 4 pages - Computer science

The Wireless communication system has a challenge of accommodating many users in a small area. With the advent of spread spectrum and hence CDMA, fixed bandwidth was used to accommodate many users by making use of certain coding properties over the bandwidth. However, the standardization of...

29 Apr 2010
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Deploy robust data transmission over the noisy channel

Thesis - 2 pages - Physics

The secret data is encrypted and permutated using the chaos method. Experiments show the good quality of the stego-image and resistant against the various noise attacks (Like Salt and Pepper). At the same time, the proposed algorithm exhibits good encryption speed, less computations and excellent...

29 Apr 2010
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Evaluate semi-supervised classification with collaborative learning algorithm

Thesis - 5 pages - Mathematics

Conventional classification models are built based on supervised learning which invariably requires class labels of entities to be classified along with their description. Even the instance based classifiers require class labels of their training examples to predict the class labels of unknown...

28 Apr 2010
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A recursive algorithm for parameter optimization in support vector regression

Thesis - 3 pages - Mathematics

Parameter Optimization is the most crucial task during any model development. The task becomes challenging when the model involves multiple parameters with interrelationships among them. This work concentrates on parameter optimization for Support Vector Regression of atmospheric variables....

28 Apr 2010
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Performance evaluation of texture features with co-occurrence and Q-matrix

Thesis - 2 pages - Mathematics

The Present paper compares the texture features based on co-occurrence and the new Matrix-method called “Qmatrix”, which measures the similarities of grey levels. The problem addressed is to determine which features optimize classification rate. Such features may be used in image...

28 Apr 2010
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Computer-aided identification and diagnosis of mass lesion in mammogram

Thesis - 4 pages - Computer science

In this growing technological world still disease are challenging human life. Especially the breast cancer stands the leading causes of mortality in women. Early diagnosis helps for better treatment and increase survival rate. Mammography is one among the methods to detect the breast cancer at an...

28 Apr 2010
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Adopting dynamic self tuning fuzzy worked on output voltage regulation of DC-DC buck converters

Thesis - 4 pages - Physics

In this paper a dynamic self tuning fuzzy controller scheme is proposed for output voltage regulation of DC-DC Buck Converters and is verified by means of simulation. The proposed fuzzy controller scheme adapts the scale factor of its output variable depending on the continuous measurement of...

28 Apr 2010
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Performing accurate estimation of available bandwidth channel with SOOPPD technique

Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science

This paper proposes a new technique to estimate available bandwidth in the channel named as Stream of Octal packet pair dispersion (SOOPPD). Available bandwidth between two points in the Internet is generally unknown and the time varying. It is observed that if the sender transmits faster than...

28 Apr 2010
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Weight adapted of k - nearest neighbor algorithm with genetic approach implementing over data classification

Thesis - 6 pages - Mathematics

The enormous flow of information in various fields of technology prompts for the development of novel Data Mining methodologies that can process and interprets large volumes of data to be classified to a specify category with high reliability. The problem with Data Classification is inconvenient...

28 Apr 2010
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Performance comparison of feature selection technique for distributed database

Thesis - 3 pages - Computer science

Feature subset selection plays an essential role in all data mining applications. It speeds up a data mining algorithm and improves mining performance. This paper investigates the performance of several feature selection methods for classification: filter, wrapper and hybrid. The two filter...