Semantic Web, as an extension of the traditional web, is concerned about the vast amount of unstructured data, and with its motive to make the entire knowledge content machine-readable, as well as machine-interpretable, ...

Of late, the advent of online social media has led to the inception of a new form of data stream called multi-label data stream, where each stream record carries multiple class labels and requires a classi er to associate ...

Salat, the most important worship of Muslims and the second pillar of Islam, is an integral part of the Muslim community. Salat involves a series of steady and transitional activities to be performed in a specific sequence. ...

The designer of an integrated circuit (IC) transforms a circuit description to a geometric description, called the VLSI layout. The task of converting the specification of an electrical circuit into a layout is called ...

A distributed memory system can take advantage of fast communication networks to achieve phenomenal computing power. One of the important problems of distributed memory systems is the task scheduling problem, which ...

People with visual impairment use Braille as a medium of textual representation having palpable dots. While the more privileged among us use OCR based text readers as preferential alternative, the lesser privileged ones ...

With the colossal growth of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in different applications starting from home automation to different military affairs, the pressure on ensuring security in such a network is paramount. Considering ...

Knapsack problems (KP) and variants thereof are classic problems in computer science with diverse applications. The knapsack problem has been used to model various decision making processes. Industrial applications find ...

Interference is one of the major challenges in wireless networks. A wireless node a is snid to interfere node b if transmission from node a unintentionally covers node b. Interference of a link is defined as the number ...

This thesis deals with minimum segment drawings of planar graphs. A minimum segment drawing of a planar graph G is a planar straight line drawing of G that has the minimum number of line segments among all possible planar ...