Efficient data dissemination among a set of mobile hosts is one of the most important concerns in wire-less multi-hop networks. Broadcast and Multi-cast are two techniques that are being widely used for communicating among ...

Sign language is a method of communication primarily used by the hearing impaired and mute community. In this method, a letter is expressed by hand gestures. Meaningful words can be constructed by signaling multiple ...

As the multicore processor architectures have become the industry standard, the importance of stream programming paradigm demands more attention nowadays. Stream programming languages are designed to utilize the efficiency ...

In reversible image steganographic schemes, an embedding algorithm implants the secret bits into a few high-frequency contents in its embedding space such that a de-embedding algorithm can extract the secret and reconstruct ...

This thesis presents a novel approach to locate victims in a post-disaster situation. Locating victims in disaster-affected regions is an important task, particularly because efficient search and localization can save human ...

Topology control is a fundamental problem in wireless multi-hop networks where the goal is to determine a set of wireless links satisfying some desirable properties such as planarity, symmetricity, fault tolerance, minimum ...

Many-objective optimization is very important for numerous practical applications. It, how- ever, poses a great challenge to the Pareto dominance based evolutionary algorithms. In this thesis, a fuzzy dominance based ...

With the advancement of information technology, a huge amount of heterogeneous information of different languages are available to us. But handling these multilingual information effi¬ciently is still a great challenge in ...

Depression is a familiar psychological disorder caused by a combination of genetic, biolog- ical, environmental, and psychological factors. Untreated depression carries a high cost in terms of relationship problems, ...

A round-robin tournament (or all-play-all tournament) is a competition “in which each con- testant plays all other contestants in turn”. The problem of ranking players in a round-robin tournament with a win or a loss outcome ...