• GRAPH-BASED METHODS FOR PATH PLANNING WITH DYNAMIC OBSTACLES USING LINEAR TEMPORAL LOGIC 

  Han, Wenqi (2018)

  Autonomous vehicles are expected to play a key role in rescue and transportation. Planning an optimal path with the minimum computational effort for these vehicles in their missions improves their efficiency and adds safety ...

• Temporal Context Modeling for Text Streams 

  Rao, Jinfeng (2018)

  There is increasing recognition that time plays an essential role in many information seeking tasks. This dissertation explores temporal models on evolving streams of text and the role that such models play in improving ...

• Efficient Data-Oblivious Computation 

  Nayak, Kartik Ravidas (2018)

  The rapid increase in the amount of data stored by cloud servers has resulted in growing privacy concerns for users. First, although keeping data encrypted at all times is an attractive approach to privacy, encryption may ...

• DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING ACCESSIBLE WEARABLE INTERACTIONS FOR PEOPLE WITH MOTOR IMPAIRMENTS 

  Malu, Meethu (2018)

  Emerging wearable technologies like fitness bands, smartwatches, and head-mounted displays (HMDs) are entering the mainstream market. Unlike smartphones and tablets, these wearables, worn on the body or clothing, are always ...

• PROBLEMS ORIGINATING FROM THE PLANNING OF AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT INITIATIVES 

  Estes, Alexander (2018)

  When weather affects the ability of an airport to accommodate flights, a ground delay program is used to control the rate at which flights arrive at the airport. This prevents excessive congestion at the airport. In this ...

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