This thesis focuses on what wayfinding means in Wide Field Ethnography (WFE), and how to improve wayfinding activities in WFE datasets. WFE datasets are too large, unstructured and complex for researchers to easily understand, navigate, browse, filter, annotate, and analyze. This thesis studies how frameworks and tools can ...

Bipartite graphs are graphs whose vertices can be partitioned into 2 different independent sets. Many interesting machine learning problems either present themselves naturally as problems of node labeling in bipartite graphs (like user modeling in social networks) or can be converted ...

The data associated to each patient increases almost linearly as the patient flows through the continuum of care. Analysis of the data collected during a patient’s admission to the hospital reveals that it grows vertically as well as horizontally as a variety of readings are taken for the patient. In general, ma- chine learning ...

Privacy is a major issue in the age of the Internet. Many advances are being made in Cryptography regarding performing computations over private data, both in homomorphic encryption, multi-party computation, and applications that put these to use. Herein we present a multiparty protocol for the private evaluation of a finite ...

In the last few years, legislations such as the Patient Protection and A ordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, have emphasised the need for improving the quality of health care. Part of the programs introduced by this Act is the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) which reduces payments to hospitals with excess ...

<bold>Dynamic Load Balancing</bold> (DLB) in Multi-agent Spatial Simulation (MASS) library is a thread-based load-balancing algorithm that calculates the CPU load, per thread, based on the computational time spent by CPU, using <bold>JAVA ThreadMXBean API</bold>. This thesis presents the system design, execution model of the ...

AgentTeamwork-Lite is a mobile-agent-based job scheduling and monitoring framework that has been developed in the concept of field-based job dispatch and migration where agents migrate over a computing-resource field to highest available computing nodes for executing their user jobs as if they were electrons sliding down on ...

Building models has been a human activity for centuries. Through the ages man has discovered patterns in how objects function together in the exchange of information, materials, and energy. We know these groups of objects and how they behave as 'systems'. As we study systems, we have learned that systems can be extraordinarily ...

This thesis is inspired by the position paper ”Predictive, personalized, preventive, par- ticipatory (P4) cancer medicine” [1]. The basic concept of P4 medicine was “The right patient with the right drug at the right dose at the right time.”. In other words, the goal is to tailor medical treatment to the individual characteristics, ...

Childhood maltreatment is a condition that leads to the development of behavioral issues and affect brain structure and functionality. Recent neuroimaging studies provide connection between deficits in brain volume, gray and white matter of several cortical regions, such as dorsolateral and ventromedial prefrontal cortex and ...