• Symmetry in Scalar Fields 

      Thomas, Dilip Mathew (2018-01-09)
      Scalar fields are used to represent physical quantities measured over a domain of interest. Study of symmetric or repeating patterns in scalar fields is important in scientific data analysis because it gives deep insights ...
    • A Syntactic Neural Model For Question Decomposition 

      Gupta, Suman
      Question decomposition along with single-hop Question Answering (QA) system serve as useful modules in developing multi-hop Question Answering systems, mainly because the resulting QA system is interpretable and has been ...
    • A Systems Perspective of Software Runtime Bloat - Origin, Mitigation and Power-Performance Implications 

      Bhattacharya, Suparna (2018-03-08)
      Large flexible software systems tend to incur “bloat”, here defined as the runtime overhead induced by the accumulation of excess functionality and objects. Removing bloat is hard as these overheads are a side-effect of ...
    • Targeted Client Synthesis for Detecting Concurrency Bugs 

      Samak, Malavika (2018-01-01)
      Detecting concurrency bugs can be challenging due to the intricacies associated with their manifestation. These intricacies correspond to identifying the methods that need to be invoked concurrently, the inputs passed to ...
    • Temporal Point Processes for Forecasting Events in Higher-Order Networks 

      Gracious, Tony
      Real-world systems consisting of interacting entities can be effectively represented as time-evolving networks or graphs, where the entities are depicted as nodes, and the interactions between them are represented as ...
    • A Theoretical Study of the Synergy and Lazy Annotation Algorithms 

      Jayaram, Sampath (2018-04-03)
      Given a program with assertions, the assertion checking problem is to tell whether there is an execution of the program that violates one of the assertions. One approach to this problem is to explore different paths towards ...
    • Tiling Stencil Computations To Maximize Parallelism 

      Bandishti, Vinayaka Prakasha (2017-05-21)
      Stencil computations are iterative kernels often used to simulate the change in a discretized spatial domain overtime (e.g., computational fluid dynamics) or to solve for unknowns in a discretized space by converging to a ...
    • Time Management In Partitioned Systems 

      Kodancha, A Hariprasad (2010-02-11)
      Time management is one of the critical modules of safety-critical systems. Applications need strong assurance from the operating system that their hard real-time requirements are met. Partitioned system has recently evolved ...
    • Top-k Spatial Aware Ads 

      Savla, Virti
      Consider an app on a smartphone which displays local business ads. When a user opens the app, then k local business ads need to displayed (where k would typically be 3 or 5) such that the profit made by the app is ...
    • Topological Structures and Operators for Bivariate Data Visualization 

      Sharma, Mohit
      Understanding complex phenomena in diverse scientific and engineering disciplines often relies on decoding the interplay among real-valued or scalar fields that are measured or computed over a spatial domain. This thesis ...
    • Towards a Charcterization of the Symmetries of the Nisan-Wigderson Polynomial Family 

      Gupta, Nikhil (2018-07-09)
      Understanding the structure and complexity of a polynomial family is a fundamental problem of arithmetic circuit complexity. There are various approaches like studying the lower bounds, which deals with nding the smallest ...
    • Towards Effcient Privacy-Preserving Two-Party k-Means Clustering Protocol 

      Chim, Sonali
      Two-party data mining is a win-win game if played with a guarantee of data privacy from each other. This guarantee is provided by the use of cryptographic techniques in designing the two-party protocol. The need to ...
    • Towards Robustness of Neural Legal Judgement System 

      Raj, Rohit
      Legal Judgment Prediction (LJP) implements Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to predict judgment results based on fact description. It can play a vital role as a legal assistant and benefit legal practitioners ...
    • Towards Secure and Efficient Realization of Pairing-Based Signatures from Static Assumptions. 

      Kabaleeshwaran, R
      Bilinear pairing defined over elliptic curve group was first used to design novel cryptosystem in 2000. Since then a large number of cryptosystems has been proposed in pairing-based cryptography (PBC). The main tool for ...
    • Transducer-based Algorithmic Verification of Retransmission Protocols over Noisy Channels 

      Thakkar, Jay (2018-04-05)
      Unreliable communication channels are a practical reality. They add to the complexity of protocol design and verification. In this work, we consider noisy channels which can corrupt messages. We present an approach to model ...
    • TriSL: A Software Architecture Description Language and Environment 

      Lakshminarayanan, R (Indian Institute of Science, 2005-03-14)
      As the size and complexity of a software system increases, the design problem goes beyond the algorithms and data structures of the computation. Designing and specifying the overall system structure -- or software architecture ...
    • A Trusted-Hardware Backed Secure Payments Platform for Android 

      Agarwal, Rounak
      Digital payments using personal electronic devices have been steadily gaining in popularity for the last few years. While digital payments using smartphones are very convenient, they are also more susceptible to security ...
    • Two Player Game Variant Of The Erdos Szekeres Problem 

      Parikshit, K (2014-08-01)
      The following problem has been known for its beauty and elementary character. The Erd˝os Szekeres problem[7]: For any integer k ≥ 3, determine if there exists a smallest positive integer N(k) such that any set of atleast ...
    • Typestates and Beyond: Verifying Rich Behavioral Properties Over Complex Programs 

      Mishra, Ashish
      Statically verifying behavioral properties of programs is an important research problem. An efficient solution to this problem will have visible effects over multiple domains, ranging from program development, program ...
    • A Unified Approach to Quantitative Software Lifecycle Modeling 

      Rao, Vijay D (Indian Institute of Science, 2005-04-06)
      An evolutionary process currently taking place in engineering systems is the shift from hardware to software where the role of software engineering is becoming more central in developing large engineering systems. This ...