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Incentive Strategies and Algorithms for Networks, Crowds and Markets
(2018-08-02)
This work is motivated by several modern applications involving social networks, crowds, and markets. Our work focuses on the theme of designing effective incentive strategies for these applications. Viral marketing is ...
An Exploratory Framework for Cyclone Identification and Tracking
Analyzing depressions plays an important role in meteorology, especially in the study of cyclones. In particular, the study of the temporal evolution of cyclones requires a robust depression tracking framework. To cope ...
Approximate Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning - Algorithms, Analysis and an Application
(2018-08-13)
Problems involving optimal sequential making in uncertain dynamic systems arise in domains such as engineering, science and economics. Such problems can often be cast in the framework of Markov Decision Process (MDP). ...
New Models and Methods for Formation and Analysis of Social Networks
Social networks are an inseparable part of human lives, and play a major role in a wide range of activities in our day-to-day as well as long-term lives. The rapid growth of online social networks has enabled people to ...
New Techniques for Automatic Short Answer Grading
Assessing acquired knowledge by students is one of the key aspects of the pedagogical ecosystem. A significant part of a teacher’s time is spent towards grading responses of students to questions given in assignments and ...
Fully Resilient Non-Interactive ID-Based Hierarchical Key Agreement
Non-Interactive Key Agreement (NIKA) is a cryptographic primitive which allows two parties to agree on a shared secret key without any interaction. Identity-based Non-Interactive Key Agreement (ID-NIKA) allows each party ...
Heterogeneity Aware Shared DRAM Cache for Integrated Heterogeneous Architectures
Integrated Heterogeneous System (IHS) processors pack throughput-oriented GPGPUs along-side latency-oriented CPUs on the same die sharing certain resources, e.g., shared last level cache, network-on-chip (NoC), and the ...
Algorithms for Fair Decision Making: Provable Guarantees and Applications
The topic of fair allocation of indivisible items has received significant attention because of its applicability in several real-world settings. This has led to a vast body of work focusing on defining appropriate fairness ...
A Nash Bargaining Based Bid Optimizer for Sponsored Search Auctions
The on-line advertising market involving displaying of Ads against search results by a search engine is growing at a fast rate. A majority of the search engine companies sell their advertising space through auctions which ...
Representing Networks: Centrality, Node Embeddings, Community Outliers and Graph Representation
Networks are ubiquitous. We start our technical work in this thesis by exploring the classical concept of node centrality (also known as influence measure) in information networks. Like clustering, node centrality is also ...