Automatic text summarization techniques, which can reduce a source text to a summary text by content generalization or selection have assumed signifi- cance in recent times due to the ever expanding information explosion ...

The technique of sensor fusion addresses the issues relating to the optimality of decision-making in the multiple-sensor framework. The advances in sensor fusion enable to perform intrusion detection for both rare and new ...

The performance gap between processor and memory continues to remain a major performance bottleneck in both application specific and general purpose processors. This thesis strives to ease the above bottleneck by exploiting ...

Modern database systems use a query optimizer to identify the most efficient strategy, called “query execution plan”, to execute declarative SQL queries. The role of the query optimizer is especially critical for the complex ...