Division of Interdisciplinary Research: Recent submissions
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Do-it Yourself Market In India : Exploring Development And Servicing Of Demand For Products Related To Household Painting And Carpentry
(2010-07-13)Do-it-yourself (DIY) is the practice of household members undertaking home improvement or maintenance on their own, instead of hiring professional help. While DIY is a substantial and steadily growing cultural and economic ... -
Performance Modeling Based Scheduling And Rescheduling Of Parallel Applications On Computational Grids
(2010-06-02)As computational grids have become popular and ubiquitous, users have access to large number and different types of geographically distributed grid resources. Many computational grid frameworks are composed of multiple ... -
Systems-Level Modelling And Simulation Of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis : Insights For Drug Discovery
(2010-04-30)Systems biology adopts an integrated approach to study and understand the function of biological systems, particularly, the response of such systems to perturbations, such as the inhibition of a reaction in a pathway, or ... -
A Stakeholder-Based Planning Framework For The Gherkin Agricultural Export Zone In Karnataka
(2010-04-08)In 2001, the Government of India announced a program for the establishment of Agricultural Export Zones (AEZ). This is the first national program in India to adopt a regional approach to promoting exports of agricultural ... -
Acoustic Source Localization Using Time Delay Estimation
(2009-08-19)The angular location of an acoustic source can be estimated by measuring an acoustic direction of incidence based solely on the noise produced by the source. Methods for determining the direction of incidence based on sound ... -
Visibility Visualization And Haptic Path Exploration
(2009-08-19)We propose a real-time system to visualize multi-viewpoint visibility information for terrains, supporting flight path optimization for view coverage or vehicle exposure to ground. A volume rendered display and a haptic ... -
Heuristic Methods For Job Scheduling In A Heat Treatment Shop To Maximize Kiln Utilization
(2009-06-24)Scheduling in the context of manufacturing systems has become increasingly impor- tant in order for organizations to achieve success in dynamic and competitive scenarios. Scheduling can be described as allocation of ... -
On The Issues Of Supporting On-Demand Streaming Application Over Peer-to-Peer Networks
(2009-06-17)Bandwidth and resource constraints at the server side is a limitation for deployment of streaming media applications. Resource constraints at the server side often leads to saturation of resources during sudden increase ... -
Reduction Of Query Optimizer Plan Diagrams
(2009-06-17)Modern database systems use a query optimizer to identify the most efficient strategy, called "plan", to execute declarative SQL queries. Optimization is a mandatory exercise since the difference between the cost of best ... -
Collaborative Boundary Crossing Behaviours Of Product Development Teams : Role Of Direct And Indirect Factors
(2009-06-05)Emerging markets are fraught with uncertainty, diverse global players, rapid technological change, wide-spread price wars, and seemingly endless reorganization (Ilinitch, 1996). These changes have presented challenges to ... -
Performance Evaluation Of Skill-Based Routing In An Inbound Call Center Using Stochastic Petri Nets
(2009-05-28)Call centers have become a preferred and prevalent means for companies to communicate with their customers. As a consequence of this, the call center industry has seen a huge growth in both volume and scope in the last ... -
Power Grid Analysis In VLSI Designs
(2009-05-18)Power has become an important design closure parameter in today’s ultra low submicron digital designs. The impact of the increase in power is multi-discipline to researchers ranging from power supply design, power converters ... -
Analysis Of Electromagnetic Pulse Simulators
(2009-05-12)Electromagnetic pulse simulators are essential for testing the ability of electronic devices to withstand high intensity electromagnetic ends. This work presents the analysis of various parallel plate transmission lines ... -
QoS Over Multihop Wireless Networks
(2009-05-12)The aim of this work is to understand the requirements behind Quality of Service (QoS) for Multihop Wireless Networks and evaluate the performance of different such strategies. This work starts by establishing the basis ... -
Analysis And Predictions Of DNA Sequence Transformations On Grids
(2009-05-11)Phylogenetics is the study of evolution of organisms. Evolution occurs due to mutations of DNA sequences. The reasons behind these seemingly random mutations are largely unknown. There are many algorithms that build ... -
Cellular Services Market In India : Predictive Models And Assessing Interventions
(2009-04-27)The Objective of this thesis is to address some interesting problems in the Indian cellular services market. The first problem we address relates to identifying important change points that marked the evolution of the ... -
Dynamic Control Mechanism For Customer Buy Down Behavior
(2009-04-24)Revenue Management (RM) has become one of the most successful application areas of Operation Research. What started off as an obscure practice among few airlines in U.S in early seventies, has attained the status of ... -
Impact Of Option Introduction On Different Characteristics Of Underlying Stocks In NSE, India
(2009-04-24)Financial Derivatives are one of the most popular and emerging innovations in the field of financial engineering. Since their inception, there has been a phenomenal growth in the volumes of derivatives traded all over the ... -
Improving The Communication Performance Of I/O Intensive And Communication Intensive Application In Cluster Computer Systems
(2009-04-13)Cluster computer systems assembled from commodity off-the-shelf components have emerged as a viable and cost-effective alternative to high-end custom parallel computer systems.In this thesis, we investigate how scalable ... -
Information Theoretic Approach To Extractive Text Summarization
(2009-04-13)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 ...