Division of Interdisciplinary Research: Recent submissions
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Applications Of Social Network Analysis To Community Dynamics
(2010-08-24)This thesis concerns Social Network Analysis as a mechanism for exploring Community Dynamics. To be able to use the Social Network methodologies, relationships existing between the modeling entities are required. In this ... -
Global TNCs And Local SMEs In Bangalore: Subcontracting, Innovation And Economic Performance
(2010-08-23)Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are one of the principal driving forces in the development of an economy because of its significant contribution in terms of number of enterprises, employment, output and exports in most ... -
Intrusion Identification For Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
(2010-08-16)A Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANETs) is a collection of wireless hosts that can be rapidly deployed as a multi hop packet radio network without the aid of any established infrastructure or centralized administration. Such ... -
Leveraging Resources For Strategic Organizational Renewal A Co-Evolutionary Perspective
(2010-07-23)Multiple strategic discontinuities of the constantly changing business environment are driving organizations, both large and small to seek new ways of conducting business to create wealth. The only way organizations can ... -
On-Chip Memory Architecture Exploration Of Embedded System On Chip
(2010-07-14)Today’s feature-rich multimedia products require embedded system solution with complex System-on-Chip (SoC) to meet market expectations of high performance at low cost and lower energy consumption. SoCs are complex designs ... -
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 ...