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A Hierarchical Control Plane Framework for Integrated SDN-SFC Management in Multi-tenant Cloud Datacenters
Cloud data centers represent one of the most complex and dynamic environments in terms of network management. The multitude of hosted applications in such centers share the same fabric and yet demand easy and fast service ... -
Investigation of an Axisymmetric Spiked Body in a Hypersonic Shock Tunnel
The forefront research in the regime of hypersonic flow is intended to focus on improving the overall performance of the existing aerospace vehicles. A high-speed vehicle experiences a high level of aerodynamic heating and ... -
A Control Systems Approach to Understanding Saccadic Eye Movements
The oculomotor system is extensively studied using concepts of control theory like optimal control, feedback control, and predictive control. But these studies have largely been restricted to investigating the central ... -
New Avenues to Transition Metal-Based Water Splitting Electrocatalysts
Solar energy is by far the most abundant renewable resource available to mankind. However, it is diffused and intermittent, and often geographically separated from that of the production results in underwhelming utilization ... -
Automated Meshless CFD Process using Cartesian Point Distribution
The thesis deals with the meshless methods based on generalized finite difference procedure operating on the mere distribution of points. The work per se focuses on maturing the meshless LSFD-U solver as a standard industrial ... -
Advanced Guidance and Autopilot Design for Autonomous Lunar Soft-Landing
Aiming towards the development of a long-term lunar research base for scientific exploration of futuristic objectives, soft-landing on the Moon has gained renewed interest worldwide. This work focuses on optimal guidance ... -
Innovative Optimal Guidance of Spacecrafts for Soft-Landing on Atmosphere-less Celestial Bodies
Nonlinear trajectory optimization based optimal guidance schemes are presented in this thesis for soft-landing of spacecrafts on atmosphere-less celestial bodies. First, a pseudo-spectral philosophy based multi-phase ... -
Structural and related studies on Mycobacterium tuberculosis pantothenate kinase
Pantothenate kinase (PanK) is a ubiquitous and essential enzyme that catalyses the first step in the universal Coenzyme A (CoA) biosynthetic pathway. In this step pantothenate is converted to phosphopantothentate, which ... -
Development and application of sequence-based approaches for recognition and functional characterization of protein kinases
Protein kinases, the third most populous protein family, are a major class of enzymes that regulate a wide range of cellular processes by phosphorylating multiple cellular proteins. There are many conserved sequence motifs ... -
Fault Location in Double Wye Shunt Capacitor Banks
Shunt capacitor banks (SCBs) are usually used for providing reactive power support to power systems. Reactive power support leads to power factor correction, voltage regulation and reduction of network losses. Outage of ... -
Improving photoacoustic imaging with model compensating and deep learning methods
Photoacoustic imaging is a hybrid biomedical imaging technique combining optical ab- sorption contrast with ultrasonic resolution. It is a non-invasive technique that is scalable to reveal structural, functional, and ... -
Modeling and Adaptive Scheduling Strategies for Distributed Graph Algorithms
Graph processing at scales of millions-billions of vertices and edges has become common to solve real-world problems in domains like social networks, smart cities and genomics. Distributed "Big Data" platforms for graph ... -
Global control of mechanics on Riemannian manifolds, and applications to under-actuated aerial vehicles
We consider the problem of designing trajectory tracking feedback control laws for La- grangian mechanical systems in a Riemannian geometric framework. Classical nonlinear control techniques that rely on Euclidean ... -
Model Checking Temporal Properties of Presburger Counter Systems
Counter systems are a well-known and powerful modeling notation for specifying infnite state systems. In this thesis we target the problem of checking temporal properties of counter systems. We address three predominant ... -
A computational systems biology approach for elucidating molecular features of primary and metastatic melanoma
Malignant melanoma, a cancer arising from melanocytes, is reported to have one of the fastest growing incidence rates worldwide, and is considered to be one of the most aggressive human malignancies. According to the ... -
Numerical Methods for Elliptic Variational Inequalities in Higher Dimensions
The main emphasis of this thesis is on developing and implementing linear and quadratic finite element methods for 3-dimensional (3D) elliptic obstacle problems. The study consists of a priori and a posteriori error ... -
Efficacy of Solar irradiance, Methane and Black carbon aerosols
In climate science literature, the concept of radiative forcing is used to infer the equilibrium temperature change that would occur as a result of changes in the forcing agents such as greenhouse gases and aerosols. ... -
Investigations on the Pi Distortivity Problem and On the Use of Single Atom Thick Layers as Filters
It has traditionally been believed that pi-electrons stabilize the D6h structure of benzene. However, this was questioned both using theoretical arguments, as well as circumstantial, experimental evidence. The theoretical ... -
Conformal Electronics on Elastomers: Packaging Methods and Design Rules
Flexible Electronics is a multi-disciplinary domain that creates intersections among elec- tronics, materials-science, mechanics, packaging, sensor-design, etc., to build exible / stretchable / conformal electronic ... -
A Mitsunobu-Michael Reaction Sequence to N-Heterocyclic Variants and Ti(III)-Mediated Synthesis of Terpenoids and N-Fused Indoles
The research work delineates a flexible and novel route for the diastereoselective construction of diversely substituted N-heterocyclic variants as valuable scaffolds for natural products and pharmaceuticals, starting from ...