131 research outputs found
Moving to the cloud : developing apps in the new world of cloud computing / Dinkar Sitaram and Geetha Manjunath ; technical editor, David R. Deily.
Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Fair 2013.xxviii, 448 p.
Design and Implementation of an Authentication and Authorization Framework for a Nomadic Service Delivery System
Internet has changed our lives. It has made the true distributed computing paradigm a reality. It has opened up a lot of opportunities both in the research domain and in business domain. One can now think of developing software and make it available to the large community of users. Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which was originally developed for the purpose of requesting/transferring content (text, images, etc.), is now a standard for remotely invoking services and getting back results.
The wireless technologies have also matured. 802.11 is the existing standard for wireless communication in a LAN environment. Today, even the small computers like the Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) is wireless enabled. This makes access to information and computing significantly much more convenient.
Hotspot! server has been designed to provide connectivity and services in public places (called hotspots). It acts as a wireless Network Access Server (NAS) to users who want to obtain connectivity and services at public places. We believe that the primary applications that have importance and relevance in public places are Internet Access, and specific context-based or location specific services. These services are deployed by Internet Service Providers. Secure access is one of the primary concerns in public networks. We designed, developed and tested a framework for secure access to HTTP-based services through the Hotspot! server. Internet Access is a special case of a HTTP-based Proxy service
A conceptual framework for the assessment of integrated energy storage resources
Concerns regarding climate change impacts, energy security and sustainability are key drivers of the growing deployment of renewable energy resources. The variability, uncertainty and intermittency associated with the integration of these resources make the operation of the conventional power grid particularly challenging. Energy storage resources (ESRs) are one of the most promising solutions to address these challenges. The unique and versatile nature of storage finds its use in applications over a broad time spectrum. Furthermore, fast acting storage helps smoothen out the variable renewable output, minimize spillage of clean energy and manage the steep ramps associated with renewable energy integration. Storage also finds its use across all three domains of the electrical network, i.e., generation, transmission and distribution.
Cost reductions, technological innovations and regulatory initiatives have invigorated the interest in storage. However, the rapid growth of the storage sector is met by daunting challenges to the implementation of storage in the grid, especially since storage is very different from the conventional grid assets. The nature of storage is unique and its implementation has to be treated as such to fully harness the value it brings to the system it is integrated into. To this end, we outline a framework in this thesis for the integration of energy storage resources into the grid. The framework provides a systematic construct to study the various aspects of ESR integration in a system. The framework is comprehensive as it reflects the physical, information, environmental and financial aspects of storage operations. The thrust of the framework is its flexibility to accommodate the wide range of applications that storage provides on different time-scales. Furthermore, the framework explicitly captures the nature of deployment of storage for a particular application and shows the necessary interactions between ESR and the various players that interact with the ESR.
Case studies to illustrate the implementation of the information, environmental and financial layers of the framework are also presented in the thesis. The studies and their results establish that the framework is an extremely useful construct for the development of tools and models to aid in planning and operational studies and the formulation of policy and incentives and as such, is helpful in bringing the vision of energy storage closer to reality.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2018-05-01The student, Archana Manjunath, accepted the attached license on 2016-04-09 at 13:31.The student, Archana Manjunath, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2016-04-09 at 13:43.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2016-04-13 at 11:07.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9172 on 2016-07-07 at 13:49:01Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-07T20:27:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Semantic Analysis of Web Pages for Task-based Personal Web Interactions
Mobile widgets now form a new paradigm of simplified web. Probably, the best experience of the Web is when a user has a widget for every frequently executed task, and can execute it anytime, anywhere on any device. However, the current method of programmatically creating personally relevant mobile widgets for every user does not scale. Creation of these mobile web widgets requires application programming as well as knowledge of web-related protocols. Furthermore, these mobile widgets are also limited to smart phones with data connectivity and such smart phones form just about 15% of the mobile phones in India. How do we make web accessible on devices that most people can afford? How does one create simple relevant tasks for the numerous diverse needs of every person? In this thesis, we attempt to address these issues and propose a new method of web simplification that enables an end-user to create simple single-click widgets for a complex personal task - without any programming. The proposed solution enables even low-end phones to access personal web tasks over SMS and voice. We propose a system that enables end users to create personal widgets via programming-by-browsing.
A new concept called Tasklets to represent a user’s personal interaction, and a notion of programming over websites using a Web Virtual Machine are presented. Ensuring correct execution of these end user widgets posed interesting problems in web data mining and required us to investigate new methods to characterize and semantically model browser-based interactions. In particular, an instruction set for programming over web sites, new domain-specific similarity measures using ontologies, algorithms for frequent-pattern mining of web interactions and change detection with a proof of its NP-completeness are presented. A quantitative metric to measure the interaction complexity of web browsing and a method of classifying relational data using semantics hidden in the schema are introduced as well. This new web architecture to enable multi-device access to user's personal tasks over low-end phones was piloted with real users, as a solution named SiteOnMobile, and has received very positive response
Machine learning for breast cancer diagnosis in developing countries
Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths among women all over the world. Use of conventional imaging such as mammography, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging has shown reduction in mortality rates of breast cancer, especially in developed countries. However, implementing conventional imaging in developing countries poses challenges of high equipment cost and requirement of high-skilled staff. Embarrassment to undress in front of a technician for imaging is also found to be a barrier in developing countries like India. This thesis reconsiders infrared thermography as an imaging modality for breast cancer detection since it has advantages of being low-cost, portable, non-invasive, radiation-free and privacy aware imaging, where technicians need not see the undressed woman. However, manual interpretation of breast thermography had earlier produced low accuracy if not interpreted by a skilled thermographer and there are stringent warnings on its usage. This thesis proposes an end-to-end automated system with machine learning to alleviate the subjectivity in interpretation and to improve the accuracy of breast cancer detection. The proposed system is designed to improve clinician interaction with the help of interpretable features, annotated images and a cyclic feedback between the expert and different modules in the proposed system
Artificial Intelligence over Infrared Images for Medical Applications:Second MICCAI Workshop, AIIIMA 2023, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2023, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 2, 2023, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Workshop on Artificial Intelligence over Infrared Images for Medical Applications, AIIIMA 2023 held in conjunction with MICCAI 2023, held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, on October 2, 2023.The 10 full papers presented in this book were carefully peer reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. The second workshop on AIIIMA, similarly to the first, aims to create a forum to discuss the specific sub-topic of AI over Infrared Images for Medical Applications at MICCAI and promote this novel area of research, that has the potential to hugely impact our society, among the research community
Strategy and Steps for Analytical Method Validation
This Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
Survey of levels of common toxic metals and pesticides residues in some selected organically grown foods of Indian origin
This Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
Artificial Intelligence over Infrared Images for Medical Applications:Second MICCAI Workshop, AIIIMA 2023, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2023, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 2, 2023, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Workshop on Artificial Intelligence over Infrared Images for Medical Applications, AIIIMA 2023 held in conjunction with MICCAI 2023, held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, on October 2, 2023.The 10 full papers presented in this book were carefully peer reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. The second workshop on AIIIMA, similarly to the first, aims to create a forum to discuss the specific sub-topic of AI over Infrared Images for Medical Applications at MICCAI and promote this novel area of research, that has the potential to hugely impact our society, among the research community
Determination of arsenic and fluoride in borewell water samples collected from in and around Mysore City
This Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
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