Cap-and-trade is the predominant regulatory framework for limiting limit greenhouse gas emissions. The US sulfur dioxide (SO2) market (under which compliance began in 1995 to combat acid rain) was the first modern cap-and-trade ...

Changes in timing and quantity of snowmelt-fed streamflow have great importance for water supply, flood management, and ecological processes, as well as, being a common indicator of climate change. Within this scope, a ...

Neural interfaces are engineered with implantable electrodes that are key in forming efficient connection between the brain and a machine. The implantable electrodes are essentially a combination of exposed conductive ...

This thesis explores error-correcting codes which can be used in physical unclonable function (PUF) applications. We investigate linear block codes and concatenated codes, which are traditionally used with PUFs, and compare ...

With autonomous vehicles in the early phases of road testing, we can surely expect them on the road in a few years. But the existence of a mixed tra c with human-driven vehicles will be inevitable for a long time after ...

This work investigates two problems in information dissemination which are made challenging by combinatorial complexity. The first is consensus sorting, in which large, noisy data sets are used to form the fitness function ...

With the growing number of online collaborative news aggregator social websites, we witness thousands of comments posted by the internet community on individual news items shared on such networks. We started out with an ...

Distributed learning has attracted extensive interest in recent years, owing to the explosion of data generated from mobile sensors, social media services, and other networked multi-agent applications. In many of these ...

With the advent of multi gate and nanoscale fabrication techniques, several new transistor topographies have been proposed and manufactured in the past decade. In parallel, accurate and efficient compact models for these ...

The problem of state estimation of the mobile robot's trajectory being a nonlinear one, the intent of this thesis is to go beyond the realm of the basic Extended Kalman Filter(EKF) and study the more recent nonlinear ...