Browsing RPI Theses Open Access by Title
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Identifying expertise : data exploration in Tetris
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2013-12)The identification of expertise in a complex task is trivial when all data is in after the fact. To achieve a better understanding of the nature of expertise my first goal, in this work, is to identify the behaviors most ... -
Identifying humpback whale flukes by sequence matching of trailing edge curvature
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2016-05)To our knowledge, this is the first method that can achieve this level of accuracy on humpback fluke identification without extensive manual effort at inference time. -
Identifying individual animals using ranking, verification, and connectivity
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2017-08)In this thesis we address the problem of identifying individual animals using images in the context of assisting an ecologist in performing a population census. We are motivated by events like the "Great Zebra Count" where ... -
Identity centered design : the liberating of the post-discretionary user
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-08)The intersection of critical creative practices and HCI was explored in an effort to create a design framework for developing material speculations in the form of communication tools that evoke critical reflection. In an ... -
Ignition delay measurements for n-dodecane/N2/air mixtures at high pressures
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2017-12)Ignition delay time measurements have been made in reflected shock experiments for n-dodecane at conditions relevant to diesel engines and those specifically found in the Engine Combustion Network Spray A experiments. The ... -
Image correlation across multiple image modalities and local spatial distortions
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2008-08)This thesis presents two techniques for correlating the pixels in two images of the same or similar subjects under various change conditions. The first technique is a new modality invariant keypoint descriptor that attempts ... -
Imaging moving targets in a multipath environment with multiple sensors
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Impedance modeling and analysis of type-III wind turbines
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2016-08)Small-signal interaction between the power grid and converter-based generators is an issue that will become ever more present with the introduction of additional renewable generation year after year. A proven tool to ... -
Implementation of the transactor model : fault tolerant distributed computing using asynchronous local checkpointing
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2014-08)The Transactor model, an extension to the Actor Model, is a well-formulated way to model distributed concurrent systems while maintaining a global distributed state. This model provides semantics to track dependencies among ... -
Implementing and verifying the safety of the transactor model
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2008-05)The transactor model is an extension of the actor model designed to tolerate failures in distributed systems. Transactors can provide guarantees about consistency of a distributed system’s state in the face of message loss ... -
Improve speed performance of mass data storage systems
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2021-08)The objective of this thesis is to develop system-level design techniques that can improve the speed performance of mass data storage fabric built on low-cost magnetic recording hard disk drives (HDDs). This thesis first ... -
Improved fermion actions for analysis of technicolor theories
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Improved first-order power analysis attacks on low entropy masking schemes
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2015-05)We validate the efficiency of this attack using side-channel measurements publicly available from the DPA Contest V4. We demonstrate that an attack modeling leakage using leakage sets can recover an encryption key with ... -
Improvement of high-speed coaxial rotor performance using redundant controls and camber morphing
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2018-12)CFD simulations were then undertaken for a rotor with reflex camber on the inboard sections of the blades. Two modified blade geometries were derived from the geometry of the X2 blade, one with a larger chord, greater ... -
Improving parallelism of scientific and engineering applications on heterogeneous supercomputers
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2021-08)The rising usage of heterogeneous supercomputers introduces both opportunities for increased parallelism and challenges for efficient usage of the available hardware. Applications running on heterogeneous supercomputers ... -
Improving prompt temperature feedback by stimulating doppler broadening in heterogeneous composite nuclear fuel forms
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2017-08)Improvements in negative prompt temperature feedback are proposed by developing a tailored thermal resistance in the nuclear fuel. In the event of a large reactivity insertion, the thermal resistance allows for a faster ... -
Imprudence of reason: an examination of privacy expectations
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2016-12)To address this, I begin by critically reviewing privacy's framing problem, which I contend places too much confidence on the notion of expectations and individualized control. I explore this further in a qualitative study ... -
In response
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(In)forming : the affordances of digital fabrication in architectural education
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Increasing the understanding of truck parking behavior in congested urban areas: behavioral data acquisition and analysis with cumulative prospect theory
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2016-05)Congested urban areas are faced with the difficulty of balancing the needs of their residents, businesses, and goods movements, all of which are competing for coveted real estate and curbside. It is increasingly more ...