This thesis studies the dynamics of decision-making in a repeated auction game used as a basis for designing distributed resource management and task assignment mechanisms. We study the problem of coordinating a group of independent agents in a dynamic environment…

This thesis studies and develops quality-of-service (QoS)-aware power allocation and frequency provisioning schemes for multicarrier wireless systems in a frequency-selective fading environment. We first develop an optimal subcarrier power allocation algorithm to maximize the energy efficiency (EE) of a single-user…

Design is concerned with the question of how to construct an artifact or system to meet the desired specification and is normally categorized as either routine, non-routine or creative. Up until now, the study of knowledge-based design has concentrated on…

Having a complete knowledge about average traffic rates on different links in a network is highly desirable for network operators, particularly when performing tasks such as capacity planning and traffic engineering, or when making decisions on network redesigning.In this thesis,…

Specularity is a very common phenomenon in the real world and confounds many computer vision tasks such as stereo. The first purpose of this thesis is to design a real-time algorithm of specularity detection. After that, with the knowledge of…

This thesis focuses on Mean Field Game (MFG) theory with applications to consensus, flocking, leader-follower and major-minor agent systems. The MFG methodology addresses a class of dynamic games with a large number of minor agents in which each agent interacts…

In this thesis, we propose a new stochastic decoding algorithm for non-binary LDPC codes with d_v = 2, which is based on the concept of a mutliset, a generalization of the set that allows for multiple occurrences of the same…

Translating documents into multiple languages represents an extremely large expensefor businesses, governments, and international agencies. In Canada, for example, it isa requirement that all ocial documents exist in both ocial languages, French andEnglish. This has produced a large translation industry…

Wireless and Internet video applications are hampered by bit errors and packet errors, respectively. In addition, packet losses in best effort Internet applications limit video communication applications. Because video compression uses temporal prediction, compressed video is especially susceptible to the…