The Internet's growing acceptance as a key medium to educate people is the main focus of this thesis. Although distance education has been a popular learning method since the end of the 19th Century, never before has technology made it…

Computerization has had a large impact on hospital intensive care units, allowing continuous monitoring and display of physiological patient data. Treatment of the critically ill patient, however, now requires assimilating large amounts of patient data., Computers can help by processing…

Individuals can expect continuous improvement in productivity as a consequence of (i) a growing stock of knowledge and experience gained by repeatedly doing the same task (first-order learning) or (ii) due to technological and training programs injected by the organization…

The Internet has been conceived as a communication tool to cross geographical boundaries and allow knowledge to be shared among people from all over the world. As a consequence of the expansion of computer networks, the abundance of available information…

This thesis describes an algorithm for detecting moving objects in images taken from a moving robot. The algorithm distinguishes itself from other similar, existing solutions in that it lends itself to a fast implementation, yet provides results which are reliable…

Since there exist drawbacks for linear models such as those based on regression techniques, which have been the basis of traditional statistical forecasting models, neural networks are used in this thesis to train and test the input data. This thesis…

Computational neuroanatomy is an exciting new area where digital tools are used with great advantage in the analysis of structure and function of the brain. One major area of research in this field involves automatically creating computerized representations of the…

There are basically three areas which can be explored to improve an HMM based recognizer, namely, parameter extraction, training methods and vocabulary representation., The goal of parameter extraction is not only to find a compact and robust parametric representation of…

Assessing software quality is fundamental in the software developing field. Most software quality characteristics cannot be measured before a certain period of use of the software product. However, they can be predicted or estimated based on other measurable quality attributes.…

A cis-regulatory module (CRM) is a DNA region of a few hundred base pairs that consists of clustering of several transcription factor binding sites and regulates the expression of a nearby gene. This thesis presents a new computational approach to…