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Title: 'Practice' for Enhancing the Performance of a Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent
Author: Kancharla, Venkata Sai Santosh Ravi Teja
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Artificial intelligence
Description: Deep reinforcement learning has demonstrated its capability to solve a diverse array of challenging problems, which were not able to solve previously. It has been able to achieve human-level performance in Atari 2600 games and it has shown great p...

Title: A COMBINED FINITE ELEMENT AND MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH FOR PREDICTING SPECIFIC CUTTING FORCES AND MAXIMUM TOOL TEMPERATURES DURING ORTHOGONAL MACHINING
Author: Mekarthy, Sai Manish Reddy
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering, Computer science
Description: In machining, specific cutting forces and temperature fields in the shear zones are of primary interest. These quantities depend on many machining parameters, such as the cutting speed, rake angle, tool-tip radius, uncut chip thickness, etc. The f...

Title: A Comprehensive Study of Drinking Water Coagulation with Aluminum Sulfate
Author: Alansari, Amir
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Coagulation is usually the first and most important step in conventional drinking water treatment processes. The efficiency of all downstream processes is directly dependent on the effectiveness of the coagulation stage. Coagulants such as aluminu...

Title: A Contactless Non-Intrusive Approach for Machine Learning-Based Personalized Thermal Comfort Prediction
Author: Ashrafi, Roshanak
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Sustainability, Building
Description: Indoor thermal environmental conditions play a significant role in protecting occupants’ well-being. In this regard, schedule-based and predefined environmental control is one of the main reasons for the current discomfort and dissatisfaction with...

Title: A GIS-BASED EXPERT SYSTEM TO IMPROVE THE ACCURACY OF WETLAND CLASSIFICATION
Author: Deng, Jing
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: Wetlands play a critical role in our natural environment, such as improving water quality, controlling erosion and flooding, and protecting biodiversity. To better protect wetland systems, a comprehensive knowledge of their spatial distribution is...

Title: A Post-Processing Approach for Solar Power Combined Forecasts of Ramp Events
Author: Abuella, Mohamed
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The growing integration level of wind and solar energy resources introduces new regulating and operating challenges in the electric grid. Ramp-rate limits of conventional power plants in the generation mix impose an operating constraint on renewab...

Title: ANALYSIS OF OPTICAL FIBER SPECKLE PATTERNS FOR DETECTION OF IVUS CATHETER TIP IN 3D SPACE: AN INTELLIGENT SENSOR RESEARCH
Author: Razmyar, Soroush
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Computer science, Biomedical engineering
Description: This research study presents the architectural design and computational framework for an intelligent tracking sensor constructed from a multimode fiber optic. As laser light travels through an inhomogeneous medium, such as multimode fiber, the ran...

Title: Algorithmic Optimization of First Convolution Layer in CNNs for Hardware Accelerator Design
Author: Chamarthi, Ramachandra Vikas
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: This thesis proposes "1D Convolution replacement layer ", a novel optimization for first convolution layer in CNN. This optimization enables edge friendly streaming accelerator design with a minimum drop in accuracy. This optimization reduces the ...

Title: An Evidence-Based Digital Nudging In Support Of Health Misinformation Assessment On Social Media Sites
Author: Alsaleh, Hamad
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information science, Artificial intelligence
Description: In recent years, social media have dramatically improved the dissemination speed of information, which also includes health misinformation. To date, most of the computational approaches to addressing this problem have focused on detecting and flag...

Title: An Integrated Phylogeographic Analysis of the Bantu Migration
Author: Ford, Colby
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Mathematics, Genetics
Description: "Bantu" is a term used to describe lineages of people in around 600 different ethnic groups on the African continent ranging from modern-day Cameroon to South Africa. The migration of the Bantu people, which occurred around 3,000 years ago, was in...

Title: Art Authentication in an Untagged Art Database
Author: Dobbs, Bryan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Art--Historiography, Mathematics
Description: The identification of the artist of a painting is also known as art authentication, and the answer to this question is manifest through art gallery exhibition and is reinforced through financial transactions. Art authentication has visual influenc...

Title: Autonomous Control of an All-terrain Vehicle using Embedded Systems and Artificial Intelligence Techniques
Author: Erian, Karim
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering, Artificial intelligence, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: The need for autonomous vehicles that do not operate on highways and can move off-road is increasing. While there have been significant advancements in autonomous passenger vehicles in the last couple of years, autonomous off-road vehicles have no...

Title: Behavioral Health Stigma: Breaking the code with Stigma Index
Author: Tokmic, Farah
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Medical sciences, Information science
Description: Social labeling of people with behavioral health disorders falls under the umbrella of "stigma" and plays a key role in limiting the access to behavioral healthcare. Currently, the U.S. spends an estimated $201B on behavioral health disorders ever...

Title: DISFLUENT SPEECH SEGMENTS DETECTION AND REMEDIATION
Author: Arbajian, Pierre
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Information science, Linguistics
Description: Speech remediation by identifying those segments which compromise the quality of speech content can be performed by correctly identifying portions of a recording which can be deleted without diminishing from the overall quality of the speech, but ...

Title: Deep Learning for Sentiment and Emotion Detection in Multilingual Contexts
Author: Abdullah, Malak
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Social media is growing as a communication medium where people can express online their feelings and opinions on a variety of topics in ways they rarely do in person. Detecting sentiments and emotions in texts have gained a considerable amount of ...

Title: Developing Data-Driven Approaches for Analyzing, Identifying, and Predicting Power System Outages
Author: Doostan, Milad
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Statistics
Description: Outages that occur in power distribution systems can seriously endanger system operation in different ways. In recent years, with the explosion in data gathering within the smart grid framework, data analytics has emerged as a desirable tool in he...

Title: Distributed Messaging System for the IoT Edge
Author: George, Anjus
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science, Computer engineering
Description: Recent advances in Deep Learning have made possible distributed multi-camera IoT vision analytics targeted at a variety of surveillance applications involving automated real-time analysis of events from multiple video perspectives. However, the la...

Title: ELECTRICITY PRICE FORECASTING USING ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES
Author: Sardana, Bhav
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Power resources
Description: Electricity Price Forecasts have been a very important part of the energy industry for a long time. Traditionally, it was used by utilities, but after the liberalization of electricity markets around the world, they are of prime importance not onl...

Title: Emergency Medical Services Demand Forecasting: Modern Machine Learning Approaches For Producing Short-Term Spatiotemporal Estimations
Author: Martin, Richard
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Information technology
Description: Emergency medical services (EMS); commonly referred to as ambulance, paramedic or pre-hospital emergency services, are a critical component in the delivery of urgent medical care to communities. EMS agencies, the organizations responsible for prov...

Title: Empirical Methods in an Open Domain Question Answering System
Author: Gallagher, Sean
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Answering questions effectively involves a complex interconnected set of linguistic and statistical analysis tools, which can be difficult to investigate and evaluate on their own. To evaluate any one of them, I developed two composable, recursive...