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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Exploring an Intelligent Responsive Architecture through Gesture-based Interaction
Author: An, Yijing
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Architecture, Building
Description: Architects are increasingly adopting gesture-based interaction to create responsive, engaging and inspiring spaces. However, there is no established theories providing guidelines to link gestures and spatial movement. This thesis critiques the pre...

Title: USE OF MULTISENSOR DATA IN MODELING FREEWAY TRAVEL TIME: VARIABILITY ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION
Author: Chen, Zhen
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Transportation
Description: Nowadays anonymous vehicle probe data have been greatly improved in both data coverage and data fidelity. Thus, vehicle probe data have become a reliable source for freeway travel time analysis. The travel time variability is highly complex as it ...