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  • Probabilities of voting paradoxes with three candidates

    Creator:
    McDonald, Leslie M.
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    Pardoxes in voting has been an interest of voting theorists since the 1800's when Condorcet demonstrated the key example of a voting paradox: voters with individually transitive rankings produce an election outcome which is not transitive. With Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, the hope of finding a fair voting method which accurately...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Paradoxes with Three Candidates Abstract approved: Mina E. Ossiander Pardoxes in voting has been an

  • Mixing time for a 3-cycle interacting particle system : a coupling approach

    Creator:
    Eves, Matthew Jasper
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    This thesis examines the mixing times for one-dimensional interacting particle systems. We use the coupling method to study the mixing rates for particle systems on the circle which move according to specific permutations e.g., transpositions and 3-cycles.
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    for arbitrarily small epsilon. By the Markov inequality we see that the bound is τmix ≤ 1 � max x0 E

  • Toward Automated Decision-Making in Power Systems Wide-Area Protection

    Creator:
    Meier, Richard John
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    In recent years there have been many improvements in the reliability of critical infrastructure systems. Despite these improvements and despite targeted efforts to improve the operation and control of the electric grid, the power systems industry has seen relatively small advances in this regard. For instance, today's power system is...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Despite these improvements and despite targeted e↵orts to improve the operation and control of the

  • Machine learning for improving the quality of citizen science data

    Creator:
    Yu, Jun
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    Citizen Science is a paradigm in which volunteers from the general public participate in scientific studies, often by performing data collection. This paradigm is especially useful if the scope of the study is too broad to be performed by a limited number of trained scientists. Although citizen scientists can contribute...
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    Dissertation
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    , β ex 0 , β no 1 , β no 0 ). λe Expertise regularization term. A graphical model representation

  • The density signature

    Creator:
    Migler-VonDollen, Theresa
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    In real networks, identifying dense regions is of great importance. For example, in a network that represents academic collaboration, authors within the densest component of the graph tend to be the most prolific. Dense subgraphs often identify communities in social networks. And dense subgraphs can be used to discover regulatory...
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 E Streaming graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 F

  • Enhancing Search-Based Techniques with Information Control Dependencies

    Creator:
    Aburas, Ali
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    Software testing is a very important task during software development and it can be used to improve the quality and reliability of the software system. One potential way to reduce the cost and increase the efficiency of software testing is to generate test data automatically. Search-based approaches successfully generate unit...
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    Dissertation

  • Adaptive Movement Intent Decoding for Intuitive Control of Neuroprostheses

    Creator:
    George, Damon A.
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    Movement intent decoders, which interpret volitional movement intent from human bioelectric signals, can be incorporated into modern neuroprostheses to offer people living with limb loss or paralysis the potential to regain their lost motor control. Machine learning methods have become the research standard for continuous decoders with high degrees of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . The problem of learning the decoder parameters therefore becomes a 10 P e- P oce ing Fea e P oce

  • Learning to Estimate Multi-Relation Aggregation Functions

    Creator:
    Jadhav, Rashmi Suresh
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    Multi-relation aggregation queries process the join operator before computing the aggregation function. This join is arguably the most costly operation since traditional join algorithms spend majority of their time trying to join the parts of the relations that do not generate any output tuples. This causes slow response times with...
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    Masters Thesis
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    e Ti m e (in s ) 0 50 100 150 200 0.25% 0.50% 0.75% 1% bandit m=√(|S|) bandit m=20 x

  • Decentralized Multi-Robot Exploration with Sparse Communication through Deep Imitation Learning

    Creator:
    Senewiratne, Yomal K.
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    We present a method for decentralized, multi-robot exploration in adverse environments where communication is minimal. A key conceptual feature of our method is enabling implicit coordination between robots by training a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) as a heuristic for planning using Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS). Our method consists of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    environment is represented by a navigation graph G with vertices V and edges E . We assume the vertices V are

  • Network Coding, Random Matrices, and Their Applications to Communication Systems

    Creator:
    Nguyen-Huu, Duong
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    In this work, we study network coding technique, its relation to random matrices, and their applications to communication systems. The dissertation consists of three main contributions. First, we propose efficient algorithms for data synchronization via a broadcast channel using random network coding. Second, we study the resiliency of network coding...
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    Dissertation
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    Empirical E[Ti] vs. K . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 3.4 Empirical E[Tmax] vs