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  • Update programming -- a safe approach to software maintenance

    Creator:
    Ren, Deling
    Abstract:
    Software maintenance accounts for a large portion of the software development cost, particularly the process of updating programs either to adapt for requirement change or to enhance design or efficiency. Currently, program updates are generally performed manually by programmers using text editors. This is an unreliable method because syntax and...
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    Dissertation
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  • Model-based approximation methods for reinforcement learning

    Creator:
    Wang, Xin
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    The thesis focuses on model-based approximation methods for reinforcement learning with large scale applications such as combinatorial optimization problems. First, the thesis proposes two new model-based methods to stablize the value–function approximation for reinforcement learning. The first one is the BFBP algorithm, a batch-like reinforcement learning process which iterates between...
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    Dissertation
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    Lipschitz Continuity of ∇M ∞ θk J(θk) . . . . . . . . . 199 LIST OF FIGURES Figure Page 2.1 Performance

  • Protein secondary structure prediction using conditional random fields and profiles

    Creator:
    Shen, Rongkun
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    Protein secondary structure prediction plays a pivotal role in predicting protein folding in three-dimensions. Its task is to assign each residue one of the three secondary structure classes helix, strand, or random coil. This is an instance of the problem of sequential supervised learning in machine learning. This thesis describes...
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    Masters Thesis
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    extensive help during this research. Thanks to Thomas G. Dietterich and Adam J. Ashenfelter for the core

  • Designing and understanding information retrieval systems using collaborative filtering in an academic library environment

    Creator:
    Jung, Seikyung
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    Accessing information on the Web has become ingrained into our daily lives, and we seek information from many different sources, including conference and journal publications, personal web pages, and others. Increasingly, web-based information retrieval systems such as web-based search engines, library on-line catalog systems, and subscription-based federated search systems are...
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    Dissertation

  • A SAT-based planning framework for optimizing resource production

    Creator:
    Ventura, Christopher
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    Domain-independent automated planning is concerned with computing a sequence of actions that can transform an initial state into a desired goal state. Resource production domains form an interesting class of such problems, in that they typically require reasoning about concurrent durative-actions with continuous effects while minimizing some cost function. Although...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ‘Continue(A)[i,j]’ to represent the fact that durative action ‘A’ is continuing at significant time point

  • Image feature detection and matching for biological object recognition

    Creator:
    Deng, Hongli
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    Image feature detection and matching are two critical processes for many computer vision tasks. Currently, intensity-based local interest region detectors and local feature-based matching methods are used widely in computer vision applications. But in some applications, such as biological object recognition tasks, within-class changes in pose, lighting, color, and texture...
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    Dissertation
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    combination of these standard faces. To generate a set of eigenfaces, images with dimension m∗n are treated