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  • Interactive fault localization techniques to empower the debugging efforts of end-user programmers

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    Ruthruff, Joseph Ronald
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    End users develop more software than any other group of programmers, using software authoring devices such as e-mail filtering editors, by-demonstration macro builders, and spreadsheet environments. Despite this, there has been only a little research on finding ways to help these programmers with the dependability of the software they create....
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    places an X-mark in each cell’s decision box. . .. . . . . . . 13 3.2 Algorithm #1 — The MarkPlaced

  • Long Wave Amplification in a Coral-Reef Lagoon

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    Bheeroo, Vivek Anand
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    A series of laboratory experiments were conducted to study the wave field in the inner lagoon excited by ‘long’ incident waves. Three cases were considered: Cases A, B and C presenting incident waves of wavelength with factors of 1, 2 and 2.5 times the width of the reef respectively. The...
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    ): wave evolution at t=20 s, (bottom right): wave evolution at t=25 s ………………….….………29 Fig 3.9: Wave

  • UCT for tactical assault battles in real-time strategy games

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    Balla, Radha-Krishna
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    We consider the problem of tactical assault planning in real-time strategy games where a team of friendly agents must launch an assault on an enemy. This problem offers many challenges including a highly dynamic and uncertain environment, multiple agents, durative actions, numeric attributes, and different optimization objectives. While the dynamics...
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    , most notably the game of Go (see [5] and [4]). UCT‟s ability to deal with the large state-space of Go

  • A Benchmarking Study of Unsupervised Anomaly Detection Algorithms

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    Emmott, Andrew F.
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    It is common practice in the unsupervised anomaly detection literature to create experimental benchmarks by sampling from existing supervised learning datasets. We seek to improve this practice by identifying four dimensions important to real-world anomaly detection applications --- point difficulty, clusteredness of anomalies, relevance of features, and relative frequency of...
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    simulate and control these factors when sampling points during bench- mark creation. We apply this

  • Re-understanding Finite-State Representations of Recurrent Policy Networks

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    Danesh, Mohamad H.
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    We propose an approach for understanding control policies represented as recurrent neural networks. Recent work has approached this problem by transforming such recurrent policy networks into finite-state machines (FSM) and then analyzing the equivalent minimized FSM. While this led to interesting insights, the minimization process can obscure a deeper understanding...
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    the game playing behavior. It is straightforward for a human to mark the time when this warm-up

  • Evaluation of Parallel Monte Carlo Tree Search Algorithms in Python

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    Jothi, Shankar
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    Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is an online-planning algorithm for decision-theoretic planning in domains with stochastic and combinatorial structure. The general applicability of MCTS makes it an ideal first choice to investigate when developing planners for complex applications requiring automated control and planning. The first contribution of this thesis is to...
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    the tree stores its visit count and Q(s, a) for each of the action values from that node’s state and

  • Object highlighting : real-time boundary detection using a Bayesian network

    Creator:
    Jia, Jin
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    Image segmentation continues to be a fundamental problem in computer vision and image understanding. In this thesis, we present a Bayesian network that we use for object boundary detection in which the MPE (most probable explanation) before any evidence can produce multiple non-overlapping, non-self-intersecting closed contours and the MPE with...
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    corresponding variables and X' respectively. S, = (e0, e1, ... e) denote a particular assignment of edge node

  • Auxiliary Tasks for Efficient Learning of Point-Goal Navigation

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    Desai, Saurabh Satish
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    Top-performing approaches to embodied AI tasks like point-goal navigation often rely on training agents via reinforcement learning over tens of millions (or even billions) of experiential steps – learning neural agents that map directly from visual observations to actions. In this work, we question whether these extreme training durations are...
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    [18]’s depth prediction task to our setting – significantly altering the architecture to fit the

  • Using Change Representations to Analyze Properties of Variational Software

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    Wang, Xiangyu
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    Appropriate representations of variational software simplify the analysis of their properties.This thesis proposes tailored representations of two kinds variational softwares: difference files of merge commits in Git and feature models. For the former, we use the Choice Edit Model, which is based on the choice calculus, to represent changes introduced...
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    := fordim D op op := insert pos lit | delete pos | change pos lit | undo | redo For a string s, its

  • Learning-based Control of Experimental Hybrid Fuel Cell Power Plant

    Creator:
    Gabler, Andrew
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    Direct red Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) Turbine hybrid plants have the potential to dramatically increase power plant efficiency, decrease emissions, and provide fast response to transient loads. The US Department of Energy's (DOE) Hybrid Performance Project is an experimental hybrid SOFC plant, built at the National Energy Technology Laboratory...
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    . A ir tr av el s in th e d ir ec ti on of th e ar ro w s sh ow n fi rs t en te ri n g