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  • A General Purpose Agent-Based Blackboard Optimization Method Applied to Sodium Fast Reactor Design and Analysis

    Creator:
    Stewart, Ryan H.
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    We present a novel multi-objective optimization methodology built upon a multi-agent blackboard framework. This multi-agent blackboard system (MABS) synthesizes blackboard architectures, multi-agent environments, and optimization theory. The blackboard architecture creates the framework for initializing, storing, and solving a multi-objective optimization problem. Multiple agents allow for an optimization problem to be...
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    Dissertation
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 4.3.4 Scenario 4: Optimization Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 4.4 Conclusions

  • Reaction Pathways of Oxo-Hydroxo Group 5 Clusters to Metal Oxide Thin Films

    Creator:
    Mansergh, Ryan H.
    Abstract:
    Oxo-hydroxo Group 5 metal clusters are an untapped resource to study and advance aqueous solution processing of metal oxide thin films. The tetramethylammonium (TMA) hexatantalate salt (TMA6[H2Ta6O19]) yields dense Ta2O5 films (~95% of the bulk ß-Ta2O5 density) with atomically smooth surfaces (<4 Å root mean square surface roughness). This same...
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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Ryan H. Mansergh

  • Scale effects on reinforced concrete beams strengthened for shear with discrete externally bonded carbon fiber-reinforced polymer U-wraps

    Creator:
    Dawson, Matthew Ryan
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    Current ACI design provisions for shear in reinforced concrete (RC) beams strengthened with externally bonded carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) U-wraps may not adequately account for the effect of scale. This paper describes tests of 6 geometrically scaled beams to identify possible scale effects of such beams. Results indicated that effective...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ] 529 [76.7] H and Q Stirrups #6 [#2] A36 308 [44.6] 443 [64.3] Compr. Steel #13 [#4

  • Efficient Incremental Panorama Reconstruction from Multiple Videos

    Creator:
    Feng, Zhongyuan
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    Constructing a panorama from a set of videos is a long-standing problem in computer vision. A panorama represents an enhanced still-image representation of an entire scene captured in a set of videos, where each video shows only a part of the scene. Importantly, a panorama shows only the scene background,...
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    Capstone Project
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    restored by reshaping it back to 3× 3 matrix. Since there are 8 unknown param- eters of H, at least 4

  • Variational Satisfiability Solving

    Creator:
    Young, Jeffrey M.
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    Over the last two decades, satisfiability and satisfiability-modulo theory (SAT/SMT) solvers have grown powerful enough to be general purpose reasoning engines throughout software engineering and computer science. However, most practical use cases of SAT/SMT solvers require not just solving a single SAT/SMT problem, but solving sets of related SAT/SMT problems....
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    Dissertation
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 3.4 Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 4

  • Nanoparticle-assisted diffusion brazing of metal microchannel arrays : nanoparticle synthesis, deposition, and characterization

    Creator:
    Eluri, Ravindranadh T.
    Abstract:
    Microchannel process technology (MPT) offers several advantages to the field of nanomanufacturing: 1) improved process control over very short time intervals owing to shorter diffusional distances; and 2) reduced reactor size due to high surface area to volume ratios and enhanced heat and mass transfer. The objective of this thesis...
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    Dissertation
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    Bonding……………………………………….…………… 3 1.2 Nanomaterials Synthesis……………………………..…………… 4 1.2.1 Nucleation

  • Inclusive Software Design and Its Methods for Beyond-WIMP User Interfaces

    Creator:
    Fallatah, Abrar
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    While digital inclusivity researchers and software practitioners have been trying to address exclusion biases in Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointers (WIMP) user interfaces (UIs) for a long time, little has been done to investigate if and how inclusive software design and its methods that have been devised for WIMP UIs...
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    Dissertation
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    approach with a social robot that interacts with diverse people in diverse social places. In Chapter 4, we

  • An Information Modeling Framework for Support of Sustainable Manufacturing System Design Decision Making

    Creator:
    Shankar Raman, Arvind
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    Manufacturing technology has continuously evolved and advanced over the past century; this has led to an increase in the production of consumer and industrial goods driven by simultaneous growth in population and wealth. Despite the resulting economic and labor growth, environmental impacts of manufacturing have increased dramatically due to the...
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    Dissertation
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    process flows composed of UMPs, which is demonstrated for a discrete part manufacturing system; and (4

  • Deep Learning for Human and Biological Languages

    Creator:
    Hong, Junki
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    We explore the application of deep learning to the disparate fields of natural language processing and computational biology. Both the sentences uttered by humans as well as the RNA and protein sequences found within the cells of their bodies can be considered formal languages in computer science, as sets of...
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    Dissertation
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    size greater than 100,000 but in practice usually have less than 20-30 words; RNA sequences have 4

  • Approximation Schemes in Planar Graphs

    Creator:
    Zheng, Baigong
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    There are growing interests in designing polynomial-time approximation schemes (PTAS) for optimization problems in planar graphs. Many NP-hard problems are shown to admit PTAS in planar graphs in the last decade, including Steiner tree, Steiner forest, two- edge-connected subgraphs and so on. We follow this research line and study several...
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    Dissertation
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    slices to a solution in H. Step 4: Solve the problem with respect to original and artificial terminals