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  • 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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    : _____________________________________________________________________ Brian K. Paul Microchannel process technology (MPT) offers several advantages to the field

  • Ensemble Monte-Carlo planning : an empirical study

    Creator:
    Lewis, Paul
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    Monte-Carlo planning algorithms such as UCT make decisions at each step by intelligently expanding a single search tree given the available time and then selecting the best root action. Recent work has provided evidence that it can be advantageous to instead construct an ensemble of search trees and make a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Paul Lewis for the degree

  • Machine learning in engineering : techniques to speed up numerical optimization

    Creator:
    Cerbone, G. (Giuseppe)
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    Many important application problems in engineering can be formalized as nonlinear optimization tasks. However, numerical methods for solving such problems are brittle and do not scale well. For example, these methods depend critically on choosing a good starting point from which to perform the optimization search. In high-dimensional spaces, numerical...
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    Dissertation
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    Redacted for Privacy Paul Cull Abstract Many important application problems in engineering can be

  • Evaluation functions in aerial image segmentation

    Creator:
    Langford, William T.
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    Remote sensing is the most practical way to acquire large amounts of land cover data for monitoring and understanding environmental change, so it is important to be able to map land cover from imagery. Maps defining land cover patches as polygons rather than pixels greatly improve processing efficiency in models...
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    members Paul Cull and Prasad Tadepalli gave me constant encouragement and taught me many things. Paul in

  • 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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    Abstract approved: Todd S. Palmer We present a novel multi-objective optimization methodology built upon

  • Conceptual Representations within the Social and Material Contexts of an Engineering Workplace and Academic Environments

    Creator:
    Barner, Matthew S.
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    Situated cognition theory emphasizes the role that social and material contexts have on learning and knowledge application. Several studies of engineering workplace environments have noted differences between the social and material contexts of the workplace and those of undergraduate engineering education. No existing research has studied the social and material...
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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Matthew S

  • Correct abstraction in counter-planning : a knowledge compilation approach

    Creator:
    Flann, Nicholas S.
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    Knowledge compilation improves search-intensive problem-solvers that are easily specified but inefficient. One promising approach improves efficiency by constructing a database of problem-instance/best-action pairs that replace problem-solving search with efficient lookup. The database is constructed by reverse enumeration- expanding the complete search space backwards, from the terminal problem instances. This approach...
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    compilation approach AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Nicholas S. Flann for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy

  • Topics in toroidal interconnection networks

    Creator:
    Broeg, Robert Richard
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    . Firstly, I am grateful to Frs. Barry Griffin, SDS; Paul Portland, SDS; and Dennis Thiessen, SDS. Without

  • Advanced separation of concerns and the compatibility of aspect-orientation

    Creator:
    Dechow, Doug
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    The appropriate separation of concerns is a fundamental engineering principle. A concern, for software developers, is that which must be represented by code in a program; by extension, separation of concerns is the ability to represent a single concern in a single appropriate programming language construct. Advanced separation of concerns...
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    contribution. The guidance of the entire dissertation committee helped shape this dissertation. Dr. Paul Cull

  • 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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    mentor. Thank you to Thomas Thüm, Paul Maximilian Bittner, and Tobias Heß. Tobias for supporting me