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  • Crop Rotation Economic and Environmental Impact Decision Aid (CREEDA) : a COM-based application

    Creator:
    Chang, Song
    Abstract:
    CREEDA (Crop Rotation Economic and Environmental Impact Decision Aid) is a Windows application for assessing economic and environmental impacts of agricultural activities. In implementing it, we extended the ProCosts database and incorporated the RUSLE (Revised Universal Soil-Loss Equation) application and the SCI (Soil Conditioning Index) application as COM components. ProCosts,...
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    Capstone Project
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    ) Crop Rotation Economic and Environmental Impact

  • Revenue-based spectrum management via Markov decision process

    Creator:
    Zhu, Pingan
    Abstract:
    We consider the problem of wireless spectrum management in cognitive wireless networks that maximizes the revenue for a spectrum operator. Specifically, we study the problem on how a wireless spectrum operator can optimally allocate its limited spectrum to various classes users/devices who pay differently for their spectrum per unit time....
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    Masters Thesis
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    Science and Mathematics presented on September 23, 2013. Title: Revenue-Based Spectrum Management Via

  • Evaluating the Effects of Multiple Environmental Stressors on the Gulf of Alaska Pacific Cod Fishery Using a Dynamic Stress-Scape Framework

    Creator:
    Blaisdell, Josiah
    Abstract:
    The Gulf of Alaska (GOA) is home to the most productive fisheries in the world. In 2019, 2.2 million metric tons of fish were shipped from Alaska to destinations all over the world (NOAA Fisheries, 2019). From 2014-2016 and, more recently, in 2019 the largest heatwaves in recorded history caused...
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    Masters Thesis
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    for a more precise and accurate understanding of the effects of multiple environmental variables on

  • Probabilistic models for quality control in environmental sensor networks

    Creator:
    Dereszynski, Ethan W.
    Abstract:
    Networks of distributed, remote sensors are providing ecological scientists with a view of our environment that is unprecedented in detail. However, these networks are subject to harsh conditions, which lead to malfunctions in individual sensors and failures in network communications. This behavior manifests as corrupt or missing measurements in the...
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    Dissertation
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    algorithms on synthetic datasets and real environmental sensor data gathered from an ecological sensor

  • A comparison of box-cox and additive exponential models to estimate the depreciation of farm machinery

    Creator:
    Wu, Jing
    Abstract:
    Farm machinery continues to increase in its importance to the agricultural sector. Depreciation, the decline in value of a durable asset over time, represents one of the largest costs of agricultural production. The general objectives of this study were to update and expand the number of Remaining Value (RV) functions...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Management, Analysis, and Research (KMAR, 1997); U.S. Bureau of Economics Analysis (1997); plus two U.S

  • Personalized information management systems with tutorial capabilities

    Creator:
    Oman, Paul W.
    Abstract:
    Technological advances of the last three decades have caused an enormous increase in the amount of published and unpublished information generated by our society. This inflation has created the need for improved information management systems. Existing systems are inadequate primarily because they are discipline-oriented and lack the flexibility that is...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Information Management Systems (PIMS) with a complete range of interactive data management functions and

  • Simulator-Defined MDP Planning with Applications in Natural Resource Management

    Creator:
    Alkaee Taleghan, Majid
    Abstract:
    This work is inspired by problems in natural resource management centered on the challenge of invasive species. Computing optimal management policies for maintaining ecosystem sustainable is challenging. Many ecosystem management problems can be formulated as MDP (Markov Decision Process) planning problems. In a simulator-defined MDP, the Markovian dynamics and rewards...
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    Dissertation
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    C-MDP to minimize the economic cost of inva- sive species management while ensuring that the

  • Joint Resource Scheduling and Peak Power Shaving for Cloud Data Centers with Distributed Uninterruptible Power Supply

    Creator:
    AlAnazi, Sultan (Sultan Abdulaziz)
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    The grid company enforces high penalties for the peak power demands of cloud data centers. These high penalties result in high electricity bills that can be avoided by relying on the servers' Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) as a source of energy during peak load periods. This thesis proposes a management...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Meisner, C. M. Sadler, L. A. Barroso, W. D. Weber, and T. F. Wenisch. Power management of online data

  • Reinforcement learning-based off-equilibrium incentives to approximate the VCG mechanism

    Creator:
    Moissinac, Béatrice
    Abstract:
    Auctions are used to solve resource allocation problem between many agents and many items in real-world settings. Unfortunately, in most cases, it is possible for selfish agents to manipulate the system for their own interest at the expense of the social welfare. Such manipulation can be prevented using the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves...
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    Masters Thesis
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    and the VCG mechanism, and empirically show that this approximation of VCG mechanism leads to

  • Learning cost-sensitive diagnostic policies from data

    Creator:
    Zubek, Valentina Bayer
    Abstract:
    In its simplest form, the process of diagnosis is a decision-making process in which the diagnostician performs a sequence of tests culminating in a diagnostic decision. For example, a physician might perform a series of simple measurements (body tem- perature, weight, etc.) and laboratory measurements (white blood count, CT scan,...
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    Dissertation
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    perform a series of simple measurements (body tem- perature, weight, etc.) and laboratory measurements