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  • Planning in multi-agent partially observable domains using sparse sampling

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    Donneau-Golencer, Thierry D.
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    A large number of sequential decision-making problems in uncertain environments can be modeled as Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). In such settings, an agent can observe at each time step the state of the environment and then executes an action, causing a stochastic transition to a new state of the environment...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Toward Automated Decision-Making in Power Systems Wide-Area Protection

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    Meier, Richard John
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    In recent years there have been many improvements in the reliability of critical infrastructure systems. Despite these improvements and despite targeted efforts to improve the operation and control of the electric grid, the power systems industry has seen relatively small advances in this regard. For instance, today's power system is...
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    Wide-Area Protection AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Richard John Meier for the degree of Master of

  • Development of a radial microlamination architecture for cylindrical microchannel arrays

    Creator:
    Vlieg, James H.
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    Microchannel arrays are being developed across a wide spectrum of microfluidic applications including blood processing, fuel cells and thermal management among many others. Typical arrays are based on a flat laminated architecture produced in a vacuum hot press (VHP) through solid-state diffusion bonding. Due to the cylindrical nature of certain...
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    thanks are further extended to my minor professor, Dr. Richard Peterson, for his considerable support

  • CLEAN learning to improve coordination and scalability in multiagent systems

    Creator:
    HolmesParker, Chris
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    Recent advances in multiagent learning have led to exciting new capabilities spanning fields as diverse as planetary exploration, air traffic control, military reconnaissance, and airport security. Such algorithms provide a tangible benefit over traditional control algorithms in that they allow fast responses, adapt to dynamic environments, and generally scale well....
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    Dissertation
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    . Belinda Batten, Dr. Ross Hatton, Dr. Jonathan Hurst, Dr. Ravi Balasubramanian, and Dr. Richard Nafshun

  • Direct and indirect effects of livestock grazing intensity on processes regulating grassland bird populations

    Creator:
    Johnson, Tracey N.
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    In grasslands, grazing by large ungulates can influence vegetation structure, composition, primary productivity, and ultimately, ecosystem functioning. While grazing represents a complex disturbance, grazing intensity largely determines the effects of grazing on vegetation. Structural and compositional changes in the plant community caused by grazing could have bottom-up effects on species...
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    Dissertation
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    committee members for their time, effort, guidance, and ideas: Drs. Kate Dugger, Richard Miller, David

  • Literacy narratives across the curriculum

    Creator:
    Coffey, Marjorie D.
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    This thesis proposes expanding the locations where literacy narratives are currently used as readings and as writing assignments and considering broad conceptions of the types and uses of literacy narratives read in classrooms. In particular, this thesis asserts the value of expanding the literacy narratives read beyond the current canonical...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Kearns Goodwin…………………………. 111 Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean by Julia

  • Understanding and improving error-correcting output coding

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    Kong, Eun Bae
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    Error-correcting output coding (ECOC) is a method for converting a k-classsupervised learning problem into a large number L of two-class supervised learningproblems and then combining the results of these L evaluations. Previous researchhas shown that ECOC can dramatically improve the classi cation accuracy of supervisedlearning algorithms that learn to classify...
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    Dissertation

  • Development of nickel aluminide (NiAl) microchannel array devices for high-temperature applications

    Creator:
    Kanlayasiri, Kannachai
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    The miniaturization of Microtechnology-based Energy, Chemical and Biological Systems (MECS) is made possible by the use of high aspect ratio microchannel arrays to increase the surface-area-to-volume ratio of the flow conduits within the devices, resulting in an improvement in the heat and mass transfer performance of the devices. However, advantages...
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    to acknowledge and thank Dr. Richard D. Wilson of Albany Research Center, and Dr. Thomas G

  • Tandem intramolecular photocycloaddition-retro-Mannich fragmentation as a route to indole and oxindole

    Creator:
    Li, Yang
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    Irradiation of a tryptamine linked through its side-chain nitrogen to an alkylidene malonate residue results in an intramolecular [2 + 2] cycloaddition to the indole 2,3-double bond. The resultant cyclobutane undergoes spontaneous retro-Mannich fission to produce a spiro[indoline-3,3-pyrrolenine] with relative configuration defined by the orientation of substituents in the transient...
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    Dissertation
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    .; Nicholson, A. A.; Tchir, M. F. Can. J. Chem. 1969, 47, 711. 8. (a) Kearns, D. R.; Marsh, G.; Schaffner, K

  • Native bee diversity and floral resource availability in two Willamette Valley Oregon ecosystems

    Creator:
    Bergh, Jennifer E.
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    The importance of pollinators in native and managed landscapes is well known, and recent interest is directed towards investigating the role of native bees as providers of pollination ecosystem services. Uncertainty about bee populations at global and local scales has prompted research and general interest in conservation of bee diversity....
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    Masters Thesis
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    transitional ecosystems provide permeable habitat matrix where native plants and wildlife live (Kearns et al