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

    Creator:
    Cerbone, G. (Giuseppe)
    Abstract:
    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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    numerical optimization AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Giuseppe Cerbone for the degree of Doctor of

  • An investigation of the search space of Lenat's AM program

    Creator:
    Mishra, Prafulla K.
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    AM is a computer program written by Doug Lenat that discovers elementary mathematics starting from some initial knowledge of set theory. The success of this program is not clearly understood. This work is an attempt to explore the search space of AM in order to understand the success and eventual...
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    Masters Thesis
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    appreciate careful reading of the thesis and useful comments by Giuseppe Cerbone and Jim Holloway. I also

  • A specialized ATMS for equivalence relations

    Creator:
    Koff, Caroline Nan
    Abstract:
    A specialized ATMS for efficiently computing equivalence relations in multiple contexts is introduced. This specialized ATMS overcomes the problems with existing solutions to reasoning with equivalence relations. The most direct implementation of an equivalence relation in the ATMS-encoding the reflexive, transitive, and symmetric rules in the consumer architecture-produces redundant equality...
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    Masters Thesis
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    label-update algorithm (Section 2.3.3). I would like to thank Jim Holloway, Giuseppe Cerbone, and

  • Concept coverage and its application to two learning tasks

    Creator:
    Almuallim, Hussein Saleh
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    The coverage of a learning algorithm is the number of concepts that can be learned by that algorithm from samples of a given size for given accuracy and confidence parameters. This thesis begins by asking whether good learning algorithms can be designed by maximizing their coverage. There are three questions...
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    this thesis, and to other students of Prof. Dietterich: Giuseppe Cerbone, Dietrich Wettschereck, Vijay

  • 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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    friendship: Ritchie Ruff, Cerbone Giuseppe, Hussein Almuallim, Tony Fountain and Caroline Koff. I thank my

  • Machine learning methods for public policy : simulation, optimization, and visualization

    Creator:
    McGregor, Sean
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    Society faces many complex management problems, particularly in the area of shared public resources such as ecosystems. Existing decision making processes are often guided by personal experience and political ideology rather than state-of-the-art scientific understanding. This dissertation envisions a future in which multiple stakeholders are provided with computational tools for...
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    Methods for Public Policy: Simulation, Optimization, and Visualization Abstract approved: Thomas G

  • Activity recognition in desktop environments

    Creator:
    Shen, Jianqiang
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    Knowledge workers are struggling in the information flood. There is a growing interest in intelligent desktop environments that help knowledge workers organize their daily life. Intelligent desktop environments allow the desktop user to define a set of “activities” that characterize the user’s desktop work. These environments then attempt to identify...
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    Recognition in Desktop Environments Abstract approved: Thomas G. Dietterich Knowledge workers are

  • Evaluation of the predictive capability of two-phase flow maps for microchannel condensation of R-134a at low mass flux conditions

    Creator:
    VanderPutten, Michael A.
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    Predicting condensation flow regimes and the associated heat transfer and pressure drop in microchannels is critical for designing terrestrial and space systems for heating, cooling, power generation, and advanced manufacturing. It is well established that in flows approaching the microscale (Dh < 1 mm) gravity-dominated flow regimes become less relevant,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    refrigerants at large mass fluxes (G > 100 kg-m-2-s-1). Fluid visualization results from these studies have

  • Nature of the inheritance of gluten strength and carotenoid pigment content in winter by spring and durum wheat crosses (Triticum turgidum L. Var. durum)

    Creator:
    Ammar, Karim
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    Durum wheat cultivars for North-Eastern Oregon have to be competitive in terms of their yield potential with soft white winter wheat cultivars and meet strict quality requirements of the milling industry. Combining the high yield potential of fall planted durum wheat cultivars which have an acceptable level of winter hardiness...
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    Masters Thesis

  • The late holocene atmospheric methane budget reconstructed from ice cores

    Creator:
    Mitchell, Logan E.
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    Ice cores are considered the gold standard for recording past climate and biogeochemical changes. However, gas records derived from ice core analysis have until now been largely limited to centennial and longer timescales because sufficient temporal resolution and analytical precision have been lacking, except during rare times when atmospheric concentrations...
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    capable of an analytical precision of < 3 ppb using ~120 g samples whereas the previous highest