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  • Towards a national map of soil liquefaction susceptibility : modeling with heuristic and geotechnical methods

    Creator:
    Lindsley, Adam E.
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    This study investigates the use of predictive mapping techniques as well as geotechnical criteria in developing a multiregional soil liquefaction model and subsequent maps. The maps were produced using National Cooperative Soil Survey data, in the gSSURGO format, combined with soil liquefaction data gathered from studies, articles, and traditional seismic...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Methods Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Jay S

  • On the Role of Spatial Clustering Algorithms in Building Species Distribution Models from Community Science Data

    Creator:
    Roth, Mark
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    This paper discusses opportunities for developments in spatial clustering methods to help leverage broad scale community science data for building species distribution models (SDMs). SDMs are critical tools that inform the science and policy needed to mitigate the impacts of climate change on biodiversity. Community science data span spatial and...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    with a ground truth value. However, we construct simulated and semi-simulated datasets where the β’s

  • Personalizing machine learning systems with explanatory debugging

    Creator:
    Kulesza, Todd
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    How can end users efficiently influence the predictions that machine learning systems make on their behalf? Traditional systems rely on users to provide examples of how they want the learning system to behave, but this is not always practical for the user, nor efficient for the learning system. This dissertation...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Special Nuclear Material Analysis Using Temporal Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Machine Learning Methods

    Creator:
    Curtis, Jessica R.
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    Following thermal neutron induced fission, supervised machine learning and temporal gamma-ray spectroscopy methods were used to identify differences in the delayed gamma-ray spectra of Pu-239 and U-235. The temporal gamma-ray spectroscopy method takes advantage of the time-dependent decay of fission products. Employing Spearman's rank-order correlation coefficient and without prior knowledge...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    MeV of Pu-239 and U-235. Individual rho (ρs) values and their respective differences (∆ρs) were used

  • Learning cost-sensitive diagnostic policies from data

    Creator:
    Zubek, Valentina Bayer
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    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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    search space is a directed acyclic graph (DAG). . . . . 54 4.2 Qopt(s; x) for unexpanded AND node (s; x

  • Improving automated email tagging with implicit feedback

    Creator:
    Sorower, Mohammad Shahed
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    Machine learning systems are generally trained offline using ground truth data that has been labeled by experts. However, these batch training methods are not a good fit for many applications, especially in the cases where complete ground truth data is not available for offline training. In addition, batch methods do...
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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Mohammad S. Sorower

  • Combining coordination mechanisms to improve performance in multi-robot teams

    Creator:
    Nasroullahi, Ehsan
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    Coordination is essential to achieving good performance in cooperative multiagent systems. To date, most work has focused on either implicit or explicit coordination mechanisms, while relatively little work has focused on the benefits of combining these two approaches. In this work we demonstrate that combining explicit and implicit mechanisms can...
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    Masters Thesis
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    agents are required to observe each POI. Agents using D � S � IDEAS outperform all other methods once the

  • Learning ranking functions for efficient search

    Creator:
    Xu, Yuehua
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    This dissertation explores algorithms for learning ranking functions to efficiently solve search problems, with application to automated planning. Specifically, we consider the frameworks of beam search, greedy search, and randomized search, which all aim to maintain tractability at the cost of not guaranteeing completeness nor optimality. Our learning objective for...
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    Dissertation
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    problem parameters: n - the number of training instances, d - the depth of target solution paths, b - the

  • New learning modes for sequential decision making

    Creator:
    Judah, Kshitij
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    This thesis considers the problem in which a teacher is interested in teaching action policies to computer agents for sequential decision making. The vast majority of policy learning algorithms o er teachers little flexibility in how policies are taught. In particular, one of two learning modes is typically considered: 1)...
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    Dissertation
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    on (a) Cart- pole (b) Bicycle balancing (c) Wargus (d) Driving Domain. . . . . . . . . 80 4.4

  • Structured gradient boosting

    Creator:
    Parker, Charles (Charles Lincoln)
    Abstract:
    The goal of many machine learning problems can be formalized as the creation of a function that can properly classify an input vector, given a set of examples of that function. While this formalism has produced a number of success stories, there are notable situations in which it fails. One...
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    Dissertation
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 LIST OF FIGURES (Continued) Figure Page 6.1 A plot of the function dg(x, y) = d(x, y) 1 1+w