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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 1Community detection
- 1Constrained Markov Decision Process
- 1Data-driven Analytics
- 1Earthmoving
- 1Equipment Management
- 1Haul Road Design
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Spring 2019
With the burgeoning of online social media and the deluge of information in today's "big data" era, traditional community mining that relies on the connections of the nodes no longer suffices to find communities where the attributes of these nodes play an important role. Though vast research has...
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Spring 2020
Construction equipment management is critical for the long-term success of construction companies. Managing equipment in a cost-efficient manner for project or corporate operations is a key concern for construction companies. Although equipment cost is normally simplified to be a unit rate in...
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Optimization of Temporary Haul Road Design and Earthmoving Job Planning based on Site Rough-grading Design
DownloadFall 2014
Site rough-grading operations are the preliminary work of the construction projects in remote areas especially in Northern Alberta. Haulage cost typically accounts for around 30% of the total cost of mass earthmoving projects. The temporary haul road network built in the earthmoving field is one...
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Fall 2023
Many real-world tasks in fields such as robotics and control can be formulated as constrained Markov decision processes (CMDPs). In CMDPs, the objective is usually to optimize the return while ensuring some constraints being satisfied at the same time. The primal-dual approach is a common...