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
- 2Abdi Oskouie, Mina
- 2Birkbeck, Neil Aylon Charles
- 2Cai, Zhipeng
- 2Chen, Jiyang
- 2Chowdhury, Md Solimul
- 2Chubak, Pirooz
- 74Machine Learning
- 70Reinforcement Learning
- 41Artificial Intelligence
- 36Machine learning
- 22Natural Language Processing
- 22Reinforcement learning
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Clinical Practice Guideline Formalization: Translating Clinical Practice Guidelines to Computer Interpretable Guidelines
DownloadSpring 2016
Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) offer concise instruction on the optimal care for the patient based on the latest clinical findings. The main benefit of a CPG is to improve the quality of care, and the consistency of care. It is been shown that passive dissemination of CPGs, like publishing...
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Fall 2013
Many important problems can be cast as state-space problems. In this dissertation we study a general paradigm for solving state-space problems which we name Cluster-and-Conquer (C&C). Algorithms that follow the C&C paradigm use the concept of equivalent states to reduce the number of states...
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Fall 2018
Identifying the peptide sequence from a mass spectrum is done either by database search or De novo peptide sequencing. This thesis focuses on identification of peptides by using database search, which is a process where an MS/MS spectrum is searched against an entire database of spectra...
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Fall 2011
Scripting languages have gained popularity in video games for specifying the interactive content in a story. Game designers do not necessarily possess programming skills and often demand code-generating tools that can transform textual or graphical descriptions of interactions into scripts...
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Fall 2011
Scientific literature is constantly being reviewed and critically analyzed by researchers, individually or collaboratively. Collaborative reviewing enables receiving multiple perspectives on the content and extending ideas over each other. Existing collaborative-review tools do not effectively...
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Collective decision-making in decentralized multiple-robot systems: a biologically inspired approach to making up all of your minds
DownloadFall 2009
Decision-making is an important operation for any autonomous system. Robots in particular must observe their environment and compute appropriate responses. For solitary robots and centralized multiple-robot systems, decision-making is a relatively straightforward operation, since only a single...