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.
To retrieve all theses and dissertations associated with a specific department from the library catalogue, choose 'Advanced' and keyword search "university of alberta dept of english" OR "university of alberta department of english" (for example). Past graduates who wish to have their thesis or dissertation added to this collection can contact us at erahelp@ualberta.ca.
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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Design and Optimal Operation of a Virtual Power Plant with Bidirectional Electric Vehicle Chargers
DownloadSpring 2023
Virtual power plants (VPPs) can enhance reliability and efficiency of power systems with a high share of renewables. However, their adoption largely depends on their profitability, which is difficult to maximize due to the heterogeneity of their components, different sources of uncertainty and...
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Fall 2014
Heuristic search has been shown to be an effective way to solve state-space problems. While many heuristic search techniques are guaranteed to find the best solution, these are often not feasible given practical resource requirements. In such cases, it is necessary to sacrifice solution...
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Design of a Course Recommender System as an Application of Collecting Graduating Attributes
DownloadFall 2016
In educational research, the term of Graduating Attributes has been used for the qualities, skills and understandings a university community agrees its students would develop. Having a description of Graduating Attributes is one of the ways through which universities can display the outcomes of...
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Fall 2013
Cloud-based infrastructures enable applications to collect and analyze massive amounts of data. NoSQL databases endowed with high availability and excellent scalability through their easy deployment on cloud-computing platforms, become a more attractive data-storage solution for these big-data...
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Designing from Motivation: Exploring Large Scale Tagged Data Collection through Social Monetization Computing
DownloadFall 2015
With the exponential growth of web image data, image tagging is becoming crucial in many image based applications such as object recognition and content-based image retrieval. However, despite the great progress achieved in automatic recognition technologies, none has yet provided a satisfactory...