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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Spring 2012
Hiding and seeking are cognitive abilities frequently demonstrated by humans in both real life and video games. To test to which extent this ability can be replicated by Artificial Intelligence, we introduce a specialized version of the Turing test for hiding and seeking. We then develop an agent...
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Fall 2022
Advances in sensor devices and harvesting technologies have enabled the design of small, inexpensive, and low-power energy harvesting wireless sensor networks (EH-WSNs) that can be used to collect data and provide reliable monitoring in many applications such as surveillance applications (e.g.,...
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Fall 2017
The use of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in various surveillance and monitoring tasks have attracted a wide and growing attention in recent years. The thesis considers a class of intrusion detection problems where an unauthorized person or object aims to traverse part of the geographical area...
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Fall 2021
Can efficient solvers be built for disjunctive hybrid MKNF knowledgebases? Recent breakthroughs in solver construction have proven AnswerSet Programming (ASP) to be a fruitful medium for tackling problemsthat lie within the lower two levels of the polynomial hierarchy. Thelogic of hybrid MKNF...
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Fall 2014
Using motion capture data is an efficient way to generate and transmit 3D character animation. We explore the possibility of incorporating human perceptual factors in compression and synthesis of motion capture data in order to achieve a higher performance in different aspects including reducing...
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Fall 2021
This work focuses on the virtual generation of short percussive samples which can be used by electronic music artists in their compositions. Although recent advancements in digital synthesis, heuristic search, and neural networks have been utilized for the generation of a variety of sounds, the...
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Spring 2012
Recent real-time heuristic search algorithms have demonstrated outstanding performance in video game pathfinding. However, their applications have been thus far limited to that domain. We proceed with the aim of facilitating wider applications of real-time search by fostering a greater...