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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
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Fall 2015
As wireless devices have emerged as a ubiquitous part of people's everyday lives, the demands for faster wireless communications become even more pressing. Fortunately, the advanced techniques of the physical layer such as multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO), multi-user detection (MUD),...
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Fall 2023
One of the main challenges in distributed computing are straggling servers i.e. servers that have temporary or permanent delay in sending the result of the computations assigned to them. One of the proposed methods to address the straggler problem is using forward error correction codes to encode...
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On Computation and Implementation Techniques for Fast and Parallel Electromagnetic Transient Power System Simulation
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Electromagnetic transient (EMT) simulation is a paramount tool to study the electrical system's behavior and reproduce the transient waveforms prior to manufacturing and deployment. However, the simulation process slows down significantly when the circuit scale expands, and thus the fast and...
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Fall 2022
An analytical model is presented to study dynamic behaviors of rigid sphere-reinforced random metacomposites. The model is based on the concept that the deviation of the displacement field of embedded rigid spheres from the displacement field of the composite is responsible for novel dynamic...
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On Efficient Planning in Large Action Spaces with Applications to Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
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A practical challenge in reinforcement learning is large action spaces that make planning computationally demanding. For example, in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning, a potentially large number of agents jointly optimize a global reward function, which leads to a blow-up in the...
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Spring 2023
Associative classifiers have shown competitive performance with state-of-the-art methods for predicting class labels. In addition to accuracy performance, associative classifiers produce human readable rules for classification which provides an easier way to understand the decision process of...