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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
- 3Particle Swarm Optimization
- 1Artificial Intelligence
- 1Conditional Clustering
- 1Deep Learning
- 1Deep Reinforcement Learning
- 1Differential Evolution
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Spring 2022
The rapid increase in global water and energy demand due to industrialization and population growth is a pressing challenge humankind faces today. Recent estimates indicate that due to population growth and reduction of water supplies, 40% of the global population is struggling with water...
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Fall 2013
This thesis deals with the problem proposed by Ye and Zhou (2007): Is a Q-optimal minimax design still symmetric if the requirement of $\int_\chi xm(x)dx = 0$ is removed? We have shown that for the simple linear regression, considering only the variance, a Q-optimal minimax design is necessarily...
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Spring 2016
Building abstract concepts is essential to humans when acquiring knowledge, realizing processing (reasoning), and communicating findings. Abstraction comes hand in hand with information granules and information granulation. When analyzing digital images, we form groups (clusters) of pixels,...