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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
- 2Abdi Oskouie, Mina
- 2Birkbeck, Neil Aylon Charles
- 2Cai, Zhipeng
- 2Chen, Jiyang
- 2Chowdhury, Md Solimul
- 2Chubak, Pirooz
- 83Machine Learning
- 76Reinforcement Learning
- 42Artificial Intelligence
- 37Machine learning
- 24Natural Language Processing
- 23reinforcement learning
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Spring 2012
Havannah is a recent game that is interesting from an AI research perspective. Some of its properties, including virtual connections, frames, dead cells, draws and races to win, are explained. Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is well suited to play Havannah, but many improvements are possible....
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Fall 2010
The game of Hex is of interest to the mathematics, algorithms, and artificial intelligence communities. It is a classical PSPACE-complete problem, and its invention is intrinsically tied to the Four Colour Theorem and the well-known strategy-stealing argument. Nash, Shannon, Tarjan, and Berge are...
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Pointing gestures for Cooperative Human-Robot Manipulation Tasks in Unstructured Environments
DownloadFall 2017
In recent years, robots have started to migrate from industrial to unstructured human environments, some examples include home robotics, search and rescue robotics, assistive robotics and service robotics. However, this migration has been at a slow pace and with only a few successes. One key...
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Fall 2015
Polarity classification in text is the problem of automatically detecting the general opinion of textual data. Analyzing the general opinion toward a topic of interest is important for different audiences, such as companies, politicians or even regular users. On the other hand, the availability of...
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Spring 2015
This thesis consists of two independent projects, each contributing to a central goal of artificial intelligence research: to build computer systems that are capable of performing tasks and solving problems without problem-specific direction from us, their designers. I focus on two formal...
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Fall 2023
Krishna Guruvayur Sasikumar, Aakash
The application of reinforcement learning (RL) to the optimal control of building systems has gained traction in recent years as it can reduce building energy consumption and improve human comfort, without requiring the knowledge of the building model. However, existing RL solutions for building...
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Fall 2017
In this dissertation, I focus on the study of genotype imputation in population data. Genotype imputation is a process of inferring missing values for genotype data and has been extended to predicting “untyped” genotypes for samples in low-density chips with a reference population assayed using...