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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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Fall 2014
We develop an approach for optimizing Hidden Markov model representations of voltage-gated ion channels that addresses the issues of topology determination and poorly performing optimization algorithms. Developing accurate models of neurological processes is a major goal of computational...
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Optimization of Vector Instructions in Divergent Control Flow on Long-Vector Architectures using Active-Lane Consolidation
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IF-conversion is a classic Control-Flow Graph (CFG) transformation that linearizes the basic blocks in a loop and assigns a predicate to them to enable or disable execution. IF-conversion is performed before vectorization where scalar statements are translated into vector statements to enable the...
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Spring 2021
In batch policy evaluation the goal is to predict the value of a policy given some historical data. A specific example, which motivated the approach pursued in this thesis, is to predict the probability of putting a natural wildfire out given some specific configuration of dispatched resources,...
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Fall 2018
The left ventricle segmentation is an important medical imaging task necessary to measure a patient's heart pumping efficiency. Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown great potential in achieving state-of-the-art segmentation for such applications. However, most of the research...
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Optimizing Task Distribution and Shared-Variable Accesses in an Asynchronous-Partitioned-Global-Address-Space Programming Model
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High-performance programming systems employ a wide range of techniques to improve the performance of parallel and distributed applications on large scale machines. This dissertation identifies a novel opportunity of load balancing, proposes a new approach for workload distribution, and presents a...
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1980
"Spring 1980."
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Spring 2022
Panel-based prefabricated retrofits of existing building envelopes are considered a promising strategy for improving energy performance and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. These projects typically require some form of 3D model of the as-is building geometry, in order to construct the panels...
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Spring 2019
For many years, traditional boardgames such as Chess, Checkers or Go havebeen the standard environments to test new Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms for achieving robust game-playing agents capable of defeating the best human players. Presently, the focus has shifted...