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- 1Afaghi, Mohammad
- 1Ahmad, Zaheen F
- 1Ahn, Sang Jun
- 1Ajallooeian, Mohammad Mahdi
- 49Department of Computing Science
- 33Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- 21Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 18Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
- 8Department of Mechanical Engineering
- 5Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
- 9Greiner, Russell (Computing Science)
- 6Schuurmans, Dale (Computing Science)
- 4Bowling, Michael (Computing Science)
- 4Huang, Biao (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 2AbouRizk, Simaan (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 2Al-Hussein, Mohamed (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
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Fall 2023
Monitoring industrial processes is essential to maintain efficient and safe operation. An alarm system is an imperative component of industrial process monitoring, as it alerts operators to abnormal conditions. Alarms indicate when the process is disrupted, which allows operators to react...
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Advanced quantitative techniques to enhance heavy and civil construction information modeling
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Site development in heavy and civil construction need to consider many rules such as ensuring proper drainage, prevention of flood, safety driving, optimizing earthwork, minimizing fleet travel distances, proper fleet matching and achieving high equipment utilization rates. In recent decades,...
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Spring 2021
Smart grid, typically regarded as the next generation of electrical power grid, can bring numerous benefits for electric utilities and customers with substantial economic and ecological benefits. However, uncertainties caused by the distributed power generation from renewable energy sources,...
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Advances in Probabilistic Generative Models: Normalizing Flows, Multi-View Learning, and Linear Dynamical Systems
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This thesis considers some aspects of generative models including my contributions in deep probabilistic generative architectures and linear dynamical systems. First, some advances in deep probabilistic generative models are contributed. Flow-based generative modelling is an emerging and highly...
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Alzheimer’s Dementia Detection Through Machine Learning: Analyzing Linguistic and Acoustic Features in Spontaneous Speech
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With the rapid aging of the world’s population, the global burden of aging related mental disorders, such as Alzheimer’s dementia (AD), is also on the rise. Unfortunately global healthcare systems are vastly under-resourced, which means that many people who need mental health services are unable...
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An Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change on Freight Delivery Schedule Strategies on the Mackenzie River
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The Mackenzie River is a major freight transportation route serving many remote northern Canadian communities and mining sites. The river is only navigable during the summer and early fall months, when it is clear of ice. However, the water conditions of this river have changed significantly in...
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An Improved Approach to Production Planning in Oil Sands Mining Through Detailed Analysis and Simulation of Cycle Times
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The objective of this thesis is to develop, implement and verify a theoretical framework based on detailed analyses and simulation of truck and shovel cycle times in open pit mining, placing an emphasis on the hauling component of the cycle. The goal is to improve the generation of accurate and...
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Fall 2021
The warm vaporized solvent injection process has been proposed as a more environmentally friendly alternative to steam-based technologies for bitumen recovery. The process typically involves injecting heated solvent vapor into a horizontal injector; the solvent condenses and dissolves into...
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Spring 2022
Artificial Neural Network (ANN) has gained great interest in industrial applications due to their supremacy in modelling complex process behaviour. Applications of ANN include process modelling, optimization and fault diagnosis. However, pure data-driven approaches that use only observations to...