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- 1Ahmad, Zaheen F
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- 21Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- 3Huang, Biao (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 2AbouRizk, Simaan (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 2Bouferguene, Ahmed (Campus Saint-Jean)
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Modelling landscape changes and metrics, and determining optimal resource allocation by integrating Geographic Information Systems, government policy, and economics
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The main goal of this thesis is to contribute to the knowledge base of land use and land cover change dynamics in ecologically sensitive, seasonal environments with a dominant agricultural industry. Anthropogenic alteration by land-based industries currently threatens many ecosystems, including...
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New Fast and Accurate Steady-State Analysis Approach for Design, Optimization, and Simulation of General Power Converter Systems
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Accurate steady-state analysis of power converters are essential for converter design and optimization. Steady-state responses are also useful for component selection, loss calculation, identification of soft switching operation, and small signal modeling of power converters. Normally, a...
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Fall 2021
The optimization of non-convex objective functions is a topic of central interest in machine learning. Remarkably, it has recently been shown that simple gradient-based optimization can achieve globally optimal solutions in important non-convex problems that arise in machine learning, including...
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Spring 2023
In the wake of increasing demand for DC-DC converters with high power density and high efficiency, the design of modern power converters has evolved into a multi-objective optimization problem with multiple uncertainties associated with parameter and component selection. The iterative design...
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Fall 2010
In this thesis, we develop some new models and efficient algorithms for image denoising. The total variation model of Rudin, Osher, and Fatemi(ROF) for image denoising is considered to be one of the most successful deterministic denoising models. It exploits the non-smooth total variation (TV)...
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Fall 2018
Canada has the third largest oil reserves in the world where 97% of these reserves are located in the oil sands, Alberta province. The product resulted from the extraction of oil sands reserves is called bitumen which can be diluted and shipped to the market or it can be proceeded and upgraded...
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Optimization and Energy Management of Battery Energy Storage Systems in Residential and Industrial Applications
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Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) provides a fast and high power capability, making them an ideal solution for residential and industrial application. However, given today’s high investment costs of BESS, a well-matched design and adequate sizing of the storage systems are prerequisites to...
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Fall 2023
The downturn of the world economy and the increasingly severe competition among mining giants puts forward higher requirements for open-pit mining, which is the dominant method for humans to obtain minerals from the earth. Among these so-called higher requirements, reducing mining costs as much...
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Spring 2015
Rayner, David Christopher Ferguson
Heuristic search is a central problem in artificial intelligence. Among its defining properties is the use of a heuristic, a scalar function mapping pairs of states to an estimate of the actual distance between them. Accurate heuristics are generally correlated with faster query resolution and...
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Optimization of a Non-axial Magnet Design for a Hybrid Radiation Treatment and MR Imaging System
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A prototype rotating hybrid magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system and linac has been developed to allow for simultaneous imaging and radiation delivery parallel to B_0. However, the design of a compact magnet capable of rotation in a small vault with sufficient patient access and a typical...