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- 1Abourizk, Simon (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 1Gul, Mustafa (Civil Engineering)
- 1Khazaei, Hamzeh (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University)
- 1Khazaei, Hamzeh (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Knight, Andrew (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Atrazhev, Peter
- 1Avkhimenia, Vadim
- 1Fan, Caixiang
- 1Fateminia, Seyed Hamed
- 1Filimonenkov, Konstantin
- 1Ghaemi, Sara
- 2Blockchain
- 2Distributed Energy Resources
- 2Energy Management
- 2Performance Evaluation
- 2Reinforcement Learning
- 2Reinforcement learning
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Spring 2021
The distributed ledger technology (DLT) has been envisioned to be a disruptive technology with applications in various industries. For the DLTs to be effectively used in practice, it is crucial to assess their performance in different use cases and scenarios. In this thesis, we first conduct a...
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Fall 2023
With the emergence of renewable energy resources, such as solar panels, wind turbines and plugin electric vehicles, there is an increasing need for peer-to-peer energy trading (P2P-ET) among small-scale energy producers, known as prosumers. Many recent studies have suggested blockchain for P2P-ET...
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Fall 2021
This thesis proposes three novel improvements to the Actor-Critic State-Action-Reward-State-Action algorithm while considering potential biologically equivalent mechanisms. The algorithms are optimized via a Particle Swarm Algorithm, tested on a unigram character prediction problem, and...
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Determining and Managing Contingency Reserve throughout the Lifecycle of Construction Projects
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Managing risk events and uncertainties plays a key role in the successful delivery of construction projects. To cover the implementation cost of risk response actions as well as the effects of risks on project goals, contingency reserve must be calculated and considered in the project budget....
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Fall 2011
Scientific and technology advances in electrical engineering and increasing demand for electrical energy have led to extensive research in power industry and formation of new markets for electrical energy. These developments have brought about interest and demand for power. In response to the...
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Spring 2012
Automatic weather monitoring stations deployed in arctic regions are usually installed in hard to reach locations. Most of the time they run unsupervised and they face severe environmental conditions: very low temperatures, ice riming, etc. It is usual practice to use a local energy source to...
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Implementation and Evaluation of Spatiotemporal Prediction Algorithms and Prediction of Spatially Distributed Greenhouse Gas Inventories
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Growing environmental concerns require monitoring and modelling of greenhouse gases. These modelling efforts require processing of massive datasets in a timely fashion. This, in turn, can lead to feasibility problems when estimating values of missing data points. This thesis examines and compares...
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Spring 2014
The increase of wind penetration into electric power system creates challenges to power grid management due to the variable nature of wind. Unlike conventional power plants, such as thermal, gas or hydro-based plants, wind power generation is not controllable. For example, days of calm weather...
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Intelligent Methods for Evaluating the Impact of Weather on Power Transmission Infrastructure
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Weather has a significant impact on human society, both in driving the life-giving physical processes that allow humans to meet their most basic needs, and as an adversarial force, often causing significant losses to property and life. The electrical power industry is particularly subject to...
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Fall 2020
Space heating is responsible for a significant portion of energy consumption in the residential sector. As such, it has a great potential for energy savings. The heat pump is a heating device that offers important energy conservation properties. It allows modification of residential energy demand...