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Fall 2024

Laura Portugal, Cristhian Felix

Accurate forecasting of project duration is crucial during the execution phase as it affects its overall performance, timely decision-making, identification of potential delays, and resource allocation. This research proposes a proof of concept based on artificial intelligence, specifically using...

Fall 2015

Brammadesam Manavalan, Yathirajan

Displaying believable emotional reactions in virtual characters is required in applications ranging from virtual-reality trainers to video games. Manual scripting is the most frequently used method and enables an arbitrarily high fidelity of the emotions displayed. However, scripting is labor...

Spring 2021

Linke, Cameron

Learning about many things can provide numerous benefits to a reinforcement learning system. For example, learning many auxiliary value functions, in addition to optimizing the environmental reward, appears to improve both exploration and representation learning. The question we tackle in this...

Spring 2020

Yasui, Nikolaus Winget

Reinforcement Learning is a formalism for learning by trial and error. Unfortunately, trial and error can take a long time to find a solution if the agent does not efficiently explore the behaviours available to it. Moreover, how an agent ought to explore depends on the task that the agent is...

Spring 2022

Lu, Weikai S

Research in unsupervised text generation has been gaining attention over the years. One recent approach is local search towards a heuristically defined objective, which specifies language fluency, semantic meanings, and other task-specific attributes. Search in the sentence space is realized by...

Spring 2022

Ghasseminia, Siyavash

Developmental Dysplasia of Hip (DDH) which represents a wide range of abnormalities from acetabular dysplasia to fixed dislocation, is mainly defined by a loss of conformity between the femoral head and the acetabulum and it can lead to structural instability and osteoarthritis. The diagnosis of...

Spring 2022

Soleimanzade, Mohammad Amin

The rapid increase in global water and energy demand due to industrialization and population growth is a pressing challenge humankind faces today. Recent estimates indicate that due to population growth and reduction of water supplies, 40% of the global population is struggling with water...

Fall 2014

Hawkin, John A

An agent in an adversarial, imperfect information environment must sometimes decide whether or not to take an action and, if they take the action, must choose a parameter value associated with that action. Examples include choosing to buy or sell some amount of resources or choosing whether or...

Fall 2024

May, Daniel Christopher

The conventional unidirectional model of the electricity grid operations is no longer sufficient. The continued proliferation of distributed energy resources and the resultant surge in net load variability at the grid edge necessitates deploying adequate demand response methods. This thesis...

Fall 2012

Lee, Gregory M. K.

Automated sports commentary is a form of automated narrative and human-computer interaction. Sports commentary exists to keep the viewer informed and entertained. One way to entertain the viewer is by telling brief stories relevant to the game in progress. We introduce a system called the...