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Fall 2013
This dissertation relies on the wager that we live in an age in which seemingly archaic religious symbols contribute to how people orient themselves, respond to, and explain things in the world. Drawing from Paul Ricoeur’s early texts on religion, symbolism, evil, and defilement, I analyze three...
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Fall 2021
The demand for large dataset and demand of privacy protection are in constantly conflicts as the balance between the two is hard to keep. Differential privacy is a mathematical rigor definition that provides the balance bewteen these two opposite sides. It's developed with the purpose of making...
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Fall 2010
Data reconciliation and gross error detection are traditional methods toward detecting mass balance inconsistency within process instrument data. These methods use a static approach for statistical evaluation. This thesis is concerned with using an alternative statistical approach (Bayesian...
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Spring 2019
In this thesis we introduce a new loss for regression, the Histogram Loss. There is some evidence that, in the problem of sequential decision making, estimating the full distribution of return offers a considerable gain in performance, even though only the mean of that distribution is used in...
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Enhanced Probabilistic Slow Feature Analysis - Dealing with Complexities in Industrial Process Data
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In modern industrial processes, the measurement and storage of thousands of correlated process variables have become commonplace. Dimensionality reduction techniques are often employed to extract underlying informative patterns called features by discarding redundant information. Slow feature...
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Fall 2015
Prognostics in engineering field is dedicated to predicting how long further a component or a system will perform their intended functions before failure. Prognostics is an essential building block in condition based maintenance. Accurate prediction of the component remaining useful life provides...
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Spring 2023
Since the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan City in December 2019, numerous model predictions on the COVID-19 epidemics in Wuhan have been reported. These model predictions have shown a wide range of variations. In our first study, we demonstrate that nonidentifiability in model calibrations using the...
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Spring 2016
Game theoretic solution concepts, such as Nash equilibrium strategies that are optimal against worst case opponents, provide guidance in finding desirable autonomous agent behaviour. In particular, we wish to approximate solutions to complex, dynamic tasks, such as negotiation or bidding in...