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(1999)This document examines finiteness issues in the context of structured global optimization problems. Specific aspects of this research include: (1) Development of finite algorithms, (2) Analysis of the algorithms' computational ...
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(2018-04-25)Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign has steadily drawn increasingly larger incoming classes of students. With a significant population and a diverse number of programs, these freshmen will be ...
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(1999)This thesis also presents CityCollab and its evaluation by a community of users. CityCollab is a collaborative system, which supports the processing of Requests for Work in the context of civil infrastructure management. ...
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(2018-06-25)The use of wind energy in electricity generation around the world has increased steadily over the past few years as the world seeks to reduce the use of fossil fuels in response to concerns over climate change and air ...
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(2014-09-16)This dissertation considers three topics. The first part discusses the pricing of American options under a local volatility model and two jump diffusion models: Kou's jump diffusion model and the Dupire system. In Chapter ...
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(2014-01-16)Microeconomic equilibrium problems are intimately related to game theory, but the current state of knowledge for several types of microeconomic problems is limited. This dissertation rigorously addresses several of these ...
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(2011-01-14)The thesis pertains to some fundamental questions in the theory of games. Our focus is on a class of noncooperative N -player games, called generalized Nash games with shared constraints, or simply, shared-constraint games. ...
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(2017-04-11)The Sequential Stochastic Assignment Problem (SSAP) deals with assigning sequentially arriving tasks with stochastic parameters to workers with fixed success rates. The reward of each assignment is the product of the ...
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(2016-12-08)This thesis explores the use of generative algorithms in engineering design. A framework for using generative algorithms in design is presented and a case study for passive heat spreaders is devised to demonstrate the ...
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(2007)Finally, facetwise models are developed to explore limitations of scalability of MOGAs, where the scalability of multiobjective algorithms in reliably maintaining Pareto-optimal solutions is addressed. The results show ...
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(1999)Finally, we provide computational results on a real-world medical database pattern recognition problem. These results reveal that the Wisconsin Breast Cancer Database is bilinearly inseparable.
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(2013-02-03)This thesis contains five chapters. The notations, terminologies, definitions and numbering of equations, theorems and algorithms are independent in each chapter. Chapter 1 provides a fundamental introduction and contextual ...
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(2017-04-28)In this thesis, we present a model of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) cast in a quadratic assignment problem framework with linearized objective function and constraints. This is referred to as Reformulation Linearization ...
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(2018-02-23)Multidimensional assignment problem (MAP) is one of the many formulations of data association problem which categorizes data based on various data sources. A higher number of data sources ensures an accurate categorization ...
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(2012-05-22)Political districting is an intractable problem with significant ramifications for political representation. Districts are often required to satisfy some legal constraints, but these are typically not very restrictive, ...
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(2012-09-18)“Green Profit” refers to economic profits generated by an environmentally sustainable business. As awareness of sustainability increases and environmental regulations become more stringent, manufacturers are faced with the ...
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(2005)Furthermore, nonholonomic systems present a control task that is not suitable for a single, continuous feedback controller. Switched-system control of IBVS and PBVS systems offer the opportunity to use vision data in the ...
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(1999)Ecological Interface Design (EID) is a recent philosophy for designing visual displays for human-machine interfaces that advocates displaying the higher-order relations and properties of a work domain so that adaptive ...
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(2013-08-22)This thesis presents some results relating to an implementation of a safe and reliable coverage control algorithm. The application was focused on implementation on differential drive robots developed at the University of ...
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(2012-06-27)Global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, and product waste have serious impact on the balance of land, ocean, and air temperature. Environmentally conscious consumers and environmental protection legislation have been ...
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