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(2004)Finally, the effectiveness of various visualizations is evaluated using formal human factor experiments. The results of these experiments show the advantages of the visualizations utilized in the dissertation, provide ...
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(2013-05-24)Matrix transposition is an important algorithmic building block for many numeric algorithms like multidimensional FFT. It has also been used to convert the storage layout of arrays. Intuitively, in-place transposition ...
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(2013-02-03)The Smart Grid represents a transition of the power and energy industry into a new era of improved efficiency, reliability, availability, and security, while contributing to economic and environmental health. However, ...
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(1993)Processor design techniques, such as pipelining, superscalar, and VLIW, have dramatically decreased the average number of clock cycles per instruction. As a result, each execution cycle has become more significant to overall ...
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(2015-06-18)Agriculture has been one of the most underinvestigated areas in technology, and the development of Precision Agriculture is still in its early stages. This thesis proposes a data-driven methodology that aims to address ...
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(2010-01-06)Sharpening is a powerful image transformation because sharp edges can bring out image details. Sharpness is achieved by increasing local contrast and reducing edge widths. We present a method that enhances sharpness of ...
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(2019-05-08)In this dissertation, we develop several data-driven frameworks for coordinating distributed energy resources (DERs) in power distribution systems to provide ancillary services including active power provision and reactive ...
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(2018-12-06)This dissertation demonstrates that empirical models of generation and consumption, constructed using machine learning and statistical methods, improve resource utilization, fraud detection, and cyber-resilience in smart ...
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(2015-01-21)In the classical problem of quickest change detection, a decision maker observes a sequence of random variables. At some point of time, the distribution of the random variables changes abruptly. The objective is to detect ...
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(2012-02-06)As power system data becomes more abundant, there is an increasing need for applications which can make appropriate use of this data to perform power system analysis tasks. Data provides opportunities for performing event ...
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(2011-01-14)Visual recognition is a fundamental research topic in computer vision. This dissertation explores datasets, features, learning, and models used for visual recognition. In order to train visual models and evaluate ...
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(2019-04-08)In recent times, there has been an increasing number of applications of autonomous systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and self-driving cars in urban environments for tasks such as transport, delivery, photography, ...
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(1980)This report examines issues arising from the presence of conflicting goals among decentralized controllers. Of primary interest is the role that the Stackelberg strategy can play in the decentralized control problem.
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(2015-10-30)The introduction of the highly variable and uncertain renewable resources into the power grid is calling for more control and regulation of the power system dynamics. In particular, the automatic generation control, which ...
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(2020-04-28)The uncoordinated spectrum access problem is studied using a multi-player multi-armed bandits framework. We consider a decentralized multi-player stochastic multi-armed bandit model where the players cannot communicate ...
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(2006)In the second part of this dissertation we investigate the problem of disseminating a large file to a large network of users. The file is divided into pieces, and different pieces are initially uploaded to different users. ...
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(2017-12-07)The smart grid vision has led to the development of advanced control and management frameworks using distributed generation (DG) and storage resources, commonly referred to together as distributed energy resources (DERs). ...
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(2019-07-16)There are generally two types of models to simulate space science parameters: physics-based models and statistics-based models. The first type of model makes predictions based on physical assumptions and mathematical ...
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