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Showing 1 to 20 of 206 for “"Artificial Intelligence and Robotics"”.
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A Theory of Tort Liability for Autonomous-machine-caused Harm
Developments in artificial intelligence and robotics promise increased interaction between humans and autonomous machines, presenting novel risks of accidental harm to individuals and property. This thesis situates the problem of autonomous-machine-caused harm within tort law’s doctrinal and …
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Compact parametric models for efficient sequential decision making in high-dimensional, uncertain domains
Within artificial intelligence and robotics there is considerable interest in how a single agent can autonomously make sequential decisions in large, high-dimensional, uncertain domains. This thesis presents decision-making algorithms for maximizing the expected sum of future rewards in two types …
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Controlling Behavior with Shared Knowledge
… challenge across diverse domains within artificial intelligence and robotics. The central idea of this dissertation is that shared knowledge can be used as a powerful tool to control AI agents’ behavior. This dissertation explores the utilization of shared knowledge in constructing …
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Brain Tumor Classification Using Hit-or-Miss Capsule Layers
… tumors from MRI images can be time-consuming and difficult, even for radiologists. To increase the survival chances of a patient, medical practitioners desire a means for quick and accurate diagnosis. While datasets like CIFAR, ImageNet, and SVHN have tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, …
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Machine Learning Methods for the Analysis of Metagenomes
… publicly available in the Sequence Read Archive and this number is growing at an exponential rate. As DNA sequencing prices continue to drop, many research groups around the world have incorporated high throughput sequencing in their research, giving us access to sequences from many distinct …
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From Tic-tac-toe to AlphaGo: a survey of algorithms used in various games
… games such as rock paper scissors, tic-tac-toe and go by turning a game’s qualitative aspects into quantitative aspects to talk about them mathematically. Game theory and the concept of a Nash equilibrium and subgame perfect equilibrium are introduced, as well as methods for computing each. We …
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Navigation agents and traffic simulation
… structures, the specification of various agents, and their performance. It also includes descriptions of three different types of agents and the analysis of their performance. One agent has full knowledge of the environment and takes the most efficient path in terms of total path distance. This is …
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Monitoring Computer Systems: An Intelligent Approach
… targets, controlling data collection, and autonomously refining monitoring performance. The model explores a more declarative object-oriented model by introducing virtual objects to dynamically compose abstract representations, while it treats conventional hard-wired hierarchies and …
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Effectiveness Analysis of Knowledge Bases
… If knowledge base systems are to withstand this transition, special attention must be paid to checking their effectiveness. The issue of effectiveness analysis of knowledge base systems has been largely ignored and few works have been published in this field. This dissertation shows how …
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A Classification Approach for Automated Reasoning Systems--A Case Study in Graph Theory
… e", "if cycle C1 contains edges e1, e2, and cycle C2 contains edges e2, e3, then there exists a cycle that contains e1 and e3" and "the union of a tree and a path is a tree if they have only a single common vertex."</p> <p>The main contributions of this thesis are: (1) Development of a …
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Integration of Abductive and Deductive Inference Diagnosis Model and Its Application in Intelligent Tutoring System
… a diagnosis model, Integration of Abductive and Deductive Inference diagnosis model (IADI), in the light of the cognitive processes of human diagnosticians. In contrast with other diagnosis models, that are based on enumerating, tracking and classifying approaches, the IADI diagnosis model …
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Comparison of the tally numbering system to traditional arithmetic systems in field programmable gate arrays
… neural network architectures. These platforms and architectures can be used to accelerate the complex operations that are required for machine learning, more specifically neural networks. The use of different architectures, implementing different types of numbering and mathematics systems is …
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Applications of Computational Geometry and Computer Vision
… to bring us closer to the original goals of artificial intelligence. Spurred by recent innovations in low-cost, specialized hardware and incremental refinements in machine learning algorithms, machine learning is revolutionizing entire industries. Perhaps the biggest beneficiary of this …
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Investigating Daily Fantasy Baseball: An Approach to Automated Lineup Generation
… due to the view that daily sports data is too random to make its prediction skillful. Therefore, a common view is that it constitutes online gambling. This thesis proves that DFS, as it pertains to Baseball, is significantly more predictable than random chance, and thus does not constitute …
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Element Detection in Japanese Comic Book Panels
<p>Comic books are a unique and increasingly popular form of entertainment combining visual and textual elements of communication. This work pertains to making comic books more accessible. Specifically, this paper explains how we detect elements such as speech bubbles present in Japanese comic book …
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Random Keys Genetic Algorithms Scheduling and Rescheduling Systems for Common Production Systems
… in many cases, more than one problem type and/or objective function exists, resulting in the need for a more generic and flexible system to generate schedules. Furthermore, most of the published scheduling research focuses on creating an optimal or near optimal initial schedule during the …
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Development of a Locomotion and Balancing Strategy for Humanoid Robots
<p>The locomotion ability and high mobility are the most distinguished features of humanoid robots. Due to the non-linear dynamics of walking, developing and controlling the locomotion of humanoid robots is a challenging task. In this thesis, we study and develop a walking engine for the humanoid …
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