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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Real World Constraints"”.
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Client segmentation under real-world constraints
… methods by which to perform this. However, real-world considerations complicate its implementation, in particular, the necessity of not clustering in ways that could be considered discriminatory in terms of certain features such as gender or race. One way to mitigate such discriminatory …
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Reducing duration in new product development through project design models with real world constraints including portfolio planning
… increase in demand for coordination, which is a real effort with real costs. Organizations face the challenge of making good forecasts that can include these real world execution issues through their project plans. Can project plans that include these in their planning forecast outcomes better? …
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An assessment of deep cyber-physical situational awareness of power system using real-time testbed
… layer, this research develops an effective and real-time technique to identify FDIA attacks in smart grids. We expose the existing vulnerabilities associated with existing detection techniques and analyze the performance of the proposed solution to detect and defend FDIA attacks against …
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Communication-efficient personalization in federated learning for edge devices
… privacy-preserving federated learning under real-world constraints of heterogeneity, limited resources, and diverse data modalities. It develops algorithms that make collaborative training more efficient, robust, and personalized without centralizing data. First, we introduce a dataset-aware …
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Optimizing Multi-Dimensional Efficiency of Foundation Models: From Fine-Tuning to Inference
… and location-varying carbon intensity under real-world constraints. This dissertation proposes an end-to-end methodology for sustainable AI that integrates measurement, multi-dimensional evaluation, and decision-making from fine-tuning to deployment scheduling. First, it introduces a …
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Multi-fidelity Optimal Trajectory Generation: Optimal Experiment Design for Robot Learning
… robot learning, yet their direct application to real-world robots remains challenging, particularly under extreme conditions. This challenge is especially pronounced for highly maneuverable vehicles like quadrotor aircraft, which often operate in scenarios requiring rapid maneuvering, such as …
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Teaching and old robot new tricks : learning novel tasks via interaction with people and things
… roots into the embodied, experientialist realm, many projects are exploring different aspects of creating machines which interact with and respond to the world as humans do. Techniques for visual processing, object recognition, emotional response, gesture production and recognition, etc., …
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Serialization of prescription drugs in the USA : a centralized view
… the current state of implementation, as well as real-world constraints, the findings indicate that the best-practice scenario for Manufacturers and Distributors/Retailers to conform to DSCSA is one using a Centralized data model and nested linked-pedigrees. Although this option is estimated to be …
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A Method for Automated System Integration and Enhanced Ore Transportation
… conveyor and ore pass network, incorporating real-world constraints such as feeder timing, sensor accuracy and equipment limitations. Simulation modelling demonstrated that optimised control logic, combined with instrumentation and sequencing, could increase throughput potential without the …
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A Method for Automated System Integration and Enhanced Ore Transportation
… conveyor and ore pass network, incorporating real-world constraints such as feeder timing, sensor accuracy and equipment limitations. Simulation modelling demonstrated that optimised control logic, combined with instrumentation and sequencing, could increase throughput potential without the …
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Modeling nuclear’s role in climate change: optimized pathways to net-zero emissions
… feasible nuclear construction strategies under real-world constraints. The fuzzy logic component addresses uncertainty in critical transition variables—Public Acceptance (PA), Supply Chain Readiness (SC), Human Resources (HR), and Land Availability (LA)—while the algebraic model quantifies their …
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Towards Autonomy: Leveraging Nonlinearity In Predictive And Convex Optimization For Space Vehicle Guidance And Control
… should be capable of handling complex dynamics, real-world constraints, and limited computational resources. While model predictive control (MPC) and sequential convex programming (SCP) techniques offer promising capabilities, their performance may be restricted when underlying dynamics are …
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Design and optimisation of a novel magnetic detection scheme for encoded magnetic information carriers.
… well as exploring the possible input geometries. Real-world constraints are later built into the model including the switching distributions of particles and the effects of misalignment. From these, the build constraints and electronic requirements of the system can be characterised. The detector …
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The process of taking ideas into reality, an ex post facto framework
The process of taking an idea into reality has long fascinated me. Throughout the course of college, I have had the privilege of helping to create three varying projects: a workshop designing custom-machined clock faces, a business card startup project, and MIT's first fully unified live music …
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Developing a comprehensive software environment for passive solar design
… experiments, practical considerations and real-world constraints are brought to light, and how they affected the conceptual development of such a system which I undertook to develop here at MIT for Project Athena. Next, certain implementation details are given which seek to bridge the gap …
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Constraint Programming Approaches to Electric Vehicle and Robot Routing Problems
… in a retirement home setting under complex real-world constraints, including synchronization and optional task precedence. For each of these domains, we empirically demonstrate the effectiveness of our CP approaches.
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Understanding and mitigating the privacy risks of smartphone sensor fingerprinting
… well motion sensor fingerprinting works under real-world constraints by collecting data from a large number of smartphones under both lab and public environments. Our study demonstrates that motion sensor fingerprinting is effective even with 500 users. We also develop a model to estimate …
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Stairway to Autonomy: Hierarchical Decision-Making for LLM-Guided Planning, Bandit-Driven Exploration, and Multi-Agent Navigation
… that maximize information gain while balancing real-world constraints such as energy efficiency and sensor reliability. Finally, InforMARL provides a scalable, decentralized navigation by leveraging graph-based local information aggregation, improving sample efficiency, and demonstrating …
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Balancing exploration and exploitation: task-targeted exploration for scientific decision-making
… thesis argues that efficient decision-making in real-world, scientific domains requires task-targeted exploration—exploration strategies that are tuned to a specific task. By quantifying the change in task performance due to exploratory actions, we enable decision-makers that can contend with …
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Multimodal, Embodied and Location-Aware Interaction
… body-based case and a large-scale, exocentric `world-based' case. BodySpace is a gesture-based application, which utilises multiple sensors and pattern recognition enabling the human body to be used as the interface for an application. As an example, we describe the development of a gesture …
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