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Showing 1 to 20 of 509 for “"prescriptive"”.
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Prescriptive methods for adaptive learning
… In this thesis, we present novel, interpretable prescriptive methods to the online learning setting. We apply these techniques to adaptive learning and test them in real online course settings. We show that using an interpretable, optimal tree-based approach improves both the engagement and the …
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A Prescriptive Criterion for Amphibious Foundation Design
… objective of this research is to develop a prescriptive approach to the structural design of a dual-foundation system for an amphibious structure which will float under flooded conditions. The research and example design problem presented herein provide a prescriptive criterion outlining how …
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Branch-and-Price for Prescriptive Contagion Analytics
… and management. This thesis formalizes prescriptive contagion analytics problems where a centralized decision-maker allocates shared resources across multiple segments of a population, each governed by contagion dynamics. We define four real-world problems under this umbrella: …
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Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics in Operations Management
… methods in (i) predictive analytics, (ii) prescriptive analytics, and (iii) their high-impact applications in operations management. On the predictive side, this thesis tackles the problems of interpretability and predictive power within the context of tree ensembles. The first chapter …
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Change of heart: Rethinking the prescriptive medical environment
The environment and its effects on our physiological health and well-being have long been essential components of medical treatment regimes. Though many of these regimes may have experienced only short-lived success as products of trends in popular culture, the complex relationship between …
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Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics for Airport Slot Allocation
Slot allocation is the primary form of strategic demand management practiced at airports globally to address congestion and reduce delay. To perform slot allocation, airport schedulers must account for detailed requests from hundreds of airlines for thousands of flights over a six-month season …
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Predictive and Prescriptive Trees for Optimization and Control Problems
… to be trained on. In Chapter 5, we introduce a prescriptive machine learning approach to speed up the process of solving mixed integer convex optimization (MICO) problems. We use a prescriptive machine learning algorithm, Optimal Policy Trees (OPT), instead of more commonly used classification …
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Natural Language Interface for Prescriptive AI Solutions in Enterprise
Despite advancements in causal inference and prescriptive AI, its adoption in enterprise settings remains hindered primarily due to its complexity and lack of interpretability. This work at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab focuses on extending upon the proof-of-concept agent, PrecAIse, by designing a …
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Prescriptive analytics in operations problems : a tree ensemble approach
… concern addressing challenges in the field of prescriptive optimization, and how machine learning techniques can be incorporated into solving data-driven operational optimization problems. In chapter 2, we provide a data-driven study of the secondary ticket market. In particular we are …
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A Diagnostic and Prescriptive Conformal Prediction Framework: Applied to Sleep Disorders
We propose a novel predictive framework for the future diagnoses and treatments of patients with neurological conditions, specifically patients with sleep disorders, given their clinical history. Via the use of a conformal algorithm with a classifier as its base model, we are able to utilize a …
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Permission to believe: descriptive and prescriptive beliefs in the Clifford/James debate
… correct. We first argue for excluding prescriptive beliefs, and then consider further apparent counter-examples, culminating in more restricted, qualified wording: If anything is morally wrong, then it is morally wrong within the category of descriptive belief to believe anything …
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Towards a Flexible Bayesian and Deontic Logic of Testing Descriptive and Prescriptive Rules
Die Wasonsche Informationswahlaufgabe (WST) ließ fundamentale Zweifel an der Rationalität menschlichen Hypothesentestens aufkommen und inspirierte die Entwicklung sowohl domänenspezifischer als auch domänenübergreifender Theorien des Denkens. In dieser Arbeit wird ein Synthesevorschlag entwickelt, …
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Predictive and prescriptive methods in operations research and machine learning : an optimization approach
… tasks jointly. Crucially, this leads to stronger prescriptive performance, particularly for smaller training set sizes, and improves the decision quality by 3 - 5% over other state-of-the-art methods.
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An evaluation of the prescriptive utility of psychological bias theory in international relations
I evaluate the practical utility of psychological bias theory by examining two historical cases - the US decision to cross the 38th parallel in 1950 and the British policy of appeasement towards Germany in the 1930s - asking in each of these whether the theory could have helped policymakers to make …
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The difference in BIM component data requirements between prescriptive representations and actual practices
… practices and identify key differences between prescriptive representations and actual practices, this exploratory research compares BIM component data requirements between guidelines and actual practices at public higher education institutions in Virginia. The gap in BIM component data …
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Consuming Beauty: The Impact of Prescriptive Beauty Literature on College Women, 1940-1950
My thesis looks at prescriptive beauty messages generated during 1940-1950 by using a case study of Margaret Morrison Carnegie College. I look at formal prescriptive beauty messages (advertisements, beauty manuals) and informal beauty messages (college yearbooks, newspapers, and beauty queen …
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The Effects of Diagnostic and Prescriptive Reading Approaches on Students Diagnosed as Emotionally Disturbed
This study examined the effects of diagnostic and prescriptive reading approaches on three students diagnosed as emotionally disturbed (ED) using a multiple baseline and AB design (Kazdin, 1982). Research-based assessment procedures were used to develop reading diagnostic summaries for each …
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