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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"real-world use"”.
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Technology evaluation for automobile transportation : electric vehicle energy requirements under real-world use
… EVs do not produce direct emissions during their use. Limitations of current EV technology, specifically limited range and high production costs, are recognized as constraints on the market share of EVs, but estimates vary as to the true adoption potential of current technologies. Many suggest …
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Small modular reactor technology for industrial heat and power: selection techniques and implementation strategies for real-world use cases using systems-based approaches.
… is advancing in several countries around the world, from Gen-III+ light water SMRs, to Gen-IV SMRs and micro-reactors. All at various stages of development, from an early conceptual phase to operational deployment and commercialization. These SMRs are also being developed in multiple …
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Achieving real-time video summarization on commodity hardware
… video summarization which is able to operate in real-time on commodity hardware. This is achieved by performing segmentation to divide a video into a series of small video clips, which are further reduced or eliminated with the assistance of highly efficient low-level features. A numerical score …
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REFRAMING ALGORITHMIC FAIRNESS: A PARADIGM FOR FAIR, ACCURATE, AND FLEXIBLE MODEL DEVELOPMENT
… incorporate human feedback, and scale to real-world use. It introduces bias bounties--- a framework for users to collaboratively identify and patch model failures—and offers algorithms for post-processing models to meet fairness goals without retraining or rigid assumptions. It advances …
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Simultaneous packing and routing optimization of thermal-fluid systems
… are important to designing a system feasible for real world use, but are often overlooked in current methods for routing optimization. A thermal conduction finite element model based on geometric projection is presented. Pressure drop of the fluid in the routing is modeled with a lumped parameter …
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Self-Supervised Audio-Visual Speech Diarization and Recognition
Many real world use cases of automatic speech recognition (ASR) contain video and multiple speakers, such as TV broadcasts and video conferences. However, state-of-the-art end-to-end multimodal ASR models generally do not support diarization. This thesis extends one such model, AV-HuBERT, to …
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Towards a Prototype Platform for ROS Integrations on a Ground Robot
… and additional evaluations of a series of real-world use cases demonstrating high-level behaviors. In order to promote further development, this work serves as detailed documentation of the selection, implementation, and testing of this platform and complements initial binary releases for …
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Developing a strategic toolkit for the sustainable feasibility of using battery electric trucks for short-distance deliveries
… involved a co-design process with freight users, fleet managers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), charging providers, and financial advisors to validate and refine components. Both qualitative data and quantitative data (trip-level metrics and industry benchmarks) were integrated, …
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Using a systems-theoretic approach to analyze cyber attacks on cyber-physical systems
… Accident Model and Processes (STAMP), can be used by an organization to complement intelligence-driven models of intrusion analysis to provide both additional insight and prioritize defensive countermeasures in order to guard against cyber-physical attacks and compromises. Specifically, in …
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Semantics-enriched workflow creation and management system with an application to document image analysis and recognition
… designing workflows can be a daunting task for users due to the complexities of the systems and the sheer number of available processing nodes, each having different compatibility/applicability characteristics. This Thesis explores how concepts of the Semantic Web can be used to augment workflow …
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Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence as Enablers for Circular Economy
… recommended as the business model for efficient use of resources. Despite the push for businesses and organisations to switch from linear to CE, there are several barriers/challenges that need solving such as business models and the criticism of CE projects often being small scale. Technology can …
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Orion – A Machine Learning Framework for Unsupervised Time Series Anomaly Detection
… This precludes current methods from being used in real-world settings by practitioners who are not machine learning experts. In this thesis, we introduce Orion, a machine learning framework for unsupervised time series anomaly detection. The framework supports all the steps of the anomaly …
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Advanced space-time integration for knowledge discovery in human mobility studies
… a set of novel methods and validation with real-world use cases. First, a locally adaptive space-time kernel approach is proposed to model the non-emergency municipal services demand in Chicago. Second, this work develops novel sequential similarity measures for analyzing human …
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Applying domain knowledge to clinical predictive models
Clinical predictive models are useful in predicting a patient's risk of developing adverse outcomes and in guiding patient therapy. In this thesis, we explored two different ways to apply domain knowledge to improve clinical predictive models. We first applied knowledge about the heart to engineer …
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Optimal routes for electric vehicles facing uncertainty, congestion, and energy constraints
… describes that optimization framework and how to use it on real-world examples to find appropriate routes, with a central part being the application of robust optimization to the problem. We develop an energy model, an optimization-based formulation using robust optimization, and algorithms to …
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Development of a rapid Hormosira banksii bioassay using chlorophyll a fluorescence
… applications in ecophysiology. However, the use of chlorophyll a fluorescence in marine ecotoxicology has been limited and this is especially true of macroalgal ecotoxicology. The primary objective of this thesis was to develop and describe a bioassay protocol that uses improvements on past …
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The role of semantic web technologies for IoT data in underpinning environmental science
… The thesis explores the state-of-the-art in the use of such technologies in the context of environmental science. After an in-depth assessment of related work, the thesis further examined the characteristics of environmental data through semi-structured interviews with leading experts. Through …
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Design and Evaluation of Domain-Specific Interaction Techniques in the AEC Domain for Immersive Virtual Environments
… are broadly applicable to situations where a user can directly perceive and interact with three-dimensional (3D) virtual objects. Currently, successful interactive applications of VEs are limited. Some interactive applications in the AEC (architecture / engineering / construction) domain have …
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A Pattern-Based Approach to Changing Software Requirements in Brown-Field Business Contexts
… impact on their responsiveness to change, their use of technology, and its relationship to business processes. In requirements engineering, a lack of understanding of the organisational context in which change takes place has been a problem over the last decade. Eliciting requirements is complex, …
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The reality of myoelectric prostheses : how do EMG skill, unpredictability of prosthesis response, and delays impact on user functionality and everyday prosthesis use?
… explores the impacts of three factors: (1) user skill in controlling an EMG signal, (2) unpredictability of prosthesis response introduced at the interface between the electrodes and the skin, and (3) the electromechanical delay in the prosthesis, on user performance, quantified in terms of: …
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