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Advanced Control Strategies for Renewable Energy Systems
(2019)The renewable energy sector in the United States is continuously growing, and wind---an abundantly available source of renewable energy---plays a leading role in this transition. In the last decade, the installed global ... -
EXPLORING SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS FOR COMPUTER PROGRAMMING: LEVERAGING LEARNING THEORIES TO AFFECT STUDENT SOCIAL AND PROGRAMMING BEHAVIOR
(2019)The 2012 report by the US President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) predicts a deficit in the workforce for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in the following decade and ... -
IMPROVING SENSOR NETWORK PREDICTIONS THROUGH THE IDENTIFICATION OF GRAPHICAL FEATURES
(2019)We propose a framework that represents sensor network data as a graph, extracts graphical features, and applies feature selection methods to identify the most useful features to be used by a classifier for prediction tasks ... -
SUPPORTING EFFICIENT GRAPH ANALYTICS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION USING ASYNCHRONOUS DISTRIBUTED-MEMORY PROGRAMMING MODELS
(2019)Future High Performance Computing (HPC) nodes will have many more processors than the contemporary architectures. In such a system with massive parallelism it will be necessary to use all the available cores to drive the ... -
Teaching effectiveness of intelligent tutoring system
(2019)In this dissertation, the author presents two projects regarding teaching strategies that apply to an intelligent tutoring system (ITS). The author applied multiple-solution teaching methods to the ITSs. The first project ... -
ENHANCED SINGLE AND MULTIPLE BAD DATA PROCESSING IN POWER SYSTEM STATIC STATE ESTIMATION
(2019)Although the state estimator has been a regular application running in many utility control centers for over four decades, detection and identification of bad data (outliers) among the input measurements continues to be a ... -
DATA-DRIVEN ALGORITHMS FOR DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM OPERATION AND CONTROL
(2019)Transactive energy systems are emerging as a transformative solution for the problems that distribution system operators face due to an increase in the use of distributed energy resources and rapid growth in the scalability ... -
Scalable Methods For Genome Assembly
(2019)De novo genome assembly is a fundamental problem in the field of computational biology. The goal is to reconstruct an unknown genome from short DNA fragments (called “reads”) obtained from it. Over the last decade, with ... -
ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE COLD PLASMA PROCESSING OF BIOCHAR AND INACTIVATION OF BACTERIA
(2019)This dissertation describes my experimental investigations of an atmospheric pressure cold plasma reactor based on the corona discharge. Chapter 1 contains a literature review focused on methods used by others to produce ... -
PNetTFV: A Colored Petri Net Based Online Firmware Functional Validation Scheme And Implementation
(2019)Firmware functional validation has major challenges due to its hardware-specific nature, and the current firmware functional validation approach cannot benefit from the formal analysis used by high-level software validation, ... -
FAULT RESILIENT INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLE SOURCES AND DERS IN SMART GRIDS
(2019)Smart grids, which are alternatively called by many researchers as “Grids of the future” have attracted a lot of attention the recent years. Two key features that enable practical implementation of smart grids are, Condition ... -
FAULT RESILIENT POWER SYSTEM THROUGH HIERARCHICAL CONTROL OF ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS AND FACTS DEVICES
(2019)The control of large-scale power systems is hierarchical in terms of actions taken and their response time. For a system subject to faults, primary control actions are taken immediately to maintain the stability of the ... -
SENSOR NETWORK OPTIMIZATION BASED ON TARGET APPLICATION
(2019)Numerous applications rely on data obtained from a wireless sensor network where application performance is of utmost importance. However, energy usage is also important, as sensors in the network typically run on batteries. ... -
Query-driven Exploration of Big Graphs
(2019)Exploring graph-structured data either by mining or querying is a fundamental operation that enables important applications including knowledge graph search, social network analysis, and cyber-network security. Given the ... -
A Novel Approach for Predicting Type IV Secretion System (T4SS) Effector Proteins
(2019)Type IV secretion systems (T4SS) are multi-protein complexes in some bacterial pathogens that are used to secrete effector proteins directly into host cells. Upon entry, these effectors manipulate the host cell's machinery, ... -
Automated Health Event Detection in Smart Homes
(2019)Unsupervised anomaly detection techniques can extract from data a wealth of information about unusual events. While this information can at times offer valuable insights on critical health concerns, often anomaly detection ... -
CUDA-SHAPE - A GPU-accelerated algorithm for asteroid shape modeling
(2019)Asteroids are remnants of our early easolar system and are likely to provide answers about its origins and evolution. Accurate orbital predictions decades into the future are essential for protecting Earth from potential ... -
Unsupervised Multi-resident Tracking in Smart Environments
(2019)Aging is a global challenge that our society will face in the next few decades. Smart environment and ambient assisted living (AAL) offer promising technologies to help people stay active, socially connected, and independent ... -
Knowledge Transfer in Reinforcement Learning: How agents should benefit from prior knowledge
(2019)Reinforcement learning (RL) has had many successes in different tasks, but in practice, it often requires significant amounts of data or training time to learn high-performing policies. For complicated tasks, the learning ... -
Enhanced protection and control strategies for improving power system transient stability
(2018)Due to the expensive cost of expanding transmission lines, power systems are operated closer to their stability margins. Consequently, stability becomes a challenging problem in the operation of power systems. Interconnected ...