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Optimal Trajectory Planning for Fixed-Wing Miniature Air Vehicles
(2018-04-02)Applications such as urban surveillance, search and rescue, agricultural applications, military applications, etc., require miniature air vehicles (MAVs) to fly for a long time. But they have restricted flight duration due ... -
Optimisation of Coating Protocols for Etched Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors and Applications in Sensing
Fibre Bragg grating sensors, characterised by high sensitivity, flexibility, and immunity to electromagnetic interference, have found applications in commercial-grade temperature and strain sensors. Removing the clad, ... -
Optimization Algorithms for Deterministic, Stochastic and Reinforcement Learning Settings
(2018-05-30)Optimization is a very important field with diverse applications in physical, social and biological sciences and in various areas of engineering. It appears widely in ma-chine learning, information retrieval, regression, ... -
Optimization And Design Of Proportional Weirs
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Optimization of a higher-order sandwich composite beam under uncertainties
Optimization under uncertainties of structures is a challenging field due to the requirements of high computational resources. The typical approaches include reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) and robust design ... -
Optimization of HfO2 Thin Films for Gate Dielectric Applications in 2-D Layered Materials
(2018-03-02)Recently, high-κ materials have become the focus of research and been extensively utilized as the gate dielectric layer in aggressive scaled complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology. Hafnium dioxide (HfO2) ... -
Optimization of Li Storage in Graphitic Materials through Tuning of Electronic Structures
In the current scenario of global warming, pollution and the very limited resources of fossil fuels, Li ion batteries show great promises to fulfil the energy demand of modern civilization without harming the environment. ... -
Optimization Of NMR Experiments Using Genetic Algorithm : Applications In Quantum Infomation Processing, Design Of Composite Operators And Quantitative Experiments
(2017-05-21)Genetic algorithms (GA) are stochastic global search methods based on the mechanics of natural biological evolution, proposed by John Holland in 1975. Here in this thesis, we have exploited possible utilities of Genetic ... -
Optimization of parameters in SiC production via Acheson Process – a hot model study
Silicon carbide (SiC) is produced industrially in a heat resistance furnace using quartz (silica) and raw petroleum coke (RPC) as the raw material. In this process, commonly known as the Acheson Process, a large current ... -
Optimization of Traversal Queries on Distributed Graph Stores
In this era of Big Data Analytics, much of the semi-structured data has inherent interconnectivity between representative entities. These are increasingly being modeled as property graphs because of the semantic advantages ... -
Optimization of Wastewater Treatment Process in a Bioreactor Through Hydrodynamic-biokinetic Modeling and Experimental Studies
Membrane bioreactor has emerged as one of the leading technologies for treating municipal and industrial wastewater due to its efficiency in producing high-quality effluents. One of the significant challenges in bioreactors ... -
Optimizations In Storage Area Networks And Direct Attached Storage
(2009-07-23)The thesis consists of three parts. In the first part, we introduce the notion of device-cache-aware schedulers. Modern disk subsystems have many megabytes of memory for various purposes such as prefetching and caching. ... -
An Optimizing Code Generator for a Class of Lattice-Boltzmann Computations
(2018-03-09)Lattice-Boltzmann method(LBM), a promising new particle-based simulation technique for complex and multiscale fluid flows, has seen tremendous adoption in recent years in computational fluid dynamics. Even with a ... -
Optimizing Dense Matrix Computations with PolyMage
Linear algebra computations and other arbitrary affine accesses are ubiquitous in applications from domains like scientific computing, digital signal processing (DSP), and deep neural networks. Libraries such as OpenBLAS, ... -
Optimizing Matrix Multiplication for the REDEFINE Many-Core Co-processor
Matrix-matrix multiplication is an important operation for many applications and hence it is required to be parallelized optimally for the architecture the applications will run on. REDE- FINE is a many-core co-processor ... -
Optimizing the Interval-centric Distributed Computing Model for Temporal Graph Algorithms
Graphs with temporal characteristics are increasingly becoming prominent. Their vertices, edges and attributes are annotated with a lifespan, allowing one to add or remove vertices and edges. Such graphs can grow to millions ... -
Optimum Design Of Retaining Structures Under Static And Seismic Loading : A Reliability Based Approach
(2010-10-14)Design of retaining structures depends upon the load which is transferred from backfill soil as well as external loads and also the resisting capacity of the structure. The traditional safety factor approach of the design ...