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Absraction for Efficient Reinforcement Learning

Telfar, Alexander (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Successful reinforcement learning requires large amounts of data, compute, and some luck. We explore the ability of abstraction(s) to reduce these dependencies. Abstractions for reinforcement learning share the goals of ...
Analysis of the levelized cost of green hydrogen production for very heavy vehicles in New Zealand

Perez, Rapha Julysses (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This study examined the feasibility of green hydrogen as a transport fuel for the very heavy vehicle (VHV) fleet in New Zealand. Green hydrogen is assumed to be produced through water electrolysis using purely renewable ...
Evolutionary Algorithms for Improving De Novo Peptide Sequencing

Azari, Samaneh (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

De novo peptide sequencing algorithms have been developed for peptide identification in proteomics from tandem mass spectra (MS/MS), which can be used to identify and discover novel peptides and proteins that do not have ...
Resource and Performance Modelling of Hadoop Clusters Using Machine Learning

Tariq, Hassan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

There is a huge and rapidly increasing amount of data being generated by social media, mobile applications and sensing devices. Big data is the term usually used to describe such data and is described in terms of the 3Vs ...
Comprehensive Quality-Aware Automated Semantic Web Service Composition

Wang, Chen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Automated web service composition is one of the ultimate goals of service-oriented computing. It loosely couples web services to accommodate users' complex requirements. Evolutionary Computation (EC) techniques combined ...
Software-Defined Network Application for Inter-domain Routing in Transit ISPs

Truong, Huu Trung (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Today, the Internet plays an vital part in our society. We rely greatly on the Internet to work, to communicate and to entertain. The Internet is a very large and complex computer network, consisting of tens of thousands ...
Design and Analysis of Earthing System for Wind Turbine Generators from Lightning Discharge Currents

Deshagoni, Raghavender Goud (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Currently, wind power production is undergoing rapid growth due to the escalating interest in green energy generation. As a result, generators are now choosing to locate wind turbine generators (WTGs) in areas where there ...
Evolutionary Computation for Feature Manipulation in Salient Object Detection

Afzali Vahed Moghaddam, Shima (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The human visual system can efficiently cope with complex natural scenes containing various objects at different scales using the visual attention mechanism. Salient object detection (SOD) aims to simulate the capability ...
A Conceptual Framework to improve the design of sustainable off-grid microgrid systems for remote communities in developing countries

Chatterjee, Abhi (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

From job creation to economic development, from security concerns to the full empowerment of women, energy lies at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - agreed to by the world’s leaders in September 2015 ...
Progress towards the realization of an optical Far-Field Superlens

Fadakar Masouleh, Farzaneh (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Conventional optics suffer from a fundamental resolution limit due to the nature of light. The near-field superlens concept was introduced two decades ago, and its theory for enabling high resolution imaging is well-established ...
Realism in Data-Based Terrain Synthesis

Scott, Joshua (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The landscapes on Earth are varied and complex, having been created by innumerous physical processes over millions of years. The creation of artificial terrain that replicates the realism of landscapes on Earth has been a ...
Sample-efficient Optimization Using Neural Networks

Aryan, Mashall (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The solution to many science and engineering problems includes identifying the minimum or maximum of an unknown continuous function whose evaluation inflicts non-negligible costs in terms of resources such as money, time, ...
Decidable Subtyping for Path Dependent Types

Mackay, Julian (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Path dependent types form a central component of the Scala programming language. Coupled with other expressive type forms, path dependent types provide for a diverse set of concepts and patterns, from nominality to F-bounded ...
An Affective Computing Multilayer Cognitive Architecture for Evolutionary Cognitive Robotics

Zhang, Zheming (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Robots are entering our daily lives from self-driving cars to health-care robots. Historically, pre-programmed robots were vulnerable to changing conditions in daily life, primarily because of a lack of ability to generate ...
Using Bluetooth Detectors to Monitor Urban Traffic Flow with Applications to Traffic Management

Hajsalehi Sichani, Mohsen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

A comprehensive traffic monitoring system can assist authorities in identifying parts of a road transportation network that exhibit poor performance. In addition to monitoring, it is essential to develop a localized and ...
Rapidly Accelerated Synchronous Generators in CAES Systems for Frequency Support in Power Grids

Sturov, Efim (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Modern electrical networks are transformed through the use of intermittent sources of energy, such as small-scale photovoltaic installations and wind turbines. By reducing the carbon footprints associated with centralised ...
Code Optimisation Framework for Multicode Sonar Systems

Rashed, Muhammad Salman (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The ocean is a temporally and spatially varying environment, the characteristics of which pose significant challenges to the development of effective underwater wireless communications and sensing systems. An underwater ...
Matched Filtering in Massive MU-MIMO Systems

Li, Shuang (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis considers the analysis of matched filtering (MF) processing in massive multi-user multiple-input-multiple-output (MU-MIMO) wireless communication systems. The main focus is the analysis of system performance ...
Active Shift Attention Based Object Tracking System

Ajmal, Aisha (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The human vision system (HVS) collects a huge amount of information and performs a variety of biological mechanisms to select relevant information. Computational models based on these biological mechanisms are used in ...
Optimising the Massive MIMO Downlink in the Presence of Power Amplifier Nonlinearities

Humphrey, Peter (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Massive MIMO is known for its high level of spectral efficiency in multipath rich environments. We present a detailed Massive MIMO cell system using maximum-ratio transmission (MRT) and zero-forcing (ZF) where energy ...