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Book Structural Health Monitoring 2013  A Roadmap to Intelligent Structures

Download or read book Structural Health Monitoring 2013 A Roadmap to Intelligent Structures written by Fu-Kuo Chang and published by DEStech Publications, Inc. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 1434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original research on SHM sensors, quantification strategies, system integration and control for a wide range of engineered materials New applications in robotics, machinery, as well as military aircraft, railroads, highways, bridges, pipelines, stadiums, tunnels, space exploration and energy production Continuing a critical book series on structural health monitoring (SHM), this two-volume set (with full-text searchable CD-ROM) offers, as its subtitle implies, a guide to greater integration and control of SHM systems. Specifically, the volumes contain new research that will enable readers to more efficiently link sensor detection, diagnostics/quantification, overall system functionality, and automated, e.g., robotic, control, thus further closing the loop from inherent signal-based damage detection to responsive real-time maintenance and repair. SHM performance is demonstrated in monitoring the behavior of composites, metals, concrete, polymers and selected nanomaterials in a wide array of surroundings, including harsh environments, under extreme (e.g., seismic) loading and in space. New information on smart sensors and network optimization is enhanced by novel statistical and model-based methods for signal processing and data quantification. A special feature of the book is its explanation of emerging control technologies. Research in these volumes was initially presented in September 2013 at the 9th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM), held at Stanford University and sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Army Research Laboratory, and the Office of Naval Research.

Book IJCAI 01

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bernhard Nebel
  • Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 788 pages

Download or read book IJCAI 01 written by Bernhard Nebel and published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book IJCAI

Download or read book IJCAI written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reinforcement Learning

Download or read book Reinforcement Learning written by Marco Wiering and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinforcement learning encompasses both a science of adaptive behavior of rational beings in uncertain environments and a computational methodology for finding optimal behaviors for challenging problems in control, optimization and adaptive behavior of intelligent agents. As a field, reinforcement learning has progressed tremendously in the past decade. The main goal of this book is to present an up-to-date series of survey articles on the main contemporary sub-fields of reinforcement learning. This includes surveys on partially observable environments, hierarchical task decompositions, relational knowledge representation and predictive state representations. Furthermore, topics such as transfer, evolutionary methods and continuous spaces in reinforcement learning are surveyed. In addition, several chapters review reinforcement learning methods in robotics, in games, and in computational neuroscience. In total seventeen different subfields are presented by mostly young experts in those areas, and together they truly represent a state-of-the-art of current reinforcement learning research. Marco Wiering works at the artificial intelligence department of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He has published extensively on various reinforcement learning topics. Martijn van Otterlo works in the cognitive artificial intelligence group at the Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands. He has mainly focused on expressive knowledge representation in reinforcement learning settings.

Book Programming Multi Agent Systems

Download or read book Programming Multi Agent Systems written by Rafael H. Bordini and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems, ProMAS 2005, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands in July 2005 as an associated event of AAMAS 2005, the main international conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The 14 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited articles are organized in topical sections on multi-agent techniques and issues, multi-agent programming, and multi-agent platforms and organization.

Book IJCAI 03

    Book Details:
  • Author : International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1710 pages

Download or read book IJCAI 03 written by International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16

Download or read book Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16 written by Sebastian Thrun and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the 2003 Neural Information Processing Conference by leading physicists, neuroscientists, mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists. The annual Neural Information Processing (NIPS) conference is the flagship meeting on neural computation. It draws a diverse group of attendees -- physicists, neuroscientists, mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists. The presentations are interdisciplinary, with contributions in algorithms, learning theory, cognitive science, neuroscience, brain imaging, vision, speech and signal processing, reinforcement learning and control, emerging technologies, and applications. Only thirty percent of the papers submitted are accepted for presentation at NIPS, so the quality is exceptionally high. This volume contains all the papers presented at the 2003 conference.

Book Proceedings

Download or read book Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Stochastic Point based Algorithm for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes

Download or read book A Stochastic Point based Algorithm for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes written by Ludovic Tobin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decision making under uncertainty is a popular topic in the field of artificial intelligence. One popular way to attack such problems is by using a sound mathematical model. Notably, Partially Observable Markov Processes (POMDPs) have been the subject of extended researches over the last ten years or so. However, solving a POMDP is a very time-consuming task and for this reason, the model has not been used extensively. Our objective was to continue the tremendous progress that has been made over the last couple of years, with the hope that our work will be a step toward applying POMDPs in large-scale problems. To do so, we combined different ideas in order to produce a new algorithm called SSVI (Stochastic Search Value Iteration). Three major accomplishments were achieved throughout this research work. Firstly, we developed a new offline POMDP algorithm which, on benchmark problems, proved to be more efficient than state of the arts algorithm. The originality of our method comes from the fact that it is a stochastic algorithm, in comparison with the usual determinist algorithms. Secondly, the algorithm we developed can also be applied in a particular type of online environments, in which this algorithm outperforms by a significant margin the competition. Finally, we also applied a basic version of our algorithm in a complex military simulation in the context of the Combat Identification project from DRDC-Valcartier.

Book Machine Learning  ECML 2005

    Book Details:
  • Author : João Gama
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2005-09-22
  • ISBN : 3540292438
  • Pages : 784 pages

Download or read book Machine Learning ECML 2005 written by João Gama and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Machine Learning, ECML 2005, jointly held with PKDD 2005 in Porto, Portugal, in October 2005. The 40 revised full papers and 32 revised short papers presented together with abstracts of 6 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 335 papers submitted to ECML and 30 papers submitted to both, ECML and PKDD. The papers present a wealth of new results in the area and address all current issues in machine learning.

Book Exact and Approximate Algorithms for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes

Download or read book Exact and Approximate Algorithms for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes written by Anthony Rocco Cassandra and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Partially Observed Markov Decision Processes

Download or read book Partially Observed Markov Decision Processes written by Vikram Krishnamurthy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers formulation, algorithms, and structural results of partially observed Markov decision processes, whilst linking theory to real-world applications in controlled sensing. Computations are kept to a minimum, enabling students and researchers in engineering, operations research, and economics to understand the methods and determine the structure of their optimal solution.

Book A Concise Introduction to Decentralized POMDPs

Download or read book A Concise Introduction to Decentralized POMDPs written by Frans A. Oliehoek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces multiagent planning under uncertainty as formalized by decentralized partially observable Markov decision processes (Dec-POMDPs). The intended audience is researchers and graduate students working in the fields of artificial intelligence related to sequential decision making: reinforcement learning, decision-theoretic planning for single agents, classical multiagent planning, decentralized control, and operations research.

Book Probabilistic Robotics

Download or read book Probabilistic Robotics written by Sebastian Thrun and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the techniques and algorithms of the newest field in robotics. Probabilistic robotics is a new and growing area in robotics, concerned with perception and control in the face of uncertainty. Building on the field of mathematical statistics, probabilistic robotics endows robots with a new level of robustness in real-world situations. This book introduces the reader to a wealth of techniques and algorithms in the field. All algorithms are based on a single overarching mathematical foundation. Each chapter provides example implementations in pseudo code, detailed mathematical derivations, discussions from a practitioner's perspective, and extensive lists of exercises and class projects. The book's Web site, www.probabilistic-robotics.org, has additional material. The book is relevant for anyone involved in robotic software development and scientific research. It will also be of interest to applied statisticians and engineers dealing with real-world sensor data.

Book Machine Learning  ECML 2006

    Book Details:
  • Author : Johannes Fürnkranz
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2006-09-19
  • ISBN : 354045375X
  • Pages : 873 pages

Download or read book Machine Learning ECML 2006 written by Johannes Fürnkranz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-09-19 with total page 873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Machine Learning, ECML 2006, held, jointly with PKDD 2006. The book presents 46 revised full papers and 36 revised short papers together with abstracts of 5 invited talks, carefully reviewed and selected from 564 papers submitted. The papers present a wealth of new results in the area and address all current issues in machine learning.

Book Policy gradient Algorithms for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes

Download or read book Policy gradient Algorithms for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes written by Douglas Alexander Aberdeen and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: