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A Multi-Objective Approach To Tactical Maneuvering Within Real Time Strategy Games, Christopher D. Ball
A Multi-Objective Approach To Tactical Maneuvering Within Real Time Strategy Games, Christopher D. Ball
Theses and Dissertations
The real time strategy (RTS) environment is a strong platform for simulating complex tactical problems. The overall research goal is to develop artificial intelligence (AI) RTS planning agents for military critical decision making education. These agents should have the ability to perform at an expert level as well as to assess a players critical decision-making ability or skill-level. The nature of the time sensitivity within the RTS environment creates very complex situations. Each situation must be analyzed and orders must be given to each tactical unit before the scenario on the battlefield changes and makes the decisions no longer relevant. …
Efficient Employment Of Large Format Sensor Data Transfer Architectures, Jeffrey R. Oltmanns
Efficient Employment Of Large Format Sensor Data Transfer Architectures, Jeffrey R. Oltmanns
Theses and Dissertations
Due to the increasing quantity of data collected by Air Force intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) assets and the focus on timely access to the data collected by these systems, operational data transfer network architectures have become a critical component of their employment in the intelligence production process. Efficient utilization of the provided long-haul communications component of the ISR system improves the value of the single asset to the warfighter and enables connectivity of additional assets via the data transfer network architecture. This research effort focused on the creation and implementation of a structured test design methodology based on the …
An Automated Method For Optimizing Compressor Blade Tuning, Kurt Berlin Hinkle
An Automated Method For Optimizing Compressor Blade Tuning, Kurt Berlin Hinkle
Theses and Dissertations
Because blades in jet engine compressors are subject to dynamic loads based on the engine's speed, it is essential that the blades are properly "tuned" to avoid resonance at those frequencies to ensure safe operation of the engine. The tuning process can be time consuming for designers because there are many parameters controlling the geometry of the blade and, therefore, its resonance frequencies. Humans cannot easily optimize design spaces consisting of multiple variables, but optimization algorithms can effectively optimize a design space with any number of design variables. Automated blade tuning can reduce design time while increasing the fidelity and …
Enabling Optimizations Through Demodularization, Blake Dennis Johnson
Enabling Optimizations Through Demodularization, Blake Dennis Johnson
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Programmers want to write modular programs to increase maintainability and create abstractions, but modularity hampers optimizations, especially when modules are compiled separately or written in different languages. In languages with syntactic extension capabilities, each module in a program can be written in a separate language, and the module system must ensure that the modules interoperate correctly. In Racket, the module system ensures this by separating module code into phases for runtime and compile-time and allowing phased imports and exports inside modules. We present an algorithm, called demodularization, that combines all executable code from a phased modular program into a single …
Optimizing Rehabilitation And Maintenance Of Hospitals, Mohamed Ahmed
Optimizing Rehabilitation And Maintenance Of Hospitals, Mohamed Ahmed
Theses and Dissertations
Hospitals are one of the core elements of a health care system that provide medical service to the patients. Hospital facility management is a complex issue as it involves the management of several complex systems that have a direct impact on the delivery of health care issues. This research focuses on two vital aspects of hospital facility management, (1) level of service provided by the hospital and (2) technical aspects of mission critical hospital subsystems. This study proposes two models in order to maintain and improve the level of service delivered to the patients. The first model operates at the …
Optimal Control And Its Application To The Life-Cycle Savings Problem, Tracy A. Taylor
Optimal Control And Its Application To The Life-Cycle Savings Problem, Tracy A. Taylor
Theses and Dissertations
Throughout the course of this thesis, we give an introduction to optimal control theory and its necessary conditions, prove Pontryagin's Maximum Principle, and present the life-cycle saving under uncertain lifetime optimal control problem. We present a very involved sensitivity analysis that determines how a change in the initial wealth, discount factor, or relative risk aversion coefficient may affect the model the terminal depletion of wealth time, optimal consumption path, and optimal accumulation of wealth path. Through simulation of the life-cycle saving under uncertain lifetime model, we are not only able to present the model dynamics through time, but also to …