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Towards Explaining Neural Networks: Tools For Visualizing Activations And Parameters, Juan Puebla

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

There is a growing number of applications using neural networks for making decisions. However, there is a general lack of understanding of how neural networks work. Neural networks have even been described as black boxes which has led to a lack of trust in artificially intelligent programs. To remedy this, explainable artificial intelligence has risen as a means to validate the decision-making processes and the results of computer programs that use artificial intelligence. The work in this masterâ??s thesis is our contribution to explainable artificial intelligence, focusing on neural networks with the goal of helping users make more sense of …

Selecting Robust Strategies When Players Do Not Know Exactly What Game They Are Playing, Oscar Samuel Veliz

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Game theory is a tool for modeling multi-agent decision problems and has been used to great success in modeling and simulating problems such as poker, security, and trading agents. However, many real games are extremely large and complex with multiple agent interactions. One approach for solving these games is to use abstraction techniques to shrink the game to a form that can be solved by removing details and translating a solution back to the original.However, abstraction introduces error into the model. This research studies ways to analyze games, abstractions, and strategies that are robust to noise in the game.

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Autonomous Trading Strategies For Dynamic Energy Markets, Moinul Morshed Porag Chowdhury

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

With increasing energy demand and an intermittent supply of renewable energy sources, our current energy grid needs a transformation towards a more robust, reliable energy trading architecture. The smart grid promises this architecture as the future of the present energy market, where traders will use digital technologies to automate the management of power delivery. It will improve many issues of the current energy grid such as sustainable, clean, renewable, reliable and secure energy supply, customer participation in markets, distributed generation, and transparency in energy trading. Using autonomous trading agents, we can bridge several dynamic energy markets and ensure an efficient …

A Visualization And Simulation Tool That Will Generate Effective Patrolling Strategies To Protect The U.S. Borders From Illegal Intrusion Using Game Theoretic Methods And Models, Eric Gutierrez

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

In the recent decade, the United States Border Patrol has increased the presence of border security officers at points of entry along the U.S.- Mexico border. In response to this increased presence of border security officials at ports of entries, illegal intruders have rerouted their intrusions in between ports of entry, in harsher terrain areas of the U.S. (e.g., the Arizona desert). The U.S. Border Patrol could benefit from a tool that plans effective border patrolling routes, and helps border security officials to make risk-based decisions for resource allocation. We are currently developing a tool called Genetic Algorithm for a …