Cognitve mapping applied to Brazilian aerospace decision problem

Markov decision programming techniques applied to the animal replacement problem

The major difficulties of the animal replacement problem are identified as uniformity, herd restraints and the "curse of dimensionality". Approaches for circumventing these difficulties using Markov decision programming methods are systematically discussed, and possible optimization techniques are described and evaluated. Assuming that the objective of the farmer is maximum net returns from the...

Applied Virtual Reality in Aerospace Design

An Approach to Prognostic Decision Making in the Aerospace Domain

The field of Prognostic Health Management (PHM) has been undergoing rapid growth in recent years, with development of increasingly sophisticated techniques for diagnosing faults in system components and estimating fault progression trajectories. Research efforts on how to utilize prognostic health information (e.g. for extending the remaining useful life of the system, increasing safety, or max...

Modeling Applied to Problem Solving

We describe a modeling approach to help students learn expert problem solving. Models are used to present and hierarchically organize the syllabus content and apply it to problem solving, but students do not develop and validate their own Models through guided discovery. Instead, students classify problems under the appropriate instructor-generated Model by selecting a system to consider and de...

Data mining applied to linkage disequilibrium mapping.

We introduce a new method for linkage disequilibrium mapping: haplotype pattern mining (HPM). The method, inspired by data mining methods, is based on discovery of recurrent patterns. We define a class of useful haplotype patterns in genetic case-control data and use the algorithm for finding disease-associated haplotypes. The haplotypes are ordered by their strength of association with the phe...