Copyright © 2005, American Association for Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved. The objective of this project is to control water delivery and distribution at Nooksack Falls Hydroelectric Station (NFHS) in order to maximize efficiency of the system, thereby increasing energy generation. Two machine learning algorithms will be applied. (1) Q-learning a reinforcement learn...

Formaldehyde is a dangerous compound that must eliminate from contaminated air. Different methods exist for removal of pollutants from the air that among them, the biological processes attracted a great deal of attention. Removal of formaldehyde from the contaminated air was investigated in three laboratory-scale biofilters packed with different materials (a mixture of compost and woodchips, th...

In Belgium, basically, a deterministic approach to nuclear safety is applied. However, plantspecific PSA studies are performed and updated in the framework of the Periodic Safety Reviews (PSR). This process has led to a number of modifications to safety equipment and operating practices. Occasionally, PSA staff of AVN is requested to provide risk information regarding plant modifications, plant...

This paper describes recent progress in the study of switching linear systems i.e. linear systems whose dynamics can switch among a family of possible configurations/modes. The attention is focused on those classes of switching systems governed by unknown switching sequences. For this case, we address the problem of devising suitable control actions able to stabilize the plant and regulate its ...

Self-similar processes based on fractal point processes (FPPs) provide natural and attractive network traac models. We show that the point process formulation yields a wide range of FPPs which in turn yield a diversity of parsimonious, computationally eecient, and highly practical asymptotic second-order self-similar processes. Using this framework, we show that the relevant second-order fracta...