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Valuing energy storage in electricity grids : a machine learning approach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Meeting climate change mitigation targets likely requires the integration of large amounts of renewable energy generation, as well as energy storage systems, into the electric grid. However, the deployment of energy storage ...
FairML : ToolBox for diagnosing bias in predictive modeling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Predictive models are increasingly deployed for the purpose of determining access to services such as credit, insurance, and employment. Despite societal gains in efficiency and productivity through deployment of these ...
Estimating lower bounds for time series prediction error
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Research on how to evaluate the time series prediction algorithms are relatively under investigated compared to those to develop prediction algorithms. This research presents a way to estimate lower bounds for a time series ...
Manufacturing variability; effects and characterization through text-mining
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Researchers and developers of new materials and processes often underestimate or neglect the effects of manufacturing variability and, as a result, make overly optimistic assumptions about their technologies. In this thesis, ...
The economics of cryptographic trust : understanding certificate authorities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Certificate Authorities (CAs) play a crucial role in HTTPS, the mechanism that secures all of the web's most important communication; if it has a log-in page, it must use HTTPS. However, recent history is littered with ...
A machine learning approach to evaluating renewable energy technology : an alternative LACE study on solar photo-voltaic (PV)
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Currently, renewable technologies are often evaluated using the Levelized cost of electricity (LCOE), which is a measure of building and operating a generating plant over an assumed αnancial life and duty cycle. Naturally, ...
Enabling malware remediation in expanding home networks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
As the Internet of Things (IoT) grows, malware will increasingly threaten Internet security and stability. Many actors, from individuals installing antivirus on their personal computers to law enforcement conducting botnet ...
The impact of distributed energy resources (DERs) in integrated gas-electricity energy systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Our gas and power energy systems are interconnected, which makes the decision to provide energy a non-trivial one for consumers and the system as a whole. The focus of this thesis is on the long-term planning of integrated ...
Does management matter in scientific laboratories? : evidence from Harvard Medical School
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
The high quality of modern medical care is built upon the creation of scientific knowledge generated from medical research. While the role of management practices has been rigorously explored across various industries, ...
A theory and toolkit for the mathematics of privacy : methods for anonymizing data while minimizing information loss
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Privacy laws are an important facet of our society. But they can also serve as formidable barriers to medical research. The same laws that prevent casual disclosure of medical data have also made it difficult for researchers ...