Search
Now showing items 11-20 of 118
A decision analytic approach to Web-based clinician training
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
Given the desire to create interactive websites that effectively engage and instruct medical professionals, an alternative model for online case studies was developed. The resulting application presents the user with a ...
Improving performance through topology management and wireless scheduling in military multi-hop radio networks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
We investigate two distinct problems in military radio networking. In the first problem, we study a mobile airborne multi-hop wireless network. The mobility of the nodes leads to dynamic link capacities requiring changes ...
Belief propagation analysis in two-player games for peer-influence social networks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
This thesis considers approaches to influencing population opinions during counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan. A discrete time, agent-based threshold model is developed to analyze the propagation of beliefs in the ...
Modeling social response to the spread of an infectious disease
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
With the globalization of culture and economic trade, it is increasingly important not only to detect outbreaks of infectious disease early, but also to anticipate the social response to the disease. In this thesis, we use ...
Finding optimal strategies for influencing social networks in two player games
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
This thesis considers the problem of optimally influencing social networks in Afghanistan as part of ongoing counterinsurgency efforts. The social network is analyzed using a discrete time agent based model. Each agent has ...
Modeling and design of material recovery facilities : genetic algorithm approach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
In the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) area, the production of numerical solid waste (MI\SW) increased by 32% between 1990 and 2011, exceeding 660 million tonnes in 2011; the world-wide ...
Faster fully polynomial approximation schemes for Knapsack problems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
A fully polynomial time approximation scheme (FPTAS) is an algorithm that returns ... -optimal solution to a maximization problem of size n, which runs in polynomial time in both ... We develop faster FPTASs for several ...
Multi-target tracking via mixed integer optimization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Given a set of target detections over several time periods, this paper addresses the multi-target tracking problem (MTT) of optimally assigning detections to targets and estimating the trajectory of the targets over time. ...
Interacting with users in social networks : the follow-back problem
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
An agent wants to form a connection with a predetermined set of target users over social media. Because forming a connection is known as "following" in social networks such as Twitter, we refer to this as the follow-back ...
Predicting performance using galvanic skin response
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
The rapid growth of the availability of wearable biosensors has created the opportunity for using physiological signals to measure worker performance. An important question is how to use such signals to not just measure, ...