As entrepreneurial funding supports the growth of entrepreneurial firms, it can be viewed as the fuel that enhances the creation, development, and growth of new technologies, industries, and markets. However, investing in entrepreneurial firms is highly risky. For example, Ventu…
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The progressing global digitalization is driving innovative network technologies, computation platforms, and data-driven services. The number of components such as sensors, actuators, computing, storage, and network nodes, as well as a variety of service applications increases a…
Model interpretability may be defined as the degree to which a human can understand the cause of its outputs. In statistical modeling there is a trade-off between interpretability and prediction accuracy: interpretable models are usually less accurate, whereas complex models hav…
Site suitability analysis with geographical information system multi-criteria decision-making (GIS-MCDM) techniques forms a significant process in wind and solar energy exploration at the utility-scale level. The process unveils viable sites for exploration, however, few is know…
A fundamental principle underpinning conservation is to evaluate the condition of native vegetation relative to a reference state. Many ecological applications require vegetation condition as a spatially-explicit continuous map layer that covers broad landscape-scaled extents. T…
The wireless industry is growing very fast in the last decade with the main aim of high-speed, low-latency, and reliable communication. Localization, being a primary and essential component of wireless communication, needs to be efficient enough to match modern requirements. Wit…
As energias renováveis tornaram-se uma fonte substancial de energia em quase toda a Europa devido ao ambiente limpo e livre de poluição em comparação com os combustíveis fósseis que são usados principalmente para a geração de energia. Por estas razões também em Portugal a atençã…
Aspect Based Opinion Mining (ABOM) systems take user's reviews or posts as input from social media. The system aims to extract the aspect terms (e.g., pizza) and categories (e.g., food) and their polarities, to help the customers and identify product weaknesses. By solving these…
Predecir el precio del cobre no es una tarea fácil. Productores, consumidores, inversionistas e incluso algunos gobiernos deben enfrentarse a este tema. Existen muchas fuentes de información y diferentes modelos para completarla, sin embargo, no hay un consenso claro de cuándo e…
Kroz definisani predmet istraživanja disertacija je dala širi okvir tranzicije snabdevanja i planiranja sistema prirodnog gasa. U prvom delu prikazano je stanje globalne energetike uz detaljnu analizu regionalnih tržišta. Takođe, analizirana su dešavanja koja se tiču energetike …
Prediction models based on different concepts have been proposed in recent years. Improving the accuracy of prediction models has remained as a challenging task for researchers. In the development of time series analysis, it is well known that many phenomena are non-linear and h…
This thesis deals with the theory and design of a hemispherical antenna array circuit that is capable to operate in the intermediate zones. By doing that, this array can be used in Hyperthermia Treatment for Brain Cancer in which the aim is to noninvasively focus the fields at m…
Electrocardiogram (ECG) is an important biomedical tool for the diagnosis of heart disorders. Recent studies have worked a lot on designing automatic diagnosis systems to help physicians. However, automatic study of ECG patterns and heart rate variability is difficult due to the…
This dissertation presents a novel features selection wrapper method based on neural networks, named the Binary Wrapper for Features Selection Technique. The major aim of this method is to reduce the computation time that is consumed during the implementation of the process of f…
Quality defects in fresh fruits and vegetables have adverse effects on the market value of the products. Increased consumer awareness of product quality has made the marketing of fresh fruits and vegetables so competitive that maintaining high quality is essential to economic su…
The Citarum River basin in West Java, Indonesia, has a cascade of three reservoirs, Saguling Reservoir, Cirata Reservoir, and Juanda Reservoir, linked in series from upstream to downstream. Cirata and Saguling Reservoirs function primarily for hydroelectric power production, whi…
This thesis presents novel cache memory replacement algorithms for high performance computer systems. The proposed algorithms use neural networks (NNs) for the purpose of guiding the line replacement decisions in caches. Key to our algorithms is the correct identification and di…
Granular computing facilitates dealing with information by providing a theoretical framework to deal with information as granules at different levels of granularity (different levels of specificity/abstraction). It aims to provide an abstract explainable description of the data …
Crude oil distillation is an energy intensive and environmentally challenging process. To decrease the large energy demand of crude oil distillation, heat integration is implemented. The system (i.e. distillation unit and heat exchanger network, HEN) needs to perform an energy-e…