This thesis presents a development environment for Design Expert Systems that features a new language where the roles of knowledge and the way it is brought to bear are predefined by the solution method., The language also allows knowledge to…

This thesis addresses the problem of how to determine the optimum level of mesh discretization required to solve a magnetic device accurately and efficiently using finite elements. Currently, most finite element packages require user intervention to assure that the mesh…

With the increasing demands of transforming raw data into information and knowledge, data mining becomes an important field to the discovery of useful information and hidden patterns in huge datasets. Both machine learning and database research have made major contributions…

An 1 out of 2 Oblivious Transfer (( 21 )-OT) is a two-party computation in which a sender A owning two secret bits b0, b 1 can transfer one to them, bc, to receiver Bob who chooses c. This is…

With the wide availability of huge amounts of data and the imminent demands to transform the raw data into useful information and knowledge, data mining has become an important research field both in the database area and the machine learning…

Reinforcement Learning is a class of methods for solving sequential decision problems when the model of the environment is not known. In this framework, the agent must explore the environment to gather more information about the model and the utility…