Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2008. Graduate Programme in Earth and Space Science. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 218-238). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR39016

Thesis (MS)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2008. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Rick L. Lawrence. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 1998. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 52 p. : ill. (some col.). "September 25, 1988." Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 44-46).

Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 1999. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 59 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-59).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xix, 235 p. : ill. (some col.). Advisor: Kim L. Boyer, Department of Electrical Engineering. Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-235).

Thesis (M. S.)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2005. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Joe Atwood. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-69).

Thesis (M.S.)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2006. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Theodore W. Weaver. Includes bibliographical references

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (November 15, 2006) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Miu, Hoi Shun. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 170-182). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.ii / Acknowledgement --- p.v / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Problem Statement --- p.4 / Chapter 1.2 --- Contributions --- p.5 / Chapter 1.3 --- Thesis Organization --- p.6 / Chapter 2 --- Background --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1 --- Multi-agent Systems --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Agent Architectures --- p.9 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Multi-agent system frameworks --- p.12 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- The Advantages and Disadvantages of Multi-agent Systems --- p.15 / Chapter 2.2 --- Evolutionary Computation --- p.16 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Genetic Algorithms --- p.17 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Genetic Programming --- p.18 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Evolutionary Strategies --- p.19 / Chapter 2.2.4 --- Evolutionary Programming --- p.19 / Chapter 2.3 --- Object Recognition --- p.19 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Knowledge Representation --- p.20 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Object Recognition Methods --- p.21 / Chapter 2.4 --- Evolutionary Multi-agent Systems --- p.25 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Competitive Coevolutionary Agents --- p.26 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Cooperative Coevolutionary Agents --- p.26 / Chapter 2.4.3 --- Cellular Automata --- p.27 / Chapter 2.4.4 --- Emergent Behavior --- p.28 / Chapter 2.4.5 --- Evolutionary Agents for Image processing and Pattern Recog- nition --- p.29 / Chapter 3 --- System Architecture and Agent Behaviors in SIMULATORS --- p.33 / Chapter 3.1 --- Organization of the System --- p.34 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- General Architecture of Object Recognition System --- p.34 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Introduction to SIMULATORS --- p.35 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- System Flow of SIMULATORS --- p.37 / Chapter 3.1.4 --- Layered Digital Image Environment --- p.39 / Chapter 3.2 --- Architecture of Autonomous Agents --- p.41 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Internal Object Model in an Agent --- p.41 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Current State of an Agent --- p.46 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Local Information Sensor --- p.46 / Chapter 3.2.4 --- Direction Density Vector --- p.47 / Chapter 3.3 --- Agent Behaviors --- p.48 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Feature Target Marking --- p.49 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Reproduction --- p.49 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Diffusion --- p.52 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- Vanishing --- p.54 / Chapter 3.4 --- Clustering for Autonomous Agent Training --- p.56 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- Introduction --- p.56 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Creating the Internal Object Model --- p.58 / Chapter 3.5 --- Summary --- p.63 / Chapter 4 --- Evolutionary Algorithms for Multi Agent System --- p.64 / Chapter 4.1 --- Evolutionary Agent Behaviors in SIMULATORS --- p.65 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Overview --- p.65 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Evolutionary Autonomous Agents --- p.66 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- Reproduction --- p.68 / Chapter 4.1.4 --- Fitness Function --- p.68 / Chapter 4.1.5 --- Direction Density Vector Propagation --- p.73 / Chapter 4.1.6 --- Mutation --- p.73 / Chapter 4.2 --- Agents Voting Mechanism --- p.74 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Overview --- p.74 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Voting for Cooperative Agents --- p.75 / Chapter 4.3 --- Evolutionary Multi Agent Object Recognition --- p.79 / Chapter 4.4 --- Summary --- p.81 / Chapter 5 --- Experimental Results and Applications --- p.82 / Chapter 5.1 --- Experiment Methodology --- p.82 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Introduction to Fung Shui Woodland --- p.83 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- Testing Images --- p.83 / Chapter 5.1.3 --- Creating Internal Object Model --- p.85 / Chapter 5.1.4 --- Experiment Parameters --- p.86 / Chapter 5.2 --- Experimental Results of Fung Shui Woodland Recognition --- p.92 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Experiment 1: artificial0l --- p.92 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Experiment 2: artificial0l´ؤnoise --- p.92 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Experiment 3: artificial02 --- p.93 / Chapter 5.2.4 --- Experiment 4: FungShui0l --- p.93 / Chapter 5.2.5 --- Experiment 5: FungShui0l´ؤnoise --- p.94 / Chapter 5.2.6 --- Experiments 6 to 11: FungShui02 to FungShui07 --- p.94 / Chapter 5.3 --- Discussion --- p.119 / Chapter 5.4 --- An Example of Eyes Detection --- p.124 / Chapter 5.4.1 --- Result of the Eyes Detection --- p.128 / Chapter 5.5 --- Summary --- p.132 / Chapter 6 --- Conclusion --- p.133 / Chapter 6.1 --- Summary --- p.133 / Chapter 6.2 --- Future Work --- p.136 / Chapter A --- The Figures in the Experiments --- p.138

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2006. / Title from title screen (site viewed on Feb. 6, 2007). PDF text: 163 p. : ill. (some col.). UMI publication number: AAT 3221295. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche format.