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Description:: Our research approach emphasized a comparison of various classification methods (“Decision Trees, Logistic Regression, Naïve Bayes, Linear Discriminant Analysis, Nearest Neighbors, Support Vector Machines”) and compared those with ensemble classifier models (“bagging” and “boosting”) to predict...
Author:: Hernandez, Alberto Hernandez
Keyword:: cancer treatment, head and neck cancer, prediction, machine learning, classification, and ensemble methods
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Sarkani, Shahram and Mazzuchi, Thomas
Committee Member(s):: Sarkani, Shahram, Gallagher, Daniel J, and Mazzuchi, Thomas
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: Each year, the Department of Defense (DoD) is provided with an appropriation and authorization act from Congress known as the Military Construction (MILCON) program. The DoD delegates this financial authority to subordinate units for the purpose of funding the design and execution of new...
Author:: Sands, Clifford Samuel
Keyword:: MCDA, Rank Order Centroid, Project Portfolio, TOPSIS, and Multi-Criteria Decision Making
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Sarkani, Shahram and Mazzuchi, Thomas A
Committee Member(s):: Sarkani, Shahram, Earhardt, Gabriella, Mazzuchi, Thomas A, and Bischoff, John
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: Coastal hazards including storm surge, sea-level rise, and cyclone winds continue to have devastating effects on infrastructure systems and communities despite the costly investments already being made in risk management to mitigate predicted consequences. Risk management has generally not been...
Author:: Bostick, Thomas Paul
Keyword:: Natural Disasters, Risk Analysis, Scenario Planning, Stakeholders, Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, and Resilience
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Sarkani, Shahryar and Holzer, Thmas H
Committee Member(s):: Sarkani, Shahram, Santos, Joost, Holzer, Thomas H, Mazzuchi, Thomas, and Blessner, Paul
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

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