ATU Galway City: Recent submissions
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Scale Growth Analysis of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar Linnaeus) Unlocking Environmental Histories
(Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, 2018-09)Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) populations have declined rapidly in recent years across all geographical ranges with populations becoming extinct within certain areas. Direct observation of the salmon’s life is difficult ... -
Vulnerable road user detection: state-of-the-art and open challenges
(2019)Correctly identifying vulnerable road users (VRUs), e.g. cyclists and pedestrians, remains one of the most challenging environment perception tasks for autonomous vehicles (AVs). This work surveys the current state-of-the-art ... -
Curriculum Learning for Tightly Coupled Multiagent Systems
(2019)In this paper,we leverage curriculum learning(CL) to improve the performance of multiagent systems(MAS) that are trained with the cooperative coevolution of artificial neural networks. We design curricula to progressively ... -
Proposing an Innovation-Based View of the Firm
(2018-12-12)The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature on theories of the firm and argues for the importance of an innovation based view (IBV). In doing so, it examines the incumbent management theories of the firm, ... -
Thermo King Carbon Neutral Production Line Project
(2019-03)This paper describes an ongoing collaboration between Thermo King and the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, in the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT). The company has an operation in Galway where ... -
The Philosophy of Innovation in Management Education: A Study utilising Aristotle’s Concept of Phronesis
(2019)While much has been written on phronesis, there is a dearth of empirical work on the how the concept can be developed and implemented in practice, particularly in an educational setting. To address this problem, characteristics ... -
An evaluation of the design and use of applied visual interactive resources for teaching building regulations in higher education built environment programmes
(2019-01)This research is situated in the field of higher education teaching and learning and specifically relates to building regulation pedagogy. A research gap has been identified with scope to develop online visual building ... -
EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF BLENDED LEARNING USING ‘MOODLE’ WITH FIRST YEAR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
(GMIT RESEARCH E-JOURNAL, 2017)This research uses a developmental evaluation to conduct an evaluation for knowledge on the effectiveness of blended learning using ‘Moodle’ within the learning context of whether a blended pedagogy could benefit a traditional ... -
A Critical Evaluation of the Integration of a Blended Learning Approach into a Multimedia Applications Module
(AISHE-J, 2018)The concept of blended learning is not new. While research articles have outlined blending learning approaches across a number of disciplines, research studies on how blended learning design principles are implemented ... -
Finishing Framework in the Irish Furniture Industry
(2008-04)This thesis originated from the desire of the author to develop a tool to assist Irish furniture manufacturers in meeting the requirements set out in the volatile organic compounds (voc) directive. The introduction of this ... -
Potential Utilisation of Irish grown Alnus glutinosa and Eucalyptus spp.
(2008)Over the past century forestry cover in Ireland has risen from a low of 0.5% of total land area to approximately 10% today. This has been achieved through an afforestation policy which concentrated on exotic coniferous ... -
Exploring applications of deep reinforcement learning for real-world autonomous driving systems
(2019-01)Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has become increasingly powerful in recent years, with notable achievements such as Deepmind’s AlphaGo. It has been successfully deployed in commercial vehicles like Mobileye’s path ... -
Multi-Agent Credit Assignment in Stochastic Resource Management Games
(2017-08)Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) are a form of distributed intelligence, where multiple autonomous agents act in a common environment. Numerous complex, real world systems have been successfully optimised using Multi-Agent ... -
Potential-Based Reward Shaping Preserves Pareto Optimal Policies
(2017-05)Reward shaping is a well-established family of techniques that have been successfully used to improve the performance and learning speed of Reinforcement Learning agents in singleobjective problems. Here we extend the ... -
Policy Invariance under Reward Transformations for Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning
(2017)Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a powerful and well-studied Machine Learning paradigm, where an agent learns to improve its performance in an environment by maximising a reward signal. In multi-objective Reinforcement Learning ... -
Analysing the Effects of Reward Shaping in Multi-Objective Stochastic Games
(2017-05)The majority ofMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) implementations aim to optimise systems with respect to a single objective, despite the fact that many real world problems are inherently multi-objective in nature. ... -
A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Reward Transformations in Multi-Objective Stochastic Games
(2017)Reward shaping has been proposed as a means to address the credit assignment problem in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). Two popular shaping methods are Potential-Based Reward Shaping and di erence rewards, and both have been ... -
Development and Validation of Numerical Tools to Implement Climate Sensitive Design and Control for Ground Source Heat Pumps with Horizontal Collectors
(2018)At the outset of the 21st century, growth in the Sustainable Energy Technologies (SETs) market is driven by the need to secure energy supply, limit the environmental impact of fossil fuels and to generate economic growth. ... -
A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THE INTEGRATION OF A BLENDED LEARNING APPROACH INTO A MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS MODULE
(2018-05-15)The concept of blended learning is not new. While research articles have outlined blending learning approaches across a number of disciplines, research studies on how blended learning design principles are implemented into ... -
Moodle and Social Constructivism: Is Moodle Being Used as Constructed? A Case Study Analysis of Moodle Use in Teaching and Learning in the School of Business, GMIT
(2018-05-14)Moodle was originally developed by Dougiamas in 2002 to help educators create an online platform that embodies a social constructivist pedagogical framework. Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) in Ireland began using ...
