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Thomas Norheim
Standardisering av brokonstruksjoner for nasjonale hovedveier
Masteroppgave bygg BYG500 - Universitetet i Agder 2017 Standardization is currently not being utilized much in the Norwegian road building industry compared to the rest of the construction industry and road construction abroad. To harvest the potential benefits, it is interesting to determine how to increase the use of standardization in road building. The aim of this master’s thesis is to determine how to make use of standardized concrete bridges for the construction of new national highways. To investigate this, the thesis has established knowledge on today’s situation and found dominant obstacles towards a more widespread use of standardized bridge solutions. The Norwegian Public Roads A…
Empirical Evaluation of the Bayesian Learning Automaton Family
Masteroppgave i informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi 2009 – Universitetet i Agder, Grimstad The two-armed bandit problem is a classical optimization problem where a player sequentially selects and pulls one of two arms attached to a gambling machine, and each arm pull results in either a reward or penalty to the player. Each arm is associated with a certain reward probability which is unknown to the player, and the player needs to sequentially select and play an arm and receive a reward or a penalty in order to discover its true reward probability. The overall goal for the player is reward maximization, and the player needs to balance between exploiting existing knowledge or obtaining n…