Atlantic Technological University (Galway-Mayo): Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Methods to reduce sea lice infestations on farmed salmonids in Ireland
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Cloning, Expression and Purification of β-Defensins from S. salar (Atlantic Salmon)
(Galway- Mayo Institute of Technology, Ireland, 2018-07)Introduction: The purpose of this study was to develop a method to recombinantly produce salmon β-defensins in the prokaryotic host Escherichia coli. β-defensins are a group of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) which display ... -
Spatial separation of catches in highly mixed fisheries
(nature.com, 2018-09-17)Mixed fisheries are the dominant type of fishery worldwide. Overexploitation in mixed fisheries occurs when catches continue for available quota species while low quota species are discarded. As EU fisheries management ... -
Power-to-Gas Energy Storage and its Effects on reducing Emissions and improving Energy Security for Ireland
(Galway- Mayo Institute of Technology, Ireland, 2012-09)The safeguarding of a reliable, environmental benign and economically meaningful energy supply is one of the key challenges Ireland is facing towards 2020 and beyond. The country is transforming its energy system from ... -
PHOTO-IDENTIFICATION OF BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS (TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS) IN TRALEE BAY AND BRANDON BAY, CO. KERRY: A CASE FOR SAC BOUNDARY EXTENSION
(ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, 2016)The Lower River Shannon is a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) with bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) as a qualifying interest, and is one of only two SACs for this species in Ireland. Bottlenose dolphins in the ... -
Female reproductive parameters and population demographics of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Shannon Estuary, Ireland
(Springer, 2018-09)Abstract This study investigates the female reproductive parameters and population demographics of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Shannon Estuary, Ireland, using long-term relational sightings and ... -
Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) social structure in the Shannon Estuary, Ireland, is distinguished by age- and area-related associations
(Society for Marine Mammalogy, 2018-04)Social and network analyses that incorporate information on individuals within a population enhance our knowledge of complex species. In this study, the social structure of wild bottlenose dolphins in the Shannon Estuary, ... -
An Ethogram for Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Shannon Estuary, Ireland
(Minuteman Press, 2017)Ethograms, or categorized lists of behavioral descriptors, are fundamental research tools in the study of animal behavior and are essential to the overall understanding of the behavioral ecology of a species. With specific ... -
Population structure and management of Albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga) in the North Atlantic Ocean) in the North Atlantic Ocean
(Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, 2017-12)Albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga) is a globally important species found in the tropical and temperate zones of every ocean including the Mediterranean Sea. The aim of this research is to advance the current knowledge ... -
Life history, behaviour and social structure of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Shannon Estuary, Ireland
(Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, 2017-11)Bottlenose dolphins are a complex intelligent species with great diversity and variability in behaviours and social systems across populations, but site-specific information on many aspects of the bottlenose dolphin ... -
Burriscarra Medieval Ecclesiastical Complex
(The Bevir Trust, 2018)This research assesses the ecclesiastical complex at Castlecarra near the shores of Lough Carra, County Mayo. On this site are located the ruins of Burriscarra friary and Burriscarra medieval parish church. As part of this ... -
Aristotle’s phronesis: putting some meat on the philosophy of innovation
(2018-06-28)This paper investigates Aristotle’s ethical writings, especially examining his synthesis of the ideas of knowledge and wisdom and their application in practice. This he achieved through the concept of phronesis (phronēsis) ...
