Scalable hierarchical evolution strategies by Abramowitz, Sasha

“…Hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) has been steadily growing in popularity for solving the hardest reinforcement learning problems. …”
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South African men’s experiences of depression and coping strategies

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The significance of the concept "Ubuntu" for educational management and leadership during democratic transformation in South Africa by Msengana, Nontobeko Winnie

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Sea state estimation from inertial platform data for real-time ocean wave prediction by Gwatiringa, Tinashe G

“…However there is limited work in the context of WG navigation. Hence the problem this dissertation aims to solve is the estimation and subsequent prediction of local wave behaviour. …”
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Performance of enterprise development funds backed by financial institutions in South Africa : lessons learnt in impact investing

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Historical shifts in knowledge, skill and identity in the South African plant baking industry : implications for curriculum by Tennison, Colette

“…It is argued that it is this situated knowledge held by the older, more experienced production supervisors that enables the ability to solve problems on the line and potentially strengthens their occupational identity. …”
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Optimisation of digital radiography using multi-objective particle swarm optimisation by Nshimirimana, Robert Bellarmin

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A performance management model for physical asset management by Jooste, J. L. (Johannes Lodewikus)

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School-based enterprise and school –to – work transitions in fashion and textiles vocations: a conceptual model for HND CBT Fashion and Textiles Programme in Ghanaian Polytechnics by Crentsil, Timothy

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Creating additional network capacity on constrained medium voltage networks utilizing distributed generation (specifically PV technology) by Ramdhin, Avinash

“…Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) was found to be best suited for this research due to its efficiency to solving non-linear optimization problems and is proposed as the appropriate method of optimally integrating DG to un- constrain MV networks. …”
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KwaZulu-Natal school principals’ perceptions of the practical relevance of formal education management development programmes

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Design and optimisation of a low cost Cognitive Mesh Network by Nleya, Sindiso M

“…Recent developments in TV white space communications technology and the emergence of Cognitive radio devices that facilitate Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) have provided an opportunity to mitigate the spectrum scarcity problem. To solve the scarcity problem, this thesis reconsiders the classical Network Engineering (NE) and Traffic Engineering (TE) problems to objectively design a low cost Cognitive Mesh network that promotes efficient resources utilization and thereby achieve better Quality of Service (QoS) levels.…”
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Efficient radio resource management for the fifth generation slice networks by Oladejo, Sunday Oladayo

“…Furthermore, a genetic algorithmbased latency-aware resource allocation scheme is proposed to solve the maximum utility problem by considering related constraints. …”
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Incorporating sensor measurements using data assimilation and machine learning to improve the accuracy of thermal finite element models

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Divergensie as ekwivalentverhouding: 'n Vergelykende studie tussen Tweetalige Woordeboek/Bilingual Dictionary en Groot Woordeboek/Major Dictionary by Muller, Annake

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Enhancing social capital in communities to manage HIV and AIDS : the role of social workers in the Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipalities

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The aesthetics of radical critique : Kant or the dialectic and revolution by Malcomess, Bettina

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The nature of professional reasoning: An analysis of design in the engineering curriculum by Wolmarans, Nicolette Sarah

“…Students can be more intentionally inducted into recontextualising academic knowledge for the purpose of solving contextually emergent problems. Theoretically the study contributes to the social realist school within the sociology of education by revealing its blindness to contextual detail and consequently offering a fuller understanding of the nature of regions. …”
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Selection Hyper-heuristics for Population-based Meta-heuristics in Continuous Dynamic Environments

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