Modeling Watershed‐Wide Bioretention Stormwater Retrofits to Achieve Thermal Pollution Mitigation Goals

Learning to Achieve Goals

Temporal diierence methods solve the temporal credit assignment problem for reinforcement learning. An important subproblem of general reinforcement learning is learning to achieve dynamic goals. Although existing temporal diierence methods, such as Q learning, can be applied to this problem, they do not take advantage of its special structure. This paper presents the DG-learning algorithm, whi...

Reengineering University: Modeling Business Processes to Achieve Strategic Goals

Recognizing the challenges that a contemporary university faces, an inter-faculty group of researchers performed the analysis of organizational and management approach in one of Russia’s universities and modeled existing business processes. The university is a multi-campus organization and to manage it efficiently it is necessary to make transition from the traditional management model to a mor...

A New Policy Environment to Achieve Monetary Goals

Monetary environment as the core of financial system has been functionally designed in light of the new set of extensive goals including financial stability, sustainable noninflationary growth, external sustainability, and price stability. A comprehensive monetary policy framework is proposed for Iran which systematically include the new goals, stance variables, instruments, transmission mechan...

Bioretention for Stormwater Quality Improvement in Texas: Pilot Experiments

15. Supplementary Notes Project performed in cooperation with the Texas Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration. Project Title: Bioretention for Stormwater Quality Improvement in Texas URL: http://tti.tamu.edu/documents/0-5949-2.pdf 16. Abstract This report summarizes the results of pilot-scale bioretention experiments. Five steel boxes of 6 ft (L) × 6 ft (W) × 4 ft...

Investigating Stormwater Hydrocarbon Fate and Biodegradation in Bioretention Areas