Research Notes for Developers and Researchers

Fundamentals

Maths

• Axiom vs Theorem
• Standard Deviation
• Normal Distribution
• Bayes' theorem
• Joint Probability Distribution
• Conditional Independence
• Probability Density Function (PDF)
• Nonlinear System VS Linear System
• Sigmoid Function
• Cartesian coordinate system and Polar coordinate system
• Dot Product
• Vector Projection
• Correlation
• Types of Relationships
• Hypotheses
• Complex Number
• First-order Logic
• Second-order Logic
• Calculus - Derivative

Engineering

• History of Electricity
• Knot (Unit)
• Wind Shear
• Fast Fourier Transform
• An Introduction to Wavelets
• Velocity
• Angular Velocity
• Weibull Distribution

Computing

• The Size of Data
• Data Representation - Integers, Floating-point Numbers, and Characters
• ASCII character set
• Network Topology
• P, NP, NP Hard and NP-Complete
• Regular Expression
• HTTP Basic
• HTTP StateManagement
• HTTP Authentication
• HTTP SSL

Wind Turbine

• Introduction to Wind Turbine
• The Power & Energy in Wind
• Upwind Turbine
• Downwind Turbine
• Power Output Variation with Wind Speed (Cut in/out speed)
• Capacity Factor
• Intermittency and the value of Wind Power
• Availability, Reliability & some other terms defined
• Torque at Constant Speeds
• Blade Feather Control
• Slip-ring
• Converter, Rectifier and Inverter
• Double-Fed Induction Generator
• IGBT

Expert System

Data Mining

Software Engineering

Miscellaneous

• Useful link

Reliability Engineering

Artificial Intelligence

Getting Started

• Characterisations of Artificial Intelligence
• Artificial Intelligence Agents
• Search in Problem Solving
• Knowledge Representation
• Game Playing
• First-Order Logic
• Making Deductive Inference
• The Resolution Method
• Resolution Theorem Proving
• Machine Learning Overview
• Decision Tree Learning
• Two Layer ANNs
• Multi-layer ANNs
• Inductive Logic Programming
• Constraint Satisfaction Problems
• Genetic Algorithms
• Genetic Programming

Pattern Recognition

• Markov Chain
• Hidden Markov Models
• Cosine Similarity
• Fuzzy Logic
• Naive Bayes
• k-Nearest Neighbours
• k-Means
• Decision Tree
• Apriori
• Support Vector Machine (SVM)
• Artificial Neural Network (ANN)
• Bayesian Network (BN)
• Self-organising Feature Mapping (SOM)
• Expectation-Maximization (EM) Algorithm
• Fuzzy c-Means (FCM)
• Genetic Algorithm (GA)
• Auto Regressive Analysis (AR)
• Multivariate Control Charts
• Kernel Density Estimation

Expert System

Data Mining

Pattern Recognition

C/C++

C#

Java

SQL Server & Database Programming