Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access): Recent submissions
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Modeling Water Flow and Contaminant Transport in Unsaturated Soil by Artificial Intelligence
Published 2025The water flow in unsaturated soil is typically represented by Richardson-Richards Equation (RRE), while solute transport is often described by Advection-Diffusion Equation (ADE). These two equations are fundamental for ...Open AccessThesis -
The Promises of Digital Engagement Platforms in Urban Planning: Between Obligation and Optimisation
Published 2025Digital engagement platforms are increasingly used by built environment professionals to streamline public participation. This thesis critically examines how business and technological logics (e.g. scale and growth) of ...Open AccessThesis -
Towards Robust, Personalized, and Fairness-Aware Federated Learning
Published 2025Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data, but traditional aggregation methods such as FedAvg overlook data distribution, quality, and fairness. This limitation becomes critical ...Open AccessThesis -
Humanitarian Responses to Complex Displacement Crises
Published 2025Disasters, conflict, and climate change increasingly intersect, forcing communities to flee and trapping them in cycles of displacement. Yet, humanitarian responses remain fragmented, often addressing displacement crises ...Open AccessThesis -
Enhancing microbial self-healing of cementitious materials using natural fibre-based carriers
Published 2025Cracks in cement-based materials pose a significant threat to long-term durability and service life, especially under harsh environmental exposure. To address this, bacteria-based self-healing systems have been developed, ...Open AccessThesis