The management and characterization of collaboration to improve students39; learning is still an open issue, which needs standardized models and inferring methods for effective collaboration indicators, especially w...
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(纸本)9783642022630
The management and characterization of collaboration to improve students' learning is still an open issue, which needs standardized models and inferring methods for effective collaboration indicators, especially when online courses are based on open approaches where students are not following CSCL scripts. We have supplied our students with a scrutable (manageable and understandable) web application that shows an ontology, which includes collaborative features. The ontology structures collaboration context information, which has been obtained form explicit (based on questionnaires) and implicit methods (supported by several machinelearning techniques). From two consecutive years of experiences with hundreds of students we researched students' interactions to find implicit methods to identify and characterize students' collaboration. Based on the outcomes of our experiments we claim that showing useful and structured information to students and tutors about students' collaborative features can have a twofold beneficial impact on students learning and on the management of their collaboration.
This paper outlines research in progress intended to contribute to the autonomous management of networks, allowing policies to be dynamically adjusted and aligned to application directives according to the available r...
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(纸本)9783642026263
This paper outlines research in progress intended to contribute to the autonomous management of networks, allowing policies to be dynamically adjusted and aligned to application directives according to the available resources. Many existing management approaches require static a priori policy deployment but our proposal goes one step further modifying initially deployed policies by learning from the system behaviour. We use a hierarchical policy model to show the connection of high level goals with network level configurations. We also intend to solve two important and mostly forgotten issues: the system has multiple goals some of them contradictory and we will show how to overcome it;and, some current works optimize one network element but being unaware of other participants;instead, our proposed scheme takes into account various social behaviours, such as cooperation and competition among different elements.
The proceedings contain 35 papers. The special focus in this conference is on Growth and Development of computer-Aided Innovation. The topics include: Monitoring the impact of solution concepts within a given problema...
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(纸本)9783642033452
The proceedings contain 35 papers. The special focus in this conference is on Growth and Development of computer-Aided Innovation. The topics include: Monitoring the impact of solution concepts within a given problematic;predicting innovation acceptance by simulation in virtual environments (theoretical foundations);computer-aided TRIZ ideality and level of invention estimation using natural language processing and machinelearning;a novel paradigm for computer-aided design;product integrated innovation based on function;towards an automatic extraction of generalized system of contradictions out of solutionless design of experiments;TRIZ tool for optimization of airport runway;the research of platform-based product configuration model;the research of improving the particleboard glue dosing process based on TRIZ analysis;the prompt design of CNC grinder based on flexible product platform;a planning approach of engineering characteristics based on QFD-TRIZ integrated;effective new product ideation;study of 3d model function-coded genome in evolutionary design;research on computer aided innovation model of weapon equipment requirement demonstration;study on product innovative design process driven by ideal solution;application of TRIZ theory in patternless casting manufacturing technique;a study on the application of the extended matrices based on TRIZ in constructing a collaborative model of enterprise network;the evolvement of automobile steering system based on TRIZ;research on product conceptual design based on integrated of TRIZ and HOQ and innovating method of existing mechanical product based on TRIZ theory.
The proceedings contain 101 papers. The topics discussed include: new approaches to design and control of time limited search algorithms;feature selection using non linear feature relation index;a geometric algorithm ...
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(纸本)3642111637
The proceedings contain 101 papers. The topics discussed include: new approaches to design and control of time limited search algorithms;feature selection using non linear feature relation index;a geometric algorithm for learning oblique decision trees;effect of subsampling rate on subbagging and related ensembles of stable classifiers;constructive semi-supervised classification algorithm and its implement in data mining;a fast supervised method of feature ranking and selection for pattern classification;clustering in concept association networks;application of neural networks in preform design of aluminium upsetting process considering different interfacial frictional conditions;incorporating fuzziness to CLARANS;development of a neuro-fuzzy MR image segmentation approach using fuzzy c-means and recurrent neural network;and identification of N-glycosylation sites with sequence and structural features employing random forests.
Object-oriented application framework is one of the most important implementations of object-oriented software engineering. Normally, a user takes several months of learning in order to become highly productive in usi...
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In large scale applications, hundreds of new subjects may be regularly enrolled in a biometric system. To account for the variations in data distribution caused by these new enrollments, biometric systems require regu...
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In large scale applications, hundreds of new subjects may be regularly enrolled in a biometric system. To account for the variations in data distribution caused by these new enrollments, biometric systems require regular re-training which usually results in a very large computational overhead. This paper formally introduces the concept of online learning in biometrics. We demonstrate its application in classifier update algorithms to re-train classifier decision boundaries. Specifically, the algorithm employs online learning technique in a 2nu-granular soft support vector machine for rapidly training and updating face recognition systems. The proposed online classifier is used in a face recognition application for classifying genuine and impostor match scores impacted by different covariates. Experiments on a heterogeneous face database of 1,194 subjects show that the proposed online classifier not only improves the verification accuracy but also significantly reduces the computational cost.
Enzymes are proteins that catalyze bio-chemical reactions in different ways and play important roles in metabolic pathways. The exponential rise in sequences of new enzymes has necessitated developing methods that acc...
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Enzymes are proteins that catalyze bio-chemical reactions in different ways and play important roles in metabolic pathways. The exponential rise in sequences of new enzymes has necessitated developing methods that accurately predict their function. To address this problem, approaches that cluster enzymes based on their sequence and structural similarity have been applied, but are known to fail for dissimilar proteins that perform the same function. In this paper, we present a machinelearning approach to accurately predict the main function class of enzymes based on a unique set of 73 sequence-derived features. Our features can be extracted using freely available online tools. We used different multi-class classifiers to categorize enzyme protein sequences into one of the NC-IUBMB defined six main function classes. Amongst the classifiers, Random Forest reported the best results with an overall accuracy of 88% and precision and recall in the range of 84% to 93% and 82% to 93% respectively. Our results compare favorably with existing methods, and in some cases report better performance. Random Forest has been proven to be a very efficient data mining algorithm. This paper is first in exploring their application to enzyme function prediction. The datasets can be accessed online at the location: .
The proceedings contain 32 papers. The topics discussed include: comparing LDA with pLSI as a dimensionality reduction method in document clustering;extracting concepts from religious knowledge resources and construct...
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(纸本)3540781587
The proceedings contain 32 papers. The topics discussed include: comparing LDA with pLSI as a dimensionality reduction method in document clustering;extracting concepts from religious knowledge resources and constructing classic analysis systems;extracting prehistories of software refactorings from version archives;filling the gap between a large-scale database and multimodal interactions;design and prototype of a large-scale and fully sense-tagged corpus;supervised learning of similarity measures for content-based 3D model retrieval;using singular value decomposition to compute answer similarity in a language independent approach to question answering;a computation model of risk-context-dependent inductive reasoning based on a support vector machine;and evaluation of logical thinking ability through contributions in a learning community.
We investigate the possibility of using kernel clustering and data fusion techniques for solving hard combinatorial optimization problems. The proposed general paradigm aims at incorporating unsupervised kernel method...
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We investigate the possibility of using kernel clustering and data fusion techniques for solving hard combinatorial optimization problems. The proposed general paradigm aims at incorporating unsupervised kernel methods into population-based heuristics, which rely on spatial fusion of solutions, in order to learn the solution clusters from the search history. This form of extracted knowledge guides the heuristic to detect automatically promising regions of solutions. The proposed algorithm derived from this paradigm is an extension of the classical Scatter Search and can automatically learn during the search process by exploiting the history of solutions found. Preliminary results, with an application to the well-known vehicle routing problem (VRP) show the great interest of such paradigm and can effectively find near-optimal solutions for large problem instances.
Defining decision region borders properly is a major task of classification algorithms. In this paper, the border feature detection and adaptation (BFDA) algorithm is introduced for this purpose. The BFDA is a novel c...
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Defining decision region borders properly is a major task of classification algorithms. In this paper, the border feature detection and adaptation (BFDA) algorithm is introduced for this purpose. The BFDA is a novel classification scheme, especially useful for the classification of remote sensing images. The method exploits the powerful discrimination capability of the 1-nearest neighborhood (1-NN) method with the border feature vectors. The first part of the algorithm consists of generating border feature vectors using class centers and misclassified training vectors. With this approach, a manageable number of border feature vectors are obtained. The second part of the algorithm involves the adaptation of the border feature vectors with a technique similar to the learning vector quantization (LVQ) algorithm. The performance of the BFDA was compared with other classification algorithms including support vector machines (SVMs) and several statistical classification techniques.
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