Two issues are addressed in this paper. Firstly, it investigates some important properties of bidirectional associative memories (BAM) and proposes an improved capacity estimate. Those properties are the encoding form...
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Two issues are addressed in this paper. Firstly, it investigates some important properties of bidirectional associative memories (BAM) and proposes an improved capacity estimate. Those properties are the encoding form of the input pattern pairs as well as their decoding, the orthogonality of the pattern pairs, the similarity of associated patterns, and the density of the pattern pairs. Secondly, it proposes an implementation approach to improve the storage capacity. The approach embraces three proposed methods, i.e., the bipolar-orthogonal augmentation, the set partition, and the combined method. Along with those methods is the construction of the set of bipolar orthogonal patterns.
In today's transnational admission environment, evaluating applicant qualifications is becoming increasingly challenging. While standardized tests can be helpful, studies have shown that they are rather noisy pred...
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(纸本)9781424410835
In today's transnational admission environment, evaluating applicant qualifications is becoming increasingly challenging. While standardized tests can be helpful, studies have shown that they are rather noisy predictors of performance. Predicting educational outcome is a viable alternative in such heterogeneous environments. Performance prediction models can be built by applying data mining techniques to enrollment data. In this paper we present an approach to using Bayesian networks to predict graduating cumulative Grade Point Average based on applicant background at the time of admission. While such prediction models can be helpful, their recommendations may not be followed by departmental faculty members making admission decisions if they are presented as black boxes. We thus present a novel approach to deriving a case-based retrieval mechanism from the Bayesian network prediction model in such a way that the similarity measure used by the case-based system is consistent with the predictive model. The case-based component retrieves the past student most similar to the applicant being evaluated. The Bayesian network model is evaluated using stratified ten-fold cross validation.
This paper presents a novel approach to deriving probabilistic models that predict enrollment given applicant background and the amount of financial aid offered. Our Bayesian network models can be used to optimize var...
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The knowledge acquisition bottleneck is a problem pertinent to the authoring of any intelligent tutoring system. Allowing students a broad scope of reasoning and solution representation whereby a wide range of plausib...
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(纸本)9783540691303
The knowledge acquisition bottleneck is a problem pertinent to the authoring of any intelligent tutoring system. Allowing students a broad scope of reasoning and solution representation whereby a wide range of plausible student solutions are accepted by the system, places additional burden on knowledge acquisition. In this paper we present a strategy to alleviate the burden of knowledge acquisition for building a tutoring system for medical problem-based learning (PBL). The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is deployed as domain ontology and information structure in the ontology is exploited to make intelligent inferences and expand the domain model. Using these inferences and expanded domain model, the tutoring system is able to accept a broader range of plausible student solutions that lie beyond the scope of explicitly encoded solutions. We describe the development of a tutoring system prototype and report the evaluation of system correctness in accepting such plausible solutions. The system evaluation indicates an average accuracy of 94.59% when compared against human domain experts, who agreed among themselves with a statistical agreement based on Pearson Correlation Coefficient of 0.48 and p < 0.05.
Business-to-business (B2B) e-marketplaces are Internet-based inter-organizational trading platforms that facilitate and foster the exchange of information, products and services, and other business transactions among ...
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Business-to-business (B2B) e-marketplaces are Internet-based inter-organizational trading platforms that facilitate and foster the exchange of information, products and services, and other business transactions among many buyers and sellers. Despite the proliferation of B2B e-marketplaces, many B2B e-marketplaces have failed. A well-developed framework or standard for evaluating B2B emarketplaces is scarce in the literature. Previous studies indicate the need for a comprehensive evaluation framework for evaluating performance of B2B e-marketplaces. This research presented a framework to evaluate performance of public B2B e-marketplaces that support small exporters. Factors contributing to the performance and effectiveness of B2B e-marketplaces were explored. The proposed conceptual framework integrated factors from both B2B e-marketplace performance and Web site evaluation perspectives. Expert interviews using a semi-structured approach were conducted in order to verify the proposed conceptual framework. On the basis of thorough review of literature and expert interviews conducted, this study proposed eleven factors to evaluate public B2B e-marketplaces. This research contributes to the literature by building an integrated framework to evaluate the performance public B2B e-marketplaces. It also contributes to the B2B e-marketplace industry by offering a practical mean for public B2B e-marketplace market makers or managers to evaluate and improve their emarketplaces.
A modeling approach is introduced in this paper to capture the real characteristics of the WWW traffic, using a combination of Box-Jenkins models with seasonality removal. Fourier analysis and standardization are used...
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We propose and experimentally evaluate a new method for clustering human behaviors that is suitable for bootstrapping an anomaly detection module for intelligent video surveillance systems. The method uses dynamic tim...
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(纸本)9789746724913
We propose and experimentally evaluate a new method for clustering human behaviors that is suitable for bootstrapping an anomaly detection module for intelligent video surveillance systems. The method uses dynamic time warping, agglomerative hierarchical clustering, and hidden Markov models to provide an initial partitioning of a set of observation sequences then automatically identifies where to cut off the hierarchical clustering dendrogram. We show that the method is extremely effective, providing 100% accuracy in separating anomalous from typical behaviors on real-world testbed video surveillance data.
Use of e-Learning has been expanding rapidly in recent years with the development of ICT and e-Learning tools. The trend shows that it will continue to grow as technology is becoming cheaper and more accessible. Despi...
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Governments around the world are working continuously in order to improve services for their citizens. However, the success of these initiatives is dependent not only on the government support but also on the citizens...
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This paper compares the accuracy of Decision Tree and Bayesian Network algorithms for predicting the academic performance of undergraduate and postgraduate students at two very different academic institutes: Can Tho U...
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(纸本)9781424410835
This paper compares the accuracy of Decision Tree and Bayesian Network algorithms for predicting the academic performance of undergraduate and postgraduate students at two very different academic institutes: Can Tho University (CTU), a large national university in Viet Nam;and the asianinstitute of technology (AIT), a small international postgraduate institute in Thailand that draws students from 86 different countries. Although the diversity of these two student populations is very different, the data-mining tools were able to achieve similar levels of accuracy for predicting student performance: 73/71% for {fail, fair, good, very good} and 94/93% for {fail, pass} at the CTU/AIT respectively. These predictions are most useful for identifying and assisting failing students at CTU (64% accurate), and for selecting Very Good students for scholarships at the AIT (82% accurate). In this analysis, the Decision Tree was consistently 3-12% more accurate than the Bayesian Network. The results of these case studies give insight into techniques for accurately predicting student performance, compare the accuracy of data mining algorithms, and demonstrate the maturity of open source tools.
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