The tourism industry has contributed positively for regional and global economic income in recent years. Although this sector faces a hard challenge in COVΓD-19 pandemic, it has been predicted that it will rebound an...
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(纸本)9781665499705
The tourism industry has contributed positively for regional and global economic income in recent years. Although this sector faces a hard challenge in COVΓD-19 pandemic, it has been predicted that it will rebound and will continue in growing as in previous periods. Tourist experience should become important to be improved regarding the service level for visitors such as the improvement of hotel customer accommodation. The aim of this study is classifying the hotel customer based on Support Vector Machine (SVM). This classification conducted through classification of satisfaction level and the related factors. The result of the study presented a good accuracy and precision of SVM in conducting customer hotel classification at 93% accuracy level with error level of prediction result for about 0.27 based on Root Mean Squared Error (RSME) function. The features of customer satisfaction at this study are proposed to be important preferences for improvement of customer services in hospitality.
DRL has emerged as a promising approach for mobile robot navigation in unknown environments without a prior map. However, the performance of DRL methods for this task varies greatly, depending on the choice of algorit...
DRL has emerged as a promising approach for mobile robot navigation in unknown environments without a prior map. However, the performance of DRL methods for this task varies greatly, depending on the choice of algorithm, state representation, and training procedure. In this paper we explore various cutting-edge DRL algorithms, such as policy-, value-, and actor-critic-based approaches. Our results demonstrate the effectiveness of the ranging sensor approach, which achieves robust navigation policies capable of generalizing to unseen virtual environments with a high success rate. We combine Behavior Cloning with Imitation Learning to expedite the training process, leveraging expert demonstrations and reinforcement learning. Our methodology enables faster training while enhancing the learning efficiency and performance of the robot, obtaining better results in terms of crash and success rate, and being able to reach a cumulative reward of approximately 12000.
Entrepreneurship is an activity and process to generate added value in the economy. To support performance in carrying out entrepreneurial practices, an entrepreneur needs to develop entrepreneurial mindfulness. Entre...
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The debate surrounding entrepreneurship in the Amazon rainforest region highlights the importance of sustainable actions developed by local brands. However, limited attention has been given to entrepreneur's persp...
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The debate surrounding entrepreneurship in the Amazon rainforest region highlights the importance of sustainable actions developed by local brands. However, limited attention has been given to entrepreneur's perspectives regarding the outcome of their applied practices. The objective of this study was to understand the entrepreneurs’ perception based on their business models concerning the connection to the Amazon brand and the aspects of sustainable use of its natural resources. The study was performed through semi-structured interviews with seven Amazonian product brands entrepreneurs utilizing Grounded Theory. The results demonstrate that entrepreneurs understand that reaching the social dimension relies on the articulation of three main factors: entrepreneurs, the native people, and the shared traditional knowledge and culture. It is observed that the political dimension is still underdeveloped in the region with limited application of its effects on products. Additionally, the economic dimension is not significantly favored by the utilization of environmentally sustainable brands. Lastly, the territorial dimension depends on the establishment of permanent protection areas, as well as agroforestry systems.
Relying only on behaviors that emerge from simple responsive controllers; swarms of robots have been shown capable of autonomously aggregate themselves or objects into clusters without any form of communication. We pu...
Relying only on behaviors that emerge from simple responsive controllers; swarms of robots have been shown capable of autonomously aggregate themselves or objects into clusters without any form of communication. We push these controllers to the limit, requiring robots to sort themselves or objects into different clusters. Based on a responsive controller that maps the current reading of a line-of-sight sensor to a pair of speeds for the robots' differential wheels, we demonstrate how multiple tasks instances can be accomplished by a robotic swarm. Using the dividing rectangles approach and physics simulation, a training step optimizes the parameters of the controller guided by a fitness function. We conducted a series of systematic trials in physics-based simulation and evaluate the performance in terms of dispersion and the ratio of clustered robots/objects. Across 20 trials where 30 robots cluster themselves into 3 groups, an average of 99.83% of them were correctly clustered into their group after 300 s. Across 50 trials where 15 robots cluster 30 objects into 3 groups, an average of 61.20%, 82.87%, and 97.73% of objects were correctly clustered into their group after 600 s, 900 s, and 1800 s, respectively. The object cluster behavior scales well while the aggregation does not, the latter due to the requirement of control tuning based on the number of robots.
Path planning is a crucial component of autonomous navigation and frequently demands different priorities such as path length, safety, or energy consumption, with the latter being particularly important in the context...
Path planning is a crucial component of autonomous navigation and frequently demands different priorities such as path length, safety, or energy consumption, with the latter being particularly important in the context of unmanned autonomous vehicles. In many applications, the agent may have to react to environment shifting. Algorithms such as geometric and dynamic programming as well as techniques such as artificial potential fields have been employed to tackle this local planning problem. In recent years, machine learning has gained more evidence in many research fields due to its flexibility and generalization capabilities. In this study, we propose a Q-learning-based approach to local planning, which weighs three crucial factors- path length, safety, and energy consumption- that can be freely adjusted by the user to suit its application’s needs. The performance of the proposed method was tested in simulated static and dynamic scenarios as well as benchmarked with a baseline approach. The results show that it can perform well in both kinds of environments without struggling with the commom pitfalls of other local planning algorithms.
The development of the internet made new problems within the scope of copyright. The internet is used to download copyrighted content and use it without permission from the creators. The legal protection of copyright ...
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Research on m-commerce with entrepreneurial spirit continues to develop but is limited to one country and/or one field. From a bibliometric perspective, this study aims to visually study mapping and research trends in...
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The COVID pandemic has caused tremendous loss worldwide. Now vaccines are the primary weapon to combat the pandemic. Understanding how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the COVID, may mutate in the presence of the vac...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781665468190
ISBN:
(纸本)9781665468206
The COVID pandemic has caused tremendous loss worldwide. Now vaccines are the primary weapon to combat the pandemic. Understanding how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the COVID, may mutate in the presence of the vaccines is critical for designing drugs and vaccines for future variants of the virus. In this study, we investigated the numbers of mutations that SARS-CoV-2 accumulated on each protein over time. We found that different proteins of the virus accumulated different levels of mutations and their mutation rates changed over time following different patterns. We also presented evidence that the mutation of the Spike protein might have been suppressed by the vaccines. This is the first time that such a relation was reported based on real world data. Although the discovery was not meant to be conclusive, this study sheds light onto how the virus may response to the vaccines. If confirmed by further studies, the discovery will have significant impacts on many fields, including drug and vaccine designs.
The demand for electricity has increased rapidly and, for this reason, there is a need to efficiently use it. In this way, the identification of residential appliances enables such use for consumers and is crucial for...
The demand for electricity has increased rapidly and, for this reason, there is a need to efficiently use it. In this way, the identification of residential appliances enables such use for consumers and is crucial for demand response programs. Due to the variety of appliances in homes and their dynamic behavior, the search for patterns that explain and allow the correct labeling of temporal windows becomes a challenging task, since a window may contain more than one appliance. In this sense, the present paper proposes the transformation of time-series into images, using Gramian angular field and recurrence plots. The dataset composed of images was submitted to the labeling process, considering the use of convolutional neural networks. A comparative analysis was performed using the UK-DALE dataset. The results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed feature engineering stage, since the labeling task reached F1-scores until 94 %.
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