Multi-robot systems can provide substantial increase in efficiency and/or flexibility in different scenarios. Applications in various settings have been studied in the literature, such as disaster management, surveill...
Multi-robot systems can provide substantial increase in efficiency and/or flexibility in different scenarios. Applications in various settings have been studied in the literature, such as disaster management, surveillance, object transportation as well as search-and-rescue. A particular case that can highly benefit from the employment of multiple agents is the logistics in a warehouse scenario. This work proposes an multi-agent Q-learning based algorithm with curriculum learning and transfer learning to perform the path planning process. With progressively more complex stages of training as well as knowledge transfer from one stage to another, the algorithm is capable of achieve high success rates. In order to validate the proposed method, simulations were done to compare it to other combinations of the used techniques, as well as using Q-learning only. Scalability tests were also performed. The proposed method achieved up to 94% success rate after training.
The number of Android malicious applications keeps growing as time passes, even paving their way to official app markets. In recent years, a promising malware detection approach makes use of the compiled app source co...
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The number of Android malicious applications keeps growing as time passes, even paving their way to official app markets. In recent years, a promising malware detection approach makes use of the compiled app source codes (dex), through convolutional neural networks (CNN) as an image classification task. Unfortunately, current proposals often rely on unrealistic datasets, focusing their detection on the mal-ware families, while neglecting the detection of malware apps in the first place. In this paper, we propose a reliable and hierarchical Android malware detection through an image-based CNN scheme, implemented twofold. First, Android malware classification is performed in a hierarchically-structured local manner, initially identifying malware apps, then, their related family. Second, to ensure reliability and improve classification accuracy, only highly confident classified apps are reported, in a classification with reject option rationale. Experiments performed in a new dataset with over 26 thousand Android apps, divided into 29 malware families, compounding over 13 GB of app dex images, have shown that current image-based CNN for malware detection is unable to provide high detection accuracies. In contrast, our proposed model is able to reliably detect malware apps, improving the true-negative rates by up to 5.5%, and the average true-positive rate of the malware families of accepted apps by up to 12.7%, while rejecting only 10% of Android apps.
Understanding how social structures with the use of a network have been an active field of study for academics in the past five years alone. The need to properly comprehends how Social Network Analysis (SNA) is being ...
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We study convergence properties of competing epidemic models of the Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible (SIS) type. The SIS epidemic model has seen widespread popularity in modelling the spreading dynamics of contagions ...
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We describe DBL-MBPTA, a new approach for measurement-based probabilistic timing analysis (MBPTA). Unlike the usual MBPTA, which treats the time a program executes as a random variable, we consider both the number n o...
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(数字)9798331540265
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We describe DBL-MBPTA, a new approach for measurement-based probabilistic timing analysis (MBPTA). Unlike the usual MBPTA, which treats the time a program executes as a random variable, we consider both the number n of instructions executed in each measurement and the time $T(n)$ they took to execute. By taking tuples $(n, T(n))$, for various values of n, DBL-MBPTA allows for multiple execution path analysis. We show that $(n, T(n))$ can be bounded from below and above by two reference lines. The modeled random variable is the relative distance ($n, T(n)$) from these lines, which explains the term distance between lines (DBL) given to the approach. According to DBL-MBPTA, samples can be analyzed and improved, for which we employ deep neural networks. Once sample coverage is deemed representative, probabilistic bounds on execution time are estimated via the modeled relative distance. We evaluate our approach using both synthetic data and data collected through measurements on a multi-core platform. The results obtained demonstrate the effectiveness of DBL-MBPTA.
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to locate and detect moving pedestrians in a video. Our proposed method first locates the region of interest (ROI) using a background subtraction algorithm based on guided fi...
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The integration of human and artificial intelligence offers a powerful avenue for advancing our understanding of information processing, as each system provides unique computational insights. However, despite the prom...
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Malaria is a communicable disease with half of the global population at risk due to its high morbidity and mortality rates. A massive number of studies are dedicated to malaria research, so it plays a key role in form...
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(纸本)9781665473286
Malaria is a communicable disease with half of the global population at risk due to its high morbidity and mortality rates. A massive number of studies are dedicated to malaria research, so it plays a key role in formulating the proper prevention strategy and effective malaria treatment. With the overwhelming number of updated publications in the field, an unsupervised text mining approach such as topic modeling may provide an alternative method for the malaria researcher to keep pace with new insights. In this work, we collect metadata of malaria publications from the PubMed database to perform BERT-based topic modeling to find well-defined topics regarding malaria research. The method is largely based on the popular BERTopic pipeline. We compare the performance of three different language models to generate document embeddings from the data. The dimension reduction and the density-based clustering algorithm are used to cluster the embeddings. The topic representation is computed based on the semantic similarity of the class TF-IDF representation. The substance of the resulting topics is then manually annotated based on the top words of each topic. We demonstrate that by merging initial topics into larger topics using hierarchical clustering and manual content-based examination, the evaluated coherence measure can be further improved, thus enhancing the topic's interpretability. Our modeling result is able to extract ten major topics recurring in the malaria research publication published from 2017–2022. The result provides preliminary insight to understand the dynamics and patterns of malaria research over the years
The improvement of some aspects in tourism industry needs further study through aspect-based sentiment analysis based on tourist experience. The aim of this study is presenting the empiric results of aspect-based sent...
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The improvement of some aspects in tourism industry needs further study through aspect-based sentiment analysis based on tourist experience. The aim of this study is presenting the empiric results of aspect-based sentiment analysis to extract some useful aspects of services for leveraging tourism industry development based on user's feedback. The study uses customer review data from TripAdvisor website for developing classification model using machine learning algorithms including Decision Tree (DT), Random Forest Classifier (RFC), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) models. Each machine learning model under study is trained using K-Fold Cross Validation. The empiric results found that accuracy of RFC achieved the highest result (99.5%) followed by XGBoost (87.3%), DT (82.9%), and SVM (80.5%). The extracted meaningful aspects from customer feedback give many valuable insights for service quality improvement in tourism industry in the effort to strengthening the rising-up of sustainability economic growth through tourism industry.
Objective and Impact *** imaging of ultrasound and optical contrasts can help map structural,functional,and molecular biomarkers inside living subjects with high spatial *** is a need to develop a platform to facilita...
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Objective and Impact *** imaging of ultrasound and optical contrasts can help map structural,functional,and molecular biomarkers inside living subjects with high spatial *** is a need to develop a platform to facilitate this multimodal imaging capability to improve diagnostic sensitivity and ***,combining ultrasound,photoacoustic,and optical imaging modalities is challenging because conventional ultrasound transducer arrays are optically *** a result,complex geometries are used to coalign both optical and ultrasound waves in the same field of *** elegant solution is to make the ultrasound transducer transparent to ***,we demonstrate a novel transparent ultrasound transducer(TUT)linear array fabricated using a transparent lithium niobate piezoelectric material for real-time multimodal *** TUT-array consists of 64 elements and centered at~6 MHz *** demonstrate a quad-mode ultrasound,Doppler ultrasound,photoacoustic,and fluorescence imaging in real-time using the TUT-array directly coupled to the tissue mimicking *** TUT-array successfully showed a multimodal imaging capability and has potential applications in diagnosing cancer,neurological,and vascular diseases,including image-guided endoscopy and wearable imaging.
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