A key challenge in recommender systems is how to profile new-users. This problem is called cold-start problem or new-user prob-lem. A well-known solution for this problem is to use active learning techniques and ask n...
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Transportation is a crucial cog within the cog-wheel of our economies and modern lifestyles. Unfortunately, both the rising cost of energy production and the increasing demand for transportation pose the challenge of ...
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Transportation is a crucial cog within the cog-wheel of our economies and modern lifestyles. Unfortunately, both the rising cost of energy production and the increasing demand for transportation pose the challenge of minimizing the energy consumption of automobiles. This paper proposes an offline driver behavior adaptation approach (eco-driving) for trains. An optimal driving behavior policy is computed using Simulated Annealing optimization search over a collection of real driving behavior data (realistic policy). Empirical findings show that if drivers would follow the recommended optimal policy, then an energy saving of up to 50 % is a realistic upper bound potential.
Usually, in intelligent tutoring systems the task sequencing is done by means of expert and domain knowledge. In a former work we presented a new efficient task sequencer without using the expensive expert and domain ...
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Usually, in intelligent tutoring systems the task sequencing is done by means of expert and domain knowledge. In a former work we presented a new efficient task sequencer without using the expensive expert and domain knowledge. This task sequencer only uses former performances and decides about the next task according to Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development, that is to neither bore nor frustrate the student. We aim to support this task sequencer by a further automatically to gain information, namely students affect recognized from his speech input. However, the collection of the data from children needed for training an affect recognizer in this field is challenging as it is costly and complex and one has to consider privacy issues carefully. These problems lead to small data sets and limited performances of classification methods. Hence, in this work we propose an approach for improving the affect recognition in intelligent tutoring systems, which uses a special structure of several support vector machines with different input feature vectors. Furthermore, we propose a new kind of features for this problem. Different experiments with two real data sets show, that our approach is able to improve the classification performance on average by 49% in comparison to using a single classifier.
A common problem when trying to apply data mining techniques to improve educational systems is the disconnection between those who have the expertise (e.g. Universities) and those who have access to the data (e.g. Sma...
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A common problem when trying to apply data mining techniques to improve educational systems is the disconnection between those who have the expertise (e.g. Universities) and those who have access to the data (e.g. Small companies). Bringing expertise into educational in-production systems is complicated because companies are reluctant to invest a lot of effort into integrating new technology that they do not fully trust, while the technology cannot prove its worth without access to real, valid data. In this paper we explore the requirements that machinelearningsystems have to be applied to specific learning problems (sequencing and performance prediction), and then propose a minimally invasive protocol for sequencing (based on web services) to easily integrate learning Analytics Services into e-learningsystems.
Move prediction systems have always been part of strong Go programs. Recent research has revealed that taking interactions between features into account improves the performance of move predictions. In this paper, a f...
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In this paper we present our approach for the Social Event Detection Task 1 of the MediaEval 2013. We address the problem of event detection and clustering by learning a distance measure between two images in a superv...
In this paper we present our approach for the Social Event Detection Task 1 of the MediaEval 2013. We address the problem of event detection and clustering by learning a distance measure between two images in a supervised way. Then, we apply a variant of the Quality Threshold clustering to detect events and assign the images accordingly. We can show that the performance measures do not decrease for an increasing number of documents and report the results achieved for the challenge.
Dimensionality reduction is a crucial ingredient of machinelearning and data mining, boosting classification accuracy through the isolation of patterns via omission of noise. Nevertheless, recent studies have shown t...
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Time-series classification has gained wide attention within the machinelearning community, due to its large range of applicability varying from medical diagnosis, financial markets, up to shape and trajectory classif...
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Most of the artificial intelligence and machinelearning researches deal with big data today. However, there are still a lot of real world problems for which only small and noisy data sets exist. Hence, in this paper ...
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Most of the artificial intelligence and machinelearning researches deal with big data today. However, there are still a lot of real world problems for which only small and noisy data sets exist. Hence, in this paper we focus on those small data sets of noisy images. Applying learning models to such data may not lead to the best possible results because of few and noisy training examples. We propose a hybrid neural network plait for improving the classification performance of state-of-the-art learning models applied to the images of such data sets. The improvement is reached by (1) using additionally to the images different further side information delivering different feature sets and requiring different learning models, (2) retraining all different learning models interactively within one common structure. The proposed hybrid neural network plait architecture reached in the experiments with 2 different data sets on average a classification performance improvement of 40% and 52% compared to a single convolutional neural network and 13% and 17% compared to a stacking ensemble method.
A key challenge in recommender systems is how to profile new users. A well-known solution for this problem is to use active learning techniques and ask the new user to rate a few items to reveal her preferences. The s...
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A key challenge in recommender systems is how to profile new users. A well-known solution for this problem is to use active learning techniques and ask the new user to rate a few items to reveal her preferences. The sequence of queries should not be static, i.e in each step the best query depends on the responses of the new user to the previous queries. Decision trees have been proposed to capture the dynamic aspect of this process. In this paper we improve decision trees in two ways. First, we propose the Most Popular Sampling (MPS) method to increase the speed of the tree construction. In each node, instead of checking all candidate items, only those which are popular among users associated with the node are examined. Second, we develop a new algorithm to build decision trees. It is called Factorized Decision Trees (FDT) and exploits matrix factorization to predict the ratings at nodes of the tree. The experimental results on the Netflix dataset show that both contributions are successful. The MPS increases the speed of the tree construction without harming the accuracy. And FDT improves the accuracy of rating predictions especially in the last queries.
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