Knowledge elicitation is difficult for expert systems that are based on probability theory. The elicitation of probabilities for a probabilistic model requires a lot of time and interaction between the knowledge engin...
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In this paper, we try to estimate Japan's cabinet approval ratings by using neural networks. In addition, we try to extract the important features in input patterns. This is the first attempt to use neural network...
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(纸本)9780889866317
In this paper, we try to estimate Japan's cabinet approval ratings by using neural networks. In addition, we try to extract the important features in input patterns. This is the first attempt to use neural networks and to interpret the mechanism of inference for approval estimation in a comprehensive way. Experimental results show that neural networks have much better performance than that obtained by the standard regression analysis in terms of training and testing errors. The information loss analysis reveals that the first variable, that is, the previous ratings should play the most important role in inference. Though the experimental result here shown is a preliminary one, it certainly suggests a possibility of the automatic inference of cabinet approval ratings.
In this paper, we propose a new type of information-theoretic approach to variable selection. Many approaches have been proposed in estimating the importance of input variables. The majority of these approaches have f...
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In this paper, we propose a new type of information-theoretic approach to variable selection. Many approaches have been proposed in estimating the importance of input variables. The majority of these approaches have focused upon output errors. We here introduce an approach concerning internal representations. First, we delete an input unit with corresponding connection weights. Then, by examining some change in hidden unit activation with and without a input variable, we can extract an important variable. We apply this method to an artificial data in which the number of hidden units is redundantly increased so as to clearly show improved performance and the stability of our method. Then, we apply the method to the cabinet approval ratings in which better interpretation of input variables can be given
Mobile Learning makes students get the advantages of both traditional learning and e-learning. How to give students learning sequence suggestions in the mobile learning environment is a big issue and is also the goal ...
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Mobile Learning makes students get the advantages of both traditional learning and e-learning. How to give students learning sequence suggestions in the mobile learning environment is a big issue and is also the goal of this paper. This research uses knowledge map to store the characteristics of each learning object and designs a situated map to represent spatial knowledge in the mobile learning environment. By using these two knowledge structures, knowledge map and situated map, the system created by this research can generate various navigation sentences and ask students to observe the characteristics of learning objects. This research also takes information theory into consideration in order to decide which navigation sentence should deliver to the student first. The system calculates the entropy for each generated sentence and finds the most appropriate one to deliver to the student. At the end of this paper, an experiment system is implemented for the 5th year biology course, Plant Observation.
This paper provides an overview of quantitative and qualitative outcome of the national program for e-learning in Taiwan (ELNP for short). The national program was planned and initiated in 2002 by the National science...
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This paper provides an overview of quantitative and qualitative outcome of the national program for e-learning in Taiwan (ELNP for short). The national program was planned and initiated in 2002 by the National science Council. Taiwan government wished to promote e-learning industry and make all people have same opportunity to learn knowledge via e-learning. A five-year national program for e-learning started from 2003. This paper shows both of quantitative and qualitative outcomes of national program in the past four years from four different ways: public welfare, academic researching output, e-learning industry, technological results.
It is important for students getting suitable feedback information when either they are doing or completing a learning activity. This research tries to know what kind of feedback message is really useful to students. ...
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It is important for students getting suitable feedback information when either they are doing or completing a learning activity. This research tries to know what kind of feedback message is really useful to students. For this purpose, this paper develops a workable e-learning environment with feedback mechanism to gather the learning effects of students with different kinds of feedbacks. The experiment involves five fifth-grade classes and divides five classes into three different groups. The students in the control group have no feedback and students in the other two groups have different kinds of feedback messages. The analysis of experiment data contains two parts: the first one evaluates the feedback efficiencies for all groups;and, then all students will be separated into three clusters based on their academic achievement in order to do further analysis.
The WATERS Network (WATer and Environmental Research Systems Network) will be an integrated real-time distributed observing system which will enable academic and government scientists, engineers, educators, and practi...
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We propose a new feature selection procedure based on a combination of a pruning algorithm, Apriori mining techniques and fuzzy C-mean clustering. The feature selection algorithm is designed to mine on a multiresoluti...
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(纸本)9078677015
We propose a new feature selection procedure based on a combination of a pruning algorithm, Apriori mining techniques and fuzzy C-mean clustering. The feature selection algorithm is designed to mine on a multiresolution filter bank composed of rotationally invariant moments. The numerical experiments, with more than 10,000 images, demonstrate an accuracy increase of about 5% for a low noise, 15% for an average noise and 20% for a high-level noise.
In the treasure hunting process, the hunters could only get few hints with simple words, therefore they must think over with the experience they learned before. The goal of this paper is to propose a treasure hunting ...
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This paper describes an approach for generating customized benchmark applications from a software architecture description using a Model Driven Architecture (MDA) approach. The benchmark generation and performance dat...
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(纸本)0769525482
This paper describes an approach for generating customized benchmark applications from a software architecture description using a Model Driven Architecture (MDA) approach. The benchmark generation and performance data capture tool implementation is based on widely used open source MDA frameworks. The business logic of the benchmark application is modeled in UML and generated by taking advantage of the existing generation "cartridges" so that the current component technology can be exploited in the benchmark. This greatly reduces the effort and expertise needed for benchmarking with complex component technology. We have also extended the MDA framework to model and generate a load testing suite and automatic performance measurement infrastructure. The approach complements current model-based performance prediction and analysis methods by generating the benchmark application from the same application architecture that the performance models are derived from. This provides the potential for tightly integrating runtime performance measurement with model-based prediction either for model validation or improving model prediction accuracy, We illustrate the approach using a case study based on EJB component technology.
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