In this paper we examine the possibility of using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve academic advisement of students within the school of computing and informationtechnology (SCIT) at the University of Technolog...
In this paper we examine the possibility of using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve academic advisement of students within the school of computing and informationtechnology (SCIT) at the University of technology, Jamaica (Utech). Described as one of the important challenges facing academics [1], academic advisement plays a vital role in student completion. All students at Utech are assigned academic advisors and encouraged to access advisors for advisement. Each faculty manages the process internally. Students are not mandated to seek advisement but are strongly encouraged to do so to allow them to make informed choices related to module selection, academic probation, grade forgiveness, etc. Within SCIT the rate of take up is less than desired resulting in some students going on academic probation, having to switch programs in some cases or failing out of their program. We will explore the automation of the academic advisement process by using AI to push relevant information to students related to their performance. The system will be coded to recognize common situations and contact the students providing information relevant to the situation and schedule an advisement session with the academic advisor (AA).
Federated recommender systems(FedRecs) have garnered increasing attention recently, thanks to their privacypreserving benefits. However, the decentralized and open characteristics of current FedRecs present at least t...
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Federated recommender systems(FedRecs) have garnered increasing attention recently, thanks to their privacypreserving benefits. However, the decentralized and open characteristics of current FedRecs present at least two ***, the performance of FedRecs is compromised due to highly sparse on-device data for each client. Second, the system's robustness is undermined by the vulnerability to model poisoning attacks launched by malicious users. In this paper, we introduce a novel contrastive learning framework designed to fully leverage the client's sparse data through embedding augmentation, referred to as CL4FedRec. Unlike previous contrastive learning approaches in FedRecs that necessitate clients to share their private parameters, our CL4FedRec aligns with the basic FedRec learning protocol, ensuring compatibility with most existing FedRec implementations. We then evaluate the robustness of FedRecs equipped with CL4FedRec by subjecting it to several state-of-the-art model poisoning attacks. Surprisingly, our observations reveal that contrastive learning tends to exacerbate the vulnerability of FedRecs to these attacks. This is attributed to the enhanced embedding uniformity, making the polluted target item embedding easily proximate to popular items. Based on this insight, we propose an enhanced and robust version of CL4FedRec(rCL4FedRec) by introducing a regularizer to maintain the distance among item embeddings with different popularity levels. Extensive experiments conducted on four commonly used recommendation datasets demonstrate that rCL4FedRec significantly enhances both the model's performance and the robustness of FedRecs.
Solar flares are one of the strongest outbursts of solar activity,posing a serious threat to Earth’s critical infrastructure,such as communications,navigation,power,and ***,it is essential to accurately predict solar...
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Solar flares are one of the strongest outbursts of solar activity,posing a serious threat to Earth’s critical infrastructure,such as communications,navigation,power,and ***,it is essential to accurately predict solar flares in order to ensure the safety of human ***,the research focuses on two directions:first,identifying predictors with more physical information and higher prediction accuracy,and second,building flare prediction models that can effectively handle complex observational *** terms of flare observability and predictability,this paper analyses multiple dimensions of solar flare observability and evaluates the potential of observational parameters in *** flare prediction models,the paper focuses on data-driven models and physical models,with an emphasis on the advantages of deep learning techniques in dealing with complex and high-dimensional *** reviewing existing traditional machine learning,deep learning,and fusion methods,the key roles of these techniques in improving prediction accuracy and efficiency are *** prevailing challenges,this study discusses the main challenges currently faced in solar flare prediction,such as the complexity of flare samples,the multimodality of observational data,and the interpretability of *** conclusion summarizes these findings and proposes future research directions and potential technology advancement.
Compared with traditional environments,the cloud environment exposes online services to additional vulnerabilities and threats of cyber attacks,and the cyber security of cloud platforms is becoming increasingly promin...
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Compared with traditional environments,the cloud environment exposes online services to additional vulnerabilities and threats of cyber attacks,and the cyber security of cloud platforms is becoming increasingly prominent.A piece of code,known as a Webshell,is usually uploaded to the target servers to achieve multiple *** Webshell attacks has become a hot spot in current ***,the traditional Webshell detectors are not built for the cloud,making it highly difficult to play a defensive role in the cloud ***,a Webshell detection system based on deep learning that is successfully applied in various scenarios,is proposed in this *** system contains two important components:gray-box and neural network *** gray-box analyzer defines a series of rules and algorithms for extracting static and dynamic behaviors from the code to make the decision *** neural network analyzer transforms suspicious code into Operation Code(OPCODE)sequences,turning the detection task into a classification *** experiment results show that SmartEagleEye achieves an encouraging high detection rate and an acceptable false-positive rate,which indicate its capability to provide good protection for the cloud environment.
Sparse Knowledge Graph(KG)scenarios pose a challenge for previous Knowledge Graph Completion(KGC)methods,that is,the completion performance decreases rapidly with the increase of graph *** problem is also exacerbated ...
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Sparse Knowledge Graph(KG)scenarios pose a challenge for previous Knowledge Graph Completion(KGC)methods,that is,the completion performance decreases rapidly with the increase of graph *** problem is also exacerbated because of the widespread existence of sparse KGs in practical *** alleviate this challenge,we present a novel framework,LR-GCN,that is able to automatically capture valuable long-range dependency among entities to supplement insufficient structure features and distill logical reasoning knowledge for sparse *** proposed approach comprises two main components:a GNN-based predictor and a reasoning path *** reasoning path distiller explores high-order graph structures such as reasoning paths and encodes them as rich-semantic edges,explicitly compositing long-range dependencies into the *** step also plays an essential role in densifying KGs,effectively alleviating the sparse ***,the path distiller further distills logical reasoning knowledge from these mined reasoning paths into the *** two components are jointly optimized using a well-designed variational EM *** experiments and analyses on four sparse benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method.
According to World Health Organization (WHO), it is estimated that approximately 50 million people have Epilepsy worldwide. 10 million people are effected in India by Epilepsy hardly very few come out with the disorde...
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Multi-View Stereo (MVS) is a long-standing and fundamental task in computer vision, which aims to reconstruct the 3D geometry of a scene from a set of overlapping images. With known camera parameters, MVS matches pixe...
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Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) are dedicated forms of wireless communication networks designed to handle the challenges of vehicular environments, including high mobility, varying traffic densities, and constantly...
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Nowadays,with the widespread application of the Internet of Things(IoT),mobile devices are renovating our *** data generated by mobile devices has reached a massive *** traditional centralized processing is not suitab...
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Nowadays,with the widespread application of the Internet of Things(IoT),mobile devices are renovating our *** data generated by mobile devices has reached a massive *** traditional centralized processing is not suitable for processing the data due to limited computing power and transmission *** Edge computing(MEC)has been proposed to solve these *** of limited computation ability and battery capacity,tasks can be executed in the MEC ***,how to schedule those tasks becomes a challenge,and is the main topic of this *** this paper,we design an efficient intelligent algorithm to jointly optimize energy cost and computing resource allocation in *** view of the advantages of deep learning,we propose a Deep Learning-Based Traffic Scheduling Approach(DLTSA).We translate the scheduling problem into a classification *** demonstrates that our DLTSA approach can reduce energy cost and have better performance compared to traditional scheduling algorithms.
Background: Software Measurement (SM) is pivotal for efficient planning, scheduling, tracking, and controlling software projects, which significantly affects the success or failure of a project. Machine Learning (ML) ...
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