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Abstract: The emerging Web of Data utilizes the web infrastructure to represent and interrelate data. The foundational standards of the Web of Data include the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and the Resource Description Framework (RDF). URIs are used to identify resources and RDF is used to relate resources. While R... |
Title: Finding Anomalous Periodic Time Series: An Application to Catalogs of Periodic Variable Stars |
Abstract: Catalogs of periodic variable stars contain large numbers of periodic light-curves (photometric time series data from the astrophysics domain). Separating anomalous objects from well-known classes is an important step towards the discovery of new classes of astronomical objects. Most anomaly detection methods... |
Title: The sensitivity of linear regression coefficients' confidence limits to the omission of a confounder |
Abstract: Omitted variable bias can affect treatment effect estimates obtained from observational data due to the lack of random assignment to treatment groups. Sensitivity analyses adjust these estimates to quantify the impact of potential omitted variables. This paper presents methods of sensitivity analysis to adjus... |
Title: Quantum Annealing for Clustering |
Abstract: This paper studies quantum annealing (QA) for clustering, which can be seen as an extension of simulated annealing (SA). We derive a QA algorithm for clustering and propose an annealing schedule, which is crucial in practice. Experiments show the proposed QA algorithm finds better clustering assignments than ... |
Title: Quantum Annealing for Variational Bayes Inference |
Abstract: This paper presents studies on a deterministic annealing algorithm based on quantum annealing for variational Bayes (QAVB) inference, which can be seen as an extension of the simulated annealing for variational Bayes (SAVB) inference. QAVB is as easy as SAVB to implement. Experiments revealed QAVB finds a bet... |
Title: Profiling of a network behind an infectious disease outbreak |
Abstract: Stochasticity and spatial heterogeneity are of great interest recently in studying the spread of an infectious disease. The presented method solves an inverse problem to discover the effectively decisive topology of a heterogeneous network and reveal the transmission parameters which govern the stochastic spr... |
Title: Coevolutionary Genetic Algorithms for Establishing Nash Equilibrium in Symmetric Cournot Games |
Abstract: We use co-evolutionary genetic algorithms to model the players' learning process in several Cournot models, and evaluate them in terms of their convergence to the Nash Equilibrium. The "social-learning" versions of the two co-evolutionary algorithms we introduce, establish Nash Equilibrium in those models, in... |
Title: Where are the really hard manipulation problems? The phase transition in manipulating the veto rule |
Abstract: Voting is a simple mechanism to aggregate the preferences of agents. Many voting rules have been shown to be NP-hard to manipulate. However, a number of recent theoretical results suggest that this complexity may only be in the worst-case since manipulation is often easy in practice. In this paper, we show th... |
Title: Decompositions of All Different, Global Cardinality and Related Constraints |
Abstract: We show that some common and important global constraints like ALL-DIFFERENT and GCC can be decomposed into simple arithmetic constraints on which we achieve bound or range consistency, and in some cases even greater pruning. These decompositions can be easily added to new solvers. They also provide other con... |
Title: Circuit Complexity and Decompositions of Global Constraints |
Abstract: We show that tools from circuit complexity can be used to study decompositions of global constraints. In particular, we study decompositions of global constraints into conjunctive normal form with the property that unit propagation on the decomposition enforces the same level of consistency as a specialized p... |
Title: Scenario-based Stochastic Constraint Programming |
Abstract: To model combinatorial decision problems involving uncertainty and probability, we extend the stochastic constraint programming framework proposed in [Walsh, 2002] along a number of important dimensions (e.g. to multiple chance constraints and to a range of new objectives). We also provide a new (but equivale... |
Title: Reasoning about soft constraints and conditional preferences: complexity results and approximation techniques |
Abstract: Many real life optimization problems contain both hard and soft constraints, as well as qualitative conditional preferences. However, there is no single formalism to specify all three kinds of information. We therefore propose a framework, based on both CP-nets and soft constraints, that handles both hard and... |
Title: Multiset Ordering Constraints |
Abstract: We identify a new and important global (or non-binary) constraint. This constraint ensures that the values taken by two vectors of variables, when viewed as multisets, are ordered. This constraint is useful for a number of different applications including breaking symmetry and fuzzy constraint satisfaction. W... |
Title: Tag Clouds for Displaying Semantics: The Case of Filmscripts |
Abstract: We relate tag clouds to other forms of visualization, including planar or reduced dimensionality mapping, and Kohonen self-organizing maps. Using a modified tag cloud visualization, we incorporate other information into it, including text sequence and most pertinent words. Our notion of word pertinence goes b... |
Title: Swap Bribery |
Abstract: In voting theory, bribery is a form of manipulative behavior in which an external actor (the briber) offers to pay the voters to change their votes in order to get her preferred candidate elected. We investigate a model of bribery where the price of each vote depends on the amount of change that the voter is ... |
Title: A New Solution to the Relative Orientation Problem using only 3 Points and the Vertical Direction |
Abstract: This paper presents a new method to recover the relative pose between two images, using three points and the vertical direction information. The vertical direction can be determined in two ways: 1- using direct physical measurement like IMU (inertial measurement unit), 2- using vertical vanishing point. This ... |
Title: Optimal byzantine resilient convergence in oblivious robot networks |
Abstract: Given a set of robots with arbitrary initial location and no agreement on a global coordinate system, convergence requires that all robots asymptotically approach the exact same, but unknown beforehand, location. Robots are oblivious-- they do not recall the past computations -- and are allowed to move in a o... |
Title: Transfer Learning Using Feature Selection |
Abstract: We present three related ways of using Transfer Learning to improve feature selection. The three methods address different problems, and hence share different kinds of information between tasks or feature classes, but all three are based on the information theoretic Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle ... |
Title: Normalized Web Distance and Word Similarity |
Abstract: There is a great deal of work in cognitive psychology, linguistics, and computer science, about using word (or phrase) frequencies in context in text corpora to develop measures for word similarity or word association, going back to at least the 1960s. The goal of this chapter is to introduce the normalizedis... |
Title: Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Markov Chains |
Abstract: A new approach for optimal estimation of Markov chains with sparse transition matrices is presented. |
Title: Characterizing predictable classes of processes |
Abstract: The problem is sequence prediction in the following setting. A sequence $x_1,...,x_n,...$ of discrete-valued observations is generated according to some unknown probabilistic law (measure) $\mu$. After observing each outcome, it is required to give the conditional probabilities of the next observation. The me... |
Title: Automating Quantified Multimodal Logics in Simple Type Theory -- A Case Study |
Abstract: In a case study we investigate whether off the shelf higher-order theorem provers and model generators can be employed to automate reasoning in and about quantified multimodal logics. In our experiments we exploit the new TPTP infrastructure for classical higher-order logic. |
Title: Information Modeling for a Dynamic Representation of an Emergency Situation |
Abstract: In this paper we propose an approach to build a decision support system that can help emergency planners and responders to detect and manage emergency situations. The internal mechanism of the system is independent from the treated application. Therefore, we think the system may be used or adapted easily to d... |
Title: Weak Evolvability Equals Strong Evolvability |
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Title: Considerations on Construction Ontologies |
Abstract: The paper proposes an analysis on some existent ontologies, in order to point out ways to resolve semantic heterogeneity in information systems. Authors are highlighting the tasks in a Knowledge Acquisiton System and identifying aspects related to the addition of new information to an intelligent system. A so... |
Title: A black box method for solving the complex exponentials approximation problem |
Abstract: A common problem, arising in many different applied contexts, consists in estimating the number of exponentially damped sinusoids whose weighted sum best fits a finite set of noisy data and in estimating their parameters. Many different methods exist to this purpose. The best of them are based on approximate ... |
Title: A Logic Programming Approach to Activity Recognition |
Abstract: We have been developing a system for recognising human activity given a symbolic representation of video content. The input of our system is a set of time-stamped short-term activities detected on video frames. The output of our system is a set of recognised long-term activities, which are pre-defined tempora... |
Title: Mining Generalized Patterns from Large Databases using Ontologies |
Abstract: Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a mathematical theory based on the formalization of the notions of concept and concept hierarchies. It has been successfully applied to several Computer Science fields such as data mining,software engineering, and knowledge engineering, and in many domains like medicine, psych... |
Title: Divide and Conquer: Partitioning Online Social Networks |
Abstract: Online Social Networks (OSNs) have exploded in terms of scale and scope over the last few years. The unprecedented growth of these networks present challenges in terms of system design and maintenance. One way to cope with this is by partitioning such large networks and assigning these partitions to different... |
Title: A Minimum Description Length Approach to Multitask Feature Selection |
Abstract: Many regression problems involve not one but several response variables (y's). Often the responses are suspected to share a common underlying structure, in which case it may be advantageous to share information across them; this is known as multitask learning. As a special case, we can use multiple responses ... |
Title: A Walk in Facebook: Uniform Sampling of Users in Online Social Networks |
Abstract: Our goal in this paper is to develop a practical framework for obtaining a uniform sample of users in an online social network (OSN) by crawling its social graph. Such a sample allows to estimate any user property and some topological properties as well. To this end, first, we consider and compare several can... |
Title: Effect of indirect dependencies on "Maximum likelihood blind separation of two quantum states (qubits) with cylindrical-symmetry Heisenberg spin coupling" |
Abstract: In a previous paper [1], we investigated the Blind Source Separation (BSS) problem, for the nonlinear mixing model that we introduced in that paper. We proposed to solve this problem by using a maximum likelihood (ML) approach. When applying the ML approach to BSS problems, one usually determines the analytic... |
Title: Managing Distributed MARF with SNMP |
Abstract: The scope of this project's work focuses on the research and prototyping of the extension of the Distributed MARF such that its services can be managed through the most popular management protocol familiarly, SNMP. The rationale behind SNMP vs. MARF's proprietary management protocols, is that can be integrate... |
Title: A note on Influence diagnostics in nonlinear mixed-effects elliptical models |
Abstract: This paper provides general matrix formulas for computing the score function, the (expected and observed) Fisher information and the $\Delta$ matrices (required for the assessment of local influence) for a quite general model which includes the one proposed by Russo et al. (2009). Additionally, we also presen... |
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