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CT-NOR: Representing and Reasoning About Events in Continuous Time
cs.AI
We present a generative model for representing and reasoning about the relationships among events in continuous time. We apply the model to the domain of networked and distributed computing environments where we fit the parameters of the model from timestamp observations, and then use hypothesis testing to discover dep...
computer science
36,308
A Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Inference in Recursive Probabilistic Programs
cs.AI
We describe a dynamic programming algorithm for computing the marginal distribution of discrete probabilistic programs. This algorithm takes a functional interpreter for an arbitrary probabilistic programming language and turns it into an efficient marginalizer. Because direct caching of sub-distributions is impossible...
computer science
36,309
A Linear-Programming Approximation of AC Power Flows
cs.AI
Linear active-power-only DC power flow approximations are pervasive in the planning and control of power systems. However, these approximations fail to capture reactive power and voltage magnitudes, both of which are necessary in many applications to ensure voltage stability and AC power flow feasibility. This paper pr...
computer science
36,310
Alan Turing and the "Hard" and "Easy" Problem of Cognition: Doing and Feeling
cs.AI
The "easy" problem of cognitive science is explaining how and why we can do what we can do. The "hard" problem is explaining how and why we feel. Turing's methodology for cognitive science (the Turing Test) is based on doing: Design a model that can do anything a human can do, indistinguishably from a human, to a human...
computer science
36,311
Information Retrieval in Intelligent Systems: Current Scenario & Issues
cs.IR
Web space is the huge repository of data. Everyday lots of new information get added to this web space. The more the information, more is demand for tools to access that information. Answering users' queries about the online information intelligently is one of the great challenges in information retrieval in intelligen...
computer science
36,312
An Improved Gauss-Newtons Method based Back-propagation Algorithm for Fast Convergence
cs.AI
The present work deals with an improved back-propagation algorithm based on Gauss-Newton numerical optimization method for fast convergence. The steepest descent method is used for the back-propagation. The algorithm is tested using various datasets and compared with the steepest descent back-propagation algorithm. In ...
computer science
36,313
Latent Collaborative Retrieval
cs.IR
Retrieval tasks typically require a ranking of items given a query. Collaborative filtering tasks, on the other hand, learn to model user's preferences over items. In this paper we study the joint problem of recommending items to a user with respect to a given query, which is a surprisingly common task. This setup diff...
computer science
36,314
Large-Flip Importance Sampling
stat.CO
We propose a new Monte Carlo algorithm for complex discrete distributions. The algorithm is motivated by the N-Fold Way, which is an ingenious event-driven MCMC sampler that avoids rejection moves at any specific state. The N-Fold Way can however get "trapped" in cycles. We surmount this problem by modifying the sampli...
computer science
36,315
Causal Reasoning in Graphical Time Series Models
stat.ME
We propose a definition of causality for time series in terms of the effect of an intervention in one component of a multivariate time series on another component at some later point in time. Conditions for identifiability, comparable to the back-door and front-door criteria, are presented and can also be verified grap...
computer science
36,316
Probabilistic Models for Anomaly Detection in Remote Sensor Data Streams
cs.AI
Remote sensors are becoming the standard for observing and recording ecological data in the field. Such sensors can record data at fine temporal resolutions, and they can operate under extreme conditions prohibitive to human access. Unfortunately, sensor data streams exhibit many kinds of errors ranging from corrupt co...
computer science
36,317
Reachability Under Uncertainty
cs.DS
In this paper we introduce a new network reachability problem where the goal is to find the most reliable path between two nodes in a network, represented as a directed acyclic graph. Individual edges within this network may fail according to certain probabilities, and these failure probabilities may depend on the valu...
computer science
36,318
Evaluation of the Causal Effect of Control Plans in Nonrecursive Structural Equation Models
stat.ME
When observational data is available from practical studies and a directed cyclic graph for how various variables affect each other is known based on substantive understanding of the process, we consider a problem in which a control plan of a treatment variable is conducted in order to bring a response variable close t...
computer science
36,319
Polynomial Constraints in Causal Bayesian Networks
cs.AI
We use the implicitization procedure to generate polynomial equality constraints on the set of distributions induced by local interventions on variables governed by a causal Bayesian network with hidden variables. We show how we may reduce the complexity of the implicitization problem and make the problem tractable in ...
computer science
36,320
Making life better one large system at a time: Challenges for UAI research
cs.SE
The rapid growth and diversity in service offerings and the ensuing complexity of information technology ecosystems present numerous management challenges (both operational and strategic). Instrumentation and measurement technology is, by and large, keeping pace with this development and growth. However, the algorithms...
computer science
36,321
Ranking Under Uncertainty
cs.AI
Ranking objects is a simple and natural procedure for organizing data. It is often performed by assigning a quality score to each object according to its relevance to the problem at hand. Ranking is widely used for object selection, when resources are limited and it is necessary to select a subset of most relevant obje...
computer science
36,322
Importance Sampling via Variational Optimization
stat.CO
Computing the exact likelihood of data in large Bayesian networks consisting of thousands of vertices is often a difficult task. When these models contain many deterministic conditional probability tables and when the observed values are extremely unlikely even alternative algorithms such as variational methods and sto...
computer science
36,323
Constrained Automated Mechanism Design for Infinite Games of Incomplete Information
cs.GT
We present a functional framework for automated mechanism design based on a two-stage game model of strategic interaction between the designer and the mechanism participants, and apply it to several classes of two-player infinite games of incomplete information. At the core of our framework is a black-box optimization ...
computer science
36,324
A Criterion for Parameter Identification in Structural Equation Models
stat.ME
This paper deals with the problem of identifying direct causal effects in recursive linear structural equation models. The paper establishes a sufficient criterion for identifying individual causal effects and provides a procedure computing identified causal effects in terms of observed covariance matrix.
computer science
36,325
Predicting the behavior of interacting humans by fusing data from multiple sources
cs.AI
Multi-fidelity methods combine inexpensive low-fidelity simulations with costly but high-fidelity simulations to produce an accurate model of a system of interest at minimal cost. They have proven useful in modeling physical systems and have been applied to engineering problems such as wing-design optimization. During ...
computer science
36,326
The observational roots of reference of the semantic web
cs.AI
Shared reference is an essential aspect of meaning. It is also indispensable for the semantic web, since it enables to weave the global graph, i.e., it allows different users to contribute to an identical referent. For example, an essential kind of referent is a geographic place, to which users may contribute observati...
computer science
36,327
Extension of Three-Variable Counterfactual Casual Graphic Model: from Two-Value to Three-Value Random Variable
stat.ME
The extension of counterfactual causal graphic model with three variables of vertex set in directed acyclic graph (DAG) is discussed in this paper by extending two- value distribution to three-value distribution of the variables involved in DAG. Using the conditional independence as ancillary information, 6 kinds of ex...
computer science
36,328
Sensitivity Analysis for Threshold Decision Making with Dynamic Networks
cs.AI
The effect of inaccuracies in the parameters of a dynamic Bayesian network can be investigated by subjecting the network to a sensitivity analysis. Having detailed the resulting sensitivity functions in our previous work, we now study the effect of parameter inaccuracies on a recommended decision in view of a threshold...
computer science
36,329
Optimal Coordinated Planning Amongst Self-Interested Agents with Private State
cs.GT
Consider a multi-agent system in a dynamic and uncertain environment. Each agent's local decision problem is modeled as a Markov decision process (MDP) and agents must coordinate on a joint action in each period, which provides a reward to each agent and causes local state transitions. A social planner knows the model ...
computer science
36,330
Graphical Condition for Identification in recursive SEM
cs.AI
The paper concerns the problem of predicting the effect of actions or interventions on a system from a combination of (i) statistical data on a set of observed variables, and (ii) qualitative causal knowledge encoded in the form of a directed acyclic graph (DAG). The DAG represents a set of linear equations called Stru...
computer science
36,331
Non-Minimal Triangulations for Mixed Stochastic/Deterministic Graphical Models
cs.AI
We observe that certain large-clique graph triangulations can be useful to reduce both computational and space requirements when making queries on mixed stochastic/deterministic graphical models. We demonstrate that many of these large-clique triangulations are non-minimal and are thus unattainable via the variable eli...
computer science
36,332
Inequality Constraints in Causal Models with Hidden Variables
cs.AI
We present a class of inequality constraints on the set of distributions induced by local interventions on variables governed by a causal Bayesian network, in which some of the variables remain unmeasured. We derive bounds on causal effects that are not directly measured in randomized experiments. We derive instrumenta...
computer science
36,333
Adjacency-Faithfulness and Conservative Causal Inference
cs.AI
Most causal inference algorithms in the literature (e.g., Pearl (2000), Spirtes et al. (2000), Heckerman et al. (1999)) exploit an assumption usually referred to as the causal Faithfulness or Stability condition. In this paper, we highlight two components of the condition used in constraint-based algorithms, which we c...
computer science
36,334
A theoretical study of Y structures for causal discovery
cs.AI
There are several existing algorithms that under appropriate assumptions can reliably identify a subset of the underlying causal relationships from observational data. This paper introduces the first computationally feasible score-based algorithm that can reliably identify causal relationships in the large sample limit...
computer science
36,335
Stratified Analysis of `Probabilities of Causation'
stat.ME
This paper proposes new formulas for the probabilities of causation difined by Pearl (2000). Tian and Pearl (2000a, 2000b) showed how to bound the quantities of the probabilities of causation from experimental and observational data, under the minimal assumptions about the data-generating process. We derive narrower bo...
computer science
36,336
Axiomatic Foundations for a Class of Generalized Expected Utility: Algebraic Expected Utility
cs.AI
Expected Utility: Algebraic Expected Utility In this paper, we provide two axiomatizations of algebraic expected utility, which is a particular generalized expected utility, in a von Neumann-Morgenstern setting, i.e. uncertainty representation is supposed to be given and here to be described by a plausibility measure v...
computer science
36,337
Bayesian Inference for Gaussian Mixed Graph Models
stat.ME
We introduce priors and algorithms to perform Bayesian inference in Gaussian models defined by acyclic directed mixed graphs. Such a class of graphs, composed of directed and bi-directed edges, is a representation of conditional independencies that is closed under marginalization and arises naturally from causal models...
computer science
36,338
Identification of Conditional Interventional Distributions
cs.AI
The subject of this paper is the elucidation of effects of actions from causal assumptions represented as a directed graph, and statistical knowledge given as a probability distribution. In particular, we are interested in predicting conditional distributions resulting from performing an action on a set of variables an...
computer science
36,339
Inference in Hybrid Bayesian Networks Using Mixtures of Gaussians
cs.AI
The main goal of this paper is to describe a method for exact inference in general hybrid Bayesian networks (BNs) (with a mixture of discrete and continuous chance variables). Our method consists of approximating general hybrid Bayesian networks by a mixture of Gaussians (MoG) BNs. There exists a fast algorithm by Laur...
computer science
36,340
Computing Strong and Weak Permissions in Defeasible Logic
cs.LO
In this paper we propose an extension of Defeasible Logic to represent and compute three concepts of defeasible permission. In particular, we discuss different types of explicit permissive norms that work as exceptions to opposite obligations. Moreover, we show how strong permissions can be represented both with, and w...
computer science
36,341
Compositional Stochastic Modeling and Probabilistic Programming
cs.AI
Probabilistic programming is related to a compositional approach to stochastic modeling by switching from discrete to continuous time dynamics. In continuous time, an operator-algebra semantics is available in which processes proceeding in parallel (and possibly interacting) have summed time-evolution operators. From t...
computer science
36,342
A simple method for decision making in robocup soccer simulation 3d environment
cs.AI
In this paper new hierarchical hybrid fuzzy-crisp methods for decision making and action selection of an agent in soccer simulation 3D environment are presented. First, the skills of an agent are introduced, implemented and classified in two layers, the basicskills and the highlevel skills. In the second layer, a twoph...
computer science
36,343
Testing the AgreementMaker System in the Anatomy Task of OAEI 2012
cs.IR
The AgreementMaker system was the leading system in the anatomy task of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI) competition in 2011. While AgreementMaker did not compete in OAEI 2012, here we report on its performance in the 2012 anatomy task, using the same configurations of AgreementMaker submitted to OAE...
computer science
36,344
IK-PSO, PSO Inverse Kinematics Solver with Application to Biped Gait Generation
cs.RO
This paper describes a new approach allowing the generation of a simplified Biped gait. This approach combines a classical dynamic modeling with an inverse kinematics' solver based on particle swarm optimization, PSO. First, an inverted pendulum, IP, is used to obtain a simplified dynamic model of the robot and to comp...
computer science
36,345
The Dynamic Controllability of Conditional STNs with Uncertainty
cs.AI
Recent attempts to automate business processes and medical-treatment processes have uncovered the need for a formal framework that can accommodate not only temporal constraints, but also observations and actions with uncontrollable durations. To meet this need, this paper defines a Conditional Simple Temporal Network w...
computer science
36,346
Tree Projections and Structural Decomposition Methods: Minimality and Game-Theoretic Characterization
cs.DM
Tree projections provide a mathematical framework that encompasses all the various (purely) structural decomposition methods that have been proposed in the literature to single out classes of nearly-acyclic (hyper)graphs, such as the tree decomposition method, which is the most powerful decomposition method on graphs, ...
computer science
36,347
Inference in Polytrees with Sets of Probabilities
cs.AI
Inferences in directed acyclic graphs associated with probability sets and probability intervals are NP-hard, even for polytrees. In this paper we focus on such inferences, and propose: 1) a substantial improvement on Tessems A / R algorithm FOR polytrees WITH probability intervals; 2) a new algorithm FOR direction - b...
computer science
36,348
Loopy Belief Propagation as a Basis for Communication in Sensor Networks
cs.AI
Sensor networks are an exciting new kind of computer system. Consisting of a large number of tiny, cheap computational devices physically distributed in an environment, they gather and process data about the environment in real time. One of the central questions in sensor networks is what to do with the data, i.e., how...
computer science
36,349
A Linear Belief Function Approach to Portfolio Evaluation
cs.AI
By elaborating on the notion of linear belief functions (Dempster 1990; Liu 1996), we propose an elementary approach to knowledge representation for expert systems using linear belief functions. We show how to use basic matrices to represent market information and financial knowledge, including complete ignorance, stat...
computer science
36,350
Phase Transition of Tractability in Constraint Satisfaction and Bayesian Network Inference
cs.AI
There has been great interest in identifying tractable subclasses of NP complete problems and designing efficient algorithms for these tractable classes. Constraint satisfaction and Bayesian network inference are two examples of such problems that are of great importance in AI and algorithms. In this paper we study, un...
computer science
36,351
Decentralized Sensor Fusion With Distributed Particle Filters
cs.AI
This paper presents a scalable Bayesian technique for decentralized state estimation from multiple platforms in dynamic environments. As has long been recognized, centralized architectures impose severe scaling limitations for distributed systems due to the enormous communication overheads. We propose a strictly decent...
computer science
36,352
Marginalizing Out Future Passengers in Group Elevator Control
cs.AI
Group elevator scheduling is an NP-hard sequential decision-making problem with unbounded state spaces and substantial uncertainty. Decision-theoretic reasoning plays a surprisingly limited role in fielded systems. A new opportunity for probabilistic methods has opened with the recent discovery of a tractable solution ...
computer science
36,353
Strong Faithfulness and Uniform Consistency in Causal Inference
cs.AI
A fundamental question in causal inference is whether it is possible to reliably infer manipulation effects from observational data. There are a variety of senses of asymptotic reliability in the statistical literature, among which the most commonly discussed frequentist notions are pointwise consistency and uniform co...
computer science
36,354
Exploiting Locality in Searching the Web
cs.IR
Published experiments on spidering the Web suggest that, given training data in the form of a (relatively small) subgraph of the Web containing a subset of a selected class of target pages, it is possible to conduct a directed search and find additional target pages significantly faster (with fewer page retrievals) tha...
computer science
36,355
The Revisiting Problem in Mobile Robot Map Building: A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach
cs.AI
We present an application of hierarchical Bayesian estimation to robot map building. The revisiting problem occurs when a robot has to decide whether it is seeing a previously-built portion of a map, or is exploring new territory. This is a difficult decision problem, requiring the probability of being outside of the c...
computer science
36,356
Understanding (dis)similarity measures
cs.AI
Intuitively, the concept of similarity is the notion to measure an inexact matching between two entities of the same reference set. The notions of similarity and its close relative dissimilarity are widely used in many fields of Artificial Intelligence. Yet they have many different and often partial definitions or prop...
computer science
36,357
Product/Brand extraction from WikiPedia
cs.IR
In this paper we describe the task of extracting product and brand pages from wikipedia. We present an experimental environment and setup built on top of a dataset of wikipedia pages we collected. We introduce a method for recognition of product pages modelled as a boolean probabilistic classification task. We show tha...
computer science
36,358
Probability Bracket Notation: Markov State Chain Projector, Hidden Markov Models and Dynamic Bayesian Networks
cs.AI
After a brief discussion of Markov Evolution Formula (MEF) expressed in Probability Bracket Notation (PBN), its close relation with the joint probability distribution (JPD) of Visible Markov Models (VMM) is demonstrated by introducing Markov State Chain Projector (MSCP). The state basis and the observed basis are defin...
computer science
36,359
Increasing Air Traffic: What is the Problem?
cs.AI
Nowadays, huge efforts are made to modernize the air traffic management systems to cope with uncertainty, complexity and sub-optimality. An answer is to enhance the information sharing between the stakeholders. This paper introduces a framework that bridges the gap between air traffic management and air traffic control...
computer science
36,360
Online Learning for Ground Trajectory Prediction
cs.AI
This paper presents a model based on an hybrid system to numerically simulate the climbing phase of an aircraft. This model is then used within a trajectory prediction tool. Finally, the Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) optimization algorithm is used to tune five selected parameters, and thus im...
computer science
36,361
Prediction of Parallel Speed-ups for Las Vegas Algorithms
cs.DC
We propose a probabilistic model for the parallel execution of Las Vegas algorithms, i.e., randomized algorithms whose runtime might vary from one execution to another, even with the same input. This model aims at predicting the parallel performances (i.e., speedups) by analysis the runtime distribution of the sequenti...
computer science
36,362
A trust-based security mechanism for nomadic users in pervasive systems
cs.CR
The emergence of network technologies and the appearance of new varied applications in terms of services and resources, has created new security problems for which existing solutions and mechanisms are inadequate, especially problems of identification and authentication. In a highly distributed and pervasive system, a ...
computer science
36,363
Interactive Ant Colony Optimisation (iACO) for Early Lifecycle Software Design
cs.SE
Software design is crucial to successful software development, yet is a demanding multi-objective problem for software engineers. In an attempt to assist the software designer, interactive (i.e. human in-the-loop) meta-heuristic search techniques such as evolutionary computing have been applied and show promising resul...
computer science
36,364
Generating Motion Patterns Using Evolutionary Computation in Digital Soccer
cs.AI
Dribbling an opponent player in digital soccer environment is an important practical problem in motion planning. It has special complexities which can be generalized to most important problems in other similar Multi Agent Systems. In this paper, we propose a hybrid computational geometry and evolutionary computation ap...
computer science
36,365
Design of Intelligent Agents Based System for Commodity Market Simulation with JADE
cs.MA
A market of potato commodity for industry scale usage is engaging several types of actors. They are farmers, middlemen, and industries. A multi-agent system has been built to simulate these actors into agent entities, based on manually given parameters within a simulation scenario file. Each type of agents has its own ...
computer science
36,366
Dialectics of Knowledge Representation in a Granular Rough Set Theory
cs.AI
The concepts of rough and definite objects are relatively more determinate than those of granules and granulation in general rough set theory (RST) [1]. Representation of rough objects can however depend on the dialectical relation between granulation and definiteness. In this research, we make this exact in the contex...
computer science
36,367
Proceedings of the 12th International Colloquium on Implementation of Constraint and LOgic Programming Systems
cs.PL
This volume contains the papers presented at CICLOPS'12: 12th International Colloquium on Implementation of Constraint and LOgic Programming Systems held on Tueseday September 4th, 2012 in Budapest. The program included 1 invited talk, 9 technical presentations and a panel discussion on Prolog open standards (open.pl...
computer science
36,368
Efficient Induction of Finite State Automata
cs.AI
This paper introduces a new algorithm for the induction if complex finite state automata from samples of behavior. The algorithm is based on information theoretic principles. The algorithm reduces the search space by many orders of magnitude over what was previously thought possible. We compare the algorithm with some ...
computer science
36,369
Problem-Focused Incremental Elicitation of Multi-Attribute Utility Models
cs.AI
Decision theory has become widely accepted in the AI community as a useful framework for planning and decision making. Applying the framework typically requires elicitation of some form of probability and utility information. While much work in AI has focused on providing representations and tools for elicitation of pr...
computer science
36,370
Perception, Attention, and Resources: A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Graphics Rendering
cs.AI
We describe work to control graphics rendering under limited computational resources by taking a decision-theoretic perspective on perceptual costs and computational savings of approximations. The work extends earlier work on the control of rendering by introducing methods and models for computing the expected cost ass...
computer science
36,371
Incremental Map Generation by Low Cost Robots Based on Possibility/Necessity Grids
cs.RO
In this paper we present some results obtained with a troupe of low-cost robots designed to cooperatively explore and adquire the map of unknown structured orthogonal environments. In order to improve the covering of the explored zone, the robots show different behaviours and cooperate by transferring each other the pe...
computer science
36,372
Conditional Utility, Utility Independence, and Utility Networks
cs.GT
We introduce a new interpretation of two related notions - conditional utility and utility independence. Unlike the traditional interpretation, the new interpretation renders the notions the direct analogues of their probabilistic counterparts. To capture these notions formally, we appeal to the notion of utility distr...
computer science
36,373
Score and Information for Recursive Exponential Models with Incomplete Data
stat.ME
Recursive graphical models usually underlie the statistical modelling concerning probabilistic expert systems based on Bayesian networks. This paper defines a version of these models, denoted as recursive exponential models, which have evolved by the desire to impose sophisticated domain knowledge onto local fragments ...
computer science
36,374
A Sufficiently Fast Algorithm for Finding Close to Optimal Junction Trees
cs.DS
An algorithm is developed for finding a close to optimal junction tree of a given graph G. The algorithm has a worst case complexity O(c^k n^a) where a and c are constants, n is the number of vertices, and k is the size of the largest clique in a junction tree of G in which this size is minimized. The algorithm guarant...
computer science
36,375
Tail Sensitivity Analysis in Bayesian Networks
cs.AI
The paper presents an efficient method for simulating the tails of a target variable Z=h(X) which depends on a set of basic variables X=(X_1, ..., X_n). To this aim, variables X_i, i=1, ..., n are sequentially simulated in such a manner that Z=h(x_1, ..., x_i-1, X_i, ..., X_n) is guaranteed to be in the tail of Z. When...
computer science
36,376
Decision-Analytic Approaches to Operational Decision Making: Application and Observation
cs.AI
Decision analysis (DA) and the rich set of tools developed by researchers in decision making under uncertainty show great potential to penetrate the technological content of the products and services delivered by firms in a variety of industries as well as the business processes used to deliver those products and servi...
computer science
36,377
Toward a Market Model for Bayesian Inference
cs.GT
We present a methodology for representing probabilistic relationships in a general-equilibrium economic model. Specifically, we define a precise mapping from a Bayesian network with binary nodes to a market price system where consumers and producers trade in uncertain propositions. We demonstrate the correspondence bet...
computer science
36,378
A solution concept for games with altruism and cooperation
cs.GT
Over the years, numerous experiments have been accumulated to show that cooperation is not casual and depends on the payoffs of the game. These findings suggest that humans have attitude to cooperation by nature and the same person may act more or less cooperatively depending on the particular payoffs. In other words, ...
computer science
36,379
Towards a theory of good SAT representations
cs.AI
We aim at providing a foundation of a theory of "good" SAT representations F of boolean functions f. We argue that the hierarchy UC_k of unit-refutation complete clause-sets of level k, introduced by the authors, provides the most basic target classes, that is, F in UC_k is to be achieved for k as small as feasible. If...
computer science
36,380
In Love With a Robot: the Dawn of Machine-To-Machine Marketing
cs.AI
The article looks at mass market artificial intelligence tools in the context of their ever-growing sophistication, availability and market penetration. The subject is especially relevant today for these exact reasons - if a few years ago AI was the subject of high tech research and science fiction novels, today, we in...
computer science
36,381
Exploiting Social Tags for Cross-Domain Collaborative Filtering
cs.IR
One of the most challenging problems in recommender systems based on the collaborative filtering (CF) concept is data sparseness, i.e., limited user preference data is available for making recommendations. Cross-domain collaborative filtering (CDCF) has been studied as an effective mechanism to alleviate data sparsenes...
computer science
36,382
An Algebraic Semantics for Possibilistic Logic
cs.AI
The first contribution of this paper is the presentation of a Pavelka - like formulation of possibilistic logic in which the language is naturally enriched by two connectives which represent negation (eg) and a new type of conjunction (otimes). The space of truth values for this logic is the lattice of possibility func...
computer science
36,383
Development Of Ontology-Based Intelligent System For Software Testing
cs.AI
Software testing is a prime factor in software industry. Besides knowing the importance of testing, only limited time is allocated for teaching it. It will be more efficient if testing is taught simultaneously with programming foundations. This integrated learning of testing techniques and programming allows the progra...
computer science
36,384
Weighted Sets of Probabilities and Minimax Weighted Expected Regret: New Approaches for Representing Uncertainty and Making Decisions
cs.GT
We consider a setting where an agent's uncertainty is represented by a set of probability measures, rather than a single measure. Measure-by-measure updating of such a set of measures upon acquiring new information is well-known to suffer from problems; agents are not always able to learn appropriately. To deal with th...
computer science
36,385
Combining Multiple Time Series Models Through A Robust Weighted Mechanism
cs.AI
Improvement of time series forecasting accuracy through combining multiple models is an important as well as a dynamic area of research. As a result, various forecasts combination methods have been developed in literature. However, most of them are based on simple linear ensemble strategies and hence ignore the possibl...
computer science
36,386
Using Modified Partitioning Around Medoids Clustering Technique in Mobile Network Planning
cs.AI
Every cellular network deployment requires planning and optimization in order to provide adequate coverage, capacity, and quality of service (QoS). Optimization mobile radio network planning is a very complex task, as many aspects must be taken into account. With the rapid development in mobile network we need effectiv...
computer science
36,387
Approximation Algorithms for the Loop Cutset Problem
cs.AI
We show how to find a small loop curser in a Bayesian network. Finding such a loop cutset is the first step in the method of conditioning for inference. Our algorithm for finding a loop cutset, called MGA, finds a loop cutset which is guaranteed in the worst case to contain less than twice the number of variables conta...
computer science
36,388
On Modal Logics for Qualitative Possibility in a Fuzzy Setting
cs.LO
Within the possibilistic approach to uncertainty modeling, the paper presents a modal logical system to reason about qualitative (comparative) statements of the possibility (and necessity) of fuzzy propositions. We relate this qualitative modal logic to the many--valued analogues MVS5 and MVKD45 of the well known modal...
computer science
36,389
Three Approaches to Probability Model Selection
stat.ME
This paper compares three approaches to the problem of selecting among probability models to fit data (1) use of statistical criteria such as Akaike's information criterion and Schwarz's "Bayesian information criterion," (2) maximization of the posterior probability of the model, and (3) maximization of an effectivenes...
computer science
36,390
Modeling Stable Matching Problems with Answer Set Programming
cs.AI
The Stable Marriage Problem (SMP) is a well-known matching problem first introduced and solved by Gale and Shapley (1962). Several variants and extensions to this problem have since been investigated to cover a wider set of applications. Each time a new variant is considered, however, a new algorithm needs to be develo...
computer science
36,391
A Community Based Algorithm for Large Scale Web Service Composition
cs.AI
Web service composition is the process of synthesizing a new composite service using a set of available Web services in order to satisfy a client request that cannot be treated by any available Web services. The Web services space is a dynamic environment characterized by a huge number of elements. Furthermore, many We...
computer science
36,392
Projective simulation for classical learning agents: a comprehensive investigation
nlin.AO
We study the model of projective simulation (PS), a novel approach to artificial intelligence based on stochastic processing of episodic memory which was recently introduced [H.J. Briegel and G. De las Cuevas. Sci. Rep. 2, 400, (2012)]. Here we provide a detailed analysis of the model and examine its performance, inclu...
computer science
36,393
Unsatisfiable Cores for Constraint Programming
cs.LO
Constraint Programming (CP) solvers typically tackle optimization problems by repeatedly finding solutions to a problem while placing tighter and tighter bounds on the solution cost. This approach is somewhat naive, especially for soft-constraint optimization problems in which the soft constraints are mostly satisfied....
computer science
36,394
Semantic-based Anomalous Pattern Discovery in Moving Object Trajectories
cs.AI
In this work, we investigate a novel semantic approach for pattern discovery in trajectories that, relying on ontologies, enhances object movement information with event semantics. The approach can be applied to the detection of movement patterns and behaviors whenever the semantics of events occurring along the trajec...
computer science
36,395
Hybrid fuzzy logic and pid controller based ph neutralization pilot plant
cs.SY
Use of Control theory within process control industries has changed rapidly due to the increase complexity of instrumentation, real time requirements, minimization of operating costs and highly nonlinear characteristics of chemical process. Previously developed process control technologies which are mostly based on a s...
computer science
36,396
Belief Propagation for Linear Programming
cs.AI
Belief Propagation (BP) is a popular, distributed heuristic for performing MAP computations in Graphical Models. BP can be interpreted, from a variational perspective, as minimizing the Bethe Free Energy (BFE). BP can also be used to solve a special class of Linear Programming (LP) problems. For this class of problems,...
computer science
36,397
The state-of-the-art in web-scale semantic information processing for cloud computing
cs.DC
Based on integrated infrastructure of resource sharing and computing in distributed environment, cloud computing involves the provision of dynamically scalable and provides virtualized resources as services over the Internet. These applications also bring a large scale heterogeneous and distributed information which po...
computer science
36,398
Note on Evaluation of Hierarchical Modular Systems
cs.AI
This survey note describes a brief systemic view to approaches for evaluation of hierarchical composite (modular) systems. The list of considered issues involves the following: (i) basic assessment scales (quantitative scale, ordinal scale, multicriteria description, two kinds of poset-like scales), (ii) basic types of...
computer science
36,399
An Intelligent System to Detect, Avoid and Maintain Potholes: A Graph Theoretic Approach
cs.AI
In this paper, we propose a conceptual framework where a centralized system, classifies the road based upon the level of damage. The centralized system also identifies the traffic intensity thereby prioritizing the roads that need quick action to be taken upon. Moreover, the system helps the driver to detect the level ...
computer science
36,400
Semantic Web Search based on Ontology Modeling using Protege Reasoner
cs.IR
The Semantic Web works on the existing Web which presents the meaning of information as well-defined vocabularies understood by the people. Semantic Search, at the same time, works on improving the accuracy if a search by understanding the intent of the search and providing contextually relevant results. This paper des...
computer science
36,401
Semi-bounded Rationality: A model for decision making
cs.AI
In this paper the theory of semi-bounded rationality is proposed as an extension of the theory of bounded rationality. In particular, it is proposed that a decision making process involves two components and these are the correlation machine, which estimates missing values, and the causal machine, which relates the cau...
computer science
36,402
Modelling and Analysing Cargo Screening Processes: A Project Outline
cs.AI
The efficiency of current cargo screening processes at sea and air ports is unknown as no benchmarks exists against which they could be measured. Some manufacturer benchmarks exist for individual sensors but we have not found any benchmarks that take a holistic view of the screening procedures assessing a combination o...
computer science
36,403
For a Semantic Web based Peer-reviewing and Publication of Research Results
cs.DL
This article shows why the diffusion and peer-reviewing of research results would be more efficient, precise and relevant if all or at least some parts of the descriptions and peer-reviews of research results took the form of a fine-grained semantic network, within articles or knowledge bases, as part of the Semantic W...
computer science
36,404
Modelling Electricity Consumption in Office Buildings: An Agent Based Approach
cs.CE
In this paper, we develop an agent-based model which integrates four important elements, i.e. organisational energy management policies/regulations, energy management technologies, electric appliances and equipment, and human behaviour, to simulate the electricity consumption in office buildings. Based on a case study,...
computer science
36,405
Investigating Mathematical Models of Immuno-Interactions with Early-Stage Cancer under an Agent-Based Modelling Perspective
cs.CE
Many advances in research regarding immuno-interactions with cancer were developed with the help of ordinary differential equation (ODE) models. These models, however, are not effectively capable of representing problems involving individual localisation, memory and emerging properties, which are common characteristics...
computer science
36,406
Decision Making under Uncertainty: A Quasimetric Approach
cs.AI
We propose a new approach for solving a class of discrete decision making problems under uncertainty with positive cost. This issue concerns multiple and diverse fields such as engineering, economics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and many others. Basically, an agent has to choose a single or series of act...
computer science