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36,907
Optimal Release Time Decision from Fuzzy Mathematical Programming Perspective
cs.AI
Demand for high software reliability requires rigorous testing followed by requirement of robust modeling techniques for software quality prediction. On one side, firms have to steadily manage the reliability by testing it vigorously, the optimal release time determination is their biggest concern. In past many models ...
computer science
36,908
Approximation and Heuristic Algorithms for Probabilistic Physical Search on General Graphs
cs.MA
We consider an agent seeking to obtain an item, potentially available at different locations in a physical environment. The traveling costs between locations are known in advance, but there is only probabilistic knowledge regarding the possible prices of the item at any given location. Given such a setting, the problem...
computer science
36,909
An Innovative Approach for online Meta Search Engine Optimization
cs.IR
This paper presents an approach to identify efficient techniques used in Web Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Understanding SEO factors which can influence page ranking in search engine is significant for webmasters who wish to attract large number of users to their website. Different from previous relevant research, ...
computer science
36,910
Reasoning in Infinitely Valued G-IALCQ
cs.AI
Fuzzy Description Logics (FDLs) are logic-based formalisms used to represent and reason with vague or imprecise knowledge. It has been recently shown that reasoning in most FDLs using truth values from the interval [0,1] becomes undecidable in the presence of a negation constructor and general concept inclusion axioms....
computer science
36,911
Two Phase $Q-$learning for Bidding-based Vehicle Sharing
cs.AI
We consider one-way vehicle sharing systems where customers can rent a car at one station and drop it off at another. The problem we address is to optimize the distribution of cars, and quality of service, by pricing rentals appropriately. We propose a bidding approach that is inspired from auctions and takes into acco...
computer science
36,912
Knowledge-based system for collaborative process specification
cs.SE
This paper presents an ontology-based approach for the design of a collaborative business process model (CBP). This CBP is considered as a specification of needs in order to build a collaboration information system (CIS) for a network of organisations. The study is a part of a model driven engineering approach of the C...
computer science
36,913
Supporting interoperability of collaborative networks through engineering of a service-based Mediation Information System (MISE 2.0)
cs.SE
The Mediation Information System Engineering project is currently finishing its second iteration (MISE 2.0). The main objective of this scientific project is to provide any emerging collaborative situation with methods and tools to deploy a Mediation Information System (MIS). MISE 2.0 aims at defining and designing a s...
computer science
36,914
Exposing the Probabilistic Causal Structure of Discrimination
cs.DB
Discrimination discovery from data is an important task aiming at identifying patterns of illegal and unethical discriminatory activities against protected-by-law groups, e.g., ethnic minorities. While any legally-valid proof of discrimination requires evidence of causality, the state-of-the-art methods are essentially...
computer science
36,915
Intelligent Search Optimization using Artificial Fuzzy Logics
cs.AI
Information on the web is prodigious; searching relevant information is difficult making web users to rely on search engines for finding relevant information on the web. Search engines index and categorize web pages according to their contents using crawlers and rank them accordingly. For given user query they retrieve...
computer science
36,916
VBPR: Visual Bayesian Personalized Ranking from Implicit Feedback
cs.IR
Modern recommender systems model people and items by discovering or `teasing apart' the underlying dimensions that encode the properties of items and users' preferences toward them. Critically, such dimensions are uncovered based on user feedback, often in implicit form (such as purchase histories, browsing logs, etc.)...
computer science
36,917
Budget Constraints in Prediction Markets
cs.GT
We give a detailed characterization of optimal trades under budget constraints in a prediction market with a cost-function-based automated market maker. We study how the budget constraints of individual traders affect their ability to impact the market price. As a concrete application of our characterization, we give s...
computer science
36,918
On oblivious branching programs with bounded repetition that cannot efficiently compute CNFs of bounded treewidth
cs.CC
In this paper we study complexity of an extension of ordered binary decision diagrams (OBDDs) called $c$-OBDDs on CNFs of bounded (primal graph) treewidth. In particular, we show that for each $k$ there is a class of CNFs of treewidth $k \geq 3$ for which the equivalent $c$-OBDDs are of size $\Omega(n^{k/(8c-4)})$. Mor...
computer science
36,919
A Multilevel Coordinate Search Algorithm for Well Placement, Control and Joint Optimization
math.OC
Determining optimal well placements and controls are two important tasks in oil field development. These problems are computationally expensive, nonconvex, and contain multiple optima. The practical solution of these problems require efficient and robust algorithms. In this paper, the multilevel coordinate search (MCS)...
computer science
36,920
Improving the Competency of First-Order Ontologies
cs.AI
We introduce a new framework to evaluate and improve first-order (FO) ontologies using automated theorem provers (ATPs) on the basis of competency questions (CQs). Our framework includes both the adaptation of a methodology for evaluating ontologies to the framework of first-order logic and a new set of non-trivial CQs...
computer science
36,921
Evaluating the Competency of a First-Order Ontology
cs.AI
We report on the results of evaluating the competency of a first-order ontology for its use with automated theorem provers (ATPs). The evaluation follows the adaptation of the methodology based on competency questions (CQs) [Gr\"uninger&Fox,1995] to the framework of first-order logic, which is presented in [\'Alvez&Luc...
computer science
36,922
Causal Falling Rule Lists
cs.AI
A causal falling rule list (CFRL) is a sequence of if-then rules that specifies heterogeneous treatment effects, where (i) the order of rules determines the treatment effect subgroup a subject belongs to, and (ii) the treatment effect decreases monotonically down the list. A given CFRL parameterizes a hierarchical baye...
computer science
36,923
Creating Scalable and Interactive Web Applications Using High Performance Latent Variable Models
cs.AI
In this project we outline a modularized, scalable system for comparing Amazon products in an interactive and informative way using efficient latent variable models and dynamic visualization. We demonstrate how our system can build on the structure and rich review information of Amazon products in order to provide a fa...
computer science
36,924
Redesigning pattern mining algorithms for supercomputers
cs.DC
Upcoming many core processors are expected to employ a distributed memory architecture similar to currently available supercomputers, but parallel pattern mining algorithms amenable to the architecture are not comprehensively studied. We present a novel closed pattern mining algorithm with a well-engineered communicati...
computer science
36,925
Computing the Ramsey Number R(4,3,3) using Abstraction and Symmetry breaking
cs.AI
The number $R(4,3,3)$ is often presented as the unknown Ramsey number with the best chances of being found "soon". Yet, its precise value has remained unknown for almost 50 years. This paper presents a methodology based on \emph{abstraction} and \emph{symmetry breaking} that applies to solve hard graph edge-coloring pr...
computer science
36,926
Turing's Red Flag
cs.AI
Sometime in the future we will have to deal with the impact of AI's being mistaken for humans. For this reason, I propose that any autonomous system should be designed so that it is unlikely to be mistaken for anything besides an autonomous sysem, and should identify itself at the start of any interaction with another ...
computer science
36,927
Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses, A Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex
cs.AI
Neocortical neurons have thousands of excitatory synapses. It is a mystery how neurons integrate the input from so many synapses and what kind of large-scale network behavior this enables. It has been previously proposed that non-linear properties of dendrites enable neurons to recognize multiple patterns. In this pape...
computer science
36,928
SAT as a game
cs.CC
We propose a funny representation of SAT. While the primary interest is to present propositional satisfiability in a playful way for pedagogical purposes, it could also inspire new search heuristics.
computer science
36,929
SWISH: SWI-Prolog for Sharing
cs.PL
Recently, we see a new type of interfaces for programmers based on web technology. For example, JSFiddle, IPython Notebook and R-studio. Web technology enables cloud-based solutions, embedding in tutorial web pages, atractive rendering of results, web-scale cooperative development, etc. This article describes SWISH, a ...
computer science
36,930
Lowering the learning curve for declarative programming: a Python API for the IDP system
cs.PL
Programmers may be hesitant to use declarative systems, because of the associated learning curve. In this paper, we present an API that integrates the IDP Knowledge Base system into the Python programming language. IDP is a state-of-the-art logical system, which uses SAT, SMT, Logic Programming and Answer Set Programmi...
computer science
36,931
A web-based IDE for IDP
cs.PL
IDP is a knowledge base system based on first order logic. It is finding its way to a larger public but is still facing practical challenges. Adoption of new languages requires a newcomer-friendly way for users to interact with it. Both an online presence to try to convince potential users to download the system and of...
computer science
36,932
Bound Your Models! How to Make OWL an ASP Modeling Language
cs.PL
To exploit the Web Ontology Language OWL as an answer set programming (ASP) language, we introduce the notion of bounded model semantics, as an intuitive and computationally advantageous alternative to its classical semantics. We show that a translation into ASP allows for solving a wide range of bounded-model reasonin...
computer science
36,933
Visualising interactive inferences with IDPD3
cs.PL
A large part of the use of knowledge base systems is the interpretation of the output by the end-users and the interaction with these users. Even during the development process visualisations can be a great help to the developer. We created IDPD3 as a library to visualise models of logic theories. IDPD3 is a new versio...
computer science
36,934
Combining Privileged Information to Improve Context-Aware Recommender Systems
cs.IR
A recommender system is an information filtering technology which can be used to predict preference ratings of items (products, services, movies, etc) and/or to output a ranking of items that are likely to be of interest to the user. Context-aware recommender systems (CARS) learn and predict the tastes and preferences ...
computer science
36,935
Incorporating Knowledge into Structural Equation Models using Auxiliary Variables
stat.ME
In this paper, we extend graph-based identification methods by allowing background knowledge in the form of non-zero parameter values. Such information could be obtained, for example, from a previously conducted randomized experiment, from substantive understanding of the domain, or even an identification technique. To...
computer science
36,936
Complexity of the Description Logic ALCM
cs.LO
In this paper we show that the problem of checking consistency of a knowledge base in the Description Logic ALCM is ExpTime-complete. The M stands for meta-modelling as defined by Motz, Rohrer and Severi. To show our main result, we define an ExpTime Tableau algorithm as an extension of an algorithm for checking consis...
computer science
36,937
Novel Feature Extraction, Selection and Fusion for Effective Malware Family Classification
cs.CR
Modern malware is designed with mutation characteristics, namely polymorphism and metamorphism, which causes an enormous growth in the number of variants of malware samples. Categorization of malware samples on the basis of their behaviors is essential for the computer security community, because they receive huge numb...
computer science
36,938
Neurocontrol methods review
cs.AI
Methods of applying neural networks to control plants are considered. Methods and schemes are described, their advantages and disadvantages are discussed.
computer science
36,939
Approximate Probabilistic Inference via Word-Level Counting
cs.AI
Hashing-based model counting has emerged as a promising approach for large-scale probabilistic inference on graphical models. A key component of these techniques is the use of xor-based 2-universal hash functions that operate over Boolean domains. Many counting problems arising in probabilistic inference are, however, ...
computer science
36,940
Plan Explicability and Predictability for Robot Task Planning
cs.AI
Intelligent robots and machines are becoming pervasive in human populated environments. A desirable capability of these agents is to respond to goal-oriented commands by autonomously constructing task plans. However, such autonomy can add significant cognitive load and potentially introduce safety risks to humans when ...
computer science
36,941
Breaking Symmetries in Graph Search with Canonizing Sets
cs.AI
There are many complex combinatorial problems which involve searching for an undirected graph satisfying given constraints. Such problems are often highly challenging because of the large number of isomorphic representations of their solutions. This paper introduces effective and compact, complete symmetry breaking con...
computer science
36,942
Welfare of Sequential Allocation Mechanisms for Indivisible Goods
cs.AI
Sequential allocation is a simple and attractive mechanism for the allocation of indivisible goods. Agents take turns, according to a policy, to pick items. Sequential allocation is guaranteed to return an allocation which is efficient but may not have an optimal social welfare. We consider therefore the relation betwe...
computer science
36,943
Column-Oriented Datalog Materialization for Large Knowledge Graphs (Extended Technical Report)
cs.DB
The evaluation of Datalog rules over large Knowledge Graphs (KGs) is essential for many applications. In this paper, we present a new method of materializing Datalog inferences, which combines a column-based memory layout with novel optimization methods that avoid redundant inferences at runtime. The pro-active caching...
computer science
36,944
Solving Transition-Independent Multi-agent MDPs with Sparse Interactions (Extended version)
cs.AI
In cooperative multi-agent sequential decision making under uncertainty, agents must coordinate to find an optimal joint policy that maximises joint value. Typical algorithms exploit additive structure in the value function, but in the fully-observable multi-agent MDP setting (MMDP) such structure is not present. We pr...
computer science
36,945
Exploiting Anonymity in Approximate Linear Programming: Scaling to Large Multiagent MDPs (Extended Version)
cs.AI
Many exact and approximate solution methods for Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) attempt to exploit structure in the problem and are based on factorization of the value function. Especially multiagent settings, however, are known to suffer from an exponential increase in value component sizes as interactions become den...
computer science
36,946
A Hybrid Intelligent Model for Software Cost Estimation
cs.SE
Accurate software development effort estimation is critical to the success of software projects. Although many techniques and algorithmic models have been developed and implemented by practitioners, accurate software development effort prediction is still a challenging endeavor in the field of software engineering, esp...
computer science
36,947
A New Approach for Scalable Analysis of Microbial Communities
cs.AI
Microbial communities play important roles in the function and maintenance of various biosystems, ranging from human body to the environment. Current methods for analysis of microbial communities are typically based on taxonomic phylogenetic alignment using 16S rRNA metagenomic or Whole Genome Sequencing data. In typic...
computer science
36,948
The GTR-model: a universal framework for quantum-like measurements
cs.AI
We present a very general geometrico-dynamical description of physical or more abstract entities, called the 'general tension-reduction' (GTR) model, where not only states, but also measurement-interactions can be represented, and the associated outcome probabilities calculated. Underlying the model is the hypothesis t...
computer science
36,949
Quantifying knowledge with a new calculus for belief functions - a generalization of probability theory
math.PR
We first show that there are practical situations in for instance forensic and gambling settings, in which applying classical probability theory, that is, based on the axioms of Kolmogorov, is problematic. We then introduce and discuss Shafer belief functions. Technically, Shafer belief functions generalize probability...
computer science
36,950
Assessing forensic evidence by computing belief functions
math.PR
We first discuss certain problems with the classical probabilistic approach for assessing forensic evidence, in particular its inability to distinguish between lack of belief and disbelief, and its inability to model complete ignorance within a given population. We then discuss Shafer belief functions, a generalization...
computer science
36,951
The Rationale behind the Concept of Goal
cs.LO
The paper proposes a fresh look at the concept of goal and advances that motivational attitudes like desire, goal and intention are just facets of the broader notion of (acceptable) outcome. We propose to encode the preferences of an agent as sequences of "alternative acceptable outcomes". We then study how the agent's...
computer science
36,952
Building and Measuring Privacy-Preserving Predictive Blacklists
cs.CR
Collaborative security initiatives are increasingly often advocated to improve timeliness and effectiveness of threat mitigation. Among these, collaborative predictive blacklisting (CPB) aims to forecast attack sources based on alerts contributed by multiple organizations that might be targeted in similar ways. Alas, C...
computer science
36,953
Blind, Greedy, and Random: Ordinal Approximation Algorithms for Matching and Clustering
cs.GT
We study Matching and other related problems in a partial information setting where the agents' utilities for being matched to other agents are hidden and the mechanism only has access to ordinal preference information. Our model is motivated by the fact that in many settings, agents cannot express the numerical values...
computer science
36,954
On Voting and Facility Location
cs.GT
We study mechanisms for candidate selection that seek to minimize the social cost, where voters and candidates are associated with points in some underlying metric space. The social cost of a candidate is the sum of its distances to each voter. Some of our work assumes that these points can be modeled on a real line, b...
computer science
36,955
Quadripolar Relational Model: a framework for the description of borderline and narcissistic personality disorders
cs.AI
Borderline personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder are important nosographic entities and have been subject of intensive investigations. The currently prevailing psychodynamic theory for mental disorders is based on the repertoire of defense mechanisms employed. Another line of research is concerned ...
computer science
36,956
Ontology-driven Information Extraction
cs.AI
Homogeneous unstructured data (HUD) are collections of unstructured documents that share common properties, such as similar layout, common file format, or common domain of values. Building on such properties, it would be desirable to automatically process HUD to access the main information through a semantic layer -- t...
computer science
36,957
Constrained Sampling and Counting: Universal Hashing Meets SAT Solving
cs.AI
Constrained sampling and counting are two fundamental problems in artificial intelligence with a diverse range of applications, spanning probabilistic reasoning and planning to constrained-random verification. While the theory of these problems was thoroughly investigated in the 1980s, prior work either did not scale t...
computer science
36,958
The ERA of FOLE: Foundation
cs.DB
This paper discusses the representation of ontologies in the first-order logical environment FOLE (Kent 2013). An ontology defines the primitives with which to model the knowledge resources for a community of discourse (Gruber 2009). These primitives, consisting of classes, relationships and properties, are represented...
computer science
36,959
Selecting the top-quality item through crowd scoring
cs.HC
We investigate crowdsourcing algorithms for finding the top-quality item within a large collection of objects with unknown intrinsic quality values. This is an important problem with many relevant applications, for example in networked recommendation systems. The core of the algorithms is that objects are distributed t...
computer science
36,960
Randomized Social Choice Functions Under Metric Preferences
cs.AI
We determine the quality of randomized social choice mechanisms in a setting in which the agents have metric preferences: every agent has a cost for each alternative, and these costs form a metric. We assume that these costs are unknown to the mechanisms (and possibly even to the agents themselves), which means we cann...
computer science
36,961
RDF2Rules: Learning Rules from RDF Knowledge Bases by Mining Frequent Predicate Cycles
cs.AI
Recently, several large-scale RDF knowledge bases have been built and applied in many knowledge-based applications. To further increase the number of facts in RDF knowledge bases, logic rules can be used to predict new facts based on the existing ones. Therefore, how to automatically learn reliable rules from large-sca...
computer science
36,962
On the Foundations of the Brussels Operational-Realistic Approach to Cognition
cs.AI
The scientific community is becoming more and more interested in the research that applies the mathematical formalism of quantum theory to model human decision-making. In this paper, we provide the theoretical foundations of the quantum approach to cognition that we developed in Brussels. These foundations rest on the ...
computer science
36,963
Wavelet Scattering on the Pitch Spiral
cs.SD
We present a new representation of harmonic sounds that linearizes the dynamics of pitch and spectral envelope, while remaining stable to deformations in the time-frequency plane. It is an instance of the scattering transform, a generic operator which cascades wavelet convolutions and modulus nonlinearities. It is deri...
computer science
36,964
How do neurons operate on sparse distributed representations? A mathematical theory of sparsity, neurons and active dendrites
cs.AI
We propose a formal mathematical model for sparse representations and active dendrites in neocortex. Our model is inspired by recent experimental findings on active dendritic processing and NMDA spikes in pyramidal neurons. These experimental and modeling studies suggest that the basic unit of pattern memory in the neo...
computer science
36,965
Some Experimental Issues in Financial Fraud Detection: An Investigation
cs.CR
Financial fraud detection is an important problem with a number of design aspects to consider. Issues such as algorithm selection and performance analysis will affect the perceived ability of proposed solutions, so for auditors and re-searchers to be able to sufficiently detect financial fraud it is necessary that thes...
computer science
36,966
Complexity of Shift Bribery in Committee Elections
cs.AI
We study the (parameterized) complexity of SHIFT BRIBERY for multiwinner voting rules. We focus on SNTV, Bloc, k-Borda, and Chamberlin-Courant, as well as on approximate variants of Chamberlin-Courant, since the original rule is NP-hard to compute. We show that SHIFT BRIBERY tends to be significantly harder in the mult...
computer science
36,967
A Predictive Model using the Markov Property
stat.ME
Given a data set of numerical values which are sampled from some unknown probability distribution, we will show how to check if the data set exhibits the Markov property and we will show how to use the Markov property to predict future values from the same distribution, with probability 1.
computer science
36,968
Toward a Robust Diversity-Based Model to Detect Changes of Context
cs.IR
Being able to automatically and quickly understand the user context during a session is a main issue for recommender systems. As a first step toward achieving that goal, we propose a model that observes in real time the diversity brought by each item relatively to a short sequence of consultations, corresponding to the...
computer science
36,969
Identifying Stable Patterns over Time for Emotion Recognition from EEG
cs.HC
In this paper, we investigate stable patterns of electroencephalogram (EEG) over time for emotion recognition using a machine learning approach. Up to now, various findings of activated patterns associated with different emotions have been reported. However, their stability over time has not been fully investigated yet...
computer science
36,970
A Synthetic Approach for Recommendation: Combining Ratings, Social Relations, and Reviews
cs.IR
Recommender systems (RSs) provide an effective way of alleviating the information overload problem by selecting personalized choices. Online social networks and user-generated content provide diverse sources for recommendation beyond ratings, which present opportunities as well as challenges for traditional RSs. Althou...
computer science
36,971
Indicators of Good Student Performance in Moodle Activity Data
cs.CY
In this paper we conduct an analysis of Moodle activity data focused on identifying early predictors of good student performance. The analysis shows that three relevant hypotheses are largely supported by the data. These hypotheses are: early submission is a good sign, a high level of activity is predictive of good res...
computer science
36,972
Analysis of Algorithms and Partial Algorithms
cs.AI
We present an alternative methodology for the analysis of algorithms, based on the concept of expected discounted reward. This methodology naturally handles algorithms that do not always terminate, so it can (theoretically) be used with partial algorithms for undecidable problems, such as those found in artificial gene...
computer science
36,973
It's about time: Online Macrotask Sequencing in Expert Crowdsourcing
cs.SI
We introduce the problem of Task Assignment and Sequencing (TAS), which adds the timeline perspective to expert crowdsourcing optimization. Expert crowdsourcing involves macrotasks, like document writing, product design, or web development, which take more time than typical binary microtasks, require expert skills, ass...
computer science
36,974
Semantics for probabilistic programming: higher-order functions, continuous distributions, and soft constraints
cs.PL
We study the semantic foundation of expressive probabilistic programming languages, that support higher-order functions, continuous distributions, and soft constraints (such as Anglican, Church, and Venture). We define a metalanguage (an idealised version of Anglican) for probabilistic computation with the above featur...
computer science
36,975
Sub-Optimal Multi-Phase Path Planning: A Method for Solving Rubik's Revenge
math.HO
Rubik's Revenge, a 4x4x4 variant of the Rubik's puzzles, remains to date as an unsolved puzzle. That is to say, we do not have a method or successful categorization to optimally solve every one of its approximately $7.401 \times 10^{45}$ possible configurations. Rubik's Cube, Rubik's Revenge's predecessor (3x3x3), with...
computer science
36,976
The Singularity Controversy, Part I: Lessons Learned and Open Questions: Conclusions from the Battle on the Legitimacy of the Debate
cs.AI
This report seeks to inform policy makers on the nature and the merit of the arguments for and against the concerns associated with a potential technological singularity. Part I describes the lessons learned from our investigation of the subject, separating the argu-ments of merit from the fallacies and misconception...
computer science
36,977
Artificial Persuasion in Pedagogical Games
cs.AI
A Persuasive Teachable Agent (PTA) is a special type of Teachable Agent which incorporates a persuasion theory in order to provide persuasive and more personalized feedback to the student. By employing the persuasion techniques, the PTA seeks to maintain the student in a high motivation and high ability state in which ...
computer science
36,978
Generalizing Prototype Theory: A Formal Quantum Framework
cs.AI
Theories of natural language and concepts have been unable to model the flexibility, creativity, context-dependence, and emergence, exhibited by words, concepts and their combinations. The mathematical formalism of quantum theory has instead been successful in capturing these phenomena such as graded membership, situat...
computer science
36,979
A Survey on Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining for MOOCs
cs.AI
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have gained tremendous popularity in the last few years. Thanks to MOOCs, millions of learners from all over the world have taken thousands of high-quality courses for free. Putting together an excellent MOOC ecosystem is a multidisciplinary endeavour that requires contributions from...
computer science
36,980
Bachelor's thesis on generative probabilistic programming (in Russian language, June 2014)
cs.AI
This Bachelor's thesis, written in Russian, is devoted to a relatively new direction in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence, namely probabilistic programming. The thesis gives a brief overview to the already existing probabilistic programming languages: Church, Venture, and Anglican. It also descr...
computer science
36,981
Towards a Cognitive Routing Engine for Software Defined Networks
cs.NI
Most Software Defined Networks (SDN) traffic engineering applications use excessive and frequent global monitoring in order to find the optimal Quality-of-Service (QoS) paths for the current state of the network. In this work, we present the motivations, architecture and initial evaluation of a SDN application called C...
computer science
36,982
Ups and Downs: Modeling the Visual Evolution of Fashion Trends with One-Class Collaborative Filtering
cs.AI
Building a successful recommender system depends on understanding both the dimensions of people's preferences as well as their dynamics. In certain domains, such as fashion, modeling such preferences can be incredibly difficult, due to the need to simultaneously model the visual appearance of products as well as their ...
computer science
36,983
Formal Verification of Autonomous Vehicle Platooning
cs.AI
The coordination of multiple autonomous vehicles into convoys or platoons is expected on our highways in the near future. However, before such platoons can be deployed, the new autonomous behaviors of the vehicles in these platoons must be certified. An appropriate representation for vehicle platooning is as a multi-ag...
computer science
36,984
Particle Swarm Optimized Power Consumption of Trilateration
cs.NI
Trilateration-based localization (TBL) has become a corner stone of modern technology. This study formulates the concern on how wireless sensor networks can take advantage of the computational intelligent techniques using both single- and multi-objective particle swarm optimization (PSO) with an overall aim of concurre...
computer science
36,985
Strategic disclosure of opinions on a social network
cs.GT
We study the strategic aspects of social influence in a society of agents linked by a trust network, introducing a new class of games called games of influence. A game of influence is an infinite repeated game with incomplete information in which, at each stage of interaction, an agent can make her opinions visible (pu...
computer science
36,986
Feature Based Task Recommendation in Crowdsourcing with Implicit Observations
cs.AI
Existing research in crowdsourcing has investigated how to recommend tasks to workers based on which task the workers have already completed, referred to as {\em implicit feedback}. We, on the other hand, investigate the task recommendation problem, where we leverage both implicit feedback and explicit features of the ...
computer science
36,987
Energetics of the brain and AI
cs.AI
Does the energy requirements for the human brain give energy constraints that give reason to doubt the feasibility of artificial intelligence? This report will review some relevant estimates of brain bioenergetics and analyze some of the methods of estimating brain emulation energy requirements. Turning to AI, there ar...
computer science
36,988
Identifying Diabetic Patients with High Risk of Readmission
cs.AI
Hospital readmissions are expensive and reflect the inadequacies in healthcare system. In the United States alone, treatment of readmitted diabetic patients exceeds 250 million dollars per year. Early identification of patients facing a high risk of readmission can enable healthcare providers to to conduct additional i...
computer science
36,989
Designing Intelligent Instruments
cs.AI
Remote science operations require automated systems that can both act and react with minimal human intervention. One such vision is that of an intelligent instrument that collects data in an automated fashion, and based on what it learns, decides which new measurements to take. This innovation implements experimental d...
computer science
36,990
Large-Scale Reasoning with OWL
cs.AI
With the growth of the Semantic Web in size and importance, more and more knowledge is stored in machine-readable formats such as the Web Ontology Language OWL. This paper outlines common approaches for efficient reasoning on large-scale data consisting of billions ($10^9$) of triples. Therefore, OWL and its sublanguag...
computer science
36,991
BioSpaun: A large-scale behaving brain model with complex neurons
cs.AI
We describe a large-scale functional brain model that includes detailed, conductance-based, compartmental models of individual neurons. We call the model BioSpaun, to indicate the increased biological plausibility of these neurons, and because it is a direct extension of the Spaun model \cite{Eliasmith2012b}. We demons...
computer science
36,992
Lexis: An Optimization Framework for Discovering the Hierarchical Structure of Sequential Data
cs.AI
Data represented as strings abounds in biology, linguistics, document mining, web search and many other fields. Such data often have a hierarchical structure, either because they were artificially designed and composed in a hierarchical manner or because there is an underlying evolutionary process that creates repeated...
computer science
36,993
Ordonnancement d'entités pour la rencontre du web des documents et du web des données
cs.IR
The advances of the Linked Open Data (LOD) initiative are giving rise to a more structured web of data. Indeed, a few datasets act as hubs (e.g., DBpedia) connecting many other datasets. They also made possible new web services for entity detection inside plain text (e.g., DBpedia Spotlight), thus allowing for new appl...
computer science
36,994
Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems and Applications: A Survey
cs.AI
The field of Multi-Agent System (MAS) is an active area of research within Artificial Intelligence, with an increasingly important impact in industrial and other real-world applications. Within a MAS, autonomous agents interact to pursue personal interests and/or to achieve common objectives. Distributed Constraint Opt...
computer science
36,995
Causes for Query Answers from Databases, Datalog Abduction and View-Updates: The Presence of Integrity Constraints
cs.DB
Causality has been recently introduced in databases, to model, characterize and possibly compute causes for query results (answers). Connections between queryanswer causality, consistency-based diagnosis, database repairs (wrt. integrity constraint violations), abductive diagnosis and the view-update problem have been ...
computer science
36,996
Social planning for social HRI
cs.RO
Making a computational agent 'social' has implications for how it perceives itself and the environment in which it is situated, including the ability to recognise the behaviours of others. We point to recent work on social planning, i.e. planning in settings where the social context is relevant in the assessment of the...
computer science
36,997
Enablers and Inhibitors in Causal Justifications of Logic Programs
cs.LO
To appear in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP). In this paper we propose an extension of logic programming (LP) where each default literal derived from the well-founded model is associated to a justification represented as an algebraic expression. This expression contains both causal explanations (in the ...
computer science
36,998
Unbounded Human Learning: Optimal Scheduling for Spaced Repetition
cs.AI
In the study of human learning, there is broad evidence that our ability to retain information improves with repeated exposure and decays with delay since last exposure. This plays a crucial role in the design of educational software, leading to a trade-off between teaching new material and reviewing what has already b...
computer science
36,999
SIFT: An Algorithm for Extracting Structural Information From Taxonomies
cs.DB
In this work we present SIFT, a 3-step algorithm for the analysis of the structural information represented by means of a taxonomy. The major advantage of this algorithm is the capability to leverage the information inherent to the hierarchical structures of taxonomies to infer correspondences which can allow to merge ...
computer science
37,000
The Possibilities and Limitations of Private Prediction Markets
cs.GT
We consider the design of private prediction markets, financial markets designed to elicit predictions about uncertain events without revealing too much information about market participants' actions or beliefs. Our goal is to design market mechanisms in which participants' trades or wagers influence the market's behav...
computer science
37,001
Parametric Prediction from Parametric Agents
cs.GT
We consider a problem of prediction based on opinions elicited from heterogeneous rational agents with private information. Making an accurate prediction with a minimal cost requires a joint design of the incentive mechanism and the prediction algorithm. Such a problem lies at the nexus of statistical learning theory a...
computer science
37,002
A Survey on Domain-Specific Languages for Machine Learning in Big Data
cs.SE
The amount of data generated in the modern society is increasing rapidly. New problems and novel approaches of data capture, storage, analysis and visualization are responsible for the emergence of the Big Data research field. Machine Learning algorithms can be used in Big Data to make better and more accurate inferenc...
computer science
37,003
Range-based argumentation semantics as 2-valued models
cs.LO
Characterizations of semi-stable and stage extensions in terms of 2-valued logical models are presented. To this end, the so-called GL-supported and GL-stage models are defined. These two classes of logical models are logic programming counterparts of the notion of range which is an established concept in argumentation...
computer science
37,004
Object Manipulation Learning by Imitation
cs.RO
We aim to enable robot to learn object manipulation by imitation. Given external observations of demonstrations on object manipulations, we believe that two underlying problems to address in learning by imitation is 1) segment a given demonstration into skills that can be individually learned and reused, and 2) formula...
computer science
37,005
A knowledge representation meta-model for rule-based modelling of signalling networks
cs.AI
The study of cellular signalling pathways and their deregulation in disease states, such as cancer, is a large and extremely complex task. Indeed, these systems involve many parts and processes but are studied piecewise and their literatures and data are consequently fragmented, distributed and sometimes--at least appa...
computer science
37,006
FLICA: A Framework for Leader Identification in Coordinated Activity
cs.SI
Leadership is an important aspect of social organization that affects the processes of group formation, coordination, and decision-making in human societies, as well as in the social system of many other animal species. The ability to identify leaders based on their behavior and the subsequent reactions of others opens...
computer science