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This paper proposes a small, power saving embedded Web server for home appliances. The proposed device operates with a real-time operating system on a 32 bit RISC microprocessor. A TCP/IP protocol stack, HTTP, FTP, SNTP server and client applications were developed. The prototype server requires one fortieth the power of a general server using a PC. The software resources are about 1.8 MB. Demonstrations...
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) molecules ~18-22 nucleotides (nt) in length that regulates gene expression in animals, plants and viruses. Due to its small size and occurrence in different development stages of organisms, the experimental identification of miRNAs becomes difficult, and computational approaches are being developed in order to precede and guide biological experiments...
With the increasing volumes of home video footage and the need for effectively managing such archives, home movie summarisation has become an important and key research topic in the recent past. Despite growing interest from the research community, automatic summarisation remains a challenging research problem due to unrestricted capture and lack of storyline present in the home video content. In...
In this paper, we apply classification system denoted Belief Rough Set Classifier (BRSC) based on the hybridization of belief functions and rough sets to learn decision rules from uncertain data consisting of web usage. The uncertainty appears only in decision attributes and is handled by the Transferable Belief Model (TBM), one interpretation of the belief function theory. The web usage mining dataset...
This paper introduces a novel approach which uses a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) for prediction of systems that are non deterministic, dynamical and chaotic in nature. The HMM is used for shape based batch creation of training data which is then processed one batch at a time by a FIS. The Membership functions and Rule Base of the FIS are tweaked to predict the correct...
Feature selection is a very important preprocessing step in data classification. By applying it we are able to reduce the dimensionality of the problem by removing redundant or irrelevant data. High dimensional data sets are becoming usual nowadays specially in bio-informatics, biology, signal processing or text classification, increasing the need for efficient feature selection methods. In this paper...
Studies on content-based music retrieval (CBMR) which search music by analyzing their acoustic features and defining their similarity, have been conducted actively. However, it is desirable that the similarity evaluation be adaptive to each user's demand, because the search criteria differs user by user. In this paper, we propose a framework of CBMR that tries to satisfy the various demands of different...
In this paper, we present an approach to automatically extract and classify opinions in texts. We propose a similarity measurement calculating semantically distances between a word and predefined subgroups of seed words. We have evaluated our algorithm on the semantic evaluation company “SemEval 2007” corpus, and we obtained the best value of Precision and F1 62% and 61%. As an improvement of 20 %...
The necessity of lowering the execution of system tests' cost is a consensual point in the software development community. The present study presents an optimization of the regression tests' activity, by adapting a test cases prioritization technique called Failure Pursuit Sampling-previously used and validated for the prioritization of tests in general-improving its efficiency for the exclusive execution...
Research on the future of the Egyptian tourism industry has become the subject of countless studies and debates. Different wildcards have high impacts on this crucial industry and ultimately of the future of the Egyptian national income. This paper is about an Intelligent Decision Support System (DSS) that specifically focuses on assessing the impacts of wildcards on the future revenues of the Egyptian...
Recent library digitization projects attempt to provide large collections of printed material from varying sources in a searchable format. The scanned documents are typically processed using Optical Character Recognition (OCR), which typically introduces errors in the text. This paper proposes a technique for correction of OCR degraded text that is independent of character-level OCR errors, and hence...
Non-negative matrix factorization is an important method helpful in the analysis of high dimensional datasets. It has a number of applications including pattern recognition, data clustering, information retrieval or computer security. One its significant drawback lies in its computational complexity. In this paper, we introduce a new method allowing fast approximate transformation from input space...
One of the most important features of fuzzy set theory is its potential for the modeling of natural language expressions. Most works done on this topic focus on some parts of natural language, mostly those that correspond to the so-called “evaluating linguistic expressions”. We build constraints for the mathematical substitutes of these expressions to mark characteristic limits on an ordered scale...
In group decision making problems is common the necessity of achieving a consensus before making a decision. Many consensus reaching processes have been introduced in the literature but not many intelligent systems have finally been implemented to deal with such processes. In this contribution an initial prototype of a consensus support system supported on a multi-agent paradigm is presented, showing...
Research in learning and planning in real-time strategy (RTS) games is very interesting in several industries such as military industry, robotics, and most importantly game industry. A recent published work on online case-based planning in RTS Games does not include the capability of online learning from experience, so the knowledge certainty remains constant, which leads to inefficient decisions...
This article presents two classifiers based on machine learning methods, aiming to detect physiologic anomalies considering Poincaré plots of heart rate variability. It was developed a preprocessing procedure to encoding the plots, based on the Cellular Features Extraction Method. Simulation of different classifiers, artificial neural networks and support vector machine, has been performed and the...
In this paper we analyze the consensus in groups of decision makers that rank alternatives by means of weak orders. We have introduced the class of weighted Kemeny distances on weak orders for taking into account where the disagreements occur, and we have analyzed the properties of the associated consensus measures.
Hyper-heuristics can be defined as search method for selecting or generating heuristics to solve difficult problem. A high level heuristic therefore operate on a set of low level heuristics with the overall aim of selecting the most suitable set of low level heuristics at a particular point in generating an overall solution. In this work, we propose a set of constructive hyper-heuristics for solving...
Attribute reduction is a basic issue in knowledge representation and data mining. It simplifies an information system by discarding some redundant attributes. In this paper, we present a hybrid approach that combines the nature of variable neighbourhood search in the first phase with an iterated local search in the second phase that always accepts best solutions. The approach is tested over 13 well-known...
In this paper we derive novel surface fiducial points that are computed from the differential geometry of the surface. The fiducial intrinsic points are intrinsic, local, and relative invariants, i.e., they are preserved under similarity, affine, and nonlinear transformations that are piecewise affine. As the fiducial points are computed from high order surface shape derivatives, their sensitivity...
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