ABSTRACT Modeling text in a numerical representation is a prime task for any Natural Language Processing downstream task such as text classification. This paper attempts to study the effectiveness of text representation schemes on the text classification task, such as aggressive text detection, a special case of Hate speech from social media. Aggression levels are categorized into three predefined

ABSTRACT Localisation technology is one of the most important challenges of underwater vehicle applications that accomplish any scheduled mission in the complex underwater environment. Currently, the Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) of the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) is becoming a hotspot research. AUVs have, only recently, received more attention and underwater platforms continue

ABSTRACT Today, health is the most important value of human life pandemics at different time intervals in the world history. Finally, the COVID-19 outbreak that occurred in Wuhan, China in December 2019, spread to the whole world in a really short time and caused a pandemic. In order to prevent this pandemic, early detection of the COVID-19 is very important. In this study, chest x-ray images of 1019

ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the convergence analysis for a patch structure Nicholson’s blowflies system involving an oscillating death rate and multiple different time-varying delays. By using inequality techniques and concise mathematical analysis proof, some sufficient criteria are established to guarantee the global exponential convergence of the zero equilibrium point for the addressed system

ABSTRACT In the study of two-sided matching decision problems, preference ordinal information is a key factor. However, in real life, it is often difficult to ascertain complete preference ordinal information, and in most cases we can only obtain an interval-valued preference ordinal information. In this paper, a strict two-sided matching based on multi-attribute interval-valued preference ordinal

ABSTRACT Real-time semantic segmentation aims to generate high-quality prediction in limited time. Recently, with the development of many related potential applications, such as autonomous driving, robot sensing and augmented reality devices, semantic segmentation is desirable to make a trade-off between accuracy and inference speed with limited computation resources. This paper introduces a novel

ABSTRACT Trend following strategies are well-known to exhibit excellent excess return performance across a wide range of asset classes in various global markets. For the equity asset class in particular, while the securities selection part is relatively a straightforward procedure, the weight allocation part is more debatable and it has traditionally been identified with the equal-weighted allocation

ABSTRACT Credit card fraud is one of the biggest cybercrimes faced by users. Intelligent machine learning based fraudulent transaction detection systems are very effective in real-world scenarios. However, while designing these systems, machine learning approaches suffer from the problem of imbalanced data, i.e. imbalanced class distribution. Therefore, balancing the dataset becomes an imperative sub-task

ABSTRACT Recent advancements in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have provided an opportunity to create autonomous devices, robots, and machines characterised particularly with the ability to make decisions and perform tasks without human mediation. One of these devices, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones are widely used to perform tasks like surveillance, search and rescue, object

ABSTRACT Clustering of data streams has become very popular in recent times, owing to rapid rise of real-time streaming utilities that produce large amounts of data at varying inter-arrival rates. We propose AnyClus, a framework for anytime clustering of data streams. AnyClus uses a proposed variant of R-tree, AnyRTree, to capture the incoming stream objects arriving at variable rate, and to index

ABSTRACT In this manuscript, inertial neural networks with both time- varying and distributed delays are studied. Applying inequality techniques and Lyapunov function approach, a new sufficient condition that guarantees the existence and exponential stability of periodic solutions for the addressed networks is presented. The obtained results supplement some earlier publications that deal with the periodic

ABSTRACT Describing video content using natural language is an important part of video understanding. It needs to not only understand the spatial information on video, but also capture the motion information. Meanwhile, video captioning is a cross-modal problem between vision and language. Traditional video captioning methods follow the encoder-decoder framework that transfers the video to sentence

ABSTRACT Sensor nodes encompass the capability of controlling and monitoring the environment by measuring the factors, like temperature, pressure, and humidity. Ensuring secure routing in the network is an important and significant task in the wireless sensor network (WSN). Even though various routing protocols are adopted in the network, providing security and maintaining the energy is still a challenging

ABSTRACT Software effort estimation (SEE) is a software engineering problem that requires robust predictive models. To establish robust models, the most feasible configuration of hyperparameters of regression methods is searched. Although only a few works, which include hyperparameter optimisation (HO), have been done so far for SEE, there is not any comprehensive study including deep learning models

ABSTRACT To address the sparsity problem, a novel collaborative filtering approach based on multiple attribute decision making (MADM-CF) is proposed. In MADM-CF, users in collaborative filtering are treated as decision alternatives, items are treated as attributes. The weight of each item is determined, and the preference similarities between the active user and other users are computed. The preference

ABSTRACT Audio files are frequent targets of malicious users who seek illegal profit trading with fake-quality content. For increasing the confidence in the integrity of audio files, the detection of fake-quality content is an important task. This paper proposes a method for detecting Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) compression on suspicious WAV files, in which the variance of the Modified Discrete Cosine

ABSTRACT The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services have emphasised unequivocal evidences about the impact of human actions on climate and biodiversity at alarming rates. In Brazilian terms, 2019 has been marked by controversial discussions among politicians and environmentalists, leading to misinformation and

ABSTRACT Software effort estimation (SEE) is a software engineering problem that requires robust predictive models. To establish robust models, the most feasible configuration of hyperparameters of regression methods is searched. Although only a few works, which include hyperparameter optimisation (HO), have been done so far for SEE, there is not any comprehensive study including deep learning models

ABSTRACT To address the sparsity problem, a novel collaborative filtering approach based on multiple attribute decision making (MADM-CF) is proposed. In MADM-CF, users in collaborative filtering are treated as decision alternatives, items are treated as attributes. The weight of each item is determined, and the preference similarities between the active user and other users are computed. The preference

ABSTRACT This paper introduces a novel hybridisation technique combining the Backtracking Search (BS) and Differential Evolution (DE) algorithms. The proposed hybridisation executes diversity loss and stagnation detection mechanisms to maintain the diversity of the populations, in addition, modifications are done over the mutation operators of the component algorithms in order to improve the search

ABSTRACT Mean-field variational inference, built on fully factorisations, can be efficiently solved; however, it ignores the dependencies between latent variables, resulting in lower performance. To address this, the copula variational inference (CVI) method is proposed by using the well-established copulas to effectively capture posterior dependencies, leading to better approximations. However, it

ABSTRACT The issue of class imbalance and its consequences over the conventional learning models is a well-investigated topic, as it highly influences performances of real-life classification tasks. Amongst the available solutions, Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE) imprints efficacy in balancing the data through synthetic minority instance generation. However, SMOTE suffers from the

ABSTRACT This paper examines the problem of master-slave synchronization for a class of fuzzy Cohen-Grossberg neural networks (FCGNNs) subject to fuzzy effects and time-delays (time-varying and distributed). Some sufficient and new conditions are given in order to establish the exponential lag synchronization for the considered model. Also, the existence, the uniqueness, and exponential stability of

ABSTRACT We develop a method for analyzing multivariate time series using topological data analysis (TDA) methods. The proposed methodology involves converting the multivariate time series to point cloud data, calculating Wasserstein distances between the persistence diagrams and using the k -nearest neighbours algorithm ( k -NN) for supervised machine learning. Two methods (symmetry-breaking and anchor

ABSTRACT Blood is a valuable commodity in society due to its ability to save lives during crises. Furthermore, because of the scarcity of blood donors, blood assignment by blood banks requires meticulous planning and solid issuing policy. The multiple components of a blood banking system contribute to the complexity of maintaining an efficient structure for such a system. One particular aspect relates

ABSTRACT Over the past two decades, many studies have been published in diverse fields of application combining agent abilities (knowledge processing, communication, learning, mobility, etc.) and data mining approaches (clustering, decision trees, ontologies, etc.). We performed a systematic mapping study to quantitatively analyse these contributions about agent mining. We determined that most of the

ABSTRACT Nowadays, in research introducing an advanced driver assistance system for improving driving is considered as the trending one. In this research, concentrate more on proposing lane detection model and assist in driving. This work develops a lane detection model through the deep learning scheme. The proposed scheme has two major phases, such as image transformation and lane detection. Initially

ABSTRACT The Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is a process of disambiguating the sense of the text according to its context. Machine translation is one of the challenging task since it requires effective representation of the text to capture semantic relation between Hindi lyrics in English normal language behaviour. This paper focuses on WSD methods to deal with dialects that convert Hindi lyrics to

ABSTRACT This article explores a class of patch structure Nicholson’s blowflies systems involving nonlinear density-dependent mortality terms and multiple pairs of distinctive maturation and feedback delays. By utilising the fluctuation lemma and differential inequality techniques, a delay-dependent criterion on the global asymptotic stability of the addressed systems is established, which refines

ABSTRACT In this paper, we propose a collaborative model for the supplier selection for the purchasing activity in the supply chain. The problem addresses a set of firms that try to look for a cost saving configuration to optimise their ordering plans, given a set of suppliers with quantity discounts options. Possible collaborations between firms, modelled as a coalition formation, can be beneficial

ABSTRACT Recent theories developing broad notions of context and its effects on inference are becoming increasingly important in fields as diverse as cognitive psychology, information science and quantum information theory and computing. Here we introduce a novel and general approach to the characterisation of contextuality using the techniques of Chu spaces and Channel Theory viewed as general theories

ABSTRACT With the recent advancements in distributed computing technologies, the fog computing model has emerged to provide resource capabilities at the edge of the network for executing IoT applications. However, due to the rapid growth of IoT applications and variability their workload over time, achieving an efficient resource provisioning solution to deal with time-varying workloads as one of the

ABSTRACT Due to exponential growth in demand for radio spectrum for wireless communication networking, the radio spectrum has become over-crowded. The fixed spectrum allocation policy of the radio spectrum leads to inefficient utilisation of the available spectrum, which diverted the attention of researchers towards different intelligent techniques to access the spectrum dynamically and efficiently

ABSTRACT Improvement of prediction accuracy and early detection of the Alzheimer’s disease is becoming increasingly important for managing its impact on lives of affected patients. Many machine learning approaches have been applied to support the diagnosis and prediction of this illness. In this paper we propose an approach for improving the Alzheimer’s disease classification accuracy by using data

Current methods for human-object interaction detection often use the spatial relation between a human and an object as an interaction pattern. However, this strategy is relatively simple and has low discrimination in similar interactions. To solve this drawback, the spatial relation between skeletons and objects is proposed to model the interaction pattern and improve the detection accuracy. First

Multiple watermarking techniques for images is receiving more attention in recent years for its wide variety of applications in different fields such as piracy of digital data, and copyrights protection. Current approaches rely on adding many watermarks in different bands or channels utilising scaling factor, and embedding locations that are mainly defined by experts. This brought many challenges in

The integration of Lattice Boltzmann (LB) and adaptive-network-based fuzzy inference system was utilised to simulate mesoscale fluid interface in a multiphase fluid system. This method uses data generated by LB and based on the local population and density data. The interface between dispersed and matrix phases on the neural points was simulated. The neural mesh of interface was created by the ANFIS

Crowdsourcing services provide an economic and efficient means of acquiring multiple noisy labels for each training instance in supervised learning. Ground truth inference methods, also known as consensus methods, are then used to obtain the integrated labels of training instances. Although consensus methods are effective, there still exists a level of noise in the set of integrated labels. Therefore

In this paper, global asymptotic stability for a class of discrete-time Cohen-Grossberg Neural Networks with finite and infinite delays is investigated. By combining graph theoretic approach with Homeomorphism concept as well as Lyapunov functional method, two new sufficient conditions ensuring the global asymptotic stability of equilibrium point for above neural networks are established. Combining

Image captured in bad weather conditions confines scene prominence, appears grey and diminishes image contrast. This usually happens due to atmospheric dispersing phenomenon that affects the quality of outdoor computer vision frameworks. This deprivation relies on the gap between the object point and the camera and mostly differs for every pixel present in an image. Transmission coefficients, which

In this paper, a ranking procedure is proposed for the order-of-magnitude qualitative reasoning problem. To this end, a preference degree was suggested for comparing a set of k-dimensional vectors of qualitative labels to provide a criterion to interpret the concept of ‘preference’ between two k-dimensional vectors of qualitative labels. Some useful properties of the proposed preference degree were

Goal-driven autonomy is an agent model for managing a dynamic environment by reasoning about current and potential goals while planning and acting. Since unexpected events and conditions may cause an agent’s goals and plans to become invalid or infeasible, an agent with goal-driven autonomy should monitor the environment against its expectations. Designed for dynamic, open, and partially observable

In the object recognition task, due to changes in size, colour, illumination, position, viewing angle, and environmental background, great uncertainty is caused. The invariant recognition capability required to adapt to such diverse uncertainties has also become one of the most challenging goals of artificial intelligence, as only biometric systems can do this. The approach to dealing with uncertainty

We present ConArgLib, a C++ library implemented to help programmers solve some of the most important problems related to extension-based abstract Argumentation. The library is based on ConArg, which exploits Constraint Programming and, in particular, Gecode, a toolkit for developing constraint-based systems and applications. Given a semantics, such problems consist, for example, in enumerating all

Any evolutionary algorithm tends to end up in a local optimum. A new approach based on an evolutionary algorithm named as Diversity Driven Multi-Parent Evolutionary Algorithm with Adaptive non-uniform mutation is presented. In the proposed algorithm, Non-uniform mutation is used to maintain diversity in the explored solutions. Fitness variance, which signifies solution space aggregation, is used to

Autonomous transfer vehicles (ATVs) can be considered as one of the critical components of context-aware structured smart factories in Industry 4.0 era. Conventional mapping methods such as grid maps can provide information for navigation, but they are not enough for complex environments that require interactions. On the other hand, high-definition (HD) mapping, which is mainly used in traffic networks

Existing ant colony algorithms only have one kind of pheromone. They use non-dominated solutions to update it while not making use of dominated solutions, which can provide valuable information for guiding the subsequent foraging process. To make full use of dominated solutions, we create a new kind of pheromone temporarily called a negative pheromone and propose a new ant colony optimisation algorithm

The Satin Bowerbird Optimisation (SBO) was inspired by the Satin Bowerbirds living in Australia’s rainforests and other mesic habitats. Like other meta-heuristic algorithms, the main problem faced by the SBO is that it has been empirically demonstrated to become easily trapped into local optimal solutions, creating low precision and slow convergence speeds. To overcome these deficiencies, we propose

Online social media such as Twitter are growing so rapidly. Recently, Twitter has become one of the popular microblogging services on the Internet. It lets millions of users to communicate and interact by sending short messages of up to 140 characters. The massive amount of information over the web from Twitter requires an automatic tool that can determine the topics that people are talking about.

Intelligence has been defined in many ways like logic, awareness, reasoning, critical thinking, etc. Many researchers insist on the possibility of a Technological Singularity shortly, which may see machines gaining intelligence similar to, or greater than humans. While many researchers believe that Technological Singularity is at an arm’s length, many counter-question the possibility of the same due

One of the most important assumptions in machine learning tasks is the fact that training data points and test data points are extracted from the same distribution. However, this paper assumes the situation in which this fact does no longer hold. Therefore, a task named space adjustment, through which the distribution of the data points in the training-data space and the distribution of the data points

Aspect-based sentiment analysis is one of the challenging problems among the various type of tasks in sentiment analysis. Sequential models specifically deep neural networks (like Recurrent Neural Networks) have been found to handle this problem in an efficient way. This paper presents a deep neural network model named ATE-SPD for aspect-based sentiment analysis that simultaneously extracts aspect-terms

Recognition of emotion in speech is a difficult task due to many speaker factors like gender, age, and the cultural background (nationality, ethnicity, and region) as well as the acoustical environment. Among these factors, the cultural background of the speaker has a strong influence on the expression of emotion. The reason for the unsatisfactory performance of an emotion recognition engine built

The navigation of mobile robots using heuristic algorithms is one of the important issues in computer and control sciences. Path planning and obstacle avoidance are current topics of navigational challenges for mobile robots. The major drawbacks of conventional methods are the inability to plan motion in a dynamic and unknown environment, failure in crowded and complex environments, and inability to

Over the last decades, the number of Swarm Intelligence algorithms proposed in the literature has increased considerably. However, most algorithms do not follow an adequate scientific rigour neither the principles of Swarm Intelligence, reproducing similar computational procedures of many other approaches, but by means of a different metaphor. In this scenario, the aim of this paper is to propose a

Age estimation can obtain biological age which is helpful for diagnosis of healthy status and disease. The current age estimation methods do not consider the deep relationships of instances, which limits the potential improvement of the age estimation performance. A hierarchical age estimation mechanism with adaboost-based deep instance weighted fusion is proposed to solve this problem. First, a circulation

Supervised classification and target recognition of Hyperspectral images (HSI) is a challenging task due to high dimensionality and spectral mixing. Straightforward cognitive computation and target classification lead to high computation cost and low recognition accuracy. Limited availability of training samples makes the recognition process very slow and inaccurate. The main purpose of this work is

This paper presents an evolutionary method to find the optimally designed gripper configuration for the automated material handling process. The optimal design of the robot gripper is a non-linear, multicriteria and multi-constraint problem. Evolutionary computational methods are introduced to overcome the difficulty associated while finding the optimal dimensions of the gripper. In this study, an

In this paper, a class of generalised inertial competitive neural networks with time-varying delays is proposed. The existence and global exponential stability of anti-periodic solutions for this class of neural networks are investigated. By using a continuation theorem of coincidence degree theory, the Wirtinger inequality and constructing an appropriate Lyapunov function, some sufficient conditions

Drought is one of the most recurrent natural disasters with cataclysmic effects on water budget, crop production, economic progression and public health. These consequences are magnified by the climate change leading to more intense drought conditions. A number of drought indices have been presented to calibrate the drought severity with its own strengths and limitations. Many of them are region-specific