Effects Of Training Datasets On Both The Extreme Learning Machine And Support Vector Machine For Target Audience Identification On Twitter, 2014 Singapore Management University
Effects Of Training Datasets On Both The Extreme Learning Machine And Support Vector Machine For Target Audience Identification On Twitter, Siaw Ling Lo, David Cornforth, Raymond Chiong
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
The ability to identify or predict a target audience from the increasingly crowded social space will provide a company some competitive advantage over other companies. In this paper, we analyze various training datasets, which include Twitter contents of an account owner and its list of followers, using features generated in different ways for two machine learning approaches - the Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). Various configurations of the ELM and SVM have been evaluated. The results indicate that training datasets using features generated from the owner tweets achieve the best performance, relative to other feature sets. …
Badge Web Application, 2014 California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Badge Web Application, Ryan Green
Computer Engineering
This project includes the imagining, design, build, and test of a web application that creates and tracks a user’s progress on completing tasks that an administrator has created for the user. The goal of this project is to have a functioning webpage that is robust and scalable to support many users and many tasks. The application will be developed for use on all modern web browsers, and will have a persistent server to access from any platform. This project was designed to be an exercise in building a modern web application, and as such is written using many different languages, …
Wingtip Dynamics Simulator, 2014 California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Wingtip Dynamics Simulator, Eugene Fox, Nick Rodriguez, Steven Rieber
Mechanical Engineering
Raytheon is a defense contracting company with an electronic warfare division that is developing a radio frequency signal triangulation system. Part of the focus in improving this technology is the need for accurate and real time locational knowledge of the signal receivers, which are located at the tips of aircraft wings. Due to turbulence during flight, the fluttering motion of the wings alter the distance and angle relationships of the two receivers and add noise to the received signal data, which negatively affect the triangulation estimates. To mitigate this error caused by the wing flutter, Raytheon is developing a software …
Identifying The High-Value Social Audience From Twitter Through Text-Mining Methods, 2014 Singapore Management University
Identifying The High-Value Social Audience From Twitter Through Text-Mining Methods, Siaw Ling Lo, David Cornforth, Raymond Chiong
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Doing business on social media has become a common practice for many companies these days. While the contents shared on Twitter and Facebook offer plenty of opportunities to uncover business insights, it remains a challenge to sift through the huge amount of social media data and identify the potential social audience who is highly likely to be interested in a particular company. In this paper, we analyze the Twitter content of an account owner and its list of followers through various text mining methods, which include fuzzy keyword matching, statistical topic modeling and machine learning approaches. We use tweets of …
Organizing Video Search Results To Adapted Semantic Hierarchies For Topic-Based Browsing, 2014 Singapore Management University
Organizing Video Search Results To Adapted Semantic Hierarchies For Topic-Based Browsing, Jiajun Wang, Yu-Gang Jiang, Qiang Wang, Kuiyuan Yang, Chong-Wah Ngo
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Organizing video search results into semantically structured hierarchies can greatly improve the efficiency of browsing complex query topics. Traditional hierarchical clustering techniques are inadequate since they lack the ability to generate semantically interpretable structures. In this paper, we introduce an approach to organize video search results to an adapted semantic hierarchy. As many hot search topics such as celebrities and famous cities have Wikipedia pages where hierarchical topic structures are available, we start from the Wikipedia hierarchies and adjust the structures according to the characteristics of the returned videos from a search engine. Ordinary clustering based on textual information of …
Click-Through-Based Subspace Learning For Image Search, 2014 Singapore Management University
Click-Through-Based Subspace Learning For Image Search, Yingwei Pan, Ting Yao, Xinmei Tian, Houqiang Li, Chong-Wah Ngo
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
One of the fundamental problems in image search is to rank image documents according to a given textual query. We address two limitations of the existing image search engines in this paper. First, there is no straightforward way of comparing textual keywords with visual image content. Image search engines therefore highly depend on the surrounding texts, which are often noisy or too few to accurately describe the image content. Second, ranking functions are trained on query-image pairs labeled by human labelers, making the annotation intellectually expensive and thus cannot be scaled up. We demonstrate that the above two fundamental challenges …
Vireo @ Trecvid 2014: Instance Search And Semantic Indexing, 2014 Singapore Management University
Vireo @ Trecvid 2014: Instance Search And Semantic Indexing, Wei Zhang, Hao Zhang, Ting Yao, Yijie Lu, Jingjing Chen, Chong-Wah Ngo
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
This paper summarizes the following two tasks participated by VIREO group: instance search and semantic indexing. We will present our approaches and analyze the results obtained in TRECVID 2014 benchmark evaluation
Dc: Small: Energy-Aware Coordinated Caching In Cluster-Based Storage Systems, 2014 Principal Investigator; University of Maine, Orono
Dc: Small: Energy-Aware Coordinated Caching In Cluster-Based Storage Systems, Yifeng Zhu
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports
The main goal of this project is to improve the performance and energy efficiency of I/O (Input/Output) operations of large-scale cluster computing platforms.
The major activities include:
1) characterize the memory access workloads;
2) investigate the new and emerging new storage and memory devices, such as SSD and PCM, on I/O performance.
(3) study energy-efficient buffer and cache replacement algorithms,
(4) leveraging SSD as a new caching device to improve the energy efficiency and performance of I/O performance
Name-Face Association In Web Videos: A Large-Scale Dataset, Baselines, And Open Issues, 2014 Singapore Management University
Name-Face Association In Web Videos: A Large-Scale Dataset, Baselines, And Open Issues, Zhi-Neng Chen, Chong-Wah Ngo, Wei Zhang, Juan Cao, Yu-Gang Jiang
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Associating faces appearing in Web videos with names presented in the surrounding context is an important task in many applications. However, the problem is not well investigated particularly under large-scale realistic scenario, mainly due to the scarcity of dataset constructed in such circumstance. In this paper, we introduce a Web video dataset of celebrities, named WebV-Cele, for name-face association. The dataset consists of 75 073 Internet videos of over 4 000 hours, covering 2 427 celebrities and 649 001 faces. This is, to our knowledge, the most comprehensive dataset for this problem. We describe the details of dataset construction, discuss …
Designing An Articulation-Agreement Database For The College Of Science And Engineering And Technology Advising Center, 2014 Minnesota State University, Mankato
Designing An Articulation-Agreement Database For The College Of Science And Engineering And Technology Advising Center, Stephanie Fasen, Susan Hendley, Tim Pham, Danish Zaman
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
During their academic careers, some college students transfer to different universities. To allow students to transfer seamlessly to other colleges, advisors at Minnesota universities create articulation agreements that list the classes that transfer between two universities. To use these documents, students and advisors must search through binders to find the correct articulation agreement and then manually review it. This is a time-consuming process for both students and advisors. To make this information more accessible, we created a web-based database that instantly produces a list of equivalent classes for majors offered at Minnesota St ate University, Mankato (MSU) and other Minnesota …
Verification Of Costless Merge Pairing Heaps, 2014 MInnesota State University, Mankato
Verification Of Costless Merge Pairing Heaps, Joshua Vander Hook
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
Most algorithms’ performance is limited by the data structures they use. Internal algorithms then decide the performance of the data structure. This cycle continues until fundamental results, verified by analysis and experiment, prevent further improvement. In this paper I examine one specific example of this. The focus of this work is primarily on a new variant of the pairing heap. I will review the new implementation, compare its theoretical performance, and discuss my original contribution: the first preliminary data on its experimental performance. It is instructive to provide some background information, followed by a formal definition of heaps in 1.1. …
Diseño De Un Sistema De Adquisición Y Visualización De Los Resultados, Con Base En El Diagnóstico De Los Requisitos Técnicos De La Norma Iso Iec 17025 2005, En La Medición De Las Variables Humedad Y Temperatura En El Ideam, 2014 Universidad de La Salle, Bogotá
Diseño De Un Sistema De Adquisición Y Visualización De Los Resultados, Con Base En El Diagnóstico De Los Requisitos Técnicos De La Norma Iso Iec 17025 2005, En La Medición De Las Variables Humedad Y Temperatura En El Ideam, Victoria Andrea Leal Saavedra, Jonathan Jesús Cuéllar Guzmán
Ingeniería en Automatización
El proceso de calibración de un instrumento se basa principalmente en una serie de procedimientos establecidos que parten desde la reparación mecánica y estética y finalizan dejando a punto dicho instrumento. Teniendo en cuenta lo anterior, cabe aclarar que los laboratorios encargados de realizar estos procesos, son laboratorios que cuentan con una calificación de alta calidad a nivel internacional, esto por medio de una certificación de cumplimiento de la norma ISO/IEC 17025:2005 en el caso de los laboratorios de muestreo y calibración. Para cumplir con este tipo de normas se deben seguir una serie de indicaciones que están propuestas en …
Foss Big Data Storage Solution, 2014 CSUS
Foss Big Data Storage Solution, Gary L. Jaffe
STAR Program Research Presentations
Utilizing the AERO Institute as an IT test bed or “sandbox”, a small-agile development team will design, build, and test a data management storage system to support post processing of archived and in-flight data collected with the Piccolo flight control system and Compact Fiber Optic Sensing System (C-FOSS). Both systems are integrated on the APV3 aircraft, a small remote-operated vehicle. Due to the amount of data collected from C-FOSS, a system will be designed to sort and organize large data sets. An open-source database will be explored as a viable solution to manage large data loads and provide multi-cluster system …
Foss Big Data Storage Solution, 2014 NASA AFRC
Foss Big Data Storage Solution, Nurdeen Salami
STAR Program Research Presentations
NASA projects require a reliable approach to store large volumes of data. Accordingly, it is crucial to adopt a lightweight, reliable, and scalable database. Current NASA databases bear costly license fees with undesirable speed and flexibility. The purpose of utilizing the AERO Institute as an IT test bed, or “Sandbox,” is to design, build, test, and implement software solutions prior to transfer to NASA projects. Cassandra coupled with the Astyanax API is a viable solution for storing big data. Store a minimum of 2GB of C-FOSS data in multiple file formats (.csv, .log, .xml, and .jpg). Use benchmark tests to …
Ultimate Codes: Near-Optimal Mds Array Codes For Raid-6, 2014 Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Ultimate Codes: Near-Optimal Mds Array Codes For Raid-6, Zhijie Huang, Hong Jiang, Chong Wang, Ke Zhou, Yuhong Zhao
CSE Technical Reports
As modern storage systems have grown in size and complexity, RAID-6 is poised to replace RAID-5 as the dominant form of RAID architectures due to its ability to protect against double disk failures. Many excellent erasure codes specially designed for RAID-6 have emerged in recent years. However, all of them have limitations. In this paper, we present a class of near perfect erasure codes for RAID-6, called the Ultimate codes. These codes encode, update and decode either optimally or nearly optimally, regardless of what the code length is. This implies that utilizing these codes we can build highly efficient and …
S-Code: Lowest Density Mds Array Codes For Raid-6, 2014 Huazhong University of Science and Technology
S-Code: Lowest Density Mds Array Codes For Raid-6, Zhijie Huang, Hong Jiang, Ke Zhou, Yuhong Zhao, Chong Wang
CSE Technical Reports
RAID, a storage architecture designed to exploit I/O parallelism and provide data reliability, has been deployed widely in computing systems as a storage building block. In large scale storage systems, in particular, RAID-6 is gradually replacing RAID-5 as the dominant form of disk arrays due to its capability of tolerating concurrent failures of any two disks. MDS (maximum distance separable) array codes are the most popular erasure codes that can be used for implementing RAID-6, since they enable optimal storage efficiency and efficient encoding and decoding algorithms. In this paper, we propose a new class of MDS array codes called …
An Examination Of The Factors Determining Successful Implementation Of An Electronic Medical Record (Emr) System In A Regional Hospital, 2014 Morehead State University
An Examination Of The Factors Determining Successful Implementation Of An Electronic Medical Record (Emr) System In A Regional Hospital, Mehrdad Motamed
Morehead State Theses and Dissertations
A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the College of Business and Public Affairs Morehead State University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science by Mehrdad Motamed in July of 2014.
Click-Through-Based Cross-View Learning For Image Search, 2014 Singapore Management University
Click-Through-Based Cross-View Learning For Image Search, Yingwei Pan, Ting Yao, Tao Mei, Houqiang Li, Chong-Wah Ngo, Yong Rui
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
One of the fundamental problems in image search is to rank image documents according to a given textual query. Existing search engines highly depend on surrounding texts for ranking images, or leverage the query-image pairs annotated by human labelers to train a series of ranking functions. However, there are two major limitations: 1) the surrounding texts are often noisy or too few to accurately describe the image content, and 2) the human annotations are resourcefully expensive and thus cannot be scaled up. We demonstrate in this paper that the above two fundamental challenges can be mitigated by jointly exploring the …
A Best-Worst Scaling Model Of Climate Change Abatement By Australian Farmers, 2014 University of Western Australia, Commonwealth Scientific and Indudstrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
A Best-Worst Scaling Model Of Climate Change Abatement By Australian Farmers, Marit E. Kragt, Nikki Dumbrell, Fiona Gibson
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Storing carbon from the atmosphere in terrestrial sinks has been proposed as an important way to mitigate climate change and is a major focus in Australia's climate change policies. Mitigation by changing agricultural practices is seen as a promising way to achieve significant reductions in C02 concentrations. Several policies therefore aim to stimulate farmers to adopt so-called 'carbon farming' practices. However, there is little information about farmers' ability and willingness to adopt carbon farming. We present a best-worst scaling model to analyse farmers' decisions about adopting climate change mitigating practices. Best-worst scaling data was collected through a survey amongst mixed …
Assessing The Transition To A Low-Carbon Economy Using Actor-Based System-Dynamic Models, 2014 Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre, Saint Petersburg State University, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center
Assessing The Transition To A Low-Carbon Economy Using Actor-Based System-Dynamic Models, Dmitry V. Kovalevsky, Klaus Hasselmann
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
For a comprehensive analysis of climate mitigation policies, Integrated Assessment models (IAMs) of the coupled climate-socioeconomic system are needed. However, while there is general agreement on the physics of the climate system, the dynamics of the socioeconomic system is still the subject of considerable controversy. This has become particularly apparent since the recent global financial crisis. To explore the dynamics of the socio-economic system, a family of socio-economic models is proposed that incorporates the various alternative assumptions regarding the behaviour of the different economic actors that govern the evolution of the socio-economic system. The model family needs to be developed …