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Identifying Online Sexual Predators Using Support Vector Machine, Yifan Li Jan 2020

Identifying Online Sexual Predators Using Support Vector Machine, Yifan Li

Dissertations

A two-stage classification model is built in the research for online sexual predator identification. The first stage identifies the suspicious conversations that have predator participants. The second stage identifies the predators in suspicious conversations. Support vector machines are used with word and character n-grams, combined with behavioural features of the authors to train the final classifier. The unbalanced dataset is downsampled to test the performance of re-balancing an unbalanced dataset. An age group classification model is also constructed to test the feasibility of extracting the age profile of the authors, which can be used as features for classifier training. The …

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Detection Of Pathological Hfo Using Supervised Machine Learning And Ieeg Data, Isabel L. Sicardi Rosell Jan 2020

Detection Of Pathological Hfo Using Supervised Machine Learning And Ieeg Data, Isabel L. Sicardi Rosell

Dissertations

Epilepsy is the second most common neurological disorder and it affects approxi mately 50 million people worldwide. One of the main characteristics of this disorder is the presence of recurrent seizures which tend to be controlled through medication. Nonetheless, 20% of the patients with this disorder are resistant to drug treatment meaning that they need to go through alternative procedures.

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Classification Of Animal Sound Using Convolutional Neural Network, Neha Singh Jan 2020

Classification Of Animal Sound Using Convolutional Neural Network, Neha Singh

Dissertations

Recently, labeling of acoustic events has emerged as an active topic covering a wide range of applications. High-level semantic inference can be conducted based on main audioeffects to facilitate various content-based applications for analysis, efficient recovery and content management. This paper proposes a flexible Convolutional neural network-based framework for animal audio classification. The work takes inspiration from various deep neural network developed for multimedia classification recently. The model is driven by the ideology of identifying the animal sound in the audio file by forcing the network to pay attention to core audio effect present in the audio to generate Mel-spectrogram. …

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Synthetic Data Generation Using Wasserstein Conditional Gans With Gradient Penalty (Wcgans-Gp), Manhar Singh Walia Jan 2020

Synthetic Data Generation Using Wasserstein Conditional Gans With Gradient Penalty (Wcgans-Gp), Manhar Singh Walia

Dissertations

With data protection requirements becoming stricter, the data privacy has become increasingly important and more crucial than ever. This has led to restrictions on the availability and dissemination of real-world datasets. Synthetic data offers a viable solution to overcome barriers of data access and sharing. Existing data generation methods require a great deal of user-defined rules, manual interactions and domainspecific knowledge. Moreover, they are not able to balance the trade-off between datausability and privacy. Deep learning based methods like GANs have seen remarkable success in synthesizing images by automatically learning the complicated distributions and patterns of real data. But they …

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Confusion Modelling - An Estimation By Semantic Embeddings, Praveen Mohanprasad Jan 2020

Confusion Modelling - An Estimation By Semantic Embeddings, Praveen Mohanprasad

Dissertations

Approaching the task of coherence assessment of a conversation from its negative perspective ‘confusion’ rather than coherence itself, has been attempted by very few research works. Influencing Embeddings to learn from similarity/dissimilarity measures such as distance, cosine similarity between two utterances will equip them with the semantics to differentiate a coherent and an incoherent conversation through the detection of negative entity, ‘confusion’. This research attempts to measure coherence of conversation between a human and a conversational agent by means of such semantic embeddings trained from scratch by an architecture centralising the learning from the distance between the embeddings. State of …

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Finetuning Pre-Trained Language Models For Sentiment Classification Of Covid19 Tweets, Arjun Dussa Jan 2020

Finetuning Pre-Trained Language Models For Sentiment Classification Of Covid19 Tweets, Arjun Dussa

Dissertations

It is a common practice in today’s world for the public to use different micro-blogging and social networking platforms, predominantly Twitter, to share opinions, ideas, news, and information about many things in life. Twitter is also becoming a popular channel for information sharing during pandemic outbreaks and disaster events. The world has been suffering from economic crises ever since COVID-19 cases started to increase rapidly since January 2020. The virus has killed more than 800 thousand people ever since the discovery as per the statistics from Worldometer [1] which is the authorized tracking website. So many researchers around the globe …

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Improving Transfer Learning For Use In Multi-Spectral Data, Yuvraj Sharma Jan 2020

Improving Transfer Learning For Use In Multi-Spectral Data, Yuvraj Sharma

Dissertations

Recently Nasa as well as the European Space Agency have made observational satellites images public. The main reason behind opening it to public is to foster research among university students and corporations alike. Sentinel is a program by the European Space Agency which has plans to release a series of seven satellites in lower earth orbit for observing land and sea patterns. Recently huge datasets have been made public by the Sentinel program. Many advancements have been made in the field of computer vision in the last decade. Krizhevsky, Sutskever & Hinton, 2012, revolutionized the field of image analysis by …

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Investigating Effect Of Amount Of Augmented Data On Performance Of Convolutional Neural Network For Multiclass Image Classification, Shivam Khandelwal Jan 2020

Investigating Effect Of Amount Of Augmented Data On Performance Of Convolutional Neural Network For Multiclass Image Classification, Shivam Khandelwal

Dissertations

This research project seeks to investigate the use of Image Data augmentation that generates synthetic data by adding distortions to original images, as a means of replacement to a large amount of real data used to train the Convolutional Neural Networks. The purpose of the research project is to assess the effectiveness of augmented data over the real data by comparing the performance of the model trained with various amounts of augmented training and validation data ratio. Deep learning tasks involving convolutional neural networks have difficulty in generalizing the models effectively for computer vision tasks when the training dataset is …

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Investigating The Predictability Of A Chaotic Time-Series Data Using Reservoir Computing, Deep-Learning And Machine- Learning On The Short-, Medium- And Long-Term Pricing Of Bitcoin And Ethereum., Molly Kenny Jan 2020

Investigating The Predictability Of A Chaotic Time-Series Data Using Reservoir Computing, Deep-Learning And Machine- Learning On The Short-, Medium- And Long-Term Pricing Of Bitcoin And Ethereum., Molly Kenny

Dissertations

This study will investigate the predictability of a Chaotic time-series data using Reservoir computing (Echo State Network), Deep-Learning(LSTM) and Machine- Learning(Linear, Bayesian, ElasticNetCV , Random Forest, XGBoost Regression and a machine learning Neural Network) on the short (1-day out prediction), medium (5-day out prediction) and long-term (30-day out prediction) pricing of Bitcoin and Ethereum Using a range of machine learning tools, to perform feature selection by permutation importance to select technical indicators on the individual cryptocurrencies, to ensure the datasets are the best for predictions per cryptocurrency while reducing noise within the models. The predictability of these two chaotic time-series …

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Designing Shared Control Strategies For Teleoperated Robots Across Intrinsic User Qualities, Nancy Pham Jan 2020

Designing Shared Control Strategies For Teleoperated Robots Across Intrinsic User Qualities, Nancy Pham

School of Computing: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Accounting for variance in human behavior is an integral part of interacting with robotic systems that share control between users and robots in order to reduce errors, improve performance, and maintain safety. In this work we focus on the shared control of a telepresence robot and how individual user traits may affect a person's performance while navigating the robot. This requires understanding which user qualities impact performance and cause conflicts -- with the ultimate goal of building shared controllers that adapt to those qualities. Toward this goal, we develop novel adaptive shared controllers and integrate the study of intrinsic user …

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The Artificial University: Decision Support For Universities In The Covid-19 Era, Wesley J. Wildman, Saikou Y. Diallo, George Hodulik, Andrew Page, Andreas Tolk, Neha Gondal Jan 2020

The Artificial University: Decision Support For Universities In The Covid-19 Era, Wesley J. Wildman, Saikou Y. Diallo, George Hodulik, Andrew Page, Andreas Tolk, Neha Gondal

VMASC Publications

Operating universities under pandemic conditions is a complex undertaking. The Artificial University (TAU) responds to this need. TAU is a configurable, open-source computer simulation of a university using a contact network based on publicly available information about university classes, residences, and activities. This study evaluates health outcomes for an array of interventions and testing protocols in an artificial university of 6,500 students, faculty, and staff. Findings suggest that physical distancing and centralized contact tracing are most effective at reducing infections, but there is a tipping point for compliance below which physical distancing is less effective. If student compliance is anything …

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Automatic Chest X-Rays Analysis Using Statistical Machine Learning Strategies, Hermann Yepdjio Nkouanga Jan 2020

Automatic Chest X-Rays Analysis Using Statistical Machine Learning Strategies, Hermann Yepdjio Nkouanga

All Master's Theses

Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease responsible for the deaths of more than one million people worldwide every year. Even though it is preventable and curable, it remains a major threat to humanity that needs to be taken care of. It is often diagnosed in developed countries using approaches such as sputum smear microscopy and culture methods. However, since these approaches are rather expensive, they are not commonly used in poor regions of the globe such as India, Africa, and Bangladesh. Instead, the well known and affordable chest x-ray (CXR) interpretation by radiologists is the technique employed in those places. Nevertheless, …

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Glaciernet: A Deep-Learning Approach For Debris-Covered Glacier Mapping, Zhiyuan Xie, Umesh K. Haritashya, Vijayan K. Asari, Brennan W. Young, Michael P. Bishop, Jeffrey S. Kargel Jan 2020

Glaciernet: A Deep-Learning Approach For Debris-Covered Glacier Mapping, Zhiyuan Xie, Umesh K. Haritashya, Vijayan K. Asari, Brennan W. Young, Michael P. Bishop, Jeffrey S. Kargel

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Rising global temperatures over the past decades is directly affecting glacier dynamics. To understand glacier fluctuations and document regional glacier-state trends, glacier-boundary detection is necessary. Debris-covered glacier (DCG) mapping, however, is notoriously difficult using conventional geospatial technology methods. Therefore, in this research for automated DCG mapping, we evaluate the utility of a convolutional neural network (CNN), which is a deep learning feed-forward neural network. The CNN inputs include Landsat satellite images, an Advanced Land Observation Satellite (ALOS) digital elevation model (DEM) and DEM-derived land-surface parameters. Our CNN based deep-learning approach named GlacierNet was designed by appropriately choosing the type, number …

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Mitosisnet: End-To-End Mitotic Cell Detection By Multi-Task Learning, Md Zahangir Alom, Theus Aspiras, Tarek M. Taha, Tj Bowen, Vijayan K. Asari Jan 2020

Mitosisnet: End-To-End Mitotic Cell Detection By Multi-Task Learning, Md Zahangir Alom, Theus Aspiras, Tarek M. Taha, Tj Bowen, Vijayan K. Asari

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Mitotic cell detection is one of the challenging problems in the field of computational pathology. Currently, mitotic cell detection and counting are one of the strongest prognostic markers for breast cancer diagnosis. The clinical visual inspection on histology slides is tedious, error prone, and time consuming for the pathologist. Thus, automatic mitotic cell detection approaches are highly demanded in clinical practice. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end multi-task learning system for mitosis detection from pathological images which is named"MitosisNet". MitosisNet consist of segmentation, detection, and classification models where the segmentation, and detection models are used for mitosis reference region …

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Deep Hashing For Image Similarity Search, Ali Al Kobaisi Jan 2020

Deep Hashing For Image Similarity Search, Ali Al Kobaisi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

Hashing for similarity search is one of the most widely used methods to solve the approximate nearest neighbor search problem. In this method, one first maps data items from a real valued high-dimensional space to a suitable low dimensional binary code space and then performs the approximate nearest neighbor search in this code space instead. This is beneficial because the search in the code space can be solved more efficiently in terms of runtime complexity and storage consumption. Obviously, for this method to succeed, it is necessary that similar data items be mapped to binary code words that have small …

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Extracting Data-Level Parallelism In High-Level Synthesis For Reconfigurable Architectures, Juan Andres Escobedo Contreras Jan 2020

Extracting Data-Level Parallelism In High-Level Synthesis For Reconfigurable Architectures, Juan Andres Escobedo Contreras

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) tools are a set of algorithms that allow programmers to obtain implementable Hardware Description Language (HDL) code from specifications written high-level, sequential languages such as C, C++, or Java. HLS has allowed programmers to code in their preferred language while still obtaining all the benefits hardware acceleration has to offer without them needing to be intimately familiar with the hardware platform of the accelerator. In this work we summarize and expand upon several of our approaches to improve the automatic memory banking capabilities of HLS tools targeting reconfigurable architectures, namely Field-Programmable Gate Arrays or FPGA's. We explored …

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อัลกอริทึมการระบุการผันกลับของเซลลูลาร์ออโตมาตาหนึ่งมิติด้วยกราฟสับเซตย่อยภายใต้เงื่อนไขการกำหนดขอบเขตแบบไม่มีค่า, วรยุทธ วงศ์นิล Jan 2020

อัลกอริทึมการระบุการผันกลับของเซลลูลาร์ออโตมาตาหนึ่งมิติด้วยกราฟสับเซตย่อยภายใต้เงื่อนไขการกำหนดขอบเขตแบบไม่มีค่า, วรยุทธ วงศ์นิล

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

เซลลูลาร์ออโตมาตาถือเป็นโมเดลทางคณิตศาสตร์ที่สามารถทำงานแบบระบบพลวัต ซึ่งประกอบไปด้วยสถานะจำกัดที่เรียงตัวกันอย่างเป็นระบบเรียกเซลล์ แต่ละเซลล์จะเปลี่ยนสถานะไปยังสถานะใหม่พร้อมกันด้วยการอาศัยกฎการส่งผ่านที่ขึ้นอยู่กับเซลล์รอบ ๆ ด้วยเวลาแบบเต็มหน่วย แม้ว่าเซลลูลาร์ออโตมาตามีโครงสร้างและนิยามในแบบพื้นฐาน แต่สามารถสร้างระบบที่พฤติกรรมมีความซับซ้อนได้ สมบัติในการผันกลับได้ของเซลลูลาร์ออโตมาตาถือเป็นสมบัติสำคัญที่ได้รับความสนใจในหลายงานวิจัยและสามารถนำไปประยุกต์ใช้ได้ในงานหลาย ๆ ด้านในทางวิทยาศาสตร์ แต่สำหรับเซลลูลาร์ออโตมาตาหนึ่งมิติภายใต้เงื่อนไขการกำหนดขอบเขตแบบไม่มีค่ายังถือมีข้อจำกัดของจำนวนกฎที่มีไม่มากที่มีสมบัติดังกล่าว ในงานวิจัยนี้ศึกษาและเสนออัลกอริทึมการระบุการผันกลับของเซลลูลาร์ออโตมาตาหนึ่งมิติด้วยกราฟสับเซตย่อยภายใต้เงื่อนไขการกำหนดขอบเขตแบบไม่มีค่านิยามเซลล์เพื่อนบ้านด้วยเวกเตอร์ ด้วยการแทนเซลลูลาร์ออโตมาตาด้วยกราฟสับเซตย่อยเราเสนอวิธีในการระบุสมบัติการผันกลับได้ในกราฟโดยการพิจารณาเส้นเชื่อมและจุดยอดที่เชื่อมถึงกัน นอกจากนี้งานวิจัยนี้ยังเสนอวิธีในการคำนวณสถานะก่อนหน้าสำหรับสถานะใด ๆ ของเซลลูลาร์ออโตมาตาหนึ่งมิติที่มีสมบัติผันกลับได้ภายใต้เงื่อนไขการกำหนดขอบเขตแบบไม่มีค่า ซึ่งวิธีที่ได้เสนออยู่บนพื้นฐานของการพิจารณาลักษณะของเซลล์เพื่อนบ้านด้วยการคำนวณทางเดินบนกราฟด้วยการดำเนินการของเมตริกซ์

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การวิเคราะห์ข้อความภาษาธรรมชาติตามประมวลกฎหมายอาญา, วีรยุทธ ครั่งกลาง Jan 2020

การวิเคราะห์ข้อความภาษาธรรมชาติตามประมวลกฎหมายอาญา, วีรยุทธ ครั่งกลาง

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์นี้วิเคราะห์การบังคับใช้กฎหมายอาญาของประเทศไทย ในภาค1 บทบัญญัติทั่วไป และภาค2 เฉพาะความผิดเกี่ยวกับชีวิต มาตรา 288 และมาตรา 289 ในลักษณะ10 ความผิดเกี่ยวกับชีวิตและร่างกาย ตามประมวลกฎหมายอาญาของไทย ส่วนแรกของวิทยานิพนธ์นี้ใช้ความรู้ด้านกฎหมายอาญาและคำพิพากษาของศาลฎีกาในการสร้างกฎในการพิจารณาที่มนุษย์สามารถเข้าใจได้ และส่วนที่สองคือการฝึกฝนแบบจำลองด้วยชุดข้อมูลจากคำพิพากษาด้วยเทคนิคการเรียนรู้เชิงลึก โดยแก้ปัญหาความไม่สมดุลของกลุ่มข้อมูลฝึกสอนด้วยการสังเคราะห์ตัวอย่างข้อมูลในกลุ่มอื่น ๆ ให้มีจำนวนเท่ากับกลุ่มที่มากที่สุด และฝึกสอนด้วยโครงข่ายหน่วยความจำระยะสั้นแบบยาวทิศทางเดียวและสองทิศทาง ซึ่งเป็นโครงข่ายประสาทเทียมแบบวกกลับประเภทหนึ่ง และเมื่อวัดประสิทธิภาพแบบจำลองด้วยค่าเฉลี่ยมหภาคเอฟวัน พบว่าแบบจำลองของหน่วยความจำระยะสั้นแบบยาวสองทิศทางให้ประสิทธิภาพสูงกว่าแบบทิศทางเดียว และการใช้ค่าถ่วงน้ำหนักเริ่มต้นจากเรียนรู้ด้วยคลังข้อมูลขนาดใหญ่อื่น ให้ประสิทธิภาพที่สูงกว่าการใช้เฉพาะข้อมูลฝึกสอน และท้ายสุดทำการทดสอบความแม่นยำของแบบจำลองจากข่าวอาชญากรรมด้วยเทคนิคการหาค่าเฉลี่ยความน่าจะเป็น เพื่อใช้เป็นข้อมูลขาเข้าของกฎการพิจารณา พบว่าสอดคล้องกับความเห็นของนักกฎหมาย 59 %

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Deep Learning For Digitized Histology Image Analysis, Sudhir Sornapudi Jan 2020

Deep Learning For Digitized Histology Image Analysis, Sudhir Sornapudi

Doctoral Dissertations

“Cervical cancer is the fourth most frequent cancer that affects women worldwide. Assessment of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) through histopathology remains as the standard for absolute determination of cancer. The examination of tissue samples under a microscope requires considerable time and effort from expert pathologists. There is a need to design an automated tool to assist pathologists for digitized histology slide analysis. Pre-cervical cancer is generally determined by examining the CIN which is the growth of atypical cells from the basement membrane (bottom) to the top of the epithelium. It has four grades, including: Normal, CIN1, CIN2, and CIN3. In …

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Data Entry Voice Assistant For Healthcare Providers, Sajad Hussain M Alhamada Jan 2020

Data Entry Voice Assistant For Healthcare Providers, Sajad Hussain M Alhamada

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

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Image Forgery Detection With Machine Learning, Lubna Alzamil Jan 2020

Image Forgery Detection With Machine Learning, Lubna Alzamil

All Master's Theses

The issue of forged images is currently a global issue that spreads mainly via social networks. Image forgery has weakened Internet users’ confidence in digital images. In recent years, extensive research has been devoted to the development of new techniques to combat various image forgery attacks. Detecting fake images prevents counterfeit photos from being used to deceive or cause harm to others. In this thesis, we propose methods using the error level analysis algorithm to detect manipulated images. We show that our combination of image pre-processing and machine learning techniques is an efficient approach to detecting image forgery attacks.

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A Comparative Study Of Text Summarization On E-Mail Data Using Unsupervised Learning Approaches, Tijo Thomas Jan 2020

A Comparative Study Of Text Summarization On E-Mail Data Using Unsupervised Learning Approaches, Tijo Thomas

Dissertations

Over the last few years, email has met with enormous popularity. People send and receive a lot of messages every day, connect with colleagues and friends, share files and information. Unfortunately, the email overload outbreak has developed into a personal trouble for users as well as a financial concerns for businesses. Accessing an ever-increasing number of lengthy emails in the present generation has become a major concern for many users. Email text summarization is a promising approach to resolve this challenge. Email messages are general domain text, unstructured and not always well developed syntactically. Such elements introduce challenges for study …

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Evaluating Bert Embeddings For Text Classification In Bio-Medical Domain To Determine Eligibility Of Patients In Clinical Trials, Saurabh Khodake Jan 2020

Evaluating Bert Embeddings For Text Classification In Bio-Medical Domain To Determine Eligibility Of Patients In Clinical Trials, Saurabh Khodake

Dissertations

Clinical Trials are studies conducted by researchers in order to assess the impact of new medicine in terms of its efficacy and most importantly safety on human health. For any advancement in the field of medicine it is very important that clinical trials are conducted with right ethics supported by scientific evidence. Not all people who volunteer or participate in clinical trials are allowed to undergo the trials. Age, comorbidity and other health issues present in a patient can be a major factor to decide whether the profile is suitable or not for the trial. Profiles selected for clinical trials …

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Customer Churn Prediction, Deepshikha Wadikar Jan 2020

Customer Churn Prediction, Deepshikha Wadikar

Dissertations

Churned customers identification plays an essential role for the functioning and growth of any business. Identification of churned customers can help the business to know the reasons for the churn and they can plan their market strategies accordingly to enhance the growth of a business. This research is aimed at developing a machine learning model that can precisely predict the churned customers from the total customers of a Credit Union financial institution. A quantitative and deductive research strategies are employed to build a supervised machine learning model that addresses the class imbalance problem handled feature selection and efficiently predict the …

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A Direct Data-Cluster Analysis Method Based On Neutrosophic Set Implication, Florentin Smarandache, Sudan Jha, Gyanendra Prasad Joshi, Lewis Nkenyereya, Dae Wan Kim Jan 2020

A Direct Data-Cluster Analysis Method Based On Neutrosophic Set Implication, Florentin Smarandache, Sudan Jha, Gyanendra Prasad Joshi, Lewis Nkenyereya, Dae Wan Kim

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

Raw data are classified using clustering techniques in a reasonable manner to create disjoint clusters. A lot of clustering algorithms based on specific parameters have been proposed to access a high volume of datasets. This paper focuses on cluster analysis based on neutrosophic set implication, i.e., a k-means algorithm with a threshold-based clustering technique. This algorithm addresses the shortcomings of the k-means clustering algorithm by overcoming the limitations of the threshold-based clustering algorithm. To evaluate the validity of the proposed method, several validity measures and validity indices are applied to the Iris dataset (from the University of California, Irvine, Machine …

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Topological Analysis Of Averaged Sentence Embeddings, Wesley J. Holmes Jan 2020

Topological Analysis Of Averaged Sentence Embeddings, Wesley J. Holmes

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

Sentence embeddings are frequently generated by using complex, pretrained models that were trained on a very general corpus of data. This thesis explores a potential alternative method for generating high-quality sentence embeddings for highly specialized corpora in an efficient manner. A framework for visualizing and analyzing sentence embeddings is developed to help assess the quality of sentence embeddings for a highly specialized corpus of documents related to the 2019 coronavirus epidemic. A Topological Data Analysis (TDA) technique is explored as an alternative method for grouping embeddings for document clustering and topic modeling tasks and is compared to a simple clustering …

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Design Of A Novel Wearable Ultrasound Vest For Autonomous Monitoring Of The Heart Using Machine Learning, Garrett G. Goodman Jan 2020

Design Of A Novel Wearable Ultrasound Vest For Autonomous Monitoring Of The Heart Using Machine Learning, Garrett G. Goodman

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

As the population of older individuals increases worldwide, the number of people with cardiovascular issues and diseases is also increasing. The rate at which individuals in the United States of America and worldwide that succumb to Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is rising as well. Approximately 2,303 Americans die to some form of CVD per day according to the American Heart Association. Furthermore, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention states that 647,000 Americans die yearly due to some form of CVD, which equates to one person every 37 seconds. Finally, the World Health Organization reports that the number one cause of …

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Understanding Depression During The Covid-19 Pandemic Through Social Media Data, Nusrat Armin Jan 2020

Understanding Depression During The Covid-19 Pandemic Through Social Media Data, Nusrat Armin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically affected peoples’ daily lives all over theworld - physically, economically, and emotionally. Due to the virus, many people have died, and many hospitalized. A record number of people have lost their job, and many businesses have closed. The global economy is at risk. People are facing new realities of their lives. Studies have shown that the level of depression is three times higher than before this pandemic. Previous studies have shown that people use social media to express their emotions and feelings. The purpose of this study is to understand the depression during this COVID-19 …

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Fast Decision-Making Under Time And Resource Constraints, Kyle Gabriel Lassak Jan 2020

Fast Decision-Making Under Time And Resource Constraints, Kyle Gabriel Lassak

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Practical decision makers are inherently limited by computational and memory resources as well as the time available in which to make decisions. To cope with these limitations, humans actively seek methods which limit their resource demands by exploiting structure within the environment and exploiting a coupling between their sensing and actuation to form heuristics for fast decision-making. To date, such behavior has not been replicated in artificial agents. This research explores how heuristics may be incorporated into the decision-making process to quickly make high-quality decisions through the analysis of a prominent case study: the outfielder problem. In the outfielder problem, …

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Minding Morality: Ethical Artificial Societies For Public Policy Modeling, Saikou Y. Diallo, F. Leron Shults, Wesley J. Wildman Jan 2020

Minding Morality: Ethical Artificial Societies For Public Policy Modeling, Saikou Y. Diallo, F. Leron Shults, Wesley J. Wildman

VMASC Publications

Public policies are designed to have an impact on particular societies, yet policy-oriented computer models and simulations often focus more on articulating the policies to be applied than on realistically rendering the cultural dynamics of the target society. This approach can lead to policy assessments that ignore crucial social contextual factors. For example, by leaving out distinctive moral and normative dimensions of cultural contexts in artificial societies, estimations of downstream policy effectiveness fail to account for dynamics that are fundamental in human life and central to many public policy challenges. In this paper, we supply evidence that incorporating morally salient …

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