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Title: AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF INTELLIGENT TUTORING CAPABILITIES VIA EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING
Author: Stamper, John
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information science, Educational technology
Description: Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) that adapt to an individual student's needs have shown significant improvement in achievement over non-adaptive instruction. This improvement occurs due to the individualized instruction and feedback that an ITS...

Title: An Approach to Reducing Parameter Uncertainty for Robotic Surface Assembly Tasks
Author: Saric, Amar
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Robotics
Description: In contrast to hard automation, which relies on the precise knowledge of all parameters and special-purpose machinery, the goal of flexible assembly is to overcome the inherent uncertainty in the location of the parts. The main result of this diss...

Title: COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS AND THE THRESHOLD EFFECT: TOWARDS A GENERAL TOOL FOR STUDYING DYNAMIC PHENOMENA ACROSS DIVERSE DOMAINS
Author: Carmichael, Theodore
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Social structure, Cytology
Description: Most interesting phenomena in natural and social systems include transitions and oscillations among their various phases. A new phase begins when the system reaches a threshold that marks a qualitative change in system characteristics. These thres...

Title: Evaluating and extending the concept of wisdom of crowds in the context of problem solving
Author: Sun, Min
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: James Surowiecki in his book on the wisdom of crowds wrote about the decisions made based on the aggregation of information in groups. Knowing the many case studies and anecdotes which show the success of wisdom of crowds, he argues that under cer...

Title: Hierarchical Learning of Discriminative Features and Classifiers for Large-scale Visual Recognition
Author: Zhou, Ning
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Enabling computers to recognize objects present in images has been a long standing but tremendously challenging problem in the field of computer vision for decades. Beyond the difficulties resulting from huge appearance variations, large-scale vis...

Title: Large-scale image collection cleansing, summarization and exploration
Author: Yang, Chunlei
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: A perennially interesting topic in the research field of large scale image collection organization is how to effectively and efficiently conduct the tasks of image cleansing, summarization and exploration. The primary objective of such an image or...

Title: MONTE-CARLO TREE SEARCH WITH HEURISTIC KNOWLEDGE: A NOVEL WAY IN SOLVING CAPTURING AND LIFE AND DEATH PROBLEMS IN GO
Author: Zhang, Peigang
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Artificial intelligence
Description: Monte-Carlo (MC) tree search is a new research field. Its effectiveness in searching large state spaces, such as the Go game tree, is well recognized in the computer Go community. Go domain-specific heuristics and techniques as well as domain-inde...

Title: More Efficient Learning in Traffic Grids Viewed as Complex Adaptive Systems Using Agent Based Modeling
Author: Lane, Marion
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Equation based modeling (EBM) is the most common form of scientific modeling. However, the creation of an appropriate EBM for a large system is likely to be complicated and computationally expensive. In contrast, consider the possibilities if even...

Title: POLYPHONIC MUSIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL BASED ON MULTI-LABEL CASCADE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
Author: Jiang, Wenxin
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information science, Interactive multimedia
Description: Recognition and separation of sounds played by various instruments is very useful in labeling audio files with semantic information. This is a non-trivial task requiring sound analysis, but the results can aid automatic indexing and browsing music...

Title: PRESERVING DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY IN COMPLEX DATA ANALYSIS
Author: Wang, Yue
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Data sets
Description: Omnipresent databases from various resources, such as social networks, electronic commercial websites, and health related wearable devices, have provided researchers with unprecedented opportunities to analyze complex social phenomena. While socie...

Title: Privacy and Spectral Analysis of Social Network Randomization
Author: Ying, Xiaowei
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Social networks are of significant importance in various application domains. Understanding the general properties of real social networks has gained much attention due to the proliferation of networked data. Many applications of networks such as ...

Title: SIGNAL PROCESSING BASED METHOD FOR MODELING AND SOLVING INVERSE SCATTERING PROBLEMS
Author: Ritter, Richard
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Optics, Engineering
Description: A mature and difficult problem, still preoccupying many research communities in different application areas, is the recovery of a quantitative image of some unknown penetrable strongly scattering object. In most fields, such as ground penetrating ...

Title: Structural Learning for Large Scale Image Classification
Author: Shen, Yi
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: To leverage large-scale collaboratively-tagged (loosely-tagged) images for training a large number of classifiers to support large-scale image classification, we need to develop new frameworks to deal with the following issues: (1) spam tags, i.e....