{"title":"Stochastic Cellular Automata Model to Reduce Rule Space Cardinality Applied to Task Scheduling with Many Processors","authors":"T. I. D. Carvalho, G. Oliveira","doi":"10.1109/BRACIS.2017.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BRACIS.2017.27","url":null,"abstract":"Task scheduling consists of allocating the parallel program tasks into the processors of a multiprocessing system. This paper investigates cellular automata (CA) based models for solving the scheduling problem. A standard genetic algorithm (GA) is employed to evolve appropriate CA rules, that is transition rules able to schedule parallel programs. We identified that the state-of-art CA-based schedulers suffer when trying to manage eight or more processors. This difficulty is mainly due to the severe increment in the rule space cardinality when the number of states per cell are increased to represent more processors. We propose a non-standard cellular automata model able to minimize this problem. A new definition of local neighborhood is proposed here, which is denominated as Mapping-Reduce. In addition, the transition rule related to the mapping-reduce neighborhood uses a nondeterministic output, which printed a stochastic characteristic for the new CA model. By using the new CA model we were able to simplify the complexity of the transition rules employed in the proposed CA-based scheduler model. Simulations based on the new model were carried out using a family of four parallel programs that solve equations by Gaussian elimination. Based on the experiments using 4, 8 and 16 processors, it was noted that the results of the CAbased scheduling approach were improved for architectures with a higher number of nodes. Moreover, the evolved rules had shown a better generalization ability when applied to schedule new parallel programs which is a critical point related to the main motivation for the employment of CA in scheduling.","PeriodicalId":202240,"journal":{"name":"2017 Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121351100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. M. P. Neto, W. R. Oliveira, A. J. D. Silva, Teresa B Ludermir
{"title":"On the Entanglement Dynamics of the Quantum Weightless Neuron","authors":"F. M. P. Neto, W. R. Oliveira, A. J. D. Silva, Teresa B Ludermir","doi":"10.1109/BRACIS.2017.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BRACIS.2017.46","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the dynamics of the quantum weightless neuron (qRAM) regarding entanglement. Previous works used a quantum extractor operator (QEO) to iterate the qRAM. With the QEO the qRAM output channel can be fed back or iterated despite possible entanglement of the overall output quantum state. Two measures are used here for the quantitative analysis: von Neummann entropy and entanglement entropy. We find that entanglement is disturbed and even increased when the QEO is used. In contrast entanglement stays unchanged under coherent feedback. The results indicate that QEO produces a more diverse dynamics and can be viewed as an environment interaction operator but not with decaying properties. A descriptive analyse of the entropy and entanglement dynamics is presented.","PeriodicalId":202240,"journal":{"name":"2017 Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS)","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122906808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Improved Logic-Based Implementation to Ontology Assessment","authors":"C. Rodrigues, F. Freitas, R. Azevedo","doi":"10.1109/BRACIS.2017.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BRACIS.2017.22","url":null,"abstract":"With the advent of the Semantic Web, ontology engineering has produced thousands of conceptual models. In this context, ontological evaluation is a crucial and imperative task, enabling reuse and the models’ evolution. Several frameworks have been proposed in the literature for quality and correctness assessment as OntoClean, a very subjective methodology based on the user’s knowledge to ascertain meta properties to the concepts of ontology, in order to find out disparities with respect the real domain. Unfortunately, OntoClean only applies to Ontologies whose concepts were completely labeled by the user. Due to the lack of stable OntoClean implementations and the imposed limitation, this paper presents an implementation in a general Constraint Logic-based language, which is still useful to partially labeled ontologies. At the end, some of scalability and efficiency tests are demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":202240,"journal":{"name":"2017 Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116730957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mariela Morveli Espinoza, A. Possebom, Cesar Augusto Tacla
{"title":"Resolving Resource Incompatibilities in Intelligent Agents","authors":"Mariela Morveli Espinoza, A. Possebom, Cesar Augusto Tacla","doi":"10.1109/BRACIS.2017.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BRACIS.2017.28","url":null,"abstract":"An intelligent agent may in general pursue multiple procedural goals simultaneously, which may lead to arise some conflicts (incompatibilities) among them. In this paper, we focus on the incompatibilities that emerge due to resources limitations. Thus, the contribution of this article is twofold. On one hand, we give an algorithm for identifying resource incompatibilities from a set of pursued goals and, on the other hand, we propose two ways for selecting those goals that will continue to be pursued: (i)the first is based on abstract argumentation theory, and (ii) the second based on two algorithms developed by us. We illustrate our proposal using examples throughout the article.","PeriodicalId":202240,"journal":{"name":"2017 Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128345647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Online Sequential Learning Based on Extreme Learning Machines for Particulate Matter Forecasting","authors":"Andres Bueno, G. P. Coelho, J. R. Bertini","doi":"10.1109/BRACIS.2017.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BRACIS.2017.25","url":null,"abstract":"Microscopically small solid particles and liquid droplets suspended in the air, known as particulate matter (PM), may significantly affect not only human health but also urban, natural and agricultural systems. Therefore, it is imperative to keep the concentration levels of these pollutants below harmful thresholds. Forecasting tools based on machine learning have been used to estimate the concentration of PM and other pollutants in the atmosphere. However, PM data are uninterruptedly collected over time, thus producing a stream of data whose distribution may evolve over time. As traditional machine learning techniques do not have mechanisms to handle changes on data distribution at running time, they usually present limited prediction accuracy when facing such scenario. The overall goal of this work is to evaluate whether online sequential learning can improve the estimation accuracy of PM forecasting. To do so, online and offline algorithms based on Extreme Learning Machines (ELM) were compared, in order to evaluate their performance when applied to forecast hourly concentrations of PM. The experiments were performed using real-world data streams of PM concentration from different cities of the State of São Paulo, Brazil. The obtained results show not only that online sequential learning approaches lead to smaller mean squared errors but also that the stability of the results is enhanced when such approaches are combined in ensembles.","PeriodicalId":202240,"journal":{"name":"2017 Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129351741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carine A. Dantas, R. Nunes, A. Canuto, J. C. Xavier
{"title":"Investigating the Impact of Similarity Metrics in an Unsupervised-Based Feature Selection Method","authors":"Carine A. Dantas, R. Nunes, A. Canuto, J. C. Xavier","doi":"10.1109/BRACIS.2017.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BRACIS.2017.61","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a study about the impact of evaluation criteria and similarity measures in an unsupervisedbased feature selection (FS) method. The main aim of this paper is to assess the importance of these parameter in the analyzed FS method. This method will be evaluated using eight different configurations of these two important parameters. Basically, different correlation measures will be chosen as evaluation criteria and distance measures as similarity measures. In addition, in order to evaluate the impact of these parameters, an empirical analysis will be performed, in which the different configurations will be evaluated to define the best configuration. Then, the result of the best configuration will be compared to existing feature selection and extraction methods, applied to different classification problems. The results shown in this paper indicate that the proposed method using the best configuration had better performance results than the existing methods, in most cases.","PeriodicalId":202240,"journal":{"name":"2017 Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126841259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Fuzzy Variant for On-Demand Data Stream Classification","authors":"T. P. D. Silva, G. Urban, P. Lopes, H. Camargo","doi":"10.1109/BRACIS.2017.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BRACIS.2017.60","url":null,"abstract":"In many real-world applications, data arrive sequentially in the form of streams. Processing such data poses challenges to machine learning. In data streams learning, classification problems aim to predict the true class of incoming instances in real time. While adhering to online learning strategies, in this paper we extend the On-Demand classification algorithm to include concepts of fuzzy sets theory as a way to make classification more flexible to stream changes. A set of experiments was conducted to evaluate the proposed method. Experiments show that our approach is promising in dealing with imbalanced data streams and presents benefits with relation to the non-fuzzy version.","PeriodicalId":202240,"journal":{"name":"2017 Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121309526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Fast and Robust Max-C Projection Fuzzy Autoassociative Memory with Application for Face Recognition","authors":"A. S. Santos, M. E. Valle","doi":"10.1109/BRACIS.2017.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BRACIS.2017.57","url":null,"abstract":"Max-C projection autoassociative fuzzy memories (max-C PAFMs) are memory models designed for the storage and recall of fuzzy sets. In few words, a max-C PAFM projects the input fuzzy set into the family of all max-C combinations of the stored items. In this paper, we focus on a particular max-C PAFM called Zadeh max-C PAFM. The Zadeh max-C PAFM is the most robust max-C PAFM with respect to dilative noise. Furthermore, by masking the noise contained in a corrupted input, it exhibits excellent tolerance to any kind of noise. Besides introducing the Zadeh max-C PAFM, in this paper we point out a potential application of the Zadeh max-C PAFM for face recognition.","PeriodicalId":202240,"journal":{"name":"2017 Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS)","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114641217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. C. Okimoto, Ricardo Manhães Savii, Ana Carolina Lorena
{"title":"Complexity Measures Effectiveness in Feature Selection","authors":"L. C. Okimoto, Ricardo Manhães Savii, Ana Carolina Lorena","doi":"10.1109/BRACIS.2017.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BRACIS.2017.66","url":null,"abstract":"Feature selection is an important pre-processing step usually mandatory in data analysis by Machine Learning techniques. Its objective is to reduce data dimensionality by removing irrelevant and redundant features from a dataset. In this work we investigate how the presence of irrelevant features in a dataset affects the complexity of a classification problem solution. This is performed by monitoring the values of some complexity measures extracted from the original and preprocessed datasets. These descriptors allow estimating the intrinsic difficulty of a classification problem. Some of these measures are then used in feature ranking. The results are promising and reveal that the complexity measures are indeed suitable for estimating feature importance in classification datasets.","PeriodicalId":202240,"journal":{"name":"2017 Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121734582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. F. Brunialti, S. M. Peres, V. F. Silva, C. Lima
{"title":"The BinOvNMTF Algorithm: Overlapping Columns Co-clustering Based on Non-negative Matrix Tri-factorization","authors":"L. F. Brunialti, S. M. Peres, V. F. Silva, C. Lima","doi":"10.1109/BRACIS.2017.80","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BRACIS.2017.80","url":null,"abstract":"Co-clustering is being given increasing attention by data scientists because it reveals a priori hidden information in data, through an analysis of item clusters along with attribute clusters. The use of co-clustering methods based on non-negative matrix factorization is considered to be advantageous for contexts in which data is positive matrices. However, there are limitations in these methods when co-clusters are characterized by columns overlapping (or attributes) – a common situation in several application contexts. In this paper, we have formalized the problem of Columns Overlapping Co-clustering and introduced BinOvNMTF (Binary Overlapped Non-negative Matrix Tri-Factorization), a new algorithm to analyze attribute clusters independently for each item cluster. This analysis is particularly useful for discovering information embedded in attribute clusters. We tested the BinOvNMTF algorithm in synthetic and real (textual) datasets; BinOvNMTF achieved superior results than those obtained by correlated algorithms.","PeriodicalId":202240,"journal":{"name":"2017 Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134054802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}