Ahmet Yarimcam, Shahriar Asta, E. Özcan, A. Parkes
{"title":"Heuristic generation via parameter tuning for online bin packing","authors":"Ahmet Yarimcam, Shahriar Asta, E. Özcan, A. Parkes","doi":"10.1109/EALS.2014.7009510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EALS.2014.7009510","url":null,"abstract":"Online bin packing requires immediate decisions to be made for placing an incoming item one at a time into bins of fixed capacity without causing any overflow. The goal is to maximise the average bin fullness after placement of a long stream of items. A recent work describes an approach for solving this problem based on a `policy matrix' representation in which each decision option is independently given a value and the highest value option is selected. A policy matrix can also be viewed as a heuristic with many parameters and then the search for a good policy matrix can be treated as a parameter tuning process. In this study, we show that the Irace parameter tuning algorithm produces heuristics which outperform the standard human designed heuristics for various instances of the online bin packing problem.","PeriodicalId":216554,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Symposium on Evolving and Autonomous Learning Systems (EALS)","volume":"10 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120906586","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":"RTSDE: Recursive total-sum-distances-based density estimation approach and its application for autonomous real-time video analytics","authors":"P. Angelov, A. Wilding","doi":"10.1109/EALS.2014.7009507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EALS.2014.7009507","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a new approach to data density estimation based on the total sum of distances from a data point, and the recently introduced Recursive Density Estimation technique. It is suitable for autonomous real-time video analytics problems, and has been specifically designed to be executed very fast; it uses integer-only arithmetic with no divisions and no floating point numbers (no FLOPs), making it particularly useful in situations where a hardware floating point unit may not be available, such as on embedded hardware and digital signal processors, allowing for high definition video to be processed for novelty detection in real-time.","PeriodicalId":216554,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Symposium on Evolving and Autonomous Learning Systems (EALS)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124349834","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 apprenticeship learning hyper-heuristic for vehicle routing in HyFlex","authors":"Shahriar Asta, E. Özcan","doi":"10.1109/EALS.2014.7009505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EALS.2014.7009505","url":null,"abstract":"Apprenticeship learning occurs via observations while an expert is in action. A hyper-heuristic is a search method or a learning mechanism that controls a set of low level heuristics or combines different heuristic components to generate heuristics for solving a given computationally hard problem. In this study, we investigate into a novel apprenticeship-learning-based approach which is used to automatically generate a hyper-heuristic for vehicle routing. This approach itself can be considered as a hyper-heuristic which operates in a train and test fashion. A state-of-the-art hyper-heuristic is chosen as an expert which is the winner of a previous hyper-heuristic competition. Trained on small vehicle routing instances, the learning approach yields various classifiers, each capturing different actions that the expert hyper-heuristic performs during the search process. Those classifiers are then used to produce a hyper-heuristic which is potentially capable of generalizing the actions of the expert hyper-heuristic while solving the unseen instances. The experimental results on vehicle routing using the Hyper-heuristic Flexible (HyFlex) framework shows that the apprenticeship-learning-based hyper-heuristic delivers an outstanding performance when compared to the expert and some other previously proposed hyper-heuristics.","PeriodicalId":216554,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Symposium on Evolving and Autonomous Learning Systems (EALS)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132810859","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":"Embodied artificial life at an impasse can evolutionary robotics methods be scaled?","authors":"A. Nelson","doi":"10.1109/EALS.2014.7009500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EALS.2014.7009500","url":null,"abstract":"Evolutionary robotics (ER) investigates the application of artificial evolution toward the synthesis of robots capable of performing autonomous behaviors. Over the last 25 years, researchers have reported increasingly complex evolved behaviors, and have compiled a de facto set of benchmark tasks. Perhaps the best known of these is the obstacle avoidance and target homing task performed by differential drive robots. More complex tasks studied in recent ER work include augmented variants of the rodent T-maze and complex foraging tasks. But can proof-of-concept results such as these be extended to evolve complex autonomous behaviors in a general sense? In this topical analysis paper we survey relevant research and make the case that common tasks used to demonstrate the effectiveness of evolutionary robotics are not characteristic of more general cases and in fact do not fully prove the concept that artificial evolution can be used to evolve sophisticated autonomous agent behaviors. Robots capable of performing many of the tasks studied in ER have now been evolved using nearly aggregate binary success/fail fitness functions. However, arguments used to support the necessity of incremental methods for complex tasks are essentially sound. This raises the possibility that the tasks themselves allow for relatively simple solutions, or span a relatively small candidate solution set. This paper presents these arguments in detail and concludes with a discussion of current ER research.","PeriodicalId":216554,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Symposium on Evolving and Autonomous Learning Systems (EALS)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124357791","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}
J. A. Iglesias, D. Griol, Agapito Ledezma, A. Sanchis
{"title":"Influence of the data codification when applying evolving classifiers to develop spoken dialog systems","authors":"J. A. Iglesias, D. Griol, Agapito Ledezma, A. Sanchis","doi":"10.1109/EALS.2014.7009504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EALS.2014.7009504","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a study of the influence of the representation of the data when applying evolving classifiers in a specific classification task. In particular, we consider an evolving classifier for the development of a spoken dialog system interacting in a practical domain. In order to conduct this study, we will first introduce an approach based on evolving fuzzy systems (EFS) which is employed to select the next system action of the dialog system. This classifier takes into account a set of evolving fuzzy rules which are automatically obtained using evolving systems. The reason for using EFS in this domain is that we can process streaming data on-line in real time and the structure and operation of the dialog model can dynamically change by considering the interaction of the dialog system with its users. Since we want to apply this evolving approach in a real domain, our proposal considers the data supplied by the user throughout the complete dialog history and the confidence measures provided by the recognition and understanding modules of the system. The paper is focused on the study of the influence of the codification of this input data to achieve the best performance of the proposed approach. To do this, we have completed this study for a real spoken dialog system providing railway information.","PeriodicalId":216554,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Symposium on Evolving and Autonomous Learning Systems (EALS)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134214334","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":"Recursive possibilistic fuzzy modeling","authors":"Leandro Maciel, F. Gomide, R. Ballini","doi":"10.1109/EALS.2014.7009498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EALS.2014.7009498","url":null,"abstract":"This paper suggests a recursive possibilistic approach for fuzzy modeling of time-varying processes. The approach is based on an extension of the possibilistic fuzzy c-means clustering and functional fuzzy rule-based modeling. Recursive possibilistic fuzzy modeling (rPFM) employs memberships and typicalities to cluster data. Functional fuzzy models uses affine functions in the fuzzy rule consequents. The parameters of the consequent functions are computed using the recursive least squares. Two classic benchmarks, Mackey-Glass time series and Box & Jenkins furnace data, are studied to illustrate the rPFM modeling and applicability. Data produced by a synthetic model with parameter drift is used to show the usefulness of rPFM to model time-varying processes. Performance of rPFM is compared with well established recursive fuzzy and neural fuzzy modeling and identification. The results show that recursive possibilistic fuzzy modeling produces parsimonious models with comparable or better accuracy than the alternative approaches.","PeriodicalId":216554,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Symposium on Evolving and Autonomous Learning Systems (EALS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125303489","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}
Di Wang, Ahmad Al-Rubaie, John Davies, Sandra Stincic
{"title":"Real time road traffic monitoring alert based on incremental learning from tweets","authors":"Di Wang, Ahmad Al-Rubaie, John Davies, Sandra Stincic","doi":"10.1109/EALS.2014.7009503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EALS.2014.7009503","url":null,"abstract":"Social media has become an important source of near-instantaneous information about events and is increasingly also being analysed to provide predictive models, sentiment analysis and so on. One domain where social media data has value is transport and this paper looks at the exploitation of Twitter data in traffic management. A key issue is the identification and analysis of traffic-relevant content. A smart system is needed to identify traffic related tweets for traffic incident alerting. This paper proposes an instant traffic alert and warning system based on a novel LDA-based approach (“tweet-LDA”) for classification of traffic-related tweets. The system is evaluated and shown to perform better than related approaches.","PeriodicalId":216554,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Symposium on Evolving and Autonomous Learning Systems (EALS)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114931944","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 fully autonomous Data Density based Clustering technique","authors":"Richard Hyde, P. Angelov","doi":"10.1109/EALS.2014.7009512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EALS.2014.7009512","url":null,"abstract":"A recently introduced data density based approach to clustering, known as Data Density based Clustering has been presented which automatically determines the number of clusters. By using the Recursive Density Estimation for each point the number of calculations is significantly reduced in offline mode and, further, the method is suitable for online use. The Data Density based Clustering method however requires an initial cluster radius to be entered. A different radius per feature/ dimension creates hyperellipsoid clusters which are axis-orthogonal. This results in a greater differentiation between clusters where the clusters are highly asymmetrical. In this paper we update the DDC method to automatically derive suitable initial radii. The selection is data driven and requires no user input. We compare the performance of DDCAR with DDC and other standard clustering techniques by comparing the results across a selection of standard datasets and test datasets designed to test the abilities of the technique. By automatically estimating the initial radii we show that we can effectively cluster data with no user input. The results demonstrate the validity of the proposed approach as an autonomous, data driven clustering technique. We also demonstrate the speed and accuracy of the method on large datasets.","PeriodicalId":216554,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Symposium on Evolving and Autonomous Learning Systems (EALS)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115309872","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}
Takashi Kawabe, Masaki Suzuki, Taro Matsumaru, Yukiko Yamamoto, S. Tsuruta, Yoshitaka Sakurai, R. Knauf
{"title":"Distributed GAs with case-based initial populations for real-time solution of combinatorial problems","authors":"Takashi Kawabe, Masaki Suzuki, Taro Matsumaru, Yukiko Yamamoto, S. Tsuruta, Yoshitaka Sakurai, R. Knauf","doi":"10.1109/EALS.2014.7009509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EALS.2014.7009509","url":null,"abstract":"Combinatorial problems are NP-complete, which means even infinite number of CPUs take polynomial time to search an optimal solution. Therefore approximate search algorithms such as Genetic Algorithms are used. However, such an approximate search algorithm easily falls into local optimum and just distributed / parallel processing seems inefficient. In this paper, we introduce distributed GAs, which compute their initial population in a case-based manner and compose their upcoming generations by the particular GAs, which exchange their solutions and make their individual decisions, when composing a next generation based on the fitness of the candidates and diversity issues.","PeriodicalId":216554,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Symposium on Evolving and Autonomous Learning Systems (EALS)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129489947","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":"Anomaly detection based on eccentricity analysis","authors":"P. Angelov","doi":"10.1109/EALS.2014.7009497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EALS.2014.7009497","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a new eccentricity- based anomaly detection principle and algorithm. It is based on a further development of the recently introduced data analytics framework (TEDA - from typicality and eccentricity data analytics). We compare TEDA with the traditional statistical approach and prove that TEDA is a generalization of it in regards to the well-known “nσ” analysis (TEDA gives exactly the same result as the traditional “nσ” analysis but it does not require the restrictive prior assumptions that are made for the traditional approach to be in place). Moreover, it offers a non-parametric, closed form analytical descriptions (models of the data distribution) to be extracted from the real data realizations, not to be pre-assumed. In addition to that, for several types of proximity/similarity measures (such as Euclidean, cosine, Mahalonobis) it can be calculated recursively, thus, computationally very efficiently and is suitable for real time and online algorithms. Building on the per data sample, exact information about the data distribution in a closed analytical form, in this paper we propose a new less conservative and more sensitive condition for anomaly detection. It is quite different from the traditional “nσ” type conditions. We demonstrate example where traditional conditions would lead to an increased amount of false negatives or false positives in comparison with the proposed condition. The new condition is intuitive and easy to check for arbitrary data distribution and arbitrary small (but not less than 3) amount of data samples/points. Finally, because the anomaly/novelty/change detection is very important and basic data analysis operation which is in the fundament of such higher level tasks as fault detection, drift detection in data streams, clustering, outliers detection, autonomous video analytics, particle physics, etc. we point to some possible applications which will be the domain of future work.","PeriodicalId":216554,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Symposium on Evolving and Autonomous Learning Systems (EALS)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127338763","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}