{"title":"Distance Based Queries in Open Street Map","authors":"J. Almendros-Jiménez, A. Becerra-Terón","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.2015.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.2015.60","url":null,"abstract":"Volunteered geographic information (VGI) makes available a very large resource of geographic data. The exploitation of data coming from such resources requires an additional effort in the form of tools and effective processing techniques. One of the most stablished VGI is Open Street Map (OSM) offering data of urban and rural maps from the earth. Recently, we have presented a library for querying OSM data with the XML query language XQuery. This library is based on the well-known spatial operators defined by Clementini and Egenhofer, providing a repertoire of XQuery functions which encapsulate the search on the XML document representing a layer of OSM, and make the definition and composition of queries on top of OSM layers easier. In this paper, we will show how to extend the library in order to express distance based queries. Distances will be used either to get layers of objects in a certain distance from a given object, or to express queries involving closeness concepts.","PeriodicalId":239815,"journal":{"name":"2015 26th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133202584","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":"Smart Indoor Positioning System for Situation Awareness in Emergency Situations","authors":"Lazar Berbakov, Bogdan Pavković, S. Vranes","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.2015.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.2015.44","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose an indoor positioning system for situation awareness in emergency situations. We consider a system that uses inertial sensors to provide positioning information in environments without GNSS coverage. We present the overall system architecture with the special emphasis on a smartphone application for indoor positioning and a mapping web portal where authorized personnel is given access to the positioning data.","PeriodicalId":239815,"journal":{"name":"2015 26th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134106722","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}
E. Tello-Leal, Ana B. Ríos-Alvarado, Alan Díaz-Manríquez
{"title":"A Semantic Knowledge Management System for Government Repositories","authors":"E. Tello-Leal, Ana B. Ríos-Alvarado, Alan Díaz-Manríquez","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.2015.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.2015.48","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, in a knowledge-driven economy, the organizations, public or private, require to make an appropriate managing knowledge assets to sustain competitive edge in global markets or in governmental services. Advances in Information and Communications Technologies have supported innovations in Knowledge Management (KM). Since the KM has been recognized as one of the critical factors for obtaining organizational competitiveness. KM is among the promising areas for the application of Semantic Web. In this paper we propose an approach to the development of a technological platform for KM that integrates semantic Web technologies. This platform supports all processes required in knowledge management. Therefore, the platform enables the automatic identification of patterns and generation of the taxonomies from unstructured texts (documents). The platform consists of tools that allow storing documents (from a knowledge contributor interface), processing of source documents, i.e. identifying sentences, stop-words, identifying n-grams, and generating bags of words, denoting lexical patterns, taxonomic-relation extraction, and inference algorithms to retrieve knowledge from a set of repositories. These algorithms use the previous phases to retrieve knowledge more accurately derived from the semi-structured or structured information previously generated.","PeriodicalId":239815,"journal":{"name":"2015 26th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA)","volume":"186 5 Suppl Nature 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116384650","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}
Roman Mora, Saul Santillan-Perez, Maricela Claudia Bravo
{"title":"Web Services Clustering Using a Bio-inspired Algorithm","authors":"Roman Mora, Saul Santillan-Perez, Maricela Claudia Bravo","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.2015.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.2015.52","url":null,"abstract":"In this work we describe a bio-inspired algorithm for Web service clustering, in particular we present an adaptation of the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm which is applied over a collection of Web service descriptions. The adapted ACO uses input and output parameter definitions to calculate semantic similarity measures between all the different Web services. A set of experiments were carried out with promising results that show the benefits of the ACO algorithm for Web services clustering.","PeriodicalId":239815,"journal":{"name":"2015 26th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114788469","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":"Multi-agent Electricity Markets: A Case Study on Contracts for Difference","authors":"Francisco Sousa, F. Lopes, J. Santana","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.2015.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.2015.35","url":null,"abstract":"Electricity markets (EMs) are a complex evolving reality -- new players and new business models are emerging and market rules are constantly changing. As EMs continue to evolve, there is a growing need for advanced modeling approaches that simulate the behavior of market participants, particularly how they may react to the economic, financial and regulatory changes that can occur in the environments in which they operate. This article presents several key features of software agents able to negotiate bilateral contracts in EMs, paying special attention to risk management, forward contracts and contracts for difference (CFDs). Also, it describes a set of case studies aiming at assessing the performance of CFDs as a risk management tool and comparing their performance to forward bilateral contracts.","PeriodicalId":239815,"journal":{"name":"2015 26th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133870382","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}
S. Beaumeunier, J. Audoux, A. Boureux, T. Commes, Nicolas Philippe, Ronnie Alves
{"title":"The Role of Machine Learning in Finding Chimeric RNAs","authors":"S. Beaumeunier, J. Audoux, A. Boureux, T. Commes, Nicolas Philippe, Ronnie Alves","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.2015.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.2015.25","url":null,"abstract":"High-throughput sequencing technology and bioinformatics have identified chimeric RNAs (chRNAs), raising the possibility of chRNAs expressing particularly in diseases can be used as potential biomarkers in both diagnosis and prognosis. The task of discriminating true chRNA from the false ones poses an interesting Machine Learning (ML) challenge. First of all, the sequencing data may contain false reads due to technical artefacts and during the analysis process, bioinformatics tools may generate false positives due to methodological biases. Thus predicting the real signal from the noise can be a hard task. Furthermore, even if we succeed to have a proper set of observations (enough sequencing data) about true chRNAs, chances are that the devised model can not be able to generalize beyond it. Like any other machine learning problem, the first big issue is finding the good data, observations, to build the prediction model. Unfortunately, as far as we were concerned, there is no common benchmark data available for chRNAs. And, the definition of a classification baseline is lacking in the related literature. In this work we are moving towards a benchmark data and a fair comparison analysis unraveling the role of ML techniques in finding chRNAs. We have developed a benchmark pipeline incorporating a mutated genome process and simulated RNA-seq data by Flux Simulator. These sequencing reads were aligned and annotated by CRAC. CRAC offers a new way to analyze the RNA-seq data by integrating genomic location and local coverage, allowing biological predictions in one step. The resulting data were used as a benchmark for our comparison analysis. We have observed that the no free lunch theorem do not hold for ensemble classifiers. Ensemble learning strategies demonstrated to be more robust to this classification problem, providing an average AUC performance of 95% (ACC=94%, Kappa=0.87%).","PeriodicalId":239815,"journal":{"name":"2015 26th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125111148","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}
Leopoldo Zepeda-Sánchez, Luis C. Santillán, Elizabeth Ceceña, Emir Manjarrez, L. Vega, C. García
{"title":"A Meta-model Based Approach for Data Warehouses Design and Implementation","authors":"Leopoldo Zepeda-Sánchez, Luis C. Santillán, Elizabeth Ceceña, Emir Manjarrez, L. Vega, C. García","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.2015.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.2015.56","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a meta-model approach for the design and implementation of Data Warehouses (DWs). The approach is made up of a set of transformation rules as a mechanism to extract multidimensional schemas from the logical description of the operational Database and a Computation Independent Model (CIM) for user requirements definition. As a result we have implemented an Eclipse based prototype that generates from the logical description of the operational Database and user requirements the multidimensional schema that best reflects users requirements. Next, for multidimensional schemas generation, we use user requirements to guide the selection that is supported by the operational Database that is most likely to satisfy users requirements. Finally, we define a tool for the data Warehouse implementation.","PeriodicalId":239815,"journal":{"name":"2015 26th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125661786","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":"Portfolio Optimization for Electricity Market Participation with Particle Swarm","authors":"Ricardo Faia, T. Pinto, Z. Vale, E. Pires","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.2015.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.2015.31","url":null,"abstract":"The liberalization of energy markets has imposed several modifications in the electricity market environment. The paradigm of monopoly market ceased to exist, and new models have been put into practice. The new models have increased the incentive on competitiveness, making market players struggle to achieve the best outcomes out of market participation. Producers aim at reaching the maximum profit on the sale of energy, while consumers try to minimize their spending on electrical energy. The proposed methodology considers the optimization of players' participation in multiple market opportunities. Reference prices that are expected in each market type at each moment are achieved through the application of neural networks. Using the forecasted prices, the proposed portfolio optimization method allocates the sale and purchase of electrical energy to different markets throughout the time, with the aim at achieving the most advantageous participation profile. A particle swarm approach is used to reduce the execution time while guaranteeing the minimum degradation of the results. Results of the swarm methodology are compared to those of a deterministic approach, using real data from the Iberian electricity market - MIBEL.","PeriodicalId":239815,"journal":{"name":"2015 26th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA)","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128916944","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":"Extraction of Definitional Contexts through Machine Learning","authors":"Víctor Mijangos, Gerardo E Sierra","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.2015.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.2015.57","url":null,"abstract":"Automatic extraction of definitional contexts has been a problem that deserved to be addressed to in different studies by applications demands in the Natural Language Processing. The first approach to the automatic extraction of these resources has been through specific linguistic patterns, but this approach requires previous extensive linguistic knowledge and a thorough previous work. A model machine learning, on the other hand, reduces the work and, as we believe, can improve the results obtained with only one approach based on linguistic rules. Here experiments for extraction/classification of definitional contexts with naive bayes classifier and SVM are presented. We show that through machine learning approaches we can improve the results of this specific task. The highest result was obtained by the naive bayes classifier with back-off as smoothing.","PeriodicalId":239815,"journal":{"name":"2015 26th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115859245","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}
Markus Jäger, Stefan Nadschläger, T. Phan, J. Küng
{"title":"Data, Information & Knowledge Sources in the Agricultural Domain","authors":"Markus Jäger, Stefan Nadschläger, T. Phan, J. Küng","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.2015.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.2015.40","url":null,"abstract":"We try to make a first step towards merging sources in the agricultural domain with experts and methods from the IT sector. The result should help people in this domain to profit from a better and more productive way of using existing experiences by sharing and making them easier accessible. After a short definition of several knowledge-related terms we present existing and possibly useful standards for sources in the agricultural domain. Based on the standards, we give a short overview on existing sources and present a way for automated extraction of information and knowledge from selected sources. Finally we show the usage of some sources, which are implemented in our current research work.","PeriodicalId":239815,"journal":{"name":"2015 26th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA)","volume":"150 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115993555","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}