{"title":"Research topics on web intelligence and communities","authors":"R. Akerkar, P. Maret, L. Vercouter","doi":"10.3233/WIA-130276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/WIA-130276","url":null,"abstract":"Web Intelligence deals with intelligent methods and information & communication technologies that are integrated to enhance different web-based applications. Communities are popular, particularly on the World Wide Web, as a means for like-minded individuals to pursue common goals. Communities appear as a first-class object in the areas of web intelligence and agent technologies, as well as a crucial crossroads of several sub-domains i.e. user modeling, protocols, data management, data mining, content modeling, etc.. These sub-domains impact the nature of the communities and the applications which are related to them. The use of Web Intelligence and communities is discussed together with ways in which a wide range of research is benefiting this area for the long-term.","PeriodicalId":263450,"journal":{"name":"Web Intell. Agent Syst.","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115349199","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 new dissimilarity measure for online social networks moderation","authors":"Sebastián A. Ríos, Roberto A. Silva","doi":"10.3233/WIA-130280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/WIA-130280","url":null,"abstract":"Online Social Networks OSN and Virtual Communities VC software are vital tools useful to connect organizations with customers or community members. As these tools become more ubiquitous with general population, different managment problems start to arise. As these members' interactions become large, it is impossible for manual handling of moderation tasks without automatic or semi-automatic techniques.Of course, web mining techniques are very useful for understanding text patterns or browsing patterns in Websites, opening an opportunity to develop new algorithms to discover community members' patterns which have to be moderated. There have been previous work done on text patterns discovery for moderation that have reduced the moderation task to finding spammers. However, the moderation problem is much more complex: it involves not only text but also behavior patterns from bulling of other members to fights between them. We present a dissimilarity measure which includes human interaction aspects combined with these interactions' contents semantics not just free words of text. We show how we successfully applied our method into a real Virtual Community of Practice to detect users that should be moderated.","PeriodicalId":263450,"journal":{"name":"Web Intell. Agent Syst.","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116905296","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":"Influence of FFM/NEO PI-R personality traits on the rational process of autonomous agents","authors":"François Bouchet, J. Sansonnet","doi":"10.3233/WIA-130271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/WIA-130271","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present an approach based on the principle that psychological capacities, especially personality traits, influence the decision making process of rational agents. Using a three-level trait, facet, scheme extension of the FFM/NEO PI-R taxonomy facilitating its computational implementation, we propose a model for the expression of personality traits in terms of so-called influence operators that add meta control rules to the cycle of rational BDI agents. We distinguish eight different classes of influence operators, depending on the step of the deliberation cycle that they influence and on the operand to which they are applied goals, actions, plans or functions. Concrete examples are provided through a complete definition of the operators necessary to express one of the personality traits of the Five Factor Model, Conscientiousness, resulting in a set of 30 operators. Finally, we discuss the way to design a specific character through the use of an activation matrix, providing values for each scheme and operator.","PeriodicalId":263450,"journal":{"name":"Web Intell. Agent Syst.","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122454130","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":"Sequential multi-agent exploration for a common goal","authors":"Igor Rochlin, David Sarne, G. Zussman","doi":"10.3233/WIA-130272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/WIA-130272","url":null,"abstract":"Motivated by applications in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, we focus on a system in which a few agents are engaged in a costly individual exploration process where each agent's benefit is determined according to the minimum obtained value. Such an exploration pattern is applicable to many systems, including shipment and travel planning. This paper formally introduces and analyzes a sequential variant of the general model. According to that variant, only a single agent engages in exploration at any given time, and when an agent initiates its exploration, it has complete information about the minimum value obtained by the other agents so far. We prove that the exploration strategy of each agent, according to the equilibrium of the resulting Stackelberg game, is reservation-value based, and show how the reservation values can be calculated. We also analyze the agents' expected-benefit maximizing exploration strategies when they are fully cooperative i.e., when they aim to maximize the expected joint benefit. The equilibrium strategies and the expected benefit of each agent are illustrated using a synthetic homogeneous environment, thereby demonstrating the properties of this new exploration scheme and the benefits of cooperation.","PeriodicalId":263450,"journal":{"name":"Web Intell. Agent Syst.","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134193331","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":"Robust estimation of a global Gaussian mixture by decentralized aggregations of local models","authors":"Ali El Attar, A. Pigeau, Marc Gelgon","doi":"10.3233/WIA-130273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/WIA-130273","url":null,"abstract":"Distributed data collections are now more and more common due to the emergence of cloud computing, to spatially decentralized businesses, or to the availability of various data sharing web services. Obtain knowledge in such a collection raises then the need of new data mining methods to apply in a decentralized architecture. In this paper, we explore a machine learning side of this work direction. We propose a novel technique for decentralized estimation of probabilistic mixture models, which are among the most versatile generative models for understanding data sets. More precisely, we demonstrate how to estimate a global mixture model from a set of local models. Our approach accommodates dynamic topology and data sources and is statistically robust, i.e. resilient to the presence of unreliable local models. Such outlier models may arise from local data which are outliers, compared to the global trend, or poor mixture estimation. We report experiments on synthetic data and real geo-location data from Flickr.","PeriodicalId":263450,"journal":{"name":"Web Intell. Agent Syst.","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116559685","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}
Saeedeh Shekarpour, S. Auer, A. N. Ngomo, D. Gerber, Sebastian Hellmann, Claus Stadler
{"title":"Generating SPARQL queries using templates","authors":"Saeedeh Shekarpour, S. Auer, A. N. Ngomo, D. Gerber, Sebastian Hellmann, Claus Stadler","doi":"10.3233/WIA-130275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/WIA-130275","url":null,"abstract":"The search for information on the Web of Data is becoming increasingly difficult due to its considerable growth. Especially novice users need to acquire both knowledge about the underlying ontology structure and proficiency in formulating formal queries e.g. SPARQL queries to retrieve information from Linked Data sources. So as to simplify and automate the querying and retrieval of information from such sources, this paper presents an approach for constructing SPARQL queries based on user-supplied keywords. Our approach utilizes a set of predefined basic graph pattern templates for generating adequate interpretations of user queries. This is achieved by obtaining ranked lists of candidate resource identifiers for the supplied keywords and then injecting these identifiers into suitable positions in the graph pattern templates. The main advantages of our approach are that it is completely agnostic of the underlying knowledge base and ontology schema, that it scales to large knowledge bases and is simple to use. We evaluate all 17 possible valid graph pattern templates by measuring their precision and recall on 53 queries against DBpedia. Our results show that 8 of these basic graph pattern templates return results with a precision above 70%. Our approach is implemented as a Web search interface and performs sufficiently fast to provide answers within an acceptable time frame even when used on large knowledge bases.","PeriodicalId":263450,"journal":{"name":"Web Intell. Agent Syst.","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125409310","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}
Hongbing Wang, Jie Zhang, C. Wan, Shizhi Shao, R. Cohen
{"title":"Qualitative preference-based service selection for multiple agents","authors":"Hongbing Wang, Jie Zhang, C. Wan, Shizhi Shao, R. Cohen","doi":"10.3233/WIA-130274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/WIA-130274","url":null,"abstract":"Service selection is one of the important problems in applications of multi-agent systems. A qualitative way is desirable for service selection according to agents' preferences on non-functional Quality of Service QoS attributes of services. However, it is challenging when the decision has to be made for multiple agents with preferences on attributes that may be incomplete. In this paper, first use a qualitative graphical representation tool called CP-nets to describe preference relations in a relatively compact, intuitive and structured manner. We then propose a preference reasoning algorithm to construct a derivation tree from a CP-net for each agent and then generate all service patterns for this agent. The Rank semantic is used together with the Lex semantic to provide the ordering of different service patterns. After that, we merge ranked service patterns for all agents and select a set of services that satisfy these agents the most. Finally, we also propose a semantic validation algorithm to show the satisfactory degree of the best service patterns according to other voting semantics. Experimental results indicate that this method can always obtain optimal outcomes which closely satisfy all agents, within acceptable execution time.","PeriodicalId":263450,"journal":{"name":"Web Intell. Agent Syst.","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126436125","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-label automatic indexing of music by cascade classifiers","authors":"Wenxin Jiang, Z. Ras","doi":"10.3233/WIA-130268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/WIA-130268","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, numerous successful approaches have been developed for instrument recognition in monophonic sounds. Unfortunately, none of them can be successfully applied to polyphonic sounds. Identification of music instruments in polyphonic sounds is still difficult and challenging. This has stimulated a number of research projects on music sound separation, new features development, and more recently on hierarchically structured classifiers used in content-based music recommender systems. This paper introduces a hierarchically structured cascade classification system to estimate multiple timbre information from the polyphonic sound by classification which is based on acoustic features and short-term power spectrum matching. This cascade system makes a first estimate on the higher level decision attribute which stands for the musical instrument family. Then, the further estimation is done within that specific family range. Experiments showed better performance of a hierarchical system than the traditional flat classification method which directly estimates the instrument without higher level of family information analysis. Traditional hierarchical structures were constructed in human semantics, which are meaningful from human perspective but not appropriate for a cascade system. We introduce a new hierarchical instrument schema according to the clustering results of the acoustic features. This new schema better describes the similarity among different instruments or among different playing techniques of the same instrument. The classification results show the higher accuracy of cascade system with the new schema compared to the traditional schemas.","PeriodicalId":263450,"journal":{"name":"Web Intell. Agent Syst.","volume":"285 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122987085","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":"Personalized search in digital libraries via spreading activation model","authors":"Tao Sun, Ming Zhang, Feifei Yan, Zhihong Deng","doi":"10.3233/WIA-130267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/WIA-130267","url":null,"abstract":"With the tremendous development of information technology, the volume of data in digital libraries is increasing enormously, and the magnitude is putting users at risk of information overload. Personalized search aims at solving the problem by tailoring search results for individual demands. We propose a novel approach to provide personalized search by learning users' interests from historic behaviors and re-ranking search results by a Spreading Activation SA model. In our approach, users' interests are categorized by the level of recency to form user profiles, which in turn serve as the input of the SA model. Then, SA runs on the domain ontology incorporated with a newly defined relationship borrowIntent derived from the assumption of collaborative filtering. We further demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology through experiments on real data from a university library. The presented approach can also be applied in other contexts such as electronic commerce.","PeriodicalId":263450,"journal":{"name":"Web Intell. Agent Syst.","volume":" 17","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113946127","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}
Yingjie Li, Xue-li Yu, Rui Wang, Lili Geng, Li Wang
{"title":"A study on dynamic Semantic Web service composition","authors":"Yingjie Li, Xue-li Yu, Rui Wang, Lili Geng, Li Wang","doi":"10.3233/WIA-130266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/WIA-130266","url":null,"abstract":"Description Logic possesses strong knowledge representation and reasoning capabilities and offers logical foundation for Semantic Web ontology languages such as OWL and OWL-S. However, the present implementations of OWL and OWL-S are deficient in semantic modeling for dynamic service composition. They also do not consider user preferences. AI planning possesses a better modeling capability of action state transformations in planning and provides an effective method for solving planning problem and task decomposition. However, it is limited in knowledge representation and reasoning capabilities. Based on merits of Description Logic, OWL-S and AI planning, this paper extends OWL-S model, proposes a service composition mechanism and testifies its feasibility in Description Logic. The results show that this composition mechanism is not only feasible but also helpful for semantic modeling of service composition in Semantic Web.","PeriodicalId":263450,"journal":{"name":"Web Intell. Agent Syst.","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123569669","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}