{"title":"Improving Students’ Performance by Interpretable Explanations using Ensemble Tree-Based Approaches","authors":"Alexandra Vultureanu-Albisi, C. Bǎdicǎ","doi":"10.1109/SACI51354.2021.9465558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACI51354.2021.9465558","url":null,"abstract":"The careful analysis and evaluation of students’ results are an important part of the educational activity, with a potentially strong impact on the students’ future development. Seven classification algorithms, which are Decision Tree, Bagging, Random Forest, AdaBoost, Gradient Boosting, XGBoost, and LightGBM, were used in this research. In this paper, for our experiments we used two datasets, the first refers to classify and predict Portuguese language performance and the second for students’ level at courses. In this paper, we propose to identify the most appropriate classification technique to improve the prediction of students’ performance, interpreting it using the LIME algorithm. The obtained results using both datasets show that the model built using Decision Tree, outperforms the other constructed models. Our methodology consists of four major steps: i) analyzing and preprocessing the dataset; ii) optimizing the models using cross-validation and hyperparameter tuning; iii) comparing the performance of different ensemble tree-based models, and iv) interpreting the model by providing explanations. The development of explainable models can lead to important advantages: the model can be trusted, the transparency of the model helps to understand the underlying mechanisms that make the model work and opaque models can be interpreted without sacrificing their predictive performance.","PeriodicalId":321907,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (SACI)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127333946","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":"Human Computer Interaction Feedback Based-On Data Visualization Using MVAR and NN","authors":"J. Olszewska","doi":"10.1109/SACI51354.2021.9465564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACI51354.2021.9465564","url":null,"abstract":"In the situation of pandemic with people being ill, contagious, or suffering from long-term effects, touchless human computer interfaces, and especially brain computer interfaces (BCI), could provide humans with safe communication technologies as well as user-centric systems for rehabilitation. Hence, this work studies at first the representation of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals in a data space which is appropriate for an efficient data processing and a user-friendly interpretation. Then, we propose 3D data visualizations mapping the human brain activity into that data space. The developed representations have been successfully tested within a BCI framework through 3D data visualizations the user can see and interact with in real time.","PeriodicalId":321907,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (SACI)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116296718","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":"Performance Comparison between S3, HDFS and RDS storage technologies for real-time big-data applications","authors":"Alaa Jamal, Rita Fleiner, E. Kail","doi":"10.1109/SACI51354.2021.9465594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACI51354.2021.9465594","url":null,"abstract":"Low latency and fast delivery became crucial challenges in real-time applications of Big Data and remained a hot research topic. This research sheds light on the performance differences between three types of storage technologies, which are: the storage rational database system (MySQL), object storage (S3), which is powered by Amazon Cloud Services, and the Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS). Four system architectures with three different storage technologies were tested on AWS cloud environment with many complex queries to determine the most appropriate technology for real-time applications (i.e., web application, air traffic control systems, networked multimedia systems, command control systems) in terms of speed (computation time), network overload, and cost (price).","PeriodicalId":321907,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (SACI)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115576351","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 Emotional Topic Recommendation Chat Assistant","authors":"Xiao zhuhanling","doi":"10.1109/SACI51354.2021.9465626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACI51354.2021.9465626","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile technology advances such as online chat or messaging apps were created to make communication easier and more convenient. However, the absence of tone and non-verbal cue, and lack of warmth, etc. in online communication results in shallow interactions, less demand for communications, and could cause negative effects on social relations. Despite a growing body of research about the design and use of recommender systems in online chat scenarios, existing work has paid a little attention to help interactions and social relations between users of messaging Apps. In this paper, we present a chat assistant trying to address this problem by recommending positive and negative emotional topics to users during online chat. As the result, users can take the recommended topics into account during the conversation to have more positive emotional connections and social relations. Our preliminary experiment shows an acceptable accuracy of the recommendation system design in different conversation scenarios.","PeriodicalId":321907,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (SACI)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128693521","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}
Cristian Pop, R. Precup, Liviu Ioan Cadariu-Brailoiu
{"title":"Analysis of Monetary Policy Decisions of the National Bank of Romania with Text Mining Techniques","authors":"Cristian Pop, R. Precup, Liviu Ioan Cadariu-Brailoiu","doi":"10.1109/SACI51354.2021.9465639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACI51354.2021.9465639","url":null,"abstract":"This paper uses text mining techniques in order to carry out an analysis of the monetary policy decisions of the National Bank of Romania (NBR). The analysis highlights the main topics of debate of the NBR Board that revolve around inflation, reference rates for monetary policy, rising consumption and the current account deficit and the need to keep current monetary policy rates constant in the regional economic context that characterized the year 2019 and the massive shift in the beginning of 2020 with the start of the coronavirus outbreak.","PeriodicalId":321907,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (SACI)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129642625","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-Constrained Voronoi-Based Task Allocator for Smart-Warehouses","authors":"George S. Oliveira, P. Plentz, J. T. Carvalho","doi":"10.1109/SACI51354.2021.9465629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACI51354.2021.9465629","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-robot systems consist of a set of robots working together to achieve a common goal. In these systems, two types of problems are widely addressed: the multi-robot path planning (MPP) and the multi-robot task allocation (MRTA). While the first one consists of finding the best path between two points in the space, the second one consists of allocating tasks to the robots, meeting restrictions, and completing one or more general objectives. The objectives are usually related to time optimization and energy consumption. The constraints require attention because they impact the complexity of the problem and reduce the system’s performance. Smart warehouses are an important example of application in which these problems are relevant. In such applications, the picking and shipping products control happens in an automated way, and mobile robots completely operate them. The literature shows that few studies explore integrated MPP and MRTA strategies to solve task allocation restrictions in smart warehouses. The main contribution of this paper is to present an integrated MRTA and MPP approach for smart warehouses by using static, seasonal, and dynamic information. Static information is provided by fixed obstacles, battery level, and load capacity of the robots. Seasonal information comes from products’ location and availability of them in a given period. The dynamic information corresponds to battery consumption and dynamic obstacles. In this paper a Multi-Constraints Voronoi-based Task Allocator (MCVB-TA) is presented. Its implementation incorporates a variation of the Voronoi diagram to allocate robots to the nearest tasks according to constraints, robots, and the environment. The simulation results obtained show that the proposed solution considerably reduces the time and energy cost of executing tasks in a smart warehouse scenario compared to a regular scheduler.","PeriodicalId":321907,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (SACI)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130099978","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":"On CNN Applied to Speech-to-Text – Comparative Analysis of Different Gradient Based Optimizers","authors":"Theodora Gaiceanu, O. Pastravanu","doi":"10.1109/SACI51354.2021.9465635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACI51354.2021.9465635","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper the authors have developed a Convolutional Neural Network architecture adapted to Speech-to-Text research field. This type of network has been chosen due to its capacity to extract the relevant features and its popularity in classification problems. A particular model for a Speech-to-Text application has been designed. The parameters of the model (i.e. the size of filters and kernels), and the number of the layers have been chosen by conducting appropriate experiments, and the model that ensured the highest accuracy has been selected. The model takes raw waveforms of spoken digits as input, and outputs a text with the predicted digit. The network is capable of providing the right digit no matter the gender or age of the speaker. The overfitting has been avoided by using Dropout layers and early stopping function. In order to select the best model, the authors have taken into account two basic criteria: the accuracy of the model, and the execution time, respectively. Considering the computational time, the first order cost function has been chosen. By testing different gradient descent optimization algorithms, the best optimizer has been selected. The application has been developed using Python programming language.","PeriodicalId":321907,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (SACI)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125059775","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":"AI vs AI (Augmenting [Human] Intellect vs Artificial Intelligence) : Plenary Talk","authors":"F. Filip","doi":"10.1109/SACI51354.2021.9465578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACI51354.2021.9465578","url":null,"abstract":"Almost six decades ago, when proposing the scientific programme of Stanford Research Institute (SRI), Engelbart (1962) stated: “…By augmenting human intellect we mean increasing the capability of a man to approach a complex problem situation, to gain comprehension to suit his particular needs, and to derive solutions to problems.” More than twenty-five years, later Engelbart and Lehtman (1988) noticed that “In the optimum design [of a CSCW system], either a tool system or a human system is dependent on the match it must make with the other. The high degree of dependence implies that balanced co-evolution of both is necessary.” This paper aims at presenting how the usage of AI (Artificial Intelligence) has evolved towards a trustworthy discipline and set of tools and facilitated the augmenting the human intellect in order to enable the human to approach and solve complex problems of the day.","PeriodicalId":321907,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (SACI)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123442963","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":"Investigation of High-Growth Firms in the SME sector via the Perspective of Owners and CEOs using Wordclouds","authors":"Ferenc Tolner, G. Eigner, Balázs Barta, M. Takács","doi":"10.1109/SACI51354.2021.9465560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACI51354.2021.9465560","url":null,"abstract":"High growth firms are of special interest among SMEs due to their outstanding value added to economic growth and potential to be resilient towards turbulence generated by globalised market factors. In this study we discuss the information extracted out of textual data collected from owners and CEOs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with high growth rates in Hungary during face-to-face workshops. In order to condense the high variety of given answers to various predefined questions the method of Word Cloud analysis was used to represent the focuses and opinions of the interviewees. Such a usage of the method of Word Cloud visualisation of textual data at this time is still rather uncommon for questionnaire analyses, however it entails a high potential for understanding the point of view of the interviewees beside conventional data gathering techniques.","PeriodicalId":321907,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (SACI)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116978383","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}
Satya Chandrashekhar Ayyalasomayajula, B. Ionescu, D. Ionescu
{"title":"A CNN Approach to Micro-Expressions Detection","authors":"Satya Chandrashekhar Ayyalasomayajula, B. Ionescu, D. Ionescu","doi":"10.1109/SACI51354.2021.9465542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACI51354.2021.9465542","url":null,"abstract":"Machine Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have significantly increased the performance in image recognition and are being widely adopted to analyze faces based on availability of very large databases of Figure and postures. A hot research interest of the the Face Recognition community is the recognition of different types of facial expressions. Among these, Facial Micro-Expressions (ME’s) are of big interest due to subtle movements which can show deep or suppressed emotions of an individual. These micro-expressions are quite prominently being used in security, psychotherapy, neuroscience and other related disciplines. The major challenge encountered while detecting these expressions are their low intensity and short duration. Previous works have used Eulerian Video Magnification (EVM) in conjunction with haar-cascades for face detection which gave misleading results. In this paper, we have proposed a special Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model for face detection on which EVM is applied for amplifying the micro-expressions to a calculated threshold. Following that, a separately trained CNN is used to classify the formerly detected micro-expression into one of the seven universal micro expressions. Results obtained during the test experiment are presented at the end of the paper.","PeriodicalId":321907,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (SACI)","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124603330","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}