{"title":"Ensuring the identity of a user in time: a multi-modal fuzzy approach","authors":"A. Azzini, Ernesto Damiani, S. Marrara","doi":"10.1109/CIMSA.2007.4362546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIMSA.2007.4362546","url":null,"abstract":"This work proposes a fuzzy multimodal technique capable of guaranteeing the desired level of security while keeping under control the high costs typically associated to some biometric authentication devices. Specifically we describe a fuzzy controller choosing within a palette of authentication techniques to continuously check and confirm its trust in the identity of a user.","PeriodicalId":392846,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications","volume":"335 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115701492","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}
Abdelkader Heni, N. B. Amor, S. Benferhat, Adel M. Alimi
{"title":"Dynamic Possibilistic Networks: Representation and Exact Inference","authors":"Abdelkader Heni, N. B. Amor, S. Benferhat, Adel M. Alimi","doi":"10.1109/CIMSA.2007.4362528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIMSA.2007.4362528","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present dynamic possibilistic networks (DPNs); a new framework for modeling uncertain sequential data with possibilistic graphical models. Depending on the kind of conditioning, two types of networks are studied here: the product-based and the min-based networks. Hence two versions of an exact algorithm for inference in such networks are described here. The main contribution of this paper is the use of possibility theory as a framework for representation of temporal networks which gives an alternative framework for dynamic probabilistic networks. We especially, present how junction trees can be used to make online inference namely filtering problem in product-based DPNs and min- based DPNs and we will discuss how this technique can be extended to make prediction.","PeriodicalId":392846,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications","volume":"229 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122118213","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}
G. Mastronardi, Vitoantonio Bevilacqua, D. Daleno, L. Cariello, Riccardo Attimonelli, M. Castellano, I. J < N
{"title":"Face Recognition by Observation-Sequence-Based Methods Based on Pseudo 2D HMM and Neural Networks","authors":"G. Mastronardi, Vitoantonio Bevilacqua, D. Daleno, L. Cariello, Riccardo Attimonelli, M. Castellano, I. J < N","doi":"10.1109/CIMSA.2007.4362535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIMSA.2007.4362535","url":null,"abstract":"Face recognition is an obviously interesting research area, due to its applicability in a biometric system both in commercial both in security fields. In this paper a Pseudo 2- Dimension Hidden Markov Model (P2D-HMM) combined with three different observation-sequence-based methods is introduced for face recognition. The P2D-HMM proposed, is applied to five Rol (Region of Interest) of images, one for each significant facial area in which the input frontal images are sequenced: forehead, eyes, nose mouth and chin. It has been trained by coefficients of an Artificial Neural Network used to compress a bitmap image in order to represent it with a reduced number of significant coefficients manipulated by the three observation-sequence-based methods. The introduced system, applied to the input set consisting of the Olivetti Research Lab. face database integrated with others photos, allows to obtain an high rate of recognition, up to 100% in particular with the P2D-HMM realised by the 'Strip '-like sequencing method.","PeriodicalId":392846,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications","volume":"53 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120900568","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 Universal Ontology for Sensor Networks Data","authors":"M. Eid, R. Liscano, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik","doi":"10.1109/CIMSA.2007.4362539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIMSA.2007.4362539","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present our work towards the development and evaluation of an ontology for searching distributed and heterogeneous sensor networks data. In particular, we propose a two layer prototype ontology that utilizes the IEEE Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) as a root definition of general concepts and associations and two sub- ontologies: the sensor data sub-ontology and the sensor hierarchy sub-ontology. The proposed ontology was implemented using Protege 2000 and eventually evaluated using the RDQL language (RDF Data Query Language). The performance analysis demonstrated the ability of the ontology-based search to improve both the precision and recall rates and enhance the interoperability between different sensor networks domains through the use of the universal SUMO ontology.","PeriodicalId":392846,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133740824","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}
M. Castellano, G. Mastronardi, Di Giuseppe, Vito Dicensi
{"title":"Neural Techniques to Improve the Formative Evaluation Procedure in Intelligent Tutoring Systems","authors":"M. Castellano, G. Mastronardi, Di Giuseppe, Vito Dicensi","doi":"10.1109/CIMSA.2007.4362540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIMSA.2007.4362540","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays a special attention is paid to the quality of teaching valued in terms of efficacy of students' knowledge at the exit of its formative period. This efficacy depends both on the quality of formative iter and on the way formative activities are planned in a single teaching. Not since a lot of time has re-emerged the importance of tutoring as ad hoc regulator in student's learning process. Taking care of a student means design both of diagnostic instruments and of suitable formative interventions. That is the moment in which having the diagnosis to be preceded by a survey of performance indicators becomes important the study of measuring system models to be applied to each student. Intelligent tutoring systems (ITS), are any computer system with the ability to adopt pedagogical activities to individual student needs providing customized instruction and feedback. A correct and effective use of such system is obtained through a careful planning of formative deficit diagnostic measuring. In this paper we propose a model of formative evaluation procedure based on the use of neural techniques qualified to improve its accuracy.","PeriodicalId":392846,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124497645","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":"Linguistic description of human body posture using fuzzy logic and several levels of abstraction","authors":"G. Trivio, Gonzalo Bailador","doi":"10.1109/CIMSA.2007.4362548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIMSA.2007.4362548","url":null,"abstract":"A remarkable characteristic of the human brain is its capability to create abstract models of the real world. Natural language is the main tool that we use to manage these abstractions. In this paper we describe a measurement device that represents the data of sensors using concepts defined at different levels of abstraction and produces its output in natural language. The ultimate goal of this work is to investigate possibilities of creating instruments capable of communicating their results to human beings using Natural Language. We present an experimental prototype that uses accelerometers to obtain information about the posture of the user. We use two well known objects: the pendulum and the Rubik's cube, to establish a sequence of metaphors that end, at the highest level of abstraction, with a linguistic description of the temporal sequence of the user postures.","PeriodicalId":392846,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130073998","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 Fuzzy Algorithm for Global Job Scheduling in Multiclusters and Grids","authors":"H. Vahdat-Nejad, R. Monsefi, Mahmoud Naghibzadeh","doi":"10.1109/CIMSA.2007.4362538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIMSA.2007.4362538","url":null,"abstract":"The computational grid provides a promising platform for the efficient execution of parallel applications. In this paper, we propose a fuzzy algorithm for global job scheduling in multiclusters and grids on the basis of layered task scheduling model. We assume that each job is composed of several parallel tasks, which can be executed concurrently. In addition to CPU requirements of tasks, we consider communication requirements of tasks and network load to find a matching degree between available resources and jobs. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the algorithm in terms of jobs completion time.","PeriodicalId":392846,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121594982","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":"Reducing Computational Complexity in k-NN based Adaptive Classifiers","authors":"C. Alippi, M. Roveri","doi":"10.1109/CIMSA.2007.4362541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIMSA.2007.4362541","url":null,"abstract":"Integrating new information in intelligent measurement systems during their operational life is always profitable from the accuracy point of view but it generally induces an increment in the complexity of the classifier. Adaptive classifiers, which provide adaptive mechanisms to update their knowledge base over time, are able to exploit fresh information to improve accuracy but, traditionally, do not consider complexity issues. In this paper we propose a design solution for adaptive classifiers able to reduce the computational complexity and the memory requirements of k-NN classifiers by including condensing editing techniques. Moreover, we propose a novel approach for estimating the incoming innovation content which allows us for not including redundant or superfluous information (thus minimizing the knowledge base size).","PeriodicalId":392846,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116766114","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":"Estimating Uncertainty of a Measurement Process","authors":"N. Chang, Jim Lambert","doi":"10.1109/CIMSA.2007.4362529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIMSA.2007.4362529","url":null,"abstract":"Estimating a measurement of software quality is a challenge where uncertainty and variation have the greatest impact. Especially, at times when there is not enough information. Here, EUMP (estimating uncertainty of a measurement process) is introduced. EUMP is a recursive process which is using both multi regression and Monte Carlo simulation. It can be systematically obtained through EUMP for all distribution functions of both dependent and independent variables. Moreover, dependent variable can be estimated. Finally, a predictable system will be described, where the error of an estimated dependent variable will be proven it goes to zero when time (t) goes to infinity.","PeriodicalId":392846,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129079200","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":"Prediction of Polymer Optical Fiber Properties Using Artificial Neural Networks","authors":"Xi Chen, L. Sztandera, Hugh Cartwright","doi":"10.1109/CIMSA.2007.4362530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIMSA.2007.4362530","url":null,"abstract":"Polymer fibers are finding increasing applications in commercial optical communication systems. Polymer optical fibers, with specified desirable consumer characteristics, can be computationally designed. Through the use of an extensive structure - property correlation database, properties of polymers can be predicted by a Neural Network. In this paper we are focusing on glass transition temperature (Tg) that influences a desired outcome in polymeric optical fibers. Performance of such fibers can be optimized by engineering a polymer to exhibit a lower refractive index and Tg. This paper compares and discusses a neural network model and a linear model that have been developed to correlate Tg and repeating units of polymers. A comprehensive neural network model with 28 descriptors was developed to predict T values of 6 g randomly selected polymers from a database containing 71 polymers. The network was trained with the remaining 65 polymers and had an average training RMSE of 17 K (R2 = 0.95) and prediction average error of 17 K (R2 =0.85) based on 10-time experiments. A linear regression model developed for comparison had an average error of 32 K (R2 = 0.81).","PeriodicalId":392846,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications","volume":"41 03","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120990690","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}