{"title":"Fractal modelling of residues in linear predictive coding of speech","authors":"W. Kinsner, E. Vera","doi":"10.1109/COGINF.2009.5250762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COGINF.2009.5250762","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a novel approach of fractal modelling and coding of residuals for excitation in the linear predictive coding of speech. This work was motivated by reducing the bit rate to 1200 bps, while maintaining a good quality of speech. Linear prediction based speech coders differ primarily in the modelling of the residual. The design trade-off in the modelling of the residual is between quality and bit-rate. In this paper fractal modelling is used to model the residual. We show that fractal modelling reduces the bit-rate while maintaining quality. A 6 kbps speech coder was implemented using the piecewise self-affine fractal model. The new coder has a signal-to-noise ratio of 10.9 dB. An informal subjective measure found the perceptual quality to be comparable to that of the 13 kbps GSM coder.","PeriodicalId":420853,"journal":{"name":"2009 8th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics","volume":"311 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123476085","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}
Dedong Tang, Shang-zun Yuan, Xin-ping Yan, Pengfei Li
{"title":"Research of cable tension sensor with difference structure based on magnetoelastic effect","authors":"Dedong Tang, Shang-zun Yuan, Xin-ping Yan, Pengfei Li","doi":"10.1109/COGINF.2009.5250729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COGINF.2009.5250729","url":null,"abstract":"With a great deal of steel cables used in the various important machines and architecture establishments, health monitoring the cable tension becomes more and more important to ensure those equipments or establishments' safety in normal working. Contrasted with the method of vibration frequency and strain gages, the method of measurement steel cables tension based on magnetoelastic effect has a lot of merits, such as its frequency of dynamic response is high, its life-span is long and its capacity of protecting over-loading is strong etc., It meets the requirement of the health monitoring. But the structure of sensor is sleeve structure that measured steel cable serves as the core of primary and secondary solenoids. This structure makes fixing and maintenance difficult, and the change of temperature strongly influences measurement results, the purpose of compensating temperature error by using the temperature compensation curve is not satisfactory. In this article, the principle of cable tension sensor based on magnetoelastic effect is expounded; the theory of temperature influence is researched; the difference structure by single bypass excitation is designed; its magnetic loop is analyzed; the system of experiment is designed; and the experiments of pulling tension are carried on. The experiment results indicate that the structure of sensor is feasible, its errors of repetition are less than 0.15%, which meets the requirement of measurement.","PeriodicalId":420853,"journal":{"name":"2009 8th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124000111","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":"Identifying Zigzag based Perceptually Important Points for indexing financial time series","authors":"C. Phetking, M. Sap, A. Selamat","doi":"10.1109/COGINF.2009.5250725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COGINF.2009.5250725","url":null,"abstract":"Financial time series often exhibit high degrees of fluctuation which are considered as noise in time series analysis. To remove noise, several lower bounding the Euclidean distance based dimensionality reduction methods are applied. But, however, these methods do not meet the constraint of financial time series analysis that wants to retain the important points and remove others. Therefore, although a number of methods can retain the important points in the financial time series reduction, but, however, they loss the nature of financial time series which consist of several uptrends, downtrends and sideway trends in different resolutions and in the zigzag directions. In this paper, we propose the Zigzag based Perceptually Important Point Identification method to collect those zigzag movement important points. Further, we propose Zigzag based Multiway Search Tree to index these important points. We evaluate our methods in time series dimensionality reduction. The results show the significant performance comparing to other original method.","PeriodicalId":420853,"journal":{"name":"2009 8th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126662966","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 general knowledge representation model for the acquisition of skills and concepts","authors":"C. Ramírez, Benjamín Valdés","doi":"10.4018/jssci.2010070101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jssci.2010070101","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a general cognitive model for skills and concepts representation and a proposal for computational implementation. The model is intended to help bridge some of the natural problems that arise in current massive education models, through the adaptation and personalisation of learning environments. The model is capable of representing rich semantic knowledge, including both, skills and concepts, integrating them through a coherent network of associations, in terms of context specification, based on a constructivist approach.","PeriodicalId":420853,"journal":{"name":"2009 8th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics","volume":"2 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114145999","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":"Flexible distributed system for symbiotic computing","authors":"Takahide Maemura, S. Fujita, Tetsuo Kinoshita","doi":"10.1109/COGINF.2009.5250780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COGINF.2009.5250780","url":null,"abstract":"We talk about a symbiotic computing and a concept of flexibility of a distributed system on a multi-agent system. A symbiotic computing is a new concept in the future computing model and ambient and social environments. We were proposing and showing a flexibility of a distributed system before this paper. The flexibility of computing system and logical model is a key concept of analysis, design and developping a system. The another and powerful flexible calculating model on mathematical is proposed as a fuzzy logic. A flexibility of a computing is realized with many methods. We developed an agent-based framework for flexible distributed systems named ADIPS which consists of distributed agent work places, agent repositories and support tools. Using this framework, we are designing adaptive web systems which cope with the diversification of user's accessing situations.","PeriodicalId":420853,"journal":{"name":"2009 8th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116628306","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":"Engineering computer architectures for cognitive robotics - the CR/SARAMA model","authors":"John-Thones Amenyo","doi":"10.1109/COGINF.2009.5250798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COGINF.2009.5250798","url":null,"abstract":"The concepts of Artifact-as-Organism and Creator-in-a-Box, and their autonomy, adaptation and evolution are proposed as purely engineering motivations for the incorporation of the cognitive attributes of consciousness and self-awareness into robots, automata, machines and artifacts. These ideas are then used to create computational models of cognitive robots and machine consciousness that can be executed using modern parallel, distributed, many core, and massively multi-core, computer architectures.","PeriodicalId":420853,"journal":{"name":"2009 8th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114261878","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 the cognitive complexity of business process models","authors":"V. Gruhn, R. Laue","doi":"10.1109/COGINF.2009.5250717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COGINF.2009.5250717","url":null,"abstract":"Current research on the quality of business process models mostly discusses the quality of a model mainly in terms of correctness of its behaviour. In this paper, we discuss another perspective: Because the main purpose of business process models is to be read and understood by humans, understandability is an important requirement. We present some patterns for improving the understandability by reducing the cognitive load. By applying these patterns to a repository of almost 1000 models, we have been able to improve the comprehensibility of several models.","PeriodicalId":420853,"journal":{"name":"2009 8th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131516400","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":"Establishing a roadmap and metrics for conscious machines development","authors":"R. Moreno, Agapito Ledezma, A. Sanchis","doi":"10.1109/COGINF.2009.5250795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COGINF.2009.5250795","url":null,"abstract":"From the point of view of Cognitive Informatics, consciousness can be considered as a grand integration of a number of cognitive processes. Intuitive definitions of consciousness generally involve perception, emotions, attention, self-recognition, theory of mind, volition, etc. Due to this compositional definition of the term consciousness it is usually difficult to define both what is exactly a conscious being and how consciousness could be implemented in artificial machines. When we look into the most evolved biological examples of conscious beings, like great apes or humans, the vast complexity of observed cognitive interactions in conjunction with the lack of comprehensive understanding of low level neural mechanisms makes the reverse engineering task virtually unreachable. With the aim to effectively address the problem of modeling consciousness at a cognitive level, in this work we propose a concrete developmental path in which key stages in the progressive process of building conscious machines are identified and characterized. Furthermore, a method for calculating a quantitative measure of artificial consciousness is presented. The application of the proposed framework is illustrated with the comparative study of different software agents designed to compete in a first-person shooter video game.","PeriodicalId":420853,"journal":{"name":"2009 8th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121249020","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":"The ‘conscious pilot’ dendritic synchrony moves through the brain (like a computer worm) to mediate consciousness","authors":"S. Hameroff","doi":"10.1109/COGINF.2009.5250786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COGINF.2009.5250786","url":null,"abstract":"The brain is viewed as a computer in which sensory processing, control of behavior and other cognitive functions emerge from ‘neurocomputation’ in parallel networks of perceptron-like neurons. In each neuron, dendrites receive and integrate synaptic inputs to a threshold for axonal firing as output — ‘integrate-and-fire’. Neurocomputation in axonal-dendritic synaptic networks successfully accounts for non-conscious (auto-pilot) cognitive brain functions. When cognitive functions are accompanied by consciousness, neurocomputation is accompanied by 30 to 90 Hz gamma synchrony EEG. Gamma synchrony derives primarily from neuronal groups linked by dendritic-dendritic gap junctions, forming transient syncytia (‘dendritic webs’) in input/integration layers oriented sideways to axonal-dendritic neurocomputational flow. As gap junctions open and close, a gamma-synchronized dendritic web can rapidly change topology, evolve and move through the brain (like a benevolent computer worm might move through computer circuits) as a spatiotemporal envelope performing collective integration and volitional choices correlating with consciousness. The ‘conscious pilot’ is a metaphorical description for a mobile, gamma-synchronized dendritic web as vehicle for a conscious agent/pilot which experiences and assumes control of otherwise non-conscious auto-pilot neurocomputation. Simulations will be shown and computer science applications of a self-organizing mobile agent moving through input/integration layers of computational networks will be discussed.","PeriodicalId":420853,"journal":{"name":"2009 8th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127652167","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":"Particle swarm optimization with individual decision","authors":"Guohui Jiao, Z. Cui, J. Zeng","doi":"10.1109/COGINF.2009.5250684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COGINF.2009.5250684","url":null,"abstract":"As a swam intelligent technique, particle swam optimization (PSO) simulates the animal collective behaviors. Since each individual manipulates different experience due to the different living environment, each particle may produce a personal moving direction when making an individual decision at each iteration. However, this decision mechanism is not considered by the standard version of PSO. Therefore, in this paper, a new variant of PSO is introduced by incorporating with individual decision mechanism. In this new version, each particle is moved to the experience position decided by its nor the personal historical best position. Simulation results show that its performance is superior to other two variants.","PeriodicalId":420853,"journal":{"name":"2009 8th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114682725","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}