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FLAIRS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Hidden Layer Training via Hessian Matrix Information
The output weight optimization-hidden weight optimization (OWO-HWO) algorithm for training the multilayer perceptron alternately updates the output weights and the hidden weights....
Changhua Yu, Michael T. Manry, Jiang Li
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Invariance of MLP Training to Input Feature De-correlation
In the neural network literature, input feature de-correlation is often referred as one pre-processing technique used to improve the MLP training speed. However, in this paper, we...
Changhua Yu, Michael T. Manry, Jiang Li
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Agent-based Players for a First-person Entertainment-based Real-time Artificial Environment
The necessity for improved players and opponents in firstperson entertainment-based real-time artificial environments has inspired our research into artificial game players. We em...
G. Michael Youngblood, Lawrence B. Holder
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Package Planning with Graphical Models
We consider a novel class of applications where a set of activities conducted by a group of people over a time period needs to be planned, taking into account each member's p...
Yang Xiang, Michael Janzen
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Computing Marginals with Hierarchical Acyclic Hypergraphs
How to compute marginals efficiently is one of major concerned problems in probabilistic reasoning systems. Traditional graphical models do not preserve all conditional independen...
S. K. Michael Wong, Tao Lin
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
An Active Architecture for Managing Events in Pervasive Computing Environments
Many dramatizations have depicted a fully automated home living environment, where actions and events are understood or even anticipated. While the realization of such environment...
Edwin Wong, Lisa J. Burnell, Charles Hannon
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Case-Based Reasoning in Support of Intelligence Analysis
Open source intelligence analysts routinely use the web as a source of information related to their specific taskings. Effective information gathering on the web, despite the prog...
Elizabeth T. Whitaker, Robert L. Simpson Jr.
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Identifying Critical Factors in Case-Based Prediction
A reversible outcome is one that can be changed. For example, the failure of an ongoing project may be avoided if certain actions are taken, while an outcome such as the path of a...
Rosina Weber, William M. Evanco, Michael Waller, J...
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Case-Agents: A Novel Architecture for Case-Based Agents
This paper describes a novel architecture for a casebased reasoning (CBR) system. Unlike other agent CBR systems in this architecture every case is an autonomous agent with its ow...
Ian Watson
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Clustering Spatial Data in the Presence of Obstacles
Clustering is a form of unsupervised machine learning. In this paper, we proposed the DBRS_O method to identify clusters in the presence of intersected obstacles. Without doing an...
Xin Wang, Howard J. Hamilton