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We consider the problem of causal structure learning from data with missing values, assumed to be drawn from a Gaussian copula model. First, we extend the 'Rank PC' algorithm, designed for Gaussian copula models with purely continuous data (so-called nonparanormal models), to incomplete data by applying rank correlation to pairwise complete observations and replacing the sample size with an effective...
Cloud services are gaining popularity with times. Service level agreement (SLA) serves a basic understanding between the clients and cloud service providers (CSP). Ensuring secured and adequate service is a basic need of the customers. In this work a set of compliance parameters for cloud service level agreement is identified. A generic rule base is designed to empower the process with an automated...
Smart city or urban wisdom is the new goal of urban development. In view of how to develop the wisdom city better, this paper analyzes the present situation of wisdom city development in China, and uses the entropy weight method to construct a new intelligent city evaluation system with reference to the existing wisdom city evaluation scheme. According to the data of Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai,...
Ecological inference (EI) is a classical problem from political science to model voting behavior of individuals given only aggregate election results. Flaxman et al. recently formulated EI as machine learning problem using distribution regression, and applied it to analyze US presidential elections. However, distribution regression unnecessarily aggregates individual-level covariates available from...
Obesity is increasing globally and is a risk factor for many chronic conditions such as such as heart disease, sleep apnea, type-2 diabetes, and some cancers. Research shows that food logging is beneficial in promoting weight loss. Crowdsourcing has also been used in promoting dietary feedback for food logging. This work investigates the feasibility of crowdsourcing to provide support in accurately...
This paper proposes an algorithm that uses predefined weights to create broadcast routes for a WirelessHART network. The network topology is represented by a graph, and the algorithm uses information of the devices present in the network to build the broadcast graph. At each iteration of the algorithm, a device is selected and then added to the broadcast solution graph. A cost function determines...
In order to solve the self-localization problem, the Monte-Carlo Localization is proposed as a technique which is able to solve any localization problem. However, the implemented algorithm needs to be adapted to the robot and domain. Thus, this work presents a novel implementation for humanoid robots whose main sensory input is a camera, to be used in the domain of RoboCup Humanoid Soccer League....
With the development of displaying techniques, free viewpoint video (FVV) system shows its potential to provide immersive perceptual feeling by changing viewpoints. To provide this luxury, a large number of high quality views have to be synthesised from limited number of viewpoints. However, in this process, a portion of the background is occluded by the foreground object in the generated synthesised...
The aim of this work is to explore the relationship between the chemical constituents of Yinhuang Granules (YHG) and in vitro antibacterial activity of serum. In this article, 100 batches of YHG samples were collected, and the fingerprints of chemical constituents and antibacterial activity values were determined. Furthermore, a model that characterizes the relationship between the fingerprints and...
A self calibration technique for a multiport vector network analyzer (VNA), based on the full error model, is presented. Hence, a characterization of the measurement instrument with the help of partially unknown calibration standards is possible. As a consequence, the dependency on absolute defined calibration standards is reduced. Therefore, the accuracy of the measurements increases and the fabrication...
We consider the problem of efficiently learning mixtures of a large number of spherical Gaussians, when the components of the mixture are well separated. In the most basic form of this problem, we are given samples from a uniform mixture of k standard spherical Gaussians with means mu_1,...,mu_k in R^d, and the goal is to estimate the means up to accuracy δ using poly(k,d, 1/δ)...
Electrical energy generation is evolving from centralized towards distributed energy resources (DER) like wind and solar power plants. In such power systems, new challenges arise for the design of voltage source converter (VSC) control strategies. In the last few years synchronverters have gained interest from the research community due to their capability of emulating synchronous machines (SMs) and...
Successful implementation of Model-based Systems Engineering(MBSE) obviously needs a model supporting efficient communication among engineers of various domains. The system modeling language standard, SysML is designed to create MBSE supporting models. However, SysML itself is not practical enough to be used for real-world engineering projects. As SysML is designed for generic systems and requires...
The vision is considered the most important sense in humans, the visual field may be affected by various diseases or conditions that can even be congenital, resulting in a high percentage of people with visual problems, low vision to blindness. In the majority of cases can be corrected with conventional methods, however, if a suitable control could be prevented and up to early detection of various...
This article presents the simulation and harmonic analysis of a charging station model developed in “Modeling and protection of electric vehicle charging station”, which was adapted with the electrical parameters of the distribution system of Cuenca city, with The purpose of quantifying the amount of harmonics that this type of stations can produce in the network. The simulation resulted, that the...
A design gauge pressure of an eco-friendly gas insulated switchgear (GIS) with an application of vacuum interrupters (VIs) ranges from 0.1 to 0.3MPa. Therefore, a high differential pressure is imposed on bellows of the VIs, which increases the fatigue failure risk of the bellows after cycles of operations. Although, there are some empirical equations recommended by the Chinese National Standard GB/T...
In this paper we present a new method for creating polynomial solvers for problems where a (possibly infinite) subset of the solutions are undesirable or uninteresting. These solutions typically arise from simplifications made during modeling, but can also come from degeneracies which are inherent to the geometry of the original problem. The proposed approach extends the standard action matrix method...
In August 2017 under the auspices of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS), we will launch a new journal: Physiome. The goal of Physiome is to promote, encourage, and support the wide-spread adoption of technologies and workflows that generally improve the ability of scientists to discover existing computational models which are relevant to their work, reproduce the predictions...
Automatic grading systems, such as WebWork, are becoming much more widely used as they relieve the instructor from needing to grade student work, provide students with automatic feedback, and can allow for immediate resubmission. They have also been shown to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning. In this paper, we apply Item Response Theory (IRT) to a large WebWork Calculus homework dataset...
To support evidence-based science and technology policy, it is important to provide information systematically through platforms such as a decision support system. This study suggests an integrated classification system for categorizing information as a way to provide it systematically. The integrated classification system was developed by analysis of relationship among keywords of R&D classification...
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