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Requirements of a middleware for managing a large, heterogeneous programmable network
Programmable networking is an increasingly popular area of research in both industry and academia. Although most programmable network research projects seem to focus on the router architecture rather than on issues relating to the management of programmable networks, there are numerous research groups that have incorporated management middleware into the programmable network router software. However, none seem to be concerned with the effective management of a large heterogeneous programmable network. The requirements of such a middleware are outlined in this paper. There are a number of fundamental middleware principles that are addressed in this paper; these include management paradigms, configuration delivery, scalability and transactions. Security, fault tolerance and usability are also examined—although these are not essential parts of the middleware, they must be addressed if the programmable network management middleware is to be accepted by industry and adopted by other research projects
Latent Dirichlet Allocation Uncovers Spectral Characteristics of Drought Stressed Plants
Understanding the adaptation process of plants to drought stress is essential
in improving management practices, breeding strategies as well as engineering
viable crops for a sustainable agriculture in the coming decades.
Hyper-spectral imaging provides a particularly promising approach to gain such
understanding since it allows to discover non-destructively spectral
characteristics of plants governed primarily by scattering and absorption
characteristics of the leaf internal structure and biochemical constituents.
Several drought stress indices have been derived using hyper-spectral imaging.
However, they are typically based on few hyper-spectral images only, rely on
interpretations of experts, and consider few wavelengths only. In this study,
we present the first data-driven approach to discovering spectral drought
stress indices, treating it as an unsupervised labeling problem at massive
scale. To make use of short range dependencies of spectral wavelengths, we
develop an online variational Bayes algorithm for latent Dirichlet allocation
with convolved Dirichlet regularizer. This approach scales to massive datasets
and, hence, provides a more objective complement to plant physiological
practices. The spectral topics found conform to plant physiological knowledge
and can be computed in a fraction of the time compared to existing LDA
approaches.Comment: Appears in Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Conference on Uncertainty
in Artificial Intelligence (UAI2012
Visual analytics in FCA-based clustering
Visual analytics is a subdomain of data analysis which combines both human
and machine analytical abilities and is applied mostly in decision-making and
data mining tasks. Triclustering, based on Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), was
developed to detect groups of objects with similar properties under similar
conditions. It is used in Social Network Analysis (SNA) and is a basis for
certain types of recommender systems. The problem of triclustering algorithms
is that they do not always produce meaningful clusters. This article describes
a specific triclustering algorithm and a prototype of a visual analytics
platform for working with obtained clusters. This tool is designed as a testing
frameworkis and is intended to help an analyst to grasp the results of
triclustering and recommender algorithms, and to make decisions on
meaningfulness of certain triclusters and recommendations.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures, 2 algorithms, 3rd International Conference on
Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts (AIST'2014). in Supplementary
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social
Networks and Texts (AIST 2014), Vol. 1197, CEUR-WS.org, 201
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