Data modelling and data processing generated by human eye movements

Data modeling and data processing are important activities in any scientific research. This research focuses on the modeling of data and processing of data generated by a saccadometer. The approach used is based on the relational data model, but the processing and storage of the data is done with client datasets. The experiments were performed with 26 randomly selected files from a total of 264 experimental sessions. The data from each experimental session was stored in three different formats, respectively text, binary and extensible markup language (XML) based. The results showed that the text format and the binary format were the most compact. Several actions related to data processing were analyzed. Based on the results obtained, it was found that the two fastest actions are respectively loading data from a binary file and storing data into a binary file. In contrast, the two slowest actions were storing the data in XML format and loading the data from a text file, respectively. Also, one of the time-consuming operations turned out to be the conversion of data from text format to binary format. Moreover, the time required to perform this action does not depend in proportion on the number of records processed

A Design of New Brands of Martenzite Steels by Artificial Neural Networks

The paper proposes a model-based approach for the design of martenzite structure steels with improved mechanical and plastic characteristics using proper composition and thermal treatment. For that purpose, artificial neural models approximating the dependence of steels strength characteristics on the percentage content of alloying components were trained. These non-linear models are further used within an optimization gradient procedure based on backpropagation of utility function through neural network structure. In order to optimizing the steel characteristics via its chemical composition, several steel brands with high values of tensile strenght, yield strenght and relative elongation were designed. A steel composition having economical alloying and proper for practical application was determined comparing several obtained decisions. The usage of that steel will lead to lightening of the hardware for automobile industry

Hidden Markov Models and their Application for Predicting Failure Events

We show how Markov mixed membership models (MMMM) can be used to predict the degradation of assets. We model the degradation path of individual assets, to predict overall failure rates. Instead of a separate distribution for each hidden state, we use hierarchical mixtures of distributions in the exponential family. In our approach the observation distribution of the states is a finite mixture distribution of a small set of (simpler) distributions shared across all states. Using tied-mixture observation distributions offers several advantages. The mixtures act as a regularization for typically very sparse problems, and they reduce the computational effort for the learning algorithm since there are fewer distributions to be found. Using shared mixtures enables sharing of statistical strength between the Markov states and thus transfer learning. We determine for individual assets the trade-off between the risk of failure and extended operating hours by combining a MMMM with a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) to dynamically optimize the policy for when and how to maintain the asset.Comment: Will be published in the proceedings of ICCS 2020; @Booklet{EasyChair:3183, author = {Paul Hofmann and Zaid Tashman}, title = {Hidden Markov Models and their Application for Predicting Failure Events}, howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 3183}, year = {EasyChair, 2020}

Time Series Clustering with Deep Reservoir Computing

This paper proposes a method for clustering of time series, based upon the ability of deep Reservoir Computing networks to grasp the dynamical structure of the series that is presented as input. A standard clustering algorithm, such as k-means, is applied to the network states, rather than the input series themselves. Clustering is thus embedded into the network dynamical evolution, since a clustering result is obtained at every time step, which in turn serves as initialisation at the next step. We empirically assess the performance of deep reservoir systems in time series clustering on benchmark datasets, considering the influence of crucial hyperparameters. Experimentation with the proposed model shows enhanced clustering quality, measured by the silhouette coefficient, when compared to both static clustering of data, and dynamic clustering with a shallow network

Efficient Adaptation of Structure Metrics in Prototype-Based Classification

Mokbel B, Paaßen B, Hammer B. Efficient Adaptation of Structure Metrics in Prototype-Based Classification. In: Wermter S, Weber C, Duch W, et al., eds. Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning - ICANN 2014 - 24th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Hamburg, Germany, September 15-19, 2014. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol 8681. Springer; 2014: 571-578.More complex data formats and dedicated structure metrics have spurred the development of intuitive machine learning techniques which directly deal with dissimilarity data, such as relational learning vector quantization (RLVQ). The adjustment of metric parameters like relevance weights for basic structural elements constitutes a crucial issue therein, and first methods to automatically learn metric parameters from given data were proposed recently. In this contribution, we investigate a robust learning scheme to adapt metric parameters such as the scoring matrix in sequence alignment in conjunction with prototype learning, and we investigate the suitability of efficient approximations thereof

Data Analysis from Two-choice Decision Tasks in Visual Information Processing

Data analysis are important tasks in research. The present study focuses on the analysis of data sets from human eye movement experiments. The results of the experiments were analyzed according to two criteria – gender and age of the participants. The participants were divided into 3 groups, respectively group 1: between 20 and 35 years, group 2: between 36 and 55 years and group 3: between 56 and 85 years. The results showed that 75% of the two-choice decision tasks were solved correctly. This trend was maintained among the participants from group 1 – respectively 75.4%. The participants from group 2 gave more correct answers – respectively 82.2%, but the participants from group 3 gave fewer correct answers – respectively 70.2%. The average value of the response time indicator (of all participants) was 1455 ms. The response time of the participants from groups 1 and 2 was shorter than the average (respectively with 483 ms and 235 ms). The response time of the participants from group 3 was longer than the average (respectively with 626 ms)

Gap Filling of Daily Sea Levels by Artificial Neural Networks

In the recent years, intelligent methods as artificial neural networks are successfully applied for data analysis from different fields of the geosciences. One of the encountered practical problems is the availability of gaps in the time series that prevent their comprehensive usage for the scientific and practical purposes. The article briefly describes two types of the artificial neural network (ANN) architectures ‐ Feed‐ Forward Backpropagation (FFBP) and recurrent Echo state network (ESN). In some cases, the ANN can be used as an alternative on the traditional methods, to fill in missing values in the time series. We have been conducted several experiments to fill the missing values of daily sea levels spanning a 5‐years period using both ANN architectures. A multiple linear regression for the same purpose has been also applied. The sea level data are derived from the records of the tide gauge Burgas, which is located on the western Black Sea coast. The achieved results have shown that the performance of ANN models is better than that of the classical one and they are very promising for the real‐time interpolation of missing data in the time series