620 research outputs found
Characteristics Description of Potential User Segments on the E-Commerce Website oriented to Precision Marketing
In the increasingly competitive environment between e-commerce companies, for more accurate implementation of marketing strategies, e-commerce websites often choose to subdivide the consumer market of the enterprise to identify site users’ characteristics to find their needs. In this paper, we subdivide consumer market from the four dimensions of behavior, geography, demography and psychology and propose a model to describe the characteristics of potential user market segments. Based on the web log data and user transaction data, a classification algorithm is used to analyze user behavior data in Web log to find the potential user segments and the user\u27s descriptive characteristics in user transaction data are clustered to obtain the distribution of consumer characteristics under various product categories, then we use the product categories in e-commerce website as an intermediary to give every single potential user in potential user market segments the descriptive characteristics, which can provide data support for the realization of precision marketing. The proposed model is applied to the actual data of a certain insurance e-commerce platform, and based on the results, we gain some implications for marketing of the e-commerce website
Measuring Immediate Effect and Carry-over Effect of Multi-channel Online Ads
Faced with various online ads, firms are hard to choose the most appropriate advertising channels which have best advertising effects. Online advertising has immediate and carry-over effects. We constructed a comprehensive evaluation model of multi-channel online advertising effects which can evaluate not only immediate effect but also carry-over effect based on lag effect factors. Then, we conducted a restricted grid search and multiple linear regressions to estimate the immediate effect and carry-over effect of paid search ads, mobile phone message ads and e-mail ads based on user behavior data and transaction data of an e-commerce website. The results show that the immediate effect intensity of paid-search ads is the highest, the carry-over effect duration of e-mail ads is the longest, and the cumulative carry-over effect intensity of e-mail ads is the highest. This study puts forward suggestions on how to evaluate the effects of multi-channel online ads more accurately, which can guide this e-commerce website to make better advertising strategy for online marketing
Real-Time Scheduling for Time-Sensitive Networking: A Systematic Review and Experimental Study
Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) has been recognized as one of the key
enabling technologies for Industry 4.0 and has been deployed in many time- and
mission-critical industrial applications, e.g., automotive and aerospace
systems. Given the stringent real-time communication requirements raised by
these applications, the Time-Aware Shaper (TAS) draws special attention among
the many traffic shapers developed for TSN, due to its ability to achieve
deterministic latency guarantees. Extensive efforts on the designs of
scheduling methods for TAS shapers have been reported in recent years to
improve the system schedulability, each with their own distinct focuses and
concerns. However, these scheduling methods have yet to be thoroughly
evaluated, especially through experimental comparisons, to provide a
systematical understanding on their performance using different evaluation
metrics in various application scenarios. In this paper, we fill this gap by
presenting a comprehensive experimental study on the existing TAS-based
scheduling methods for TSN. We first categorize the system models employed in
these work along with their formulated problems, and outline the fundamental
considerations in the designs of TAS-based scheduling methods. We then perform
extensive evaluation on 16 representative solutions and compare their
performance under both synthetic scenarios and real-life industrial use cases.
Through these experimental studies, we identify the limitations of individual
scheduling methods and highlight several important findings. This work will
provide foundational knowledge for the future studies on TSN real-time
scheduling problems, and serve as the performance benchmarking for scheduling
method development in TSN.Comment: 22 pages, ac
Learning Meta Model for Zero- and Few-shot Face Anti-spoofing
Face anti-spoofing is crucial to the security of face recognition systems.
Most previous methods formulate face anti-spoofing as a supervised learning
problem to detect various predefined presentation attacks, which need large
scale training data to cover as many attacks as possible. However, the trained
model is easy to overfit several common attacks and is still vulnerable to
unseen attacks. To overcome this challenge, the detector should: 1) learn
discriminative features that can generalize to unseen spoofing types from
predefined presentation attacks; 2) quickly adapt to new spoofing types by
learning from both the predefined attacks and a few examples of the new
spoofing types. Therefore, we define face anti-spoofing as a zero- and few-shot
learning problem. In this paper, we propose a novel Adaptive Inner-update Meta
Face Anti-Spoofing (AIM-FAS) method to tackle this problem through
meta-learning. Specifically, AIM-FAS trains a meta-learner focusing on the task
of detecting unseen spoofing types by learning from predefined living and
spoofing faces and a few examples of new attacks. To assess the proposed
approach, we propose several benchmarks for zero- and few-shot FAS. Experiments
show its superior performances on the presented benchmarks to existing methods
in existing zero-shot FAS protocols.Comment: Accepted by AAAI202
DECODE: DilatEd COnvolutional neural network for Detecting Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals
The detection of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) is intricate due to
their complex waveforms, extended duration, and low signal-to-noise ratio
(SNR), making them more challenging to be identified compared to compact binary
coalescences. While matched filtering-based techniques are known for their
computational demands, existing deep learning-based methods primarily handle
time-domain data and are often constrained by data duration and SNR. In
addition, most existing work ignores time-delay interferometry (TDI) and
applies the long-wavelength approximation in detector response calculations,
thus limiting their ability to handle laser frequency noise. In this study, we
introduce DECODE, an end-to-end model focusing on EMRI signal detection by
sequence modeling in the frequency domain. Centered around a dilated causal
convolutional neural network, trained on synthetic data considering TDI-1.5
detector response, DECODE can efficiently process a year's worth of
multichannel TDI data with an SNR of around 50. We evaluate our model on 1-year
data with accumulated SNR ranging from 50 to 120 and achieve a true positive
rate of 96.3% at a false positive rate of 1%, keeping an inference time of less
than 0.01 seconds. With the visualization of three showcased EMRI signals for
interpretability and generalization, DECODE exhibits strong potential for
future space-based gravitational wave data analyses.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figures, and 2 table
Sensory Manipulation as a Countermeasure to Robot Teleoperation Delays: System and Evidence
In the field of robotics, robot teleoperation for remote or hazardous
environments has become increasingly vital. A major challenge is the lag
between command and action, negatively affecting operator awareness,
performance, and mental strain. Even with advanced technology, mitigating these
delays, especially in long-distance operations, remains challenging. Current
solutions largely focus on machine-based adjustments. Yet, there's a gap in
using human perceptions to improve the teleoperation experience. This paper
presents a unique method of sensory manipulation to help humans adapt to such
delays. Drawing from motor learning principles, it suggests that modifying
sensory stimuli can lessen the perception of these delays. Instead of
introducing new skills, the approach uses existing motor coordination
knowledge. The aim is to minimize the need for extensive training or complex
automation. A study with 41 participants explored the effects of altered haptic
cues in delayed teleoperations. These cues were sourced from advanced physics
engines and robot sensors. Results highlighted benefits like reduced task time
and improved perceptions of visual delays. Real-time haptic feedback
significantly contributed to reduced mental strain and increased confidence.
This research emphasizes human adaptation as a key element in robot
teleoperation, advocating for improved teleoperation efficiency via swift human
adaptation, rather than solely optimizing robots for delay adjustment.Comment: Submitted to Scientific Report
Chiral Anomaly Beyond Fermionic Paradigm
Two-dimensional magnets have manifested themselves as promising candidates
for quantum devices. We here report that the edge and strain effects during the
device fabrication with two-dimensional honeycomb ferromagnets such as CrX
(X=Cl, I, Br) and CrXTe (X=Si, Ge) can be characterized by a
(1+1)-dimensional magnon chiral anomaly beyond the fermionic paradigm. In the
presence of zigzag edges, a pair of chiral bulk-edge magnon bands appear and
cause an imbalance of left- and right-chirality magnons when subjected to
nonuniform temperature or magnetic fields. In the presence of a uniaxial
strain, the bulk Dirac magnons are broken into chiral magnon pseudo-Landau
levels, resulting in a magnon chiral anomaly observable through a negative
strain-resistivity of the magnetic dipole and heat. Our work demonstrates a
chiral anomaly with (quasi)particles obeying non-fermionic statistics and will
be instructive in understanding anomalous magnon transport.Comment: 4.5 pages, 4 figure
Brain Functional Connectivity under Teleoperation Latency: a fNIRS Study
Objective: This study aims to understand the cognitive impact of latency in
teleoperation and the related mitigation methods, using functional
Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to analyze functional connectivity.
Background: Latency between command, execution, and feedback in teleoperation
can impair performance and affect operators mental state. The neural
underpinnings of these effects are not well understood. Method: A human subject
experiment (n = 41) of a simulated remote robot manipulation task was
performed. Three conditions were tested: no latency, with visual and haptic
latency, with visual latency and no haptic latency. fNIRS and performance data
were recorded and analyzed. Results: The presence of latency in teleoperation
significantly increased functional connectivity within and between prefrontal
and motor cortexes. Maintaining visual latency while providing real-time haptic
feedback reduced the average functional connectivity in all cortical networks
and showed a significantly different connectivity ratio within prefrontal and
motor cortical networks. The performance results showed the worst performance
in the all-delayed condition and best performance in no latency condition,
which echoes the neural activity patterns. Conclusion: The study provides
neurological evidence that latency in teleoperation increases cognitive load,
anxiety, and challenges in motion planning and control. Real-time haptic
feedback, however, positively influences neural pathways related to cognition,
decision-making, and sensorimotor processes. Application: This research can
inform the design of ergonomic teleoperation systems that mitigate the effects
of latency.Comment: Submitted to Human Factor
Compact Binary Systems Waveform Generation with Generative Pre-trained Transformer
Space-based gravitational wave detection is one of the most anticipated
gravitational wave (GW) detection projects in the next decade, which will
detect abundant compact binary systems. However, the precise prediction of
space GW waveforms remains unexplored. To solve the data processing difficulty
in the increasing waveform complexity caused by detectors' response and
second-generation time-delay interferometry (TDI 2.0), an interpretable
pre-trained large model named CBS-GPT (Compact Binary Systems Waveform
Generation with Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is proposed. For compact
binary system waveforms, three models were trained to predict the waveforms of
massive black hole binary (MBHB), extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), and
galactic binary (GB), achieving prediction accuracies of 98%, 91%, and 99%,
respectively. The CBS-GPT model exhibits notable interpretability, with its
hidden parameters effectively capturing the intricate information of waveforms,
even with complex instrument response and a wide parameter range. Our research
demonstrates the potential of large pre-trained models in gravitational wave
data processing, opening up new opportunities for future tasks such as gap
completion, GW signal detection, and signal noise reduction
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