scholarly journals Geomatics and Soft Computing Techniques for Infrastructural Monitoring

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Barrile ◽  
Antonino Fotia ◽  
Giovanni Leonardi ◽  
Raffaele Pucinotti

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) allows us to have information about the structure under investigation and thus to create analytical models for the assessment of its state or structural behavior. Exceeded a predetermined danger threshold, the possibility of an early warning would allow us, on the one hand, to suspend risky activities and, on the other, to reduce maintenance costs. The system proposed in this paper represents an integration of multiple traditional systems that integrate data of a different nature (used in the preventive phase to define the various behavior scenarios on the structural model), and then reworking them through machine learning techniques, in order to obtain values to compare with limit thresholds. The risk level depends on several variables, specifically, the paper wants to evaluate the possibility of predicting the structure behavior monitoring only displacement data, transmitted through an experimental transmission control unit. In order to monitor and to make our cities more “sustainable”, the paper describes some tests on road infrastructure, in this contest through the combination of geomatics techniques and soft computing.

Author(s):  
P. Priakanth ◽  
S. Gopikrishnan

The idea of an intelligent, independent learning machine has fascinated humans for decades. The philosophy behind machine learning is to automate the creation of analytical models in order to enable algorithms to learn continuously with the help of available data. Since IoT will be among the major sources of new data, data science will make a great contribution to make IoT applications more intelligent. Machine learning can be applied in cases where the desired outcome is known (guided learning) or the data is not known beforehand (unguided learning) or the learning is the result of interaction between a model and the environment (reinforcement learning). This chapter answers the questions: How could machine learning algorithms be applied to IoT smart data? What is the taxonomy of machine learning algorithms that can be adopted in IoT? And what are IoT data characteristics in real-world which requires data analytics?


Author(s):  
Todor D. Ganchev

In this chapter we review various computational models of locally recurrent neurons and deliberate the architecture of some archetypal locally recurrent neural networks (LRNNs) that are based on them. Generalizations of these structures are discussed as well. Furthermore, we point at a number of realworld applications of LRNNs that have been reported in past and recent publications. These applications involve classification or prediction of temporal sequences, discovering and modeling of spatial and temporal correlations, process identification and control, etc. Validation experiments reported in these developments provide evidence that locally recurrent architectures are capable of identifying and exploiting temporal and spatial correlations (i.e., the context in which events occur), which is the main reason for their advantageous performance when compared with the one of their non-recurrent counterparts or other reasonable machine learning techniques.


Author(s):  
P. Priakanth ◽  
S. Gopikrishnan

The idea of an intelligent, independent learning machine has fascinated humans for decades. The philosophy behind machine learning is to automate the creation of analytical models in order to enable algorithms to learn continuously with the help of available data. Since IoT will be among the major sources of new data, data science will make a great contribution to make IoT applications more intelligent. Machine learning can be applied in cases where the desired outcome is known (guided learning) or the data is not known beforehand (unguided learning) or the learning is the result of interaction between a model and the environment (reinforcement learning). This chapter answers the questions: How could machine learning algorithms be applied to IoT smart data? What is the taxonomy of machine learning algorithms that can be adopted in IoT? And what are IoT data characteristics in real-world which requires data analytics?


2019 ◽  
Vol 624 ◽  
pp. A45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Alibert

Context. Planet formation models now often consider the formation of planetary systems with more than one planet per system. This raises the question of how to represent planetary systems in a convenient way (e.g. for visualisation purpose) and how to define the similarity between two planetary systems, for example to compare models and observations. Aims. We define a new metric to infer the similarity between two planetary systems, based on the properties of planets that belong to these systems. We then compare the similarity of planetary systems with the similarity of protoplanetary discs in which they form. Methods. We first define a new metric based on mixture of Gaussians, and then use this metric to apply a dimensionality reduction technique in order to represent planetary systems (which should be represented in a high-dimensional space) in a two-dimensional space. This allows us study the structure of a population of planetary systems and its relation with the characteristics of protoplanetary discs in which planetary systems form. Results. We show that the new metric can help to find the underlying structure of populations of planetary systems. In addition, the similarity between planetary systems, as defined in this paper, is correlated with the similarity between the protoplanetary discs in which these systems form. We finally compare the distribution of inter-system distances for a set of observed exoplanets with the distributions obtained from two models: a population synthesis model and a model where planetary systems are constructed by randomly picking synthetic planets. The observed distribution is shown to be closer to the one derived from the population synthesis model than from the random systems. Conclusions. The new metric can be used in a variety of unsupervised machine learning techniques, such as dimensionality reduction and clustering, to understand the results of simulations and compare them with the properties of observed planetary systems.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1851-1885
Author(s):  
Bilal Ervural ◽  
Beyzanur Cayir Ervural ◽  
Cengiz Kahraman

Soft Computing techniques are capable of identifying uncertainty in data, determining imprecision of knowledge, and analyzing ill-defined complex problems. The nature of real world problems is generally complex and their common characteristic is uncertainty owing to the multidimensional structure. Analytical models are insufficient in managing all complexity to satisfy the decision makers' expectations. Under this viewpoint, soft computing provides significant flexibility and solution advantages. In this chapter, firstly, the major soft computing methods are classified and summarized. Then a comprehensive review of eight nature inspired – soft computing algorithms which are genetic algorithm, particle swarm algorithm, ant colony algorithms, artificial bee colony, firefly optimization, bat algorithm, cuckoo algorithm, and grey wolf optimizer algorithm are presented and analyzed under some determined subject headings (classification topics) in a detailed way. The survey findings are supported with charts, bar graphs and tables to be more understandable.


2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-57
Author(s):  
Rahul K. Kher ◽  
Chirag Paunwala ◽  
Falgun Thakkar ◽  
Heena Kher ◽  
Mita Paunwala

2020 ◽  
pp. 34-47
Author(s):  
Sushma Jaiswal ◽  
Tarun Jaiswal

Stock marketplace tradeoff is an endless investment implementation worldwide. It has capabilities to produce maximum profits on stockholders’venture. In the globe, the stock-market forecasting is a very puzzling job for the stock-market investors. The task is very challenging because of the ambiguity and precariousness of the stock market values. Due to commercialization and data mining modules the growth of stock marketplaces, it is essential to predict marketplace variations quick and easy way. Recently, ANN is very famous and attracted to investors for its easy-going process in the stock-market. ANN plays a very imperative part in today’s stock-market for decision making and prediction. The Multi-Layer-Perceptron methods are outperformed then other methods. Also, these approaches have countless likelihoods to envisage with high accuracy than other approaches. In this review paper, neural-based envisage implements are measured to foresee the imminent stock-prices and their enactment dimensions will be assessed. Here we deliver a broad impression of the soft computing based stock-market likelihood with emphasis on enabling technologies, issues and application issues. Soft computing is attracting a lot of researchers and industrial innovation. The purpose of this paper is to presents a survey of the existing soft computing method applied to stock market prediction, their comparison and possible solution. From the reviewed articles, it is obvious that investigators have resolutely intensive on the growth of fusion forecast representations and considerable effort has also been completed on the use of broadcasting data for stock marketplace forecast. It is also enlightening that most of the literature has focused on the forecast of stock prices in developing marketplace.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (35) ◽  
pp. eaat1186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Senft ◽  
Séverin Lemaignan ◽  
Paul E. Baxter ◽  
Madeleine Bartlett ◽  
Tony Belpaeme

Striking the right balance between robot autonomy and human control is a core challenge in social robotics, in both technical and ethical terms. On the one hand, extended robot autonomy offers the potential for increased human productivity and for the off-loading of physical and cognitive tasks. On the other hand, making the most of human technical and social expertise, as well as maintaining accountability, is highly desirable. This is particularly relevant in domains such as medical therapy and education, where social robots hold substantial promise, but where there is a high cost to poorly performing autonomous systems, compounded by ethical concerns. We present a field study in which we evaluate SPARC (supervised progressively autonomous robot competencies), an innovative approach addressing this challenge whereby a robot progressively learns appropriate autonomous behavior from in situ human demonstrations and guidance. Using online machine learning techniques, we demonstrate that the robot could effectively acquire legible and congruent social policies in a high-dimensional child-tutoring situation needing only a limited number of demonstrations while preserving human supervision whenever desirable. By exploiting human expertise, our technique enables rapid learning of autonomous social and domain-specific policies in complex and nondeterministic environments. Last, we underline the generic properties of SPARC and discuss how this paradigm is relevant to a broad range of difficult human-robot interaction scenarios.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1577-1597
Author(s):  
Kusuma Mohanchandra ◽  
Snehanshu Saha

Machine learning techniques, is a crucial tool to build analytical models in EEG data analysis. These models are an excellent choice for analyzing the high variability in EEG signals. The advancement in EEG-based Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) demands advanced processing tools and algorithms for exploration of EEG signals. In the context of the EEG-based BCI for speech communication, few classification and clustering techniques is presented in this book chapter. A broad perspective of the techniques and implementation of the weighted k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN), Support vector machine (SVM), Decision Tree (DT) and Random Forest (RF) is explained and their usage in EEG signal analysis is mentioned. We suggest that these machine learning techniques provides not only potentially valuable control mechanism for BCI but also a deeper understanding of neuropathological mechanisms underlying the brain in ways that are not possible by conventional linear analysis.


Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Julio J. Estévez-Pereira ◽  
Diego Fernández ◽  
Francisco J. Novoa

While traditional network security methods have been proven useful until now, the flexibility of machine learning techniques makes them a solid candidate in the current scene of our networks. In this paper, we assess how well the latter are capable of detecting security threats in a corporative network. To that end, we configure and compare several models to find the one which fits better with our needs. Furthermore, we distribute the computational load and storage so we can handle extensive volumes of data. The algorithms that we use to create our models, Random Forest, Naive Bayes, and Deep Neural Networks (DNN), are both divergent and tested in other papers in order to make our comparison richer. For the distribution phase, we operate with Apache Structured Streaming, PySpark, and MLlib. As for the results, it is relevant to mention that our dataset has been found to be effectively modelable with just a reduced number of features. Finally, given the outcomes obtained, we find this line of research encouraging and, therefore, this approach worth pursuing.


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