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An Approach for Online Weight Update Using Particle Swarm Optimization in Dynamic Fuzzy Cognitive Maps
No full textFuzzy cognitive maps (FCM) is a method to update a given initial vector to obtain the most stable state of a system, using a neighborhood of weights between these vectors and updating it over a series of iterations. FCMs are modeled with graphs. Neighbor weights between nodes are between-1 and 1. Nowadays it is used in business management, information technology, communication, health and medical decision making, engineering and computer vision. In this study, a dynamic FCM structure based on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is given for determining node weights and online updating for modeling of dynamic systems with FCMs. Neighborhood weights in dynamic FCMs can be updated instantly and the system feedback is used for this update. In this work, updating the weights of the dynamic FCM is a PSO based approach that takes advantage of system feedback. In previous literature suggestions, dynamic FCM structure performs the weight updating process by using rule-based methods such as Hebbian. Metaheuristic methods are less complex and more efficient than rule-based methods in such optimization problems. In the developed PSO approach, the initialise vector state of the system, the weights between the vector nodes, and the desired steady state vector are taken into consideration. As a fitness function, the system has benefited from the convergence state to the desired steady state vector. As a stopping criterion for PSO, 100 * n number of iteration limits have been applied for the initial vector with n nodes. The proposed method has been tested for five different scenarios with different node counts
A Noise Reduction Approach Using Dynamic Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for Vehicle Traffic Camera Images
No full textNoise is a generic term for data loss or corruption due to hardware or software causes on the signal. Since the images are two-dimensional signals, there are noises in this type of signal due different reasons. In addition, fuzzy cognitive maps (FCM) have a structure based on a graph theory that can produce many probing solutions today. Fuzzy cognitive maps can provide their iterations as static (fixed neighborhood values) or dynamic (variable neighborhood values) depending on the solution, which belong to interested problem. In this study, a method is presented using fuzzy cognitive maps for noise reduction in images and mean filter, which is a widely used method for noise reduction. The proposed method provide to minimize the loss of data in the noise reduction process with the average filter. In this work, FCM takes noisy and average filtered noisy image masks and accepts each pixel value in these masks as nodes. Then we update the neighborhood weights between these nodes in each iteration. The developed method has been tested primarily with different images and the performance obtained only by the method in which the average filter is applied is quite high. Then, the proposed method was tested on images of traffic monitoring systems taken from vehicle cameras. The results obtained are very successful
Performance Analysis of EEG Signal Processing Based Device Control Applications
No full textNowadays, many types of devices are controlled by electroselenography (EEG) signals. In the literature and in daily life, related studies with EEG controlled devices are increasing day by day. EEG based control applications are applied on many devices such as robot arm, robot, vehicle and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). EEG based control procedures usually involve taking, pre-processing, classifying EEG signals, and applying the resulting command to the controlled device. In this study, a performance analysis was carried out by examining the control application studies using EEG signals in the literature. In this analysis study, firstly all studies related to the subject in the literature are examined and the devices, methods, signal processing techniques and classification algorithms used in these studies are handled separately. Appropriate electrode selection for the type of device used in device control applications using EEG signals and type of interaction for command extraction from EEG signal appears to be an important step. In this respect, performance correlations between the types of EEG devices used in the literature studies and the electrode choices used in these studies were compared. Since there are a variety of preprocessing steps for EEG signals, this study provides comparisons based on EEG signal preprocessing techniques. Artificial neural networks (ANN), support vector machines (SVM) and K nearest neighbours (Knn) are used to classify the works in the literature. In this study, comparative studies based on classification methods used in literature studies are also included. As a result, in this study, the studies in the literature for the device control using the EEG signal are examined, compared, interpreted and evaluated, and the points to be considered in the designs to be performed in this area are given
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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