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Can the Relevance Index be Used to Evolve Relevant Feature Sets?
No full textThe Relevance Index (RI) is an information theory-based measure that was originally defined to detect groups of functionally similar neurons, based on their dynamic behavior. More in general, considering the dynamical analysis of a generic complex system, the larger the RI value associated with a subset of variables, the more those variables are strongly correlated with one another and independent from the other variables describing the system status. We describe some early experiments to evaluate whether such an index can be used to extract relevant feature subsets in binary pattern classification problems. In particular, we used a PSO variant to efficiently explore the RI search space, whose size equals the number of possible variable subsets (in this case 2^{104}) and find the most relevant and discriminating feature subsets with respect to pattern representation. We then turned such relevant subsets into a new smaller set of richer features, whose values depend on the values of the binary features they include. The paper reports some exploratory results we obtained in a simple character recognition task, comparing the performance of RI-based feature extraction and selection with other classical feature selection/extraction approaches
Applications of Evolutionary Computation (Part I)
No full textThe two volumes LNCS 10199 and 10200 constitute the refereed conference proceedings of the 20th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2017, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in April 2017, collocated with the Evo* 2017 events EuroGP, EvoCOP, and EvoMUSART
DUNE/larnd-sim: v0.3.1
No full textWhat's Changed
Add check to impulse model load by @soleti in https://github.com/DUNE/larnd-sim/pull/72
Full Changelog: https://github.com/DUNE/larnd-sim/commits/v0.3.
Kevin Brockmeier, Fiction Reading
No full textOctober 25, 2013, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State UniversityAward winning author Kevin Brockmeier, reads from his work.University Libraries, Department of English, Department of Women's Studies, Watermark Books & Cafe, Ulrich Museum of Ar
Dr. Kevin Pelletier – Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Kevin Pelletier, Associate Professor of English, discusses his new book, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism: Love and Fear in US Antebellum Literature, published recently by the University of Georgia Press. The book provides powerful insights into the relationship between nineteenth-century sentimentality, religious discourse, and antislavery reform
Kevin Fenton: A Reading
No full textThe John S. Lucas Great River Reading Series (GRRS) hosts Winona native and author Kevin Fenton. Fenton will read from his new novel Cyan Magenta Yellow Black published by Black Lawrence Press, 2025.
Kevin Fenton is the author of Merit Badges, which won the AWP Prize for the Novel and the Friends of the American Writers Award, and Leaving Rollingstone, which Patricia Hampl called “the most important memoir to come out of the Midwest (or anywhere) in years.” He works as an advertising writer and creative director; in that capacity, he’s published essays in the design quarterlies Émigré and Eye (London), the anthology Looking Closer 2: Critical Writing On Graphic Design, and the UX design blog Boxes and Arrows. He got a slightly better education than he deserved at Beloit College, the University of Minnesota Law School, and the University of Minnesota MFA program. He lives in St Paul with his wife Ellen and his greyhound Evie
'Web of Life' - Profile of Kevin Petrie in Printmaking Today Winter 2024
No full textKevin Petrie, Professor of Creative Practice at the University of Sunderland, uses print to explore the novels and philosophy of Iris Murdoch writes Dr Miles Leeson. This is a 1200 word profile of Kevin Petrie and his recent work for 'Printmaking Today' which is the journal of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers. The piece gives an overview of Petrie's creative practice focusing on the novels and thinking of Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999). The piece discusses Petrie's evolving model of creative practice for this project: reading the novels, sketching to visualise elements, developing and combining images in the studio and then reengagement with Murdoch (through the community, literature and archive). Petrie's 'Other Journeys' and 'Web of Life' exhibitions are discussed.
The author, Dr Miles Leeson, is the Director of the Iris Murdoch Research Centre at University of Chichester and Visiting Research Fellow at Kingston University. He is the lead editor of the Iris Murdoch Review, the Series Editor of ‘Iris Murdoch Today’ with Palgrave Macmillan, and has published widely on Murdoch’s work. He published Iris Murdoch: Philosophical Novelist (Continuum) in 2010, the edited collection Incest in Contemporary Literature (Manchester University Press, 2018), the festschrift Iris Murdoch: A Centenary Celebration (Sabrestorm Fiction, 2019), the edited collection Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and is currently writing Iris Murdoch: Feminist.
Four prints by Kevin Petrie are reproduced with the text:
Untangle
2024
Etching from two plates with Chine Collé
Paper 38x29cm Image 14.8x12.5cm
Photo: Dave Williams
Friends
2023
Etching with Chine Collé
Paper 38x29cm Image 14.8x12.5cm
Photo: Dave Williams
Love
2023
Etching with Chine Collé
Paper 38x29cm Image 14.8x12.5cm
Photo: Dave Williams
What lies beneath
2024
Lithograph
38.5x28cm
Printed by Lee Turner at Hole Editions Newcastle
Photo: Dave William
Dr. Kevin Cherry – Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Kevin Cherry, Assistant Professor of Political Science,discusses his new book, Plato, Aristotle, and the Purpose of Politics, published recently by Cambridge University Press. In this book, he compares the views of Plato and Aristotle about the practice, study and the purpose of politics
Dr. Kevin Cruz - Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Kevin Cruz, Assistant Professor of Management in the Robins School of Business, discusses his recent article, “Perceptions of psychological contract breach and perceptions of co-worker exclusion: The moderating effects of collectivism and individualism,” in Occupational Health Science. Dr. Cruz’s research interests focus on employee – employer relationships, employee – team relationships and employee – co-worker relationships
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