We consider the issue of assessing influence of observations in the class of beta regression models, which is useful for modelling random variables that assume values in the standard unit interval and are affected by independent variables. We propose a Cook-like distance and also measures of local influence under different perturbation schemes. Applications using real data are presented. 相似文献
We present a new methodology of user simulation applied to the evaluation and refinement of stochastic dialog systems. Common weaknesses of these systems are the scarceness of the training corpus and the cost of an evaluation made by real users. We have considered the user simulation technique as an alternative way of testing and improving our dialog system. We have developed a new dialog manager that plays the role of the user. This user dialog manager incorporates several knowledge sources, combining statistical and heuristic information in order to define its dialog strategy. Once the user simulator is integrated into the dialog system, it is possible to enhance the dialog models by an automatic strategy learning. We have performed an extensive evaluation, achieving a slight but clear improvement of the dialog system. 相似文献
Mobile robot vision-based navigation has been the source of countless research contributions, from the domains of both vision
and control. Vision is becoming more and more common in applications such as localization, automatic map construction, autonomous
navigation, path following, inspection, monitoring or risky situation detection. This survey presents those pieces of work,
from the nineties until nowadays, which constitute a wide progress in visual navigation techniques for land, aerial and autonomous
underwater vehicles. The paper deals with two major approaches: map-based navigation and mapless navigation. Map-based navigation has been in turn subdivided in metric map-based navigation and topological map-based navigation. Our outline to mapless navigation includes reactive techniques based on qualitative characteristics extraction, appearance-based
localization, optical flow, features tracking, plane ground detection/tracking, etc... The recent concept of visual sonar has also been revised.
This work is partially supported by DPI 2005-09001-C03-02 and FEDER funding. 相似文献
This paper presents a sensory-motor coordination scheme for a robot hand-arm-head system that provides the robot with the capability to reach an object while pre-shaping the fingers to the required grasp configuration and while predicting the tactile image that will be perceived after grasping. A model for sensory-motor coordination derived from studies in humans inspired the development of this scheme. A peculiar feature of this model is the prediction of the tactile image. The implementation of the proposed scheme is based on a neuro-fuzzy module that, after a learning phase, starting from visual data, calculates the position and orientation of the hand for reaching, selects the best-suited hand configuration, and predicts the tactile feedback. The implementation of the scheme on a humanoid robot allowed experimental validation of its effectiveness in robotics and provided perspectives on applications of sensory predictions in robot motor control. 相似文献
Recently, multi-objective evolutionary algorithms have been applied to improve the difficult tradeoff between interpretability
and accuracy of fuzzy rule-based systems. It is known that both requirements are usually contradictory, however, these kinds
of algorithms can obtain a set of solutions with different trade-offs. This contribution analyzes different application alternatives
in order to attain the desired accuracy/interpr-etability balance by maintaining the improved accuracy that a tuning of membership
functions could give but trying to obtain more compact models. In this way, we propose the use of multi-objective evolutionary
algorithms as a tool to get almost one improved solution with respect to a classic single objective approach (a solution that
could dominate the one obtained by such algorithm in terms of the system error and number of rules). To do that, this work
presents and analyzes the application of six different multi-objective evolutionary algorithms to obtain simpler and still
accurate linguistic fuzzy models by performing rule selection and a tuning of the membership functions. The results on two
different scenarios show that the use of expert knowledge in the algorithm design process significantly improves the search
ability of these algorithms and that they are able to improve both objectives together, obtaining more accurate and at the
same time simpler models with respect to the single objective based approach.
This article presents an adaptive approach to improving the infection algorithm that we have used to solve the dense stereo
matching problem. The algorithm presented here incorporates two different epidemic automata along a single execution of the
infection algorithm. The new algorithm attempts to provide a general behavior of guessing the best correspondence between
a pair of images. Our aim is to provide a new strategy inspired by evolutionary computation, which combines the behaviors
of both automata into a single correspondence problem. The new algorithm will decide which automata will be used based on
the transmission of information and mutation, as well as the attributes, texture, and geometry, of the input images. This
article gives details about how the rules used in the infection algorithm are coded. Finally, we show experiments with a real
stereo pair, as well as with a standard test bed, to show how the infection algorithm works. 相似文献
Large scale grid computing systems may provide multitudinous services, from different providers, whose quality of service
will vary. Moreover, services are deployed and undeployed in the grid with no central coordination. Thus, to find out the
most suitable service to fulfill their needs, or to find the most suitable set of resources on which to deploy their services,
grid users must resort to a Grid Information Service (GIS). This service allows users to submit rich queries that are normally
composed of multiple attributes and range operations. The ability to efficiently execute complex searches in a scalable and
reliable way is a key challenge for current GIS designs. Scalability issues are normally dealt with by using peer-to-peer
technologies. However, the more reliable peer-to-peer approaches do not cater for rich queries in a natural way. On the other
hand, approaches that can easily support these rich queries are less robust in the presence of failures. In this paper we
present the design of NodeWiz, a GIS that allows multi-attribute range queries to be performed efficiently in a distributed
manner, while maintaining load balance and resilience to failures. 相似文献
Virtual Reality - Virtual reconstruction is defined as the visual recovery of a building or object through the creation of a three-dimensional model of the asset to be reconstructed, in a... 相似文献
We design an information retrieval algorithm that mimics the stochastic behavior of decision-makers (DMs) when evaluating the alternatives displayed by an online search engine. The algorithm consists of a decision tree that incorporates all the 1024 decision nodes that may arise from the information retrieval process of DMs. We calibrate the behavior of the algorithm to the one observed from online users and run several sets of 1,000,000 queries. Each query lets DMs decide which subset of the ten alternatives composing the initial page of results to click, allowing us to evaluate their behavior as ranking reliability is assumed to decrease when DMs decide not to click on an alternative. We compare the click-through rates (CTRs) obtained when modifying the degree of ranking reliability derived from the alternatives displayed on the first page of search results. We illustrate how the stability of the CTR prevails among the top-ranked alternatives within relatively reliable scenarios while it drops when imposing large initial decrements in reliability. The resulting consequences regarding the importance of relative ranking positions are analyzed, the top three alternatives exhibiting a generally contained decrease in their CTRs that contrasts with the cumulative pattern arising from the fourth position onwards.