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B Experimental Setups and Acoustic Environments
In this chapter, the experimental setup and the acoustic environments are described, which are used in this work for illustrating the properties of...
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Fast Color Texture-Based Object Detection in Images: Application to License Plate Localization
The current chapter presents a color texture-based method for object detection in images. A support vector machine (SVM) is used to classify each...
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Application of Support Vector Machines in Inverse Problems in Ocean Color Remote Sensing
Neural networks are widely used as transfer functions in inverse problems in remote sensing. However, this method still suffers from some problems...
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Multiple Model Estimation for Nonlinear Classification
This chapter describes a new method for nonlinear classification using a collection of several simple (linear) classifiers. The approach is based on...
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Active Support Vector Learning with Statistical Queries
The article describes an active learning strategy to solve the large quadratic programming (QP) problem of support vector machine (SVM) design in...
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Using an Adapted Classification Based on Associations Algorithm in an Activity-Based Transportation System
A lot of research has been carried out in the past by using association rules to build more accurate classifiers. The idea behind these integrated...
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Clustering with Intelligent Techniques
Cluster analysis is a technique for grou** data and finding structures in data. The most common application of clustering methods is to partition a...
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Componentwise Least Squares Support Vector Machines
This chapter describes componentwise Least Squares Support Vector Machines (LS-SVMs) for the estimation of additive models consisting of a sum of...
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Support Vector Machines for Signal Processing
This chapter deals with the use of the support vector machine (SVM) algorithm as a possible design method in the signal processing applications. It...
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Theoretical and Practical Model Selection Methods for Support Vector Classifiers
In this chapter, we revise several methods for SVM model selection, deriving from different approaches: some of them build on practical lines of...
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Adaptive Discriminant and Quasiconformal Kernel Nearest Neighbor Classification
Nearest neighbor classification assumes locally constant class conditional probabilities. This assumption becomes invalid in high dimensions due to...
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Simulated Annealing Approach for the Multi-objective Facility Layout Problem
In general, facility layout problems are occurred if there are changes in requirements of space, people and equipments. When the changes of...
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Penalty-Reward Analysis with Uninorms: A Study of Customer (Dis)Satisfaction
In customer (dis)satisfaction research, analytic methods are needed to capture the complex relationship between overall (dis)satisfaction with a...
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Association Rule Based Specialization in ER Models
Association rules (ARs) emerged in the domain of market basket analysis and provide a convenient and effective way to identify and represent certain...
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Mining Association Rules with Rough Sets
We say that there is an association between two sets of items when the sets are likely to occur together in transactions. In information retrieval,...
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A User Centred Approach to Management Decision Making
The management decision making process is becoming increasingly complicated as more detailed and extensive data is available in this information age....
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Techniques to Improve Multi-Agent Systems for Searching and Mining the Web
Nowadays, an abundant amount of information is created and delivered over electronic media. The information gathering in the Internet is a complex...
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Gene Regulating Network Discovery
Gene regulation has been an important research topic for the past 30 years and data processing models based on different assumptions have been...
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Semantic Relations and Information Discovery
The treatment of semantic relations between terms is essential in information retrieval (IR). Each term in a thesaurus might have classes of...
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5 A Practical Audio Acquisition System Using a Robust GSC (RGSC)
In the preceding chapter, we have seen that data-dependent beamformers can be efficiently realized in GSC structures. However, GSCs, or more general...