It is well-known that diversity among base classifiers is crucial for constructing a strong ensemble. Most existing ensemble methods obtain diverse individual learners through resampling the instances or features. In this paper, we propose an alternative way for ensemble construction by resampling pairwise constraints that specify whether a pair of instances belongs to the same class or not. Us...

Zeolite Beta/MCM-41 composites have been prepared with various crystallinities of zeolite Beta through a twostep crystallization process involving the combination of low crystallinity zeolite Beta synthesis gel with cetyltrimethylammonium bromide surfactant solution. The composites are characterized by XRD, SEM, Si and Al MAS NMR, N2 adsorption, NH3-TPD and catalytic cracking. The experimental ...

We describe an approach to the inductive synthesis of recursive equations from input/outputexamples which is based on the classical twostep approach to induction of functional Lisp programs of Summers (1977). In a first step, I/Oexamples are rewritten to traces which explain the outputs given the respective inputs based on a datatype theory. This traces can be integrated into one conditional ex...

Single image haze removal is an extremely challenging problem due to its inherent ill-posed nature. Several prior-based and learning-based methods have been proposed in the literature to solve this problem and they have achieved superior results. However, most of the existing methods assume constant atmospheric light model and tend to follow a twostep procedure involving prior-based methods for...

In [7], Mozerov et al. propose to perform stereo matching as a twostep energy minimization problem. They formulate cost filtering as a local energy minimization model, and solve the fully connected MRF model and the locally connected MRF model sequentially. In this paper we intend to combine the two steps of energy minimization in order to improve stereo matching results. We propose to jointly ...

Research on the electro-oxidation of glutathione (GSH) may give insight into its real oxidation mechanism on biomembranes. In the present work, the unusual oxidation process of GSH on an Au electrode was probed by cyclic voltammetry (CV) technique. Voltammetric studies showed that –SH in GSH was the unique target of electro-oxidation by excluding the other potential oxidation sites (amido group...

This paper explores the planning and control of a manipulation task accomplished in conditions of high uncertainty. Statistical techniques, like particle filters, provide a framework for expressing the uncertainty and partial observability of the real world and taking actions to reduce them. We explore a classic manipulation problem of planar batting, but with a new twist of shape, pose and imp...

In event-based Information Extraction systems, a major task is the automated filling from unstructured texts of a template gathering information related to a particular event. Such template filling may be a hard task when the information is scattered throughout the text and mixed with similar pieces of information relative to a different event. We propose in this paper a twostep approach for te...

BYOD, which allows employees to bring their own mobile devices to work and connect into the corporation network, has been increasingly implemented by numerous organizations and corporations. Companies expect to save cost as well as increase productivity and employees’ morale through BYOD implementation. Hence, it is critical for companies to understand how BYOD affects organizational performanc...

Traditional synchronous grammar induction estimates parameters by maximizing likelihood, which only has a loose relation to translation quality. Alternatively, we propose a max-margin estimation approach to discriminatively inducing synchronous grammars for machine translation, which directly optimizes translation quality measured by BLEU. In the max-margin estimation of parameters, we only nee...