Fermented whey solution presenting bifidogenic growth stimulation (BGS) activity was processed as prototypes such as sterilized fermented whey (SFW), spray-dried fermented whey (SDFW), and freeze-dried fermented whey (FDFW) and their BGS activities were compared. In optical density (OD600) test, the BGS activity of three prototypes, which showed similar activities, were significantly different ...

According to the category adjustment model of location estimation, children’s responses are biased toward spatial prototypes, and these biases increase under conditions of uncertainty. Consistent with the model, 6and 11-year-olds’ biases toward prototypes increased across delays, especially for locations far from prototypes. Response biases also varied systematically with target frequency; howe...

A novel method of constructing optimized prototypes for nearest-neighbor classification is proposed. Based on an effective classification oriented error function containing class identification and class separation components, the corresponding updating rules for prototypes and feature weights are derived. By minimizing the error function, the optimized prototypes and feature weights from the n...

This paper describes an ongoing research, SpaceCustomiser : InterActive, [SC : IA] which deals with development of digital design strategies based on non-Euclidean geometries, whereas the body in movement generates interactively architectural SPACE. The input – movement – is being electronically processed in such a way that the output represents a continuous, real-time modification of the space...

for the talk for “Formalising Robot Ethics”, ISAIM 2018 More and more autonomous and semi-autonomous machines such as intelligent software agents, specific robots, specific drones and self-driving cars make decisions that have moral implications. Machine ethics as a discipline examines the possibilities and limits of moral and immoral machines. It does not only reflect ideas but develops artifa...

Categorization is probably one of the most central areas in the study of cognition, language and information. However, there is a serious gap running through the semantic treatments of categories and concepts [3]. On one side we find the ’classical’, formal approach, based on logical considerations, that has lent itself well for computational applications. In this approach, concepts are defined...

We present a model-based technique for encoding nonrigid object classes in terms of object prototypes. Objects from the same class can be parameterized by identifying shape and appearance invariants of the class to devise lowlevel representations. The approach presented here creates a flexible model for an object class from a set of prototypes. This model is then used to estimate the parameters...

We propose a new generative model of sentences that first samples a prototype sentence from the training corpus and then edits it into a new sentence. Compared to traditional models that generate from scratch either left-toright or by first sampling a latent sentence vector, our prototype-then-edit model improves perplexity on language modeling and generates higher quality outputs according to ...

A framework for modelling with words is introduced based on label semantics. It is shown how within this framework that linguistic prototypes, defined as vectors of mass assignments on sets of labels, can be used to evaluate linguistic queries. This provides a flexible knowledge representation framework for data mining and knowledge discovery as well as an environment well suited to information...