There have been a number of previous successful efforts that show how fuzzy logic concepts have homomorphic-like stochastic correspondences, utilizing one-point coverages of appropriately constructed random sets. Independent of this and fuzzy logic considerations in general, boolean relational event algebra (BREA) has been introduced within a stochastic setting for representing prescribed compo...

A relational probability tree (RPT) is a type of decision tree that can be used for probabilistic classification of instances with a relational structure. Each leaf of an RPT contains a probability model that determines for each class the probability that an instance belongs to that class. The only kind of probability models that have been used in RPTs so far are multinomial probability distrib...

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In this paper we propose an evolutionary approach capable of successfully combining rules to play the popular video game, Ms. PacMan. In particular we focus our attention on the benefits of using Grammatical Evolution to combine rules in the form of “if then perform ”. We defined a set of high-level functions that we think are necessary to successufully maneuver Ms. Pac-Man ...

We describe an algorithm for inducing clause-combining rules for use in a traditional natural language generation architecture. An experiment pairing lexicalized text plans from the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus with logical forms obtained by parsing the corresponding sentences demonstrates that the approach is able to learn clause-combining operations which have essentially the same coverage as tho...

Combining diverse features and multiple classifiers is an open research area in which no optimal strategy is found but successful experimental studies have been performed depending on a specific task at hand. In this chapter, a strategy for combining diverse features and multiple classifiers is presented as an exemplary new model in multilevel data classification using hierarchical neural netwo...

a study was conducted on genetics of some important agronomic traits (number of productive tillers per hill, plant height (cm), panicle length (cm), number of spikelets per panicle and 100-grain weight) in rice during 2012-13. two lines were crossed with five testers in line × tester fashion to produce 10 f1 hybrids. analysis of variance revealed significant differences among genotypes and cros...

This paper investigates the significance of combining cepstral features derived from the modified group delay function and from the short-time spectral magnitude like the MFCC. The conventional group delay function fails to capture the resonant structure and the dynamic range of the speech spectrum primarily due to pitch periodicity effects. The group delay function is modified to suppress thes...

Multiple imputation is a common approach for handling missing data. It allows users to make valid inferences using standard complete-data methods with simple combining rules. A variation is to partition the missing data into two portions and conduct the imputation in two stages. We review two-stage multiple imputation and existing inferential methods and derive an alternative reference F -distr...

Expert systems applications that involve uncertain inference can be represented by a multidimensional contingency table. These tables offer a general approach to inferring with uncertain evidence, because they can embody any form of association between any number of pieces of evidence and conclusions. (Simpler models may be required, however, if the number of pieces of evidence bearing on a con...