Global challenge and the speedy growth of information technologies compel organizations to constantly change their ways. At the present time, associations need IT personnel who create a difference by creative thoughts and who preserve with the rapid amendments. Since the evaluation of IT personnel selection (ITPS) consists of different alternatives and criteria, therefore, IT personnel selectio...

From a smooth, strictly convex function phi: Rn --> R, a parametric family of divergence function Dphi(alpha) may be introduced: [ equation: see text] for x, y epsilon int dom (Phi) subset Rn, and for alpha in R, with Dphi(+/-1) defined through taking the limit of alpha. Each member is shown to induce an alpha-independent Riemannian metric, as well as a pair of dual alpha-connections, which are...

A non-parametric symmetric measure of divergence which belongs to the family of Csiszár’s f -divergences is proposed. Its properties are studied and bounds in terms of some well known divergence measures obtained. An application to the mutual information is considered. A parametric measure of information is also derived from the suggested non-parametric measure. A numerical illustration to comp...

This paper presents a language modeling approach to the sentiment detection problem. It captures the subtle information in text processing to character the semantic orientation of documents as “thumb up” (positive) or “thumb down” (negative). To handle this problem, we propose an idea to estimate both the positive and negative language models from training collections. Tests are done through co...

We present an approach for tackling the tweet quantification problem in SemEval 2016. The approach is based on the creation of a cooccurrence graph per sentiment from the training dataset and a graph per topic from the test dataset with the aim of comparing each topic graph against the sentiment graphs and evaluate the similarity between them. A heuristic is applied on those similarities to cal...

For logic programs with arithmetic predicates, showing termination is not easy, since the usual order for the integers is not well-founded. A new method, easily incorporated in the TermiLog system for automatic termination analysis, is presented for showing termination in this case. The method consists of the following steps: First, a nite abstract domain for representing the range of integers ...

In this work we focus on opinion pooling in the finite group of sources introduced in [1]. This approach, heavily exploiting KullbackLeibler divergence (also known as cross-entropy), allows us to combine sources’ opinions given in probabilistic form, i.e. represented by the probability mass function (pmf). However, this approach assumes that sources are equally reliable with no preferences on, ...

In very recent work, we introduced a non-termination preserving transformation from logic programs with cut to definite logic programs. While that approach allows us to prove termination of a large class of logic programs with cut automatically, in several cases the transformation results in a non-terminating definite logic program. In this paper we extend the transformation such that logic pro...

In this paper we study the application of divergence-free wavelet bases for the analysis of incompressible turbulent flows and perform several experiments. In particular, we analyze various nominally incompressible fields and study the influence of compressible perturbations due to experimental and computational errors. In addition, we investigate the multiscale structure of modes obtained from...

In this paper, we consider the task of clustering multivariate normal distributions with respect to the relative entropy into a prescribed number, k, of clusters using a generalization of Lloyd’s k-means algorithm [1]. We revisit this information-theoretic clustering problem under the auspices of mixed-type Bregman divergences, and show that the approach of Davis and Dhillon [2] (NIPS*06) can a...