CO2 plays the most important role in pollution due to greenhouse gases, which causes global warming and climate change. Unfortunately, CO2 emission has increased significantly in recent decades. So, it is crucial to capture CO2. On the other hand, CO2 can be utilized for commercial products. There is plenty of CO2 utilization such as enhanc...

Keeley Crockett is a Professor in Computational Intelligence at Manchester Metropolitan University. She gained B.Sc. degree (hons) computation from UMIST (1993), and Ph.D. Fuzzy Decision Trees MMU (1998). Her research interests include the ethics of Artificial (AI), fuzzy systems, psychological profiling using AI, natural language processing, semantic similarity, conversational agents, intellig...

Current theories about mechanisms promoting species co-existence in diverse communities assume that species only interact ecologically. Species are treated as discrete evolutionary entities, even though abundant empirical evidence indicates that patterns of gene flow such as selfing and hybridization frequently occur in plant and animal groups. Here, we allow mating behavior to respond to local...

Data mining and information retrieval are two domains difficult to cope with for various reasons. First, most of the databases are complex, large, and contain heterogeneous, imprecise, vague, uncertain, incomplete data. Furthermore, the queries may be imprecise or subjective in the case of information retrieval, the mining results must be easily understandable by a user in the case of data mini...

Automated construction and annotation of biological networks is becoming increasingly important in bioinformatics as the amount of biological data increases. At the center of this are metrics required for relating biological entities such as genes, diseases, signaling molecules and chemical compounds. Co-occurrence of terms within abstracts is widely used to establish tentative relationships be...

This survey paper, specifically targeted at a readership of fuzzy logicians and fuzzy set theorists, aims to provide a gentle introduction to the basic notions of quantaloidenriched category theory. We discuss at length the definitions of quantaloid, quantaloidenriched category, distributor and functor, always giving several examples that – hopefully – appeal to the intended readership. To indi...

We seek to achieve co-operating adaptive autonomous robots capable of functioning in a semistructured environment. Such an adaptive capacity implies a context sensitive control structure which has either been learnt or acquired through an evolution process. A method is therefore presented which uses a genetic algorithm to optimise the global strategy of two co-operating autonomous robots. The c...

Content on the web is often organized through user generated tags for intuitive search and retrieval. Such tags convey meta-information about the subject matter of the texts they represent. For this project, we applied machine learning (Bayesian co-occurrence, k-NN, SVM, NNS) to predict tags of StackExchange posts obtained from Kaggle: “Facebook Recruiting Keyword Extraction III.” Using our non...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common sleep disorder, especially in middle-aged and obese patients. However, the diagnosis and treatment of OSA is complex, particularly in patients with mild or moderate symptoms and co-occurring medical problems. Furthermore, sleep disorders are interconnected with diverse factors, such life style, shift work, and psychological problems. Case-based reasonin...