Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining A Replicator Dynamics Approach to Collective Feature Engineering in Random Forests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Khaled Fawgreh, Mohamed Medhat Gaber and Eyad Elyan A Directed Acyclic Graph Based Approach to Multi-Class Ensemble Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Esra’a Alshda...

A physical unclonable function (PUF) is a hardware security primitive, which can be used secure various hardware-based applications. As type of PUFs, strong PUFs have large number challenge-response pairs (CRPs), for authentication. At present, most PUF structures follow one-to-one input/output relationship, i.e. linear function. such, designs are vulnerable to machine learning (ML) based model...

Two variable metric reinforcement learning methods, the natural actor-critic algorithm and the covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy, are compared on a conceptual level and analysed experimentally on the mountain car benchmark task with and without noise.

In this paper, a new approach for model adaptation, extended maximum a posterior linear regression (EMAPLR), is described and studied. EMAPLR is an extension of maximum a posterior linear regression (MAPLR) for transform based model adaptation. The proposed approach has a close form solution under the elliptic symmetric matrix variate priors, and it is effective in our speech recognition experi...

Evolution strategies are evolutionary algorithms that date back to the 1960s and that are most commonly applied to black-box optimization problems in continuous search spaces. Inspired by biological evolution, their original formulation is based on the application of mutation, recombination and selection in populations of candidate solutions. From the algorithmic viewpoint, evolution strategies...

BACKGROUND "Evolution Canyon" (ECI) at Lower Nahal Oren, Mount Carmel, Israel, is an optimal natural microscale model for unraveling evolution in action highlighting the basic evolutionary processes of adaptation and speciation. A major model organism in ECI is wild emmer, Triticum dicoccoides, the progenitor of cultivated wheat, which displays dramatic interslope adaptive and speciational dive...