Many web sites are designed and established without sufficient professional skills and resources. The quality of these websites is often dubious. Therefore, how to evaluate the quality of a web site has become an important issue. In this work, the stepwise regression method is applied to assess the ranking of web sites for two different categories. The ranking is based on the average number of ...

This paper examines the performance of seven neural network architectures in classifying and detecting novel events contained within data collected from turbine sensors. Several different multi-layer perceptrons were built and trained using back propagation, conjugate gradient and Quasi-Newton training algorithms. In addition, Linear networks, Radial Basis Function networks, Probabilistic netwo...

This paper describes a robust control design for automatic steering of passenger cars. Previous studies [l-31 showed that' reliable automatic driving at highway speed may not be achieved under pract,ical conditions with look-down reference systems which use only one sensor at the front bumper to measure the 1at)eral displacement of the vehicle from the lane reference. An additional lateral disp...

We consider multi-agent argumentation, where each agent’s view of the arguments is encoded as an argumentation framework (AF). Then we study deliberative processes than can occur on this basis. We think of a deliberative process as taking the shape of a stepwise aggregation of a single joint AF, and we are interested in reasoning about the space of possible outcomes. The only restriction we pla...

This paper explores how multi-armed bandits (MABs) can be applied to accelerate AdaBoost. AdaBoost constructs a strong classifier in a stepwise fashion by adding simple base classifiers to a pool and using their weighted “vote” to determine the final classification. We model this stepwise base classifier selection as a sequential decision problem, and optimize it with MABs. Each arm represents ...

| This paper describes a robust control design for automatic steering of passenger cars. Previous studies 1{3] showed that reliable automatic driving at highway speed may not be achieved under practical conditions with look-down reference systems which use only one sensor at the front bumper to measure the lateral displacement of the vehicle from the lane reference. An additional lateral displa...