This paper proposes a Multiclass Least Squares Twin Support Vector Machine (MLSTSVM) classifier for multi-class classification problems. The formulation of MLSTSVM is obtained by extending the formulation of recently proposed binary Least Squares Twin Support Vector Machine (LSTSVM) classifier. For M-class classification problem, the proposed classifier seeks M-non parallel hyper-planes, one fo...

If a batter can correctly anticipate the next pitch type, he is in a better position to attack it. That is why batteries worry about having signs stolen or becoming too predictable in their pitch selection. In this paper, we present a machine-learning based predictor of the next pitch type. This predictor incorporates information that is available to a batter such as the count, the current game...

Sentiment analysis is an important current research area. The demand for sentiment analysis and classification is growing day by day; this paper presents a novel method to classify Urdu documents as previously no work recorded on sentiment classification for Urdu text. We consider the problem by determining whether the review or sentence is positive, negative or neutral. For the purpose we use ...

Machine learning is continually being applied to a growing set of fields, including the social sciences, business, and medicine. Some fields present problems that are not easily addressed using standard machine learning approaches and, in particular, there is growing interest in differential prediction. In this type of task we are interested in producing a classifier that specifically character...

We shed light on the discrimination between patterns belonging to two different classes by casting this decoding problem into a generalized prototype framework. The discrimination process is then separated into two stages: a projection stage that reduces the dimensionality of the data by projecting it on a line and a threshold stage where the distributions of the projected patterns of both clas...

background: this paper proposes a new emotional stress assessment system using multi-modal bio-signals. electroencephalogram (eeg) is the reflection of brain activity and is widely used in clinical diagnosis and biomedical research. methods: we design an efficient acquisition protocol to acquire the eeg signals in five channels (fp1, fp2, t3, t4 and pz) and peripheral signals such as blood volu...

estimation of the conceptual costs in construction projects can be regarded as an important issue in feasibility studies. this estimation has a major impact on the success of construction projects. indeed, this estimation supports the required information that can be employed in cost management and budgeting of these projects. the purpose of this paper is to introduce an intelligent model to im...

finding repetitive subsequences in genome is a challengeable problem in bioinformatics research area. a lot of approaches have been proposed to solve the problem, which could be divided to library base and de novo methods. the library base methods use predetermined repetitive genome’s subsequences, where library-less methods attempt to discover repetitive subsequences by analytical approaches. ...