Activity discovery is the unsupervised process of discovering patterns in data produced from sensor networks that are monitoring the behaviour of human subjects. Improvements in activity discovery may simplify the training of activity recognition models by enabling the automated annotation of datasets and also the construction of systems that can detect and highlight deviations from normal beha...

Educational assessment applications, as well as other natural-language interfaces, need some mechanism for validating user responses. If the input provided to the system is infelicitous or uncooperative, the proper response may be to simply reject it, to route it to a bin for special processing, or to ask the user to modify the input. If problematic user input is instead handled as if it were t...

Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) provides differential corrections for a GPS receiver in order to improve the navigation solution accuracy. DGPS position signals are accurate, but very slow updates. Improving DGPS corrections prediction accuracy has received considerable attention in past decades. In this research work, the Neural Network (NN) based on the Gaussian Radial Basis Fun...

The aim of this paper is to find an accurate and efficient algorithm for evaluating the summation of large sets of floating-point numbers. We present a new representation of the floating-point number system in which a number is represented as a linear combination of integers and the coefficients are powers of the base of the floating-point system. The approach allows to build up an accurate flo...

In PETS 2015, Kiayias, Leonardos, Lipmaa, Pavlyk, and Tang proposed the first (n, 1)CPIR protocol with rate 1− o(1). They use advanced techniques from multivariable calculus (like the Newton-Puiseux algorithm) to establish optimal rate among a large family of different CPIR protocols. It is only natural to ask whether one can achieve similar rate but with a much simpler analysis. We propose par...

This paper discusses the work done by a team at the University of Florida for the TREC 2011 Microblog Track. To build a real-time microblog search engine we rely on topic modeling for our search. To facilicate our algorithms we bundle similar tweets together in what we call supertweet generation. We perform online inference and offline inference depending on the time frame of the topical query....

This article presents rigorous normwise perturbation bounds for the Cholesky, LU and QR factorizations with normwise or componentwise perturbations in the given matrix. The considered componentwise perturbations have the form of backward rounding errors for the standard factorization algorithms. The used approach is a combination of the classic and refined matrix equation approaches. Each of th...

On account of the characteristics of online Chinese-Vietnamese topic detection, we propose a Chinese-Vietnamese bilingual topic model based on the Recurrent Chinese Restaurant Process and integrated with event elements. First, the event elements, including the characters, the place and the time, will be extracted from the new dynamic bilingual news texts. Then the word pairs are tagged and alig...

In this paper, we report a study on the use of Algorithm Visualizations (AV) in collaborative learning. Our previous results have confirmed the hypothesis that students’ higher engagement has a positive effect on learning outcomes. Thus, we now analyze the students’ collaborative learning process in order to find phenomena that explain the learning improvements. Based on the study of the record...

SUMMARY In this work we consider optimized twiddle factor multipliers based on shift-and-add-multiplication. We propose a low-complexity structure for twiddle factors with a resolution of 32 points. Furthermore, we propose a slightly modified version of a previously reported multiplier for a resolution of 16 points with lower round-off noise. For completeness we also include results on optimal ...