As context is acknowledged as an important factor that can affect users’ preferences, many researchers have worked on improving the quality of recommender systems by utilizing ...
Abstract— A common framework for formalization of statetransition computation models is presented based on a general theory for studying the interrelationships between specifica...
Most scientific models are not physical objects, and this raises important questions. What sort of entity are models, what is truth in a model, and how do we learn about models? In...
Morse theory shows how the topology of an implicit surface is affected by its function’s critical points, whereas catastrophe theory shows how these critical points behave as th...
— From the Bayesian Ying-Yang (BYY) harmony learning theory, a harmony function has been developed for finite mixtures with a novel property that its maximization can make model...