IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine

Deep learning methods employ multiple processing layers to learn hierarchical representations of data, and have produced state-of-the-art results in many domains. Recently, a variety of model designs and methods have blossomed in the context of natural language processing (NLP). In this paper, we review significant deep learning related models and methods that have been employed for numerous NLP t... View full abstract»

Time series prediction techniques have been used in many real-world applications such as financial market prediction, electric utility load forecasting , weather and environmental state prediction, and reliability forecasting. The underlying system models and time series data generating processes are generally complex for these applications and the models for these systems are usually not known a ... View full abstract»

Natural language processing (NLP) is a theory-motivated range of computational techniques for the automatic analysis and representation of human language. NLP research has evolved from the era of punch cards and batch processing (in which the analysis of a sentence could take up to 7 minutes) to the era of Google and the likes of it (in which millions of webpages can be processed in less than a se... View full abstract»

Basic ideas and formal concepts from fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic have been used successfully in various branches of science and engineering. This paper elaborates on the use of fuzzy sets in the broad field of data analysis and statistical sciences, including modern manifestations such as data mining and machine learning. In the fuzzy logic community, this branch of research has recently gained in ... View full abstract»

In this article, we introduce some recent research trends within the field of adaptive/approximate dynamic programming (ADP), including the variations on the structure of ADP schemes, the development of ADP algorithms and applications of ADP schemes. For ADP algorithms, the point of focus is that iterative algorithms of ADP can be sorted into two classes: one class is the iterative algorithm with ... View full abstract»

This article provides an overview of the mainstream deep learning approaches and research directions proposed over the past decade. It is important to emphasize that each approach has strengths and "weaknesses, depending on the application and context in "which it is being used. Thus, this article presents a summary on the current state of the deep machine learning field and some perspective into ... View full abstract»

Fuzzy sets emerged in 1965 in a paper by Lotfi Zadeh. In 1969 Ruspini published a seminal paper that has become the basis of most fuzzy clustering algorithms. His ideas established the underlying structure for fuzzy partitioning, and also described and exemplified the first algorithm for accomplishing it. Bezdek developed the general case of the fuzzy c-means model in 1973. Many branches of this t... View full abstract»

Evolutionary fuzzy systems are one of the greatest advances within the area of computational intelligence. They consist of evolutionary algorithms applied to the design of fuzzy systems. Thanks to this hybridization, superb abilities are provided to fuzzy modeling in many different data science scenarios. This contribution is intended to comprise a position paper developing a comprehensive analysi... View full abstract»

The prevalence of mobile phones, the internet-of-things technology, and networks of sensors has led to an enormous and ever increasing amount of data that are now more commonly available in a streaming fashion [1]-[5]. Often, it is assumed - either implicitly or explicitly - that the process generating such a stream of data is stationary, that is, the data are drawn from a fixed, albeit unknown pr... View full abstract»

In this paper, we discuss the application of machine learning techniques for performance prediction problems in wireless networks. These problems often involve using existing measurement data to predict network performance where direct measurements are not available. We explore the performance of existing machine learning algorithms for these problems and propose a simple taxonomy of main problem ... View full abstract»

Over the last three decades, a large number of evolutionary algorithms have been developed for solving multi-objective optimization problems. However, there lacks an upto-date and comprehensive software platform for researchers to properly benchmark existing algorithms and for practitioners to apply selected algorithms to solve their real-world problems. The demand of such a common tool becomes ev... View full abstract»

Brain-computer interface technologies, such as steady-state visually evoked potential, P300, and motor imagery are methods of communication between the human brain and the external devices. Motor imagery-based brain-computer interfaces are popular because they avoid unnecessary external stimuli. Although feature extraction methods have been illustrated in several machine intelligent systems in mot... View full abstract»

Although cross-validation is a standard procedure for performance evaluation, its joint application with oversampling remains an open question for researchers farther from the imbalanced data topic. A frequent experimental flaw is the application of oversampling algorithms to the entire dataset, resulting in biased models and overly-optimistic estimates. View full abstract»

Swarm intelligence is a relatively new approach to problem solving that takes inspiration from the social behaviors of insects and of other animals. In particular, ants have inspired a number of methods and techniques among which the most studied and the most successful is the general purpose optimization technique known as ant colony optimization. Ant colony optimization (ACO) takes inspiration f... View full abstract»

Lotfi Zadeh, the father of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic, introduced many of their important concepts, two of which are discussed in this article namely, type-2 fuzzy sets and computing with words. Much has happened since he introduced them, and it is the purpose of this article to bring the readers up-to-speed on both topics. It is also hoped that this article will whet the reader's appetite to read... View full abstract»

More than 40 years after fuzzy logic control appeared as an effective tool to deal with complex processes, the research on fuzzy control systems has constantly evolved. Mamdani fuzzy control was originally introduced as a model-free control approach based on expert?s experience and knowledge. Due to the lack of a systematic framework to study Mamdani fuzzy systems, we have witnessed growing intere... View full abstract»

This work presents a new perspective on how Zadeh's ideas related to fuzzy logic and computing with words have influenced the crucial issue of information aggregation and have led to what may be called a human-centric aggregation. We indicate a need to develop tools and techniques to reflect some fine shades of meaning regarding what can be considered the very purpose of human-centric aggregation,... View full abstract»

This article provides a general overview of the field now known as "evolutionary multi-objective optimization," which refers to the use of evolutionary algorithms to solve problems with two or more (often conflicting) objective functions. Using as a framework the history of this discipline, we discuss some of the most representative algorithms that have been developed so far, as well as some of th... View full abstract»

Extreme learning machine (ELM), which was originally proposed for "generalized" single-hidden layer feedforward neural networks (SLFNs), provides efficient unified learning solutions for the applications of feature learning, clustering, regression and classification. Different from the common understanding and tenet that hidden neurons of neural networks need to be iteratively adjusted during trai... View full abstract»

Feature extraction and feature selection are crucial phases in the process of affective modeling. Both, however, incorporate substantial limitations that hinder the development of reliable and accurate models of affect. For the purpose of modeling affect manifested through physiology, this paper builds on recent advances in machine learning with deep learning (DL) approaches. The efficiency of DL ... View full abstract»

"Big Data" as a term has been among the biggest trends of the last three years, leading to an upsurge of research, as well as industry and government applications. Data is deemed a powerful raw material that can impact multidisciplinary research endeavors as well as government and business performance. The goal of this discussion paper is to share the data analytics opinions and perspectives of th... View full abstract»

The sentiment index of market participants has been extensively used for stock market prediction in recent years. Many financial information vendors also provide it as a service. However, utilizing market sentiment under the asset allocation framework has been rarely discussed. In this article, we investigate the role of market sentiment in an asset allocation problem. We propose to compute sentim... View full abstract»

The performance of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) improves with the amount of available training data; the statistical distribution of this data, however, varies across subjects as well as across sessions within individual subjects, limiting the transferability of training data or trained models between them. In this article, we review current transfer learning techniques in BCIs that exploit sh... View full abstract»

In this paper, we present a formal model for the optimal weighted extreme learning machine (ELM) on imbalanced learning. Our model regards the optimal weighted ELM as an optimization problem to find the best weight matrix. We propose an approximate search algorithm, named weighted ELM with differential evolution (DE), that is a competitive stochastic search technique, to solve the optimization pro... View full abstract»

Traditional recommendation techniques in recommender systems mainly focus on improving recommendation accuracy. However, personalized recommendation, which considers the multiple needs of users and can make both accurate and diverse recommendations, is more suitable for modern recommender systems. In this paper, the task of personalized recommendation is modeled as a multi-objective optimization p... View full abstract»