Experimentation is a valuable tool in computer science. Random experimentation is, however, a danger. This post examines current research practices and casts doubt on their benefits. Inspired by the French writer Rousseau (1972)—society corrupts the individual—, my conviction is that the experimental community corrupts the researcher. The scientific method has evolved throughout the centuries, and [...]
My thesis, Data complexity in supervised learning: A far reaching implication, is finally available online. This thesis takes a close view of data complexity and its role shaping the behaviour of machine learning techniques in supervised learning and explores the generation of synthetic data sets through complexity estimates. The work has been built upon four [...]
A new version of the data complexity library (DCoL) in C++ is available at http://dcol.sourceforge.net/. DCoL provides the implementation of a set of measures designed to characterize the apparent complexity of data sets for supervised learning, which were originally proposed by Ho and Basu (2002). More specifically, the implemented measures focus on the complexity of [...]
My name is Marc and I come from Andorra is the new Yes, we can in NYU Stern School of Business. Last week, Marc Visent won the election for the block leader and became the first Andorran representative in the history of this university. It could seem an uninteresting and isolated fact, but this young, [...]
After a first-rate opening in May with the talk given by Prof. Cirac, the 27th edition of the Universitat d’Estiu d’Andorra officially starts today, Aug, 30 with a promising agenda: 6:00 pm: Equilibri climàtic del planeta Terra (Climate balance on planet Earth), presented by Josefina Castellví Piulachs, oceanographer specialized in marine bacteriology (Barcelona). 7:30 pm: [...]
Call for Contest Participation – Classifier domains of competence: The landscape contest (ICPR 2010) Classifier domains of competence: The landscape contest is a research competition aimed at finding out the relation between data complexity and the performance of learners. Comparing your techniques to those of other participants on targeted-complexity problems may contribute to enrich our [...]
Classifier domains of competence: The landscape contest is a research competition aimed at finding out the relation between data complexity and the performance of learners. Comparing your techniques to those of other participants may contribute to enrich our understanding of the behavior of machine learning and open further research lines. Contest participants are allowed to [...]
2010 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
How to design the engineer of the future was the object of the workshop EF2009, which was held on November 12 at La Salle, in Barcelona. The two keynotes given by Ms. Lueny Morell, How can engineering education address the challenges of the 21st century?, and Prof. David E. Goldberg, The missing basics: What engineers [...]
2010 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering & Technology