"I wanted to create something that brought a humanness to the robotic or technological," he said. "But I didn't want to just make a gold robot, it was about making a figure that was a little bit human, a little bit robotic, and then a little bit spirit like too, bringing that environmental, natural theme in as well. He freely admits he might have been a poor choice for the project, as he knew nothing about artificial intelligence before talking to Dr Shrapnel, and lives on a small Sunshine Coast property, far from the urban environments championed by the street rrt festival. "But I think that works in my favour in a way, because I'm an outsider on both ends of it. I could bring a fresh perspective to both sides," he said.

Most experts have settled on a description of Artificial Intelligence as being the scientific endeavor of building computers that mimic the capabilities of the human brain. To put that into perspective, we know that Human Intelligence started to evolve 7–8 million years ago when our oldest ancestors had a brain volume of about 450 cubic centimeters. In the next 3.5 million years our ancestors' brain volume increased to about 1350 cubic centimeters. Modern humans (average brain volume of about 1200 cubic centimeters) evolved from the Homo Sapiens species during a period of dramatic climate change 300,000 years ago. Like other early humans that were living at this time, they gathered and hunted food, and evolved behaviors that helped them respond to the challenges of survival in unstable environments.

Software Quality Assurance (SQA) planning aims to define proactive plans, such as defining maximum file size, to prevent the occurrence of software defects in future releases. To aid this, defect prediction models have been proposed to generate insights as the most important factors that are associated with software quality. Such insights that are derived from traditional defect models are far from actionable-i.e., practitioners still do not know what they should do or avoid to decrease the risk of having defects, and what is the risk threshold for each metric. A lack of actionable guidance and risk threshold can lead to inefficient and ineffective SQA planning processes. In this paper, we investigate the practitioners' perceptions of current SQA planning activities, current challenges of such SQA planning activities, and propose four types of guidance to support SQA planning. We then propose and evaluate our AI-Driven SQAPlanner approach, a novel approach for generating four types of guidance and their associated risk thresholds in the form of rule-based explanations for the predictions of defect prediction models. Finally, we develop and evaluate an information visualization for our SQAPlanner approach. Through the use of qualitative survey and empirical evaluation, our results lead us to conclude that SQAPlanner is needed, effective, stable, and practically applicable. We also find that 80% of our survey respondents perceived that our visualization is more actionable. Thus, our SQAPlanner paves a way for novel research in actionable software analytics-i.e., generating actionable guidance on what should practitioners do and not do to decrease the risk of having defects to support SQA planning.

Recent knowledge graph embedding (KGE) models based on hyperbolic geometry have shown great potential in a low-dimensional embedding space. However, the necessity of hyperbolic space in KGE is still questionable, because the calculation based on hyperbolic geometry is much more complicated than Euclidean operations. In this paper, based on the state-of-the-art hyperbolic-based model RotH, we develop two lightweight Euclidean-based models, called RotL and Rot2L. The RotL model simplifies the hyperbolic operations while keeping the flexible normalization effect. Utilizing a novel two-layer stacked transformation and based on RotL, the Rot2L model obtains an improved representation capability, yet costs fewer parameters and calculations than RotH. The experiments on link prediction show that Rot2L achieves the state-of-the-art performance on two widely-used datasets in low-dimensional knowledge graph embeddings. Furthermore, RotL achieves similar performance as RotH but only requires half of the training time.

The graph represents a network of 1,140 Twitter users whose tweets in the requested range contained "iiot bigdata", or who were replied to or mentioned in those tweets. The network was obtained from the NodeXL Graph Server on Friday, 26 March 2021 at 10:44 UTC. The requested start date was Friday, 26 March 2021 at 00:01 UTC and the maximum number of tweets (going backward in time) was 7,500. The tweets in the network were tweeted over the 2-day, 4-hour, 7-minute period from Tuesday, 23 March 2021 at 19:52 UTC to Friday, 26 March 2021 at 00:00 UTC. Additional tweets that were mentioned in this data set were also collected from prior time periods.

The graph represents a network of 1,030 Twitter users whose tweets in the requested range contained "iiot machinelearning", or who were replied to or mentioned in those tweets. The network was obtained from the NodeXL Graph Server on Friday, 26 March 2021 at 11:04 UTC. The requested start date was Friday, 26 March 2021 at 00:01 UTC and the maximum number of tweets (going backward in time) was 7,500. The tweets in the network were tweeted over the 2-day, 7-hour, 41-minute period from Tuesday, 23 March 2021 at 16:18 UTC to Friday, 26 March 2021 at 00:00 UTC. Additional tweets that were mentioned in this data set were also collected from prior time periods.

To shift the computational burden from real-time to offline in delay-critical power systems applications, recent works entertain the idea of using a deep neural network (DNN) to predict the solutions of the AC optimal power flow (AC-OPF) once presented load demands. As network topologies may change, training this DNN in a sample-efficient manner becomes a necessity. To improve data efficiency, this work utilizes the fact OPF data are not simple training labels, but constitute the solutions of a parametric optimization problem. We thus advocate training a sensitivity-informed DNN (SI-DNN) to match not only the OPF optimizers, but also their partial derivatives with respect to the OPF parameters (loads). It is shown that the required Jacobian matrices do exist under mild conditions, and can be readily computed from the related primal/dual solutions. The proposed SI-DNN is compatible with a broad range of OPF solvers, including a non-convex quadratically constrained quadratic program (QCQP), its semidefinite program (SDP) relaxation, and MATPOWER; while SI-DNN can be seamlessly integrated in other learning-to-OPF schemes. Numerical tests on three benchmark power systems corroborate the advanced generalization and constraint satisfaction capabilities for the OPF solutions predicted by an SI-DNN over a conventionally trained DNN, especially in low-data setups.

Time series prediction with neural networks have been focus of much research in the past few decades. Given the recent deep learning revolution, there has been much attention in using deep learning models for time series prediction, and hence it is important to evaluate their strengths and weaknesses. In this paper, we present an evaluation study that compares the performance of deep learning models for multi-step ahead time series prediction. Our deep learning methods compromise of simple recurrent neural networks, long short term memory (LSTM) networks, bidirectional LSTM, encoder-decoder LSTM networks, and convolutional neural networks. We also provide comparison with simple neural networks use stochastic gradient descent and adaptive gradient method (Adam) for training. We focus on univariate and multi-step-ahead prediction from benchmark time series datasets and compare with results from from the literature. The results show that bidirectional and encoder-decoder LSTM provide the best performance in accuracy for the given time series problems with different properties.

Pandemics can bring a range of devastating consequences to public health and the world economy. Identifying the most effective control strategies has been the imperative task all around the world. Various public health control strategies have been proposed and tested against pandemic diseases (e.g., COVID-19). We study two specific pandemic control models: the susceptible, exposed, infectious, recovered (SEIR) model with vaccination control; and the SEIR model with shield immunity control. We express the pandemic control requirement in metric temporal logic (MTL) formulas. We then develop an iterative approach for synthesizing the optimal control strategies with MTL specifications. We provide simulation results in two different scenarios for robust control of the COVID-19 pandemic: one for vaccination control, and another for shield immunity control, with the model parameters estimated from data in Lombardy, Italy. The results show that the proposed synthesis approach can generate control inputs such that the time-varying numbers of individuals in each category (e.g., infectious, immune) satisfy the MTL specifications with robustness against initial state and parameter uncertainties.

The wide adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) has resulted in large amounts of clinical data becoming available, which promises to support service delivery and advance clinical and informatics research. Deep learning techniques have demonstrated performance in predictive analytic tasks using EHRs yet they typically lack model result transparency or explainability functionalities and require cumbersome pre-processing tasks. Moreover, EHRs contain heterogeneous and multi-modal data points such as text, numbers and time series which further hinder visualisation and interpretability. This paper proposes a deep learning framework to: 1) encode patient pathways from EHRs into images, 2) highlight important events within pathway images, and 3) enable more complex predictions with additional intelligibility. The proposed method relies on a deep attention mechanism for visualisation of the predictions and allows predicting multiple sequential outcomes.