For time series classification task using 1D-CNN, the selection of kernel size is critically important to ensure the model can capture the right scale salient signal from a long time-series. Most of the existing work on 1D-CNN treats the kernel size as a hyper-parameter and tries to find the proper kernel size through a grid search which is time-consuming and is inefficient. This paper theoretically analyses how kernel size impacts the performance of 1D-CNN. Considering the importance of kernel size, we propose a novel Omni-Scale 1D-CNN (OS-CNN) architecture to capture the proper kernel size during the model learning period. A specific design for kernel size configuration is developed which enables us to assemble very few kernel-size options to represent more receptive fields. The proposed OS-CNN method is evaluated using the UCR archive with 85 datasets. The experiment results demonstrate that our method is a stronger baseline in multiple performance indicators, including the critical difference diagram, counts of wins, and average accuracy. We also published the experimental source codes at GitHub (https://github.com/Wensi-Tang/OS-CNN/).

Mobile health (mHealth) interventions deliver treatments to users to support healthy behaviors. These interventions offer an opportunity for social impact in a diverse range of domains from substance abuse (Rabbi et al., 2017), to disease management (Hamine et al., 2015) to physical inactivity (Consolvo et al., 2008). For example, to help users increase their physical activity, an mHealth application might send a walking suggestions at times and in locations when a user is likely to be able to pursue the suggestions. The promise of mHealth hinges on the ability to provide interventions at times when users need the support and are receptive to it (Nahum-Shani et al., 2017). Consequently, in developing reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms for mHealth our goal is to be able to learn an optimal policy of when and how to intervene for a given user and context.

Credit scoring is without a doubt one of the oldest applications of analytics. In recent years, a multitude of sophisticated classification techniques have been developed to improve the statistical performance of credit scoring models. Instead of focusing on the techniques themselves, this paper leverages alternative data sources to enhance both statistical and economic model performance. The study demonstrates how including call networks, in the context of positive credit information, as a new Big Data source has added value in terms of profit by applying a profit measure and profit-based feature selection. A unique combination of datasets, including call-detail records, credit and debit account information of customers is used to create scorecards for credit card applicants. Call-detail records are used to build call networks and advanced social network analytics techniques are applied to propagate influence from prior defaulters throughout the network to produce influence scores. The results show that combining call-detail records with traditional data in credit scoring models significantly increases their performance when measured in AUC. In terms of profit, the best model is the one built with only calling behavior features. In addition, the calling behavior features are the most predictive in other models, both in terms of statistical and economic performance. The results have an impact in terms of ethical use of call-detail records, regulatory implications, financial inclusion, as well as data sharing and privacy.

This paper will discuss the role of an artificially-intelligent computer system as critique-based, implicitorganizational, and an inherently necessary device, deployed in synchrony with parallel governmental policy, as a genuine means of capturing nation-population complexity in quantitative form, public contentment in societal-cooperative economic groups, regulatory proposition, and governance-effectiveness domains. It will discuss a solution involving a well-known algorithm and proffer an improved mechanism for knowledgerepresentation, thereby increasing range of utility, scope of influence (in terms of differentiating class sectors) and operational efficiency. It will finish with a discussion of these and other historical implications. Introduction The world created by humans to manage their daily affairs is growing in complexity beyond the comprehension capability of the vast majority of them. The political classes are vulnerable to implementation of policy that proves incorrect and damages the credibility of the state over the long term.

This paper is related to the problem of finding the maximal quasi-bicliques in a bipartite graph (bigraph). A quasi-biclique in the bigraph is its "almost" complete subgraph. The relaxation of completeness can be understood variously; here, we assume that the subgraph is a $\gamma$-quasi-biclique if it lacks a certain number of edges to form a biclique such that its density is at least $\gamma \in (0,1]$. For a bigraph and fixed $\gamma$, the problem of searching for the maximal quasi-biclique consists of finding a subset of vertices of the bigraph such that the induced subgraph is a quasi-biclique and its size is maximal for a given graph. Several models based on Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) to search for a quasi-biclique are proposed and tested for working efficiency. An alternative model inspired by biclustering is formulated and tested; this model simultaneously maximizes both the size of the quasi-biclique and its density, using the least-square criterion similar to the one exploited by triclustering \textsc{TriBox}.

The pace of adoption for AI and cognitive technologies continues unabated with widespread, worldwide, rapid adoption. Adoption of AI by enterprises and organizations continues to grow, as evidenced by a recent survey showing growth across each of the seven patterns of AI. However, with this growth of adoption comes strain as existing regulation and laws struggle to deal with emerging challenges. As a result, governments around the world are moving quickly to ensure that existing laws, regulations, and legal constructs remain relevant in the face of technology change and can deal with new, emerging challenges posed by AI. Research firm Cognilytica recently published a report on Worldwide AI Laws and Regulations that explores the latest legal and regulatory actions taken by countries around the world across nine different AI-relevant areas. Specifically, the report analyzed emerging laws and regulations pertaining to the use of facial recognition and computer vision, operation and development of autonomous vehicles, issues of AI-relevant data privacy, challenges arising from conversational systems and chatbots, the emergence of the possibility of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS), concerns around AI ethics and bias, aspects of AI-supported decision making, the potential for malicious use of AI, and other regulations and laws pertaining to the use, creation, or interaction with AI systems.

The paper describes an algorithm for cognitive representation of triples of related behavioral contexts two of which correspond to mutually exclusive states of some binary situational factor while uncertainty of this factor is the third context. The contexts are mapped to vector states in the two-dimensional quantum Hilbert space describing a dichotomic decision alternative in relation to which the contexts are subjectively recognized. The obtained triad of quantum cognitive representations functions as a minimal carrier of semantic relations between the contexts, which are quantified by phase relations between the corresponding quantum representation states. The described quantum model of subjective semantics supports interpretable vector calculus which is geometrically visualized in the Bloch sphere view of quantum cognitive states.

Did an artificial-intelligence system beat human doctors in warning the world of a severe coronavirus outbreak in China? But what the humans lacked in sheer speed, they more than made up in finesse. Early warnings of disease outbreaks can help people and governments save lives. In the final days of 2019, an AI system in Boston sent out the first global alert about a new viral outbreak in China. But it took human intelligence to recognize the significance of the outbreak and then awaken response from the public health community.

"We're trying to change how people run agronomic research. Instead of establishing a small field plot, running statistics, and publishing the means, what we're trying to do involves the farmer far more directly. We are running experiments with farmers' machinery in their own fields. We can detect site-specific responses to different inputs. And we can see whether there's a response in different parts of the field," says Nicolas Martin, assistant professor in the Department of Crop Sciences at Illinois and co-author of the study.

Microsoft announced the investment plans for Mexico in an official press release. The announcement comes a month after Microsoft CEO Satya Nadela expressed his vision to "power broad economic growth through tech intensity" at Davos WEF 2020. He had said that Microsoft will ensure that this economic growth is inclusive. Mexico is now part of this inclusive global digital revolution. Mexico's digital revolution roadmap includes Microsoft's Cloud Services allocated from the local datacenters.