Creativity, i.e., the process of generating and developing fresh and original ideas or products that are useful or effective, is a valuable skill in a variety of domains. Creativity is called an essential 21st-century skill that should be taught in schools. The use of educational technology to promote creativity is an active study field, as evidenced by several studies linking creativity in the classroom to beneficial learning outcomes. Despite the burgeoning body of research on adaptive technology for education, mining creative thinking patterns from educational data remains a challenging task. In this paper, to address this challenge, we put the first step towards formalizing educational knowledge by constructing a domain-specific Knowledge Base to identify essential concepts, facts, and assumptions in identifying creative patterns. We then introduce a pipeline to contextualize the raw educational data, such as assessments and class activities. Finally, we present a rule-based approach to learning from the Knowledge Base, and facilitate mining creative thinking patterns from contextualized data and knowledge. We evaluate our approach with real-world datasets and highlight how the proposed pipeline can help instructors understand creative thinking patterns from students' activities and assessment tasks.

Artificial Intelligence techniques have evolved rapidly in recent years, revolutionising the approaches used to fight against cybercriminals. But as the cyber security field has progressed, so has malware development, making it an economic imperative to strengthen businesses' defensive capability against malware attacks. This review aims to outline the state-of-the-art AI techniques used in malware detection and prevention, providing an in-depth analysis of the latest studies in this field. The algorithms investigated consist of Shallow Learning, Deep Learning and Bio-Inspired Computing, applied to a variety of platforms, such as PC, cloud, Android and IoT. This survey also touches on the rapid adoption of AI by cybercriminals as a means to create ever more advanced malware and exploit the AI algorithms designed to defend against them.

Non-rigid point set registration has been used in a wide range of computer vision applications such as human movement tracking, medical image analysis, three dimensional (3D) object reconstruction and is a very challenging task. It has two fundamental tasks. One is to find correspondences between two or more point sets and another is to transform a point set so that it aligns with other point sets. There has been significant progress in the past two decades in the non-rigid registration field but it still has major challenges and is an active research area in the computer vision and pattern recognition community. In this review, we present a survey of non-rigid point set registration.

In 2021, content marketing was characterized by swift changes in strategy and agility of the brand. Likewise, in 2022, brands with higher adaptability and agility will likely succeed. Content creates brand awareness, demand, and conversion when its created tactfully. So how can you create content that's apt for your brand? Following are the emerging trends in content marketing that can help your brand to grow lucratively in 2022.

Role requiring'No experience data provided' months of experience in None Pay if you succeed in getting hired and start work at a high-paying job first. Get Paid to Read Emails, Play Games, Search the Web, $5 Signup Bonus. Does innovative technology interest you? Are you passionate about NLP & Conversational AI? We are looking for a senior/ staff/ principal'remote-working' NLP engineer with conversational AI and chatbot development experience. The company is split into three key areas. You will be joining the voice team, focused on conversational AI working with state-of-art spoken language tech (NLP, conversational AI engines) to develop intricate chatbots to enhance overall customer experience and tackle labor productivity issues for their clients. The ideal candidate will also take it upon themselves to keep an eye on market changes and to search for new emerging language tech, as to continuously offer their customers the best tech solutions possible.

For future learning systems, incremental learning is desirable because it allows for: efficient resource usage by eliminating the need to retrain from scratch at the arrival of new data; reduced memory usage by preventing or limiting the amount of data required to be stored -- also important when privacy limitations are imposed; and learning that more closely resembles human learning. The main challenge for incremental learning is catastrophic forgetting, which refers to the precipitous drop in performance on previously learned tasks after learning a new one. Incremental learning of deep neural networks has seen explosive growth in recent years. Initial work focused on task-incremental learning, where a task-ID is provided at inference time. Recently, we have seen a shift towards class-incremental learning where the learner must discriminate at inference time between all classes seen in previous tasks without recourse to a task-ID. In this paper, we provide a complete survey of existing class-incremental learning methods for image classification, and in particular, we perform an extensive experimental evaluation on thirteen class-incremental methods. We consider several new experimental scenarios, including a comparison of class-incremental methods on multiple large-scale image classification datasets, an investigation into small and large domain shifts, and a comparison of various network architectures.

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) algorithms aim at finding efficient Deep Neural Network (DNN) architectures for a given application under given system constraints. DNNs are computationally-complex as well as vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In order to address multiple design objectives, we propose RoHNAS, a novel NAS framework that jointly optimizes for adversarial-robustness and hardware-efficiency of DNNs executed on specialized hardware accelerators. Besides the traditional convolutional DNNs, RoHNAS additionally accounts for complex types of DNNs such as Capsule Networks. For reducing the exploration time, RoHNAS analyzes and selects appropriate values of adversarial perturbation for each dataset to employ in the NAS flow. Extensive evaluations on multi - Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) - High Performance Computing (HPC) nodes provide a set of Pareto-optimal solutions, leveraging the tradeoff between the above-discussed design objectives. For example, a Pareto-optimal DNN for the CIFAR-10 dataset exhibits 86.07% accuracy, while having an energy of 38.63 mJ, a memory footprint of 11.85 MiB, and a latency of 4.47 ms.

Narratives are a predominant part of games, and their design poses challenges when identifying, encoding, interpreting, evaluating, and generating them. One way to address this would be to approach narrative design in a more abstract layer, such as narrative structures. This paper presents Story Designer, a mixed-initiative co-creative narrative structure tool built on top of the Evolutionary Dungeon Designer (EDD) that uses tropes, narrative conventions found across many media types, to design these structures. Story Designer uses tropes as building blocks for narrative designers to compose complete narrative structures by interconnecting them in graph structures called narrative graphs. Our mixed-initiative approach lets designers manually create their narrative graphs and feeds an underlying evolutionary algorithm with those, creating quality-diverse suggestions using MAP-Elites. Suggestions are visually represented for designers to compare and evaluate and can then be incorporated into the design for further manual editions. At the same time, we use the levels designed within EDD as constraints for the narrative structure, intertwining both level design and narrative. We evaluate the impact of these constraints and the system's adaptability and expressiveness, resulting in a potential tool to create narrative structures combining level design aspects with narrative.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly shows its potential to outperform predicate logic algorithms and human control alike. In automatically deriving a system model, AI algorithms learn relations in data that are not detectable for humans. This great strength, however, also makes use of AI methods dubious. The more complex a model, the more difficult it is for a human to understand the reasoning for the decisions. As currently, fully automated AI algorithms are sparse, every algorithm has to provide a reasoning for human operators. For data engineers, metrics such as accuracy and sensitivity are sufficient. However, if models are interacting with non-experts, explanations have to be understandable. This work provides an extensive survey of literature on this topic, which, to a large part, consists of other surveys. The findings are mapped to ways of explaining decisions and reasons for explaining decisions. It shows that the heterogeneity of reasons and methods of and for explainability lead to individual explanatory frameworks.

In this survey, we provide a comprehensive review of more than 200 papers, technical reports, and GitHub repositories published over the last 10 years on the recent developments of deep learning techniques for iris recognition, covering broad topics on algorithm designs, open-source tools, open challenges, and emerging research. First, we conduct a comprehensive analysis of deep learning techniques developed for two main sub-tasks in iris biometrics: segmentation and recognition. Second, we focus on deep learning techniques for the robustness of iris recognition systems against presentation attacks and via human-machine pairing. Third, we delve deep into deep learning techniques for forensic application, especially in post-mortem iris recognition. Fourth, we review open-source resources and tools in deep learning techniques for iris recognition. Finally, we highlight the technical challenges, emerging research trends, and outlook for the future of deep learning in iris recognition.