All Outputs (43)

Local-global methods for generalised solar irradiance forecasting (2024)
Journal Article
Cargan, T. R., Landa-Silva, D., & Triguero, I. (2024). Local-global methods for generalised solar irradiance forecasting. Applied Intelligence, 54(2), 2225-2247. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-024-05273-9

For efficient operation, solar power operators often require generation forecasts for multiple sites with varying data availability. Many proposed methods for forecasting solar irradiance / solar power production formulate the problem as a time-serie... Read More about Local-global methods for generalised solar irradiance forecasting.

General Purpose Artificial Intelligence Systems (GPAIS): Properties, definition, taxonomy, societal implications and responsible governance (2023)
Journal Article
Triguero, I., Molina, D., Poyatos, J., Del Ser, J., & Herrera, F. (2024). General Purpose Artificial Intelligence Systems (GPAIS): Properties, definition, taxonomy, societal implications and responsible governance. Information Fusion, 103, Article 102135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2023.102135

Most applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are designed for a confined and specific task. However, there are many scenarios that call for a more general AI, capable of solving a wide array of tasks without being specifically designed for them.... Read More about General Purpose Artificial Intelligence Systems (GPAIS): Properties, definition, taxonomy, societal implications and responsible governance.

Hyper-Stacked: Scalable and Distributed Approach to AutoML for Big Data (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Dave, R., Angarita-Zapata, J. S., & Triguero, I. (2023). Hyper-Stacked: Scalable and Distributed Approach to AutoML for Big Data. In Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction (82-102). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40837-3_6

The emergence of Machine Learning (ML) has altered how researchers and business professionals value data. Applicable to almost every industry, considerable amounts of time are wasted creating bespoke applications and repetitively hand-tuning models t... Read More about Hyper-Stacked: Scalable and Distributed Approach to AutoML for Big Data.

Explaining time series classifiers through meaningful perturbation and optimisation (2023)
Journal Article
Meng, H., Wagner, C., & Triguero, I. (2023). Explaining time series classifiers through meaningful perturbation and optimisation. Information Sciences, 645, Article 119334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2023.119334

Machine learning approaches have enabled increasingly powerful time series classifiers. While performance has improved drastically, the resulting classifiers generally suffer from poor explainability, limiting their applicability in critical areas. S... Read More about Explaining time series classifiers through meaningful perturbation and optimisation.

Identifying bird species by their calls in Soundscapes (2023)
Journal Article
Maclean, K., & Triguero, I. (2023). Identifying bird species by their calls in Soundscapes. Applied Intelligence, 53, 21485-21499. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-023-04486-8

In many real data science problems, it is common to encounter a domain mismatch between the training and testing datasets, which means that solutions designed for one may not transfer well to the other due to their differences. An example of such was... Read More about Identifying bird species by their calls in Soundscapes.

Feature Importance Identification for Time Series Classifiers (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Meng, H., Wagner, C., & Triguero, I. (2022). Feature Importance Identification for Time Series Classifiers. In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) (3293-3298). https://doi.org/10.1109/smc53654.2022.9945205

Time series classification is a challenging research area where machine learning techniques such as deep learning perform well, yet lack interpretability. Identifying the most important features for such classifiers provides a pathway to improving th... Read More about Feature Importance Identification for Time Series Classifiers.

A fusion spatial attention approach for few-shot learning (2021)
Journal Article
Song, H., Deng, B., Pound, M., Özcan, E., & Triguero, I. (2022). A fusion spatial attention approach for few-shot learning. Information Fusion, 81, 187-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2021.11.019

Few-shot learning is a challenging problem in computer vision that aims to learn a new visual concept from very limited data. A core issue is that there is a large amount of uncertainty introduced by the small training set. For example, the few image... Read More about A fusion spatial attention approach for few-shot learning.

L2AE-D: Learning to Aggregate Embeddings for Few-shot Learning with Meta-level Dropout (2021)
Journal Article
Song, H., Torres Torres, M., Özcan, E., & Triguero, I. (2021). L2AE-D: Learning to Aggregate Embeddings for Few-shot Learning with Meta-level Dropout. Neurocomputing, 442, 200-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2021.02.024

Few-shot learning focuses on learning a new visual concept with very limited labelled examples. A successful approach to tackle this problem is to compare the similarity between examples in a learned metric space based on convolutional neural network... Read More about L2AE-D: Learning to Aggregate Embeddings for Few-shot Learning with Meta-level Dropout.

EUSC: A clustering-based surrogate model to accelerate evolutionary undersampling in imbalanced classification (2020)
Journal Article
Le, H. L., Landa-Silva, D., Galar, M., Garcia, S., & Triguero, I. (2021). EUSC: A clustering-based surrogate model to accelerate evolutionary undersampling in imbalanced classification. Applied Soft Computing, 101, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2020.107033

© 2020 Learning from imbalanced datasets is highly demanded in real-world applications and a challenge for standard classifiers that tend to be biased towards the classes with the majority of the examples. Undersampling approaches reduce the size of... Read More about EUSC: A clustering-based surrogate model to accelerate evolutionary undersampling in imbalanced classification.

Redundancy and Complexity Metrics for Big Data Classification: Towards Smart Data (2020)
Journal Article
Maillo, J., Triguero, I., & Herrera, F. (2020). Redundancy and Complexity Metrics for Big Data Classification: Towards Smart Data. IEEE Access, 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.2991800

It is recognized the importance of knowing the descriptive properties of a dataset when tackling a data science problem. Having information about the redundancy, complexity and density of a problem allows us to make decisions as to which data preproc... Read More about Redundancy and Complexity Metrics for Big Data Classification: Towards Smart Data.

A Local Search with a Surrogate Assisted Option for Instance Reduction (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Neri, F., & Triguero, I. (2020). A Local Search with a Surrogate Assisted Option for Instance Reduction. In Applications of Evolutionary Computation (578-594). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43722-0_37

© 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. In data mining, instance reduction is a key data pre-processing step that simplifies and cleans raw data, by either selecting or creating new samples, before applying a learning algorithm. This usually yields t... Read More about A Local Search with a Surrogate Assisted Option for Instance Reduction.

Galaxy Image Classification Based on Citizen Science Data: A Comparative Study (2020)
Journal Article
Jiménez, M., Torres Torres, M., John, R., & Triguero, I. (2020). Galaxy Image Classification Based on Citizen Science Data: A Comparative Study. IEEE Access, 8, 47232-47246. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.2978804

Many research fields are now faced with huge volumes of data automatically generated by specialised equipment. Astronomy is a discipline that deals with large collections of images difficult to handle by experts alone. As a consequence, astronomers h... Read More about Galaxy Image Classification Based on Citizen Science Data: A Comparative Study.

Fuzzy Hot Spot Identification for Big Data: An Initial Approach (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Triguero, I., Tickle, R., Figueredo, G. P., Mesgarpour, M., Ozcan, E., & John, R. I. (2019). Fuzzy Hot Spot Identification for Big Data: An Initial Approach. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2019.8858979

Hot spot identification problems are present across a wide range of areas, such as transportation, health care and energy. Hot spots are locations where a certain type of event occurs with high frequency. A recent big data approach is capable of iden... Read More about Fuzzy Hot Spot Identification for Big Data: An Initial Approach.

A Preliminary Approach for the Exploitation of Citizen Science Data for Fast and Robust Fuzzy k-Nearest Neighbour Classification (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Jimenez, M., Torres, M. T., John, R., & Triguero, I. (2019). A Preliminary Approach for the Exploitation of Citizen Science Data for Fast and Robust Fuzzy k-Nearest Neighbour Classification. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2019.8858830

Citizen science is becoming mainstream in a wide variety of real-world applications in astronomy or bioinformatics, in which, for example, classification tasks by experts are very time consuming. These projects engage amateur volunteers that are task... Read More about A Preliminary Approach for the Exploitation of Citizen Science Data for Fast and Robust Fuzzy k-Nearest Neighbour Classification.

Evolving Deep CNN-LSTMs for Inventory Time Series Prediction (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Xue, N., Triguero, I., Figueredo, G. P., & Landa-Silva, D. (2019). Evolving Deep CNN-LSTMs for Inventory Time Series Prediction. . https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2019.8789957

Inventory forecasting is a key component of effective inventory management. In this work, we utilise hybrid deep learning models for inventory forecasting. According to the highly nonlinear and non-stationary characteristics of inventory data, the mo... Read More about Evolving Deep CNN-LSTMs for Inventory Time Series Prediction.

Virtual porous materials to predict the air void topology and hydraulic conductivity of asphalt roads (2019)
Journal Article
Aboufoul, M., Chiarelli, A., Triguero, I., & Garcia, A. (2019). Virtual porous materials to predict the air void topology and hydraulic conductivity of asphalt roads. Powder Technology, 352, 294-304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2019.04.072

This paper investigates the effects of air void topology on hydraulic conductivity in asphalt mixtures with porosity in the range 14%–31%. Virtual asphalt pore networks were generated using the Intersected Stacked Air voids (ISA) method, with its par... Read More about Virtual porous materials to predict the air void topology and hydraulic conductivity of asphalt roads.

A review on the self and dual interactions between machine learning and optimisation (2019)
Journal Article
Song, H., Triguero, I., & Özcan, E. (2019). A review on the self and dual interactions between machine learning and optimisation. Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 8(2), 143–165. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13748-019-00185-z

Machine learning and optimisation are two growing fields of artificial intelligence with an enormous number of computer science applications. The techniques in the former area aim to learn knowledge from data or experience, while the techniques from... Read More about A review on the self and dual interactions between machine learning and optimisation.

PAS3-HSID: a Dynamic Bio-Inspired Approach for Real-Time Hot Spot Identification in Data Streams (2019)
Journal Article
Tickle, R., Triguero, I., Figueredo, G. P., Mesgarpour, M., & John, R. I. (2019). PAS3-HSID: a Dynamic Bio-Inspired Approach for Real-Time Hot Spot Identification in Data Streams. Cognitive Computation, 11(3), 434–458. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-019-09638-y

© 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. Hot spot identification is a very relevant problem in a wide variety of areas such as health care, energy or transportation. A hot spot is defined as a region of high likelihood o... Read More about PAS3-HSID: a Dynamic Bio-Inspired Approach for Real-Time Hot Spot Identification in Data Streams.

A Simulation-based Optimisation Approach for Inventory Management of Highly Perishable Food (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Xue, N., Landa-Silva, D., Figueredo, G. P., & Triguero, I. (2019). A Simulation-based Optimisation Approach for Inventory Management of Highly Perishable Food. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES (406-413). https://doi.org/10.5220/0007401304060413

The taste and freshness of perishable foods decrease dramatically with time. Effective inventory management requires understanding of market demand as well as balancing customers needs and references with products’ shelf life. The objective is to av... Read More about A Simulation-based Optimisation Approach for Inventory Management of Highly Perishable Food.

Handling uncertainty in citizen science data: towards an improved amateur-based large-scale classification (2018)
Journal Article
Jiménez, M., Triguero, I., & John, R. (2019). Handling uncertainty in citizen science data: towards an improved amateur-based large-scale classification. Information Sciences, 479, 301-320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2018.12.011

© 2018 Citizen Science, traditionally known as the engagement of amateur participants in research, is showing great potential for large-scale processing of data. In areas such as astronomy, biology, or geo-sciences, where emerging technologies genera... Read More about Handling uncertainty in citizen science data: towards an improved amateur-based large-scale classification.