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Evolving intelligent systems for ubiquitous computing technologies
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Ubiquitous Computing (UC) is a new paradigm of research aiming at creating new
autonomous systems that involve humans in practical real-life situations and
applications. Human behaviour follows a stochastic process and raises a high level of
uncertainty. In this context, Evolving Intelligent Systems (EIS) form a new machine
learning · concept for developing adaptive algorithms that work on-line and are
therefore reliable in real -time applications, with a very low complexity. Their
adaptation properties make this type of algorithms very suitable to address the
problems of stochastic behaviours and high uncertainty. In this thesis, the theory
behind EIS is explained in detail, including fuzzy rule-based inference and densitybased
models. In addition, key contributions that ease their application to UC systems
are highlighted. Two types of evolving classifiers, eClassO and eClassl, are proposed as
well as their simplified version called Simpl_eClass. Feature processing and novel
dimensionally reduction methods are proposed when necessary. The purpose is this
way to address the design and computational challenges of four key subfields of UC,
namely Human Activity Recognition, Mobile Computing, Scene Recognition and
Ubiquitous Robots. The first entails the recognition of human activities by using
pervasive wearable sensors. The second implies the implementation of the proposed
algorithm in a mobile platform to detect novelties inside a video sequence and recover
pictorial memories. The third consists in an image processing experiment for classifying
entire images into categorical classes. Finally, the fourth introduces the development
of an autonomous robotic leader-follower platform. The model settings for each
experiment are detailed. Successful performance values and pattern recognition rates
were achieved for the different challenges addressed. For example, classification rates
ranged between 71% and 80% in the online human activity recognition case, 80% for
the scene categorization problem, and 98% for the leader status recognition.
Unsupervised recognition of novelties was also successfully evaluated through a user
validation test. The experiments showed in all cases very good times of response and
resource awareness. It is concluded that the use of EIS with on-line computation and
fuzzy logic inference offers valuable assets to be exploited in future UC developments.
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