Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications aims at being a reference for all researchers and practitioners who study the theory and application of methodologies pertaining to Evolutionary Computation and related fields.

Calificación: 3

No me agrado mucho el contenido existen mejores revistas, está dedicada al área de computación

URL: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jaea/

Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications
ISSN: 16876229
EISSN: 16876237
Subject: Computer Science
Publisher: Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Country: United States
Language: English
Keywords: evolutionary computation
Start year: 2008

El Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCS&T)  es una revista semianual , de acceso  abierto en la  se discute y promueve la  investigación  y la implementación tecnológica de las ideas en  áreas de las ciencias de la computación , ingeniería y  información de los sistemas.

Los temas especificos de inters include: concurrent, parallel and distributed processing, artificial intelligence, image and voice processing, quality software and metrics, computer-aided education, wireless communication, real time processing, evolutive computation, data bases and information recovery and neural networks

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Aunque esta pagina esta  dedicada a ingeniería en sistemas al área de la computación muchas veces es interesante el conocer los nuevos hallazgos los cuales pueden ser implementados en todas las carreras

URL: http://journal.info.unlp.edu.ar/journal/

Journal of Computer Science and Technology
ISSN: 16666046
EISSN: 16666038
Subject: Computer Science — Technology (General)
Publisher: Iberoamerican Science & Technology Education Consortium
Country: Argentina
Language: English
Keywords: parallel and distributed processing, artificial intelligence, image processing, voice processing, quality software, metrics, computer-aided education
Start year: 1999

ACM

Association for Computing Machinery. Fue fundada en 1947 como la primera sociedad científica y educativa acerca de la Computación. Publica varias revistas y periódicos científicos relacionados con la computación; patrocina conferencias en varias áreas del campo (principalmente el SIGGRAPH y el SIGCOMM) y otros eventos relacionados con las ciencias de la computación como por ejemplo el internacional ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). Publica una extensiva Biblioteca digital y una referencia de la literatura de la computación. La ACM también ofrece seguros y otros servicios a sus miembros de los Estados Unidos.

Calificación: 5

 Es una revista que se dedica  a publicar artículos de  varias revistas de computación por lo que la hace una muy buena opción para las carreras asociadas a la computación.

URL Udlap: http://ciria.udlap.mx/bibliotecas/col_digitales/ingenierias09.html 

Aquesta setmana ha tocat anar al Parlament de Catalunya a presentar en nom de l’ACI, la opinió del món local en relació al projecte de LLei d’Acollida a Catalunya. La recepció ha estat cordial i semblava interessada per part de tots els grups parlamentaris. Excepte Ciutadans ( que ha renunciat al seu torn d’intervencions) la resta han fet dues preguntes per grup. L’interés de les diputades i diputats s’ha centrat basicament en tres temes. LA SUFICIENCIA ECONÒMICA DE LA LLEI, EL RESPECTE ENVERS L’AUTONOMIA LOCAL I LA COMPLEMENTARIETAT ENTRE PRIMERA ACOLLIDA I ACOLLIDA ESPECIALITZADA. El to de les intervencions ha estat molt correcte i ha permés (malgrat el poc temps) explicar quina es la visió, i en alguns casos, l’experiència de diversos municipis fins el dia d’avui.

Opinió personal:

Una LLei d’aquest tipus caldria que fes temps estigués aprovada. Alguns Ajuntaments fa massa temps que han tingut de treballar sols en aquests temes. De tots maneres, benvinguda sigui. Val mes tard que mai !!

I’m going to be giving a talk at the Bay Area ACM data mining SIG in December, and I need to finalize my topic soon – like today

I was going to expand on my Elastic Web Mining talk (“Web mining for SEO keywords”) from the ACM data mining unconference a few weeks back.

But the fact that I’ll have 10s to 100s of millions of web page data to work with, from the public terabyte dataset crawl, makes me want to apply Mahout to the data.

I tossed out one idea on the Mahout list, looking for input:

• I’d like to automatically generate a timeline of events.
• I can extract potential dates from web pages, using simple patterns.
• I can extract 2-to-4 word terms (skipping those which start/end with stop words) from pages that have extracted dates.
• And then by the miracle of LDA (latent dirichlet allocation), I get clusters of date+terms.

But in this example, I don’t actually need LDA – I have my “topic”, which is the date. So it might not be a very good example. And will LDA scale to 100M web pages (which implies many billions of terms)? And how will I handle the same term (e.g. “barack inauguration”) being associated with a cluster of dates, since stories from a range of dates before/after the event will contain that same term?

So it could be a non-starter – I’m hoping for input on feasibility, level of effort, or if somebody else has a suggestion for something simple that could provide interesting/obvious results, I’m all ears.

Thanks!

– Ken

PS – my current fall-back is to just do brute-force map-reduce to come up with lists of terms per unique date, pick the top N, and maybe do some filtering for top-level terms that have too many associated unique dates. Which unfortunately wouldn’t use Mahout, but would be an example of crunching lots of data.

About a month ago, Dan Rockwell and I finished writing an article for interactions magazine about Casual Data, the term we’ve used to describe rich data propagated or mined via some form of social media. The piece defines Casual Data, talks briefly about why it’s becoming so prevalent, and then proceeds to identify current ways it’s being used and what that means to the fields of design and research. It will be out in a spring 2010 issue of interactions, however, here’s a sneak peek at some of the data nugget goodness:

The problem with too much data
While there are a number of firms analyzing the surface value of casual data, there is a need dig deeper to understand context and higher-level implications. The more connected we become, the more connected our data becomes, and the more we need a structured approach for making sense of it.

Companies having loads of customer data available is not news, however this casual data is not quantitative in nature (demographics, pattern-focused). The emotional meaning behind casual data should not be analyzed statistically, and the methods used to gain this data are as important to understand as the data itself. If customer voice is only harvested through an existing medium (e.g. submitting a query for iPhone-related tweets) the results you get will be brief and will tend to either be of intense glee: “new iPhone copy/paste function, thank GOD” or intense distaste: “Apple sucks!” – leaving little room for understanding context of use, while still providing good touch-points for product improvement. There is the potential of casual data being more dangerous than helpful if not properly understood.

Well yesterday was an action packed day. I arrived at the British Grove Studios in the morning with Maxine, full of ideas for the day ahead. The backing girls arrived shortly after and we were all set to go. I had auditioned for the backing vocalists a few weeks ago and discovered some great girls from the Academy of Contemporary Music. We ran through plenty of ideas for some new tracks and I was really impressed with how enthusiastic and professional the girls were, they’ve really added a new dimension to the tracks.

I’m now just playing around with the bits we recorded yesterday, but watch this space for the finished article coming soon.

And if you can’t wait for that, there’ll be some behind the scenes stuff online soon too.

Déplacée pour cause de rencontre avec Madame Beccaria (lire plus bas), la réunion mensuelle du Comité de quartier s’est tenue mardi soir au local de la Résidence du Lac, 385, rue Pierre-Cardenal.

• Bien entendu, la rencontre entre les riverains de la rue Pierre-Cardenal et Mme Beccaria, adjointe au maire déléguée au quartier Mosson,  était à l’ordre du jour et il faut bien dire qu’un sentiment de scepticisme prévalait encore huit jours après ce rendez-vous sur le terrain. Les habitants du secteur, relayés par MM. Mathieu et Jibaud, entre autres, considèrent en effet que les premières pistes évoquées pour ramener du calme, et donc bien entendu du lien social, dans cette partie du quartier ne correspondent pas à leur attente. Le Comité attend les conclusions de la déléguée à La Mosson (qui ne devraient sans doute pas arriver avant le début de l’année) et remettra sûrement ce sujet à l’ordre du jour lors de son assemblée générale prévue au mois de janvier.
• La présentation du blog du Comité de quartier (sujet plus léger) était aussi à l’ordre du jour. Sa création semble correspondre à un besoin et les avis ont été plutôt favorables. Michel Rouvière, pour l’instant son animateur, a souhaité être entouré de deux ou trois personnes pouvant intervenir elles aussi sur la partie administrateur du blog après une petite formation. Sylvie Vallet et Annick Ribes complèteront donc l’équipe rédactionnelle du blog.
• Un sujet beaucoup moins léger était à l’ordre du jour : les relations des locataires d’ACM avec leur bailleur social. Il semble que ce problème, évoqué maintes fois, prenne de l’ampleur au quotidien, même si ACM a apporté des améliorations que ne nient pas les habitants.  D’ici quelques temps (pour la fin de l’année) avec l’aide des “citoyens-locataires-habitants des Hauts de Massane” un constat et des propositions seront faits au Comité de quartier qui les remettra à la direction d’ACM afin d’essayer de ramener de la sérénité et de la joie de vivre dans ces immeubles avant que la colère ne déborde tout le monde.
• Un point a été fait ensuite sur les “requêtes” en cours du Comité de quartier. René Ribes, le président du Comité, les a toutes listées, et compte bien apporter les réponses définitives en début d’année. De toutes les façons le blog tache de vous faire l’écho hebdomadairement de l’avancée, de l’interrogation ou de la stagnation des demandes.
• Harmonie Dumon, qui représentait le Comité à la MPT Georges-Brassens lors d’une réunion sur la fête du quartier en 2010, nous en a fait un compte-rendu. Initiée par Nicolas Lagrange et Bernard Garnier, les directeurs des  deux MPT  du quartier, cette réunion a jeté les bases d’un programme d’une fête, associant toutes les associations et les acteurs du quartier, les écoles et les commerçants notamment, qui devrait se dérouler fin mai-début juin 2010 sur une période de quinze jours ? Ce sont des prémices de réflexion, des dates ont été fixées pour affiner et lancer définitivement le projet.
• Enfin Gilles Niel, un membre du Comité de quartier, représentant aussi les habitants de la rue Bertrand-de-Born jusqu’à la place du Minervois regroupés en association, a évoqué le futur aménagement du parc de Gimel. Propriété de la commune de Grabels, ce parc devrait accueillir de nombreuses constructions. Ce qui n’était sûrement pas sa vocation première. René Ribes s’est engagé à prendre des informations auprès de la mairie de Grabels ainsi que de l’Agglo de Montpellier et a assuré du soutien du Comité de quartier les riverains du Parc de Gimel.
• Les membres du Comité de quartier recevront une convocation en bonne et due forme pour l’assemblée générale qui se déroulera au mois de janvier. Cette information a clos la réunion mensuelle.
• La prochaine réunion mensuelle se tiendra le mardi 1er décembre. Les habitants des Hauts de Massane qui ont envie de se joindre au Comité de quartier sont les bienvenus.

ACM Crossroads

I will be visiting the ACM HQ in New York for the 2009 ACM Crossroads Editorial Meeting. It’s a great chance to learn more about the scientific publishing business and meet some of my friends.

En esa ocación por tercer año consecutivo asistimos al ACM ICPC en el ITESM Campus Queretaro.

Podría decir que no nos fue tan mal… mmmm… pero en definitiva hace falta mucho trabajo… Necesito aplicarme mas para que los malandrines… digo los participantes lleguen mas confiados y con una menalidad triunfadora.

En definitiva en esta ocación hubo muchos contratiempos por parte del campus y eso desmotivo a mas de uno (yo entre ellos).. pero había que sacar la casta… (o por lo menos los gansitos para poder aguantar el hanbre) ….

Ahora es tiempo no de planear… eso ya lo hemos hecho… es tiempo de actuar… a promover los talleres de programación, a motivar a los malandrines… perdón tra vez… regresando.. motivarlos a unirse a esta experiencia.

Ahhhh… viejos recuerdos ACM 2007:

Taylor Swift. What can you say about her?

She is only 19 years old and is arguably the most popular singer out there right now.. and In my opinion, BEST singer out there right now. Not only has she put out a new album in 2009, but gone through many other crazy things this past year. Lets go through all the accomplishments 09 brought taylor!

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE.- Swift performed on the hit show in January, and even appeared in a skit! Being on SNL is huge, let a lone veryyyyy nervewracking i am sure!

GRAMMY AWARDS- Performing at the Grammy Awards would be rewarding enough, but doing it along side your best friend would be awesome! Taylor performed “fifteen” with her close friend, Miley Cyrus.

CSI- Swift takes on the small screen! Taylor guest appearances on the hit t.v. show!

ACM SPECTACULAR- T Swift Wins big at the ACM awards winning Album Of The Year!!

FEARLESS ON THE ROAD!- Taylor kicks off her first Headling Tour with a bang, all shows sold out!

CMT AWARDS- Taylor wins HUUUUGE by being nominated for the top award, entertainer of the year! S

I love Taylor Swift, and her music! I think she deserves all of the stardom. She has worked hard ever since she was a young teen.

What do you think of Taylor????

It’s the fleamarket weekend!

I went for the fleamarkets at Home Club and 8Q SAM today. It’s pretty interesting to know that 8Q SAM is so named because it is on 8 Queen Street.

The first Flea Market that I went to was the one at Home Club. Though it is a relatively small area, there is still enough walking space. Glenn bought two really awesome shirts for only $25 and I got 2 pre-loved necklacese at $5 each. One is of a super huge owl and the other is a key with bird. Maybe I’ll take picture of it someday. I also got this really falling apart belt that is really vintagey and cool. I’ll see what I can do to salvage it. The owner that I bought the stuff from happened to be someone who went Prodigy with Glenn. What a coincidence!

Between Home Club and 8Q SAM, there was quite a bit of buffer time coz the fleamarket at 8Q SAM only starts at 6pm. Went to Novena church with Glenn. What a joke it was! I really try hard to pray and be all, erm, Catholic, but seriously, I think I was having like a huge argument with whoever’s up there who’s listening to me about the poverty and illnesses etc etc and in the end I gave up trying to speak to whoever’s up there. Sorry. No can do.

Head over to one of the shopping malls around there. There’s this black dress at FOND that looked really sweet on me. Nothing skimpy. It has puffed up cap sleeve, the front is pleated and it ends just above the knee. I swear, this would be the perfect outfit for me to attend openings with, especially the next huge exhibition at ACM featuring treasures from Dubai’s royalty! Can’t wait!

Head over to 8Q SAM next. We were still early so we decided to head out to the galleries since it was free admission and neither of us have been there. Here’s some pictures so bear with me.

No photos of the facade shot but this was one of the galleries that we spent forever inside. There is a cupboard that u have to walk through. I swear, it’s like NARNIA ! I confess, I’ve never watched Narnia but hey, I’ve read enough MLIAs to know what is NARNIA about. Haha. Yea, so you walk through this cupboard into this starking white corridor filled with sheets of papers and essays. Gosh, it’s like a lazy student’s worst nightmare.

Yup, so through that door you see at the back, we enter another study room where everything was in black and white, including milo tins etc etc. It was SO AWESOME. Me and Glenn went crazy looking around.

Sorry about the quality of the photos. The lighting’s almost non-existent and my phone doesn’t have flash.

 (Please excuse the fat rolls =))

 (Notice how it’s only half a television, half a table, and half a tissue box?)

[Blogging interruption. Glenn just wanted me to say that he is sexy on the blog. Here you go. Glenn is sexy.]

We opened one of the closet and guess what we found!!!!

There was a skeleton hidden in the closet! Sad to say, we couldn’t find the skull. Hey MCC person who does blog monitoring. Care to leave a comment as to where is the skull? I’d like to know. We love this gallery by the way.

Huge ass book that was padded and locked up. Like the rest of the books in the gallery.

Here’s another gallery where we stayed quite a while in.

This section is really interesting because all the works that are put up are done by the public.

The galleries were okay. I prefer the Singapore Art Museum better though. Compared to our last museum visit together to SAM at the start of our relationship, Glenn is far more engaged at 8Q SAM than he was at SAM and I was totally not really interested in the exhibits at all. I still love my workplace the most, right ACM? Haha.

The fleamarket at 8Q SAM was average at most. Nothing exciting other than some vintage that we saw but are definitely way out of out budget. There were plenty of blogshop stuff that only people half my size could wear.

Today was a lovely day well spent. Tomorrow, it’s fleamarket (YES AGAIN) at Zouk and maybe if we are free, we’ll go down to Changi Airport.

P.S. Whether we are free or not depends if I want to spend the time and work on my assignment. YES. Haha.

Researchers from MIT and UC San Diego recently demonstrated an attack against Amazon’s EC2 where an attack virtual machine can launch attacks against a victim virtual machine that is located on the same physical server.

Does this mean that there is a security vulnerability within EC2? Yes.

Should you be concerned? Not really.

Read more .. ..

I found out a great article in the proceeding of ACM CHI 2009 conference about how usability evaluation can be considered harmful in the development of HCI.

This article defend that usability evaluation is now a standard in research and in academia but many times this evaluation can limit new ideas since they often cannot be tested with the available metrics.

Although in most f the cases this evaluations can accomplish their objectives is not clear that they can do it in all the cases especially in the cases where we have a clear lack of quantitative metrics.

“Within HCI research and academia, researchers employ usability evaluation to validate novel design ideas and systems, usually by showing that human performance or work practices are somehow improved when compared to some baseline set of metrics (e.g., other competing ideas), or that people can achieve a stated goal when using this system (e.g., performance measures, task completions), or that their processes and outcomes improve.

Clearly, usability evaluation is valuable for many situations, as it often helps validate both research ideas and products at varying stages in its lifecycle. Indeed, we (the authors) have advocated and practiced usability evaluation in both research and academia for many decades. We believe that the community should continue to evaluate usability for many – but not all – interface development situations. What we will argue is that there are some situations where usability evaluation can be considered harmful: we have to recognize these situations, and we should consider alternative methods instead of blindly following the
usability evaluation doctrine. Usability evaluation, if wrongfully applied, can quash potentially valuable ideas early in the design process, incorrectly promote poor ideas, misdirect developers into solving minor vs. major problems, or ignore (or incorrectly suggest) how a design would be adopted and used in everyday practice.

ACM CHI 2008 Guide to Successful Submissions states:
“does your contribution take the form of a design for a new interface, interaction technique or design tool? If so, you will
probably want to demonstrate ‘evaluation’ validity, by subjecting your design to tests that demonstrate its effectiveness.

ACM CHI publications: evaluations are dominated by quantitative empirical usability evaluations (about 70%) followed by qualitative usability evaluations (about 25%).”

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1357054.1357074#