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2022

A Novel Approach for Send Time Prediction on Email Marketing

Authors
Araujo, C; Soares, C; Pereira, I; Coelho, D; Rebelo, MA; Madureira, A;

Publication
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL

Abstract
In the digital world, the demand for better interactions between subscribers and companies is growing, creating the need for personalized and individualized experiences. With the exponential growth of email usage over the years, broad flows of campaigns are sent and received by subscribers, which reveals itself to be a problem for both companies and subscribers. In this work, subscribers are segmented by their behaviors and profiles, such as (i) open rates, (ii) click-through rates, (iii) frequency, and (iv) period of interactions with the companies. Different regressions are used: (i) Random Forest Regressor, (ii) Multiple Linear Regression, (iii) K-Neighbors Regressor, and (iv) Support Vector Regressor. All these regressions' results were aggregated into a final prediction achieved by an ensemble approach, which uses averaging and stacking methods. The use of Long Short-Term Memory is also considered in the presented case. The stacking model obtained the best performance, with an R-2 score of 0.91 and a Mean Absolute Error of 0.204. This allows us to estimate the week's days with a half-day error difference. This work presents promising results for subscriber segmentation based on profile information for predicting the best period for email marketing. In the future, subscribers can be segmented using the Recency, Frequency and Monetary value, the Lifetime Value, or Stream Clustering approaches that allow more personalized and tailored experiences for subscribers. The latter tracks segments over time without costly recalculations and handles continuous streams of new observations without the necessity to recompile the entire model.

2022

Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms and Metaheuristics for Feature Selection: a Review

Authors
Coelho, D; Madureira, A; Pereira, I; Gonçalves, R;

Publication
International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications

Abstract
In the areas ofmachine learning / big data, when collecting data, sometimes too many features may be stored. Some of them may be redundant or irrelevant for the problem to be solved, adding noise to the dataset. Feature selection allows to create a subset from the original feature set, according to certain criteria. By creating a smaller subset of relevant features, it is possible to improve the learning accuracy while reducing the amount of data. This means means better results obtained in a shorter learning time. However, feature selection is normally regarded as a very important problem to be solved, as it directly impacts both data analysis and model creation. The problem of optimizing the selected features of a given dataset is not always trivial but, throughout the years, different ways to counter this optimization problem have been presented. This work presents how feature selection fits in the larger context of multi-objective problems as well as a review of how both multi-objective evolutionary algorithms and metaheuristics are being used in order to solve feature selection problems © MIR Labs, www.mirlabs.net/ijcisim/index.html

2022

Real-Time Automatic Wall Detection and Localization based on Side Scan Sonar Images

Authors
Aubard, M; Madureira, A; Madureira, L; Pinto, J;

Publication
2022 IEEE/OES AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES SYMPOSIUM (AUV)

Abstract
Accurate identification of an uncertain underwater environment is one of the challenges of underwater robotics. Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) needs to understand its environment accurately to achieve autonomous tasks. The method proposed in this paper is a real-time automatic target recognition based on Side Scan Sonar images to detect and localize a harbor's wall. This paper explains real-time Side Scan Sonar image generation and compares three Deep Learning object detection algorithms (YOLOv5, YOLOvS-TR, and YOLOX) using transfer learning. The YOLOv5-TR algorithm has the most accurate detection with 99% during training, whereas the YOLOX provides the best accuracy of 91.3% for a recorded survey detection. The YOLOX algorithm realizes the flow chart validation's real-time detection and target localization.

2022

Artificial intelligence methods for applied superconductivity: material, design, manufacturing, testing, operation, and condition monitoring

Authors
Yazdani Asrami, M; Sadeghi, A; Song, WJ; Madureira, A; Murta Pina, J; Morandi, A; Parizh, M;

Publication
SUPERCONDUCTOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Abstract
More than a century after the discovery of superconductors (SCs), numerous studies have been accomplished to take advantage of SCs in physics, power engineering, quantum computing, electronics, communications, aviation, healthcare, and defence-related applications. However, there are still challenges that hinder the full-scale commercialization of SCs, such as the high cost of superconducting wires/tapes, technical issues related to AC losses, the structure of superconducting devices, the complexity and high cost of the cooling systems, the critical temperature, and manufacturing-related issues. In the current century, massive advancements have been achieved in artificial intelligence (AI) techniques by offering disruptive solutions to handle engineering problems. Consequently, AI techniques can be implemented to tackle those challenges facing superconductivity and act as a shortcut towards the full commercialization of SCs and their applications. AI approaches are capable of providing fast, efficient, and accurate solutions for technical, manufacturing, and economic problems with a high level of complexity and nonlinearity in the field of superconductivity. In this paper, the concept of AI and the widely used algorithms are first given. Then a critical topical review is presented for those conducted studies that used AI methods for improvement, design, condition monitoring, fault detection and location of superconducting apparatuses in large-scale power applications, as well as the prediction of critical temperature and the structure of new SCs, and any other related applications. This topical review is presented in three main categories: AI for large-scale superconducting applications, AI for superconducting materials, and AI for the physics of SCs. In addition, the challenges of applying AI techniques to the superconductivity and its applications are given. Finally, future trends on how to integrate AI techniques with superconductivity towards commercialization are discussed.

2022

Preface

Authors
Abraham, A; Madureira, AM; Kaklauskas, A; Kriksciuniene, D; Ferreira, JC; Bettencourt, N; Muda, AK;

Publication
Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems

Abstract

2022

Diagnostics of electrochemically exfoliated nanographite by infrared and Raman spectroscopy

Authors
Khan, YA; Bakunin, ES; Obraztsova, EY; Dyachkova, TP; Rukhov, AV; Morais, S; Madureira, A;

Publication
Materials Science

Abstract

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