Machine Learning is the study of methods for programming computers to learn. Computers are applied to a wide range of tasks, and for most of these it is relatively easy for programmers to design and implement the necessary software. However, there are many tasks for which this is difficult or impossible. These can be divided into four general categories. First, there are problems for which there exist no human experts. For example, in modern automated manufacturing facilities, there is a need to predict machine failures before they occur by analyzing sensor readings. Because the machines are new, there are no human experts who can be interviewed by a programmer to provide the knowledge necessary to build a computer system. A machine learning system can study recorded data and subsequent machine failures and learn prediction rules. Second, there are problems where human experts exist, but where they are unable to explain their expertise. This is the case in many perceptual tasks, such as speech recognition, hand-writing recognition, and natural language understanding. Virtually all humans exhibit expert-level abilities on these tasks, but none of them can describe the detailed steps that they follow as they perform them. Fortunately, humans can provide machines with examples of the inputs and correct outputs for these tasks, so machine learning algorithms can learn to map the inputs to the outputs. Third, there are problems where phenomena are changing rapidly. In finance, for example, people would like to predict the future behavior of the stock market, of consumer purchases, or of exchange rates. These behaviors change frequently, so that even if a programmer could construct a good predictive computer program, it would need to be rewritten frequently. A learning program can relieve the programmer of this burden by constantly modifying and tuning a set of learned prediction rules. Fourth, there are applications that need to be customized for each computer user separately. Consider, for example, a program to filter unwanted electronic mail messages. Different users will need different filters. It is unreasonable to expect each user to program his or her own rules, and it is infeasible to provide every user with a software engineer to keep the rules up-to-date. A machine learning system can learn which mail messages the user rejects and maintain the filtering rules automatically. Machine learning addresses many of the same research questions as the fields of statistics, data mining, and psychology, but with differences of emphasis. Statistics focuses on understanding the phenomena that have generated the data, often with the goal of testing different hypotheses about those phenomena. Data mining seeks to find patterns in the data that are understandable by people. Psychological studies of human learning aspire to understand the mechanisms underlying the various learning behaviors exhibited by people (concept learning, skill acquisition, strategy change, etc.).

Machine learning

物件導向軟體之架構(Object-Oriented Software Construction)探討

This paper studies the control of a class of discrete event processes, i.e. processes that are discrete, asynchronous and possibly nondeter-ministic. The controlled process is described as the generator of a formal language, while the controller, or supervisor, is constructed from the grammar of a specified target language that incorporates the desired closed-loop system behavior. The existence problem for a supervisor is reduced to finding the largest controllable language contained in a given legal language. Two examples are provided.

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Supervisory control of a class of discrete event processes

Since the subject of traffic dynamics has captured the interest of physicists, many surprising effects have been revealed and explained. Some of the questions now understood are the following: Why are vehicles sometimes stopped by ``phantom traffic jams'' even though drivers all like to drive fast? What are the mechanisms behind stop-and-go traffic? Why are there several different kinds of congestion, and how are they related? Why do most traffic jams occur considerably before the road capacity is reached? Can a temporary reduction in the volume of traffic cause a lasting traffic jam? Under which conditions can speed limits speed up traffic? Why do pedestrians moving in opposite directions normally organize into lanes, while similar systems ``freeze by heating''? All of these questions have been answered by applying and extending methods from statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics to self-driven many-particle systems. This article considers the empirical data and then reviews the main approaches to modeling pedestrian and vehicle traffic. These include microscopic (particle-based), mesoscopic (gas-kinetic), and macroscopic (fluid-dynamic) models. Attention is also paid to the formulation of a micro-macro link, to aspects of universality, and to other unifying concepts, such as a general modeling framework for self-driven many-particle systems, including spin systems. While the primary focus is upon vehicle and pedestrian traffic, applications to biological or socio-economic systems such as bacterial colonies, flocks of birds, panics, and stock market dynamics are touched upon as well.

Traffic and related self-driven many-particle systems

https://www.ufz.de/export/data/2/100065_GrimmODD.pdf

A standard protocol for describing individual-based and agent-based models

https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/32679/0000046.pdf;sequence=1

System Theoretic Analysis of Models: Computer Simulation of a Living Cell

A conceptual framework for modelling and simulation is proposed. It is based upon a hierarchy of system level descriptions in which higher level descriptions are inferred from lower level ones with the help of a priori assumptions. Two common modes of knowledge acquisition, the “discovery” and the “postulational” approaches are analyzed within the proposed framework.

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A conceptual basis for modelling and simulationt

It is from this pragmatic point of view as well as from the fundamental desire for scientific quest that we want to explore possible directions of inquiry in application of artificial intelligence in modelling and simulation. One of the suggestions (by P Davis) was to &dquo;start with problems and not with tools :’ The authors interpret this statement as not to have a procrustean view in solving problems and not to modify/change the problem to fit the available tools.

Artificial intelligence in modelling and simulation: Directions to explore

Multiplicities of perspective inherent in modelling and simulation methodology are enumerated and rationales given for their existence. Characteristics of futuristic simulation environments which support flexible adoption of multiple perspectives are outlined. Finally, we discuss the construction of models which simultaneously embody differing perspectives. Advances in modelling methodology along these lines will constitute a quantum leap in tool sophistication which can greatly extend the domain of simulation application.

Multifaceted, multiparadigm modeling perspectives: tools for the 90's

The increasing complexity of large-scale distributed real-time systems demands powerful real-time object computing technologies Furthermore, systematic design approaches are needed to support analysis, design, test, and implementation of these systems The authors discuss RTDEVS/CORBA, an implementation of discrete event system specification (DEVS) modeling and simulation theory based on real-time CORBA communication middleware With RTDEVS/CORBA, the software model of a complex distributed real-time system can be designed and then tested in a virtual testing environment and finally executed in a real distributed environment This model continuity and simulation-based design approach effectively manages software complexity and consistency problems for complex systems, increases the flexibility for test configurations, and reduces the time and cost for testing The layered architecture and different implementation issues of RTDEVS/CORBA are studied and discussed An example application is then given to show how RTDEVS/CORBA supports a framework for model continuity in distributed real-time modeling and simulation

Bernard P. Zeigler

Papers

System Theoretic Analysis of Models: Computer Simulation of a Living Cell

A conceptual basis for modelling and simulationt

Artificial intelligence in modelling and simulation: Directions to explore

Multifaceted, multiparadigm modeling perspectives: tools for the 90's

The RTDEVS/CORBA environment for simulation-based design of distributed real-time systems