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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181203
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SUMMARY:Conference on “The Establishment of a Resilient City: Infrastructure\, Urban Planning and Law”韌性城市的建立：基建、城市與法律學術研討會
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20181206T110000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20181206T120000
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SUMMARY:Probability Distribution Modelling of Data and Its Applications in Structural Health Monitoring
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nProf. He-Qing MU\nAssociate Professor\nSchool of Civil Engineering and Transportation\nSouth China University of Technology\nGuangzhou\nChina \nAbstract\nProbability distribution modelling of data is an important task in science and engineering. This research attempts to conduct probability distribution modelling of univariate and multivariate data. The first part introduces the theories of the traditional Bayesian inference and the Bayesian Network for probability distribution modelling. The second part introduced the structural health monitoring system of the Xinguang Bridge\, which is a three-span half-through arch bridge with the mid span of 428 m\, two side spans of 177 m each\, and width of 37.62 m\, over the Pearl River of Guangzhou City of China. The third part is devoted to the probability distribution modelling of the traffic load effect data and modal frequency–multiple environmental factor data of the Xinguang Bridge. \nBiography\nProf. He-Qing MU is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Department of South China University of Technology. He serves as the corresponding member of the Engineering Practice of Risk Assessment and Management Committee of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering\, the Member of Youth Committee of Structural Control & Health Monitoring\, Youth Committee of Random Vibration\, of Chinese Society for Vibration Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from University of Macau. He was a visiting scholar of California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and University of California\, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). He has obtained funding for several research projects\, including NSFC\, Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province; Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science\, etc. In 2018\, he was elected as the recipient of the Pearl River S&T Nova Program of Guangzhou (珠江科技新星). His research interests include Bayesian Inference\, Earthquake Engineering\, Robust Data Analysis\, Structural Health Monitoring. \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/probability-distribution-modelling-of-data-and-its-applications-in-structural-health-monitoring/
LOCATION:N6-2031
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20181207T110000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20181207T120000
DTSTAMP:20260613T201047
CREATED:20181207T030005Z
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SUMMARY:Can Deep Learning Learn to Count? on cognitive deficit of the current state of deep learning
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nProf. Xiaolin WU\nIEEE Fellow\nMcMaster University\nCanada \nAbstract\nSubitizing\, or the sense of small natural numbers\, is an innate cognitive function of humans and primates; it responds to visual stimuli prior to the development of any symbolic skills\, language or arithmetic. Given successes of deep learning (DL) in tasks of visual intelligence and given the primitivity of number sense\, a tantalizing question is whether DL can comprehend numbers and perform subitizing. But somewhat disappointingly\, extensive experiments of the type of cognitive psychology demonstrate that the examples-driven black box DL cannot see through superficial variations in visual representations and distill the abstract notion of natural number\, a task that children perform with high accuracy and confidence. The failure is apparently due to the learning method not the connectionist CNN machinery itself. A recurrent neural network capable of subitizing does exist\, which we construct by encoding a mechanism of mathematical morphology into the CNN convolutional kernels. Also\, we investigate\, using subitizing as a test bed\, the ways to aid the black box DL by cognitive priors derived from human insight. Our findings are mixed and interesting\, pointing to both cognitive deficit of pure DL\, and some measured successes of boosting DL by predetermined cognitive implements. This case study of DL in cognitive computing is meaningful as visual numerosity represents a minimum level of human intelligence. \nBiography\nXiaolin Wu\, Ph.D. in computer science\, University of Calgary\, Canada\, 1988. Dr. Wu started his academic career in 1988\, and has since been on the faculty of University of Western Ontario\, New York Polytechnic University (NYU Poly)\, and currently McMaster University\, where he is a McMaster Distinguished Engineering Professor at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and holds the NSERC senior industrial research chair in Digital Cinema. His research interests include image processing\, multimedia signal coding and communication\, joint source-channel coding\, multiple description coding\, and network-aware visual communication. He has published over three hundred research papers and holds five patents in these fields. Dr. Wu is an IEEE fellow\, an associated editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing\, and served on the technical committees of many IEEE international conferences/workshops. Dr. Wu received numerous international awards and honors. \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/can-deep-learning-learn-to-count-on-cognitive-deficit-of-the-current-state-of-deep-learning/
LOCATION:E11-4045 (University of Macau)
CATEGORIES:event_list,seminarslectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20181211T110000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20181211T120000
DTSTAMP:20260613T201047
CREATED:20181211T030050Z
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SUMMARY:Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? A Deep Learning Approach for Assessing the Impact of Investors’ Emotions Mined from Multimodal Social Postings on Corporate Credit Ratings
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nProf. Raymond Yiu Keung LAU\nDepartment of Information Systems\nCity University of Hong Kong \nAbstract\nWith the rise of the Social Web\, it is increasingly more popular for investors to express their feelings about firms and products on online social media. Though previous studies have examined the relationship between investors’ sentiments captured in texts (e.g.\, online news articles) and corporate credit ratings\, there is a research gap in terms of studying the relationship between investors’ emotions captured in multimodal social postings and corporate credit ratings. By drawing upon the appraisal theory and the notion of affect-as-information\, this study aims to fill the current research gap by examining the influence of investors’ emotions (e.g.\, trust\, joy\, and anger) captured in multimodal social postings on corporate credit ratings. In particular\, we apply state-of-the-art machine learning methods (e.g.\, topic modeling and deep convolutional neural networks) to extract investors’ emotions toward corporations from both texts and images posted to online social media. Our empirical results show that investors’ emotions such as “trust” and “joy” captured in textual social postings are positively associated with corporate credit rating\, while investors’ emotion such as “anger” captured in the images of the social postings is negatively associated with corporate credit rating. Moreover\, the negative influence of the “anger” emotion extracted from images is larger than the positive influence of “trust” and “joy” extracted from texts. The managerial implication of our study is that corporations should pay attention to both texts and images posted to online social media by investors as these postings affect corporate credit ratings\, and subsequently the costs of corporate borrowings. Our findings also offer new insights for corporations\, investors\, and ratings agencies with respect to the predictive power of investors’ multimodal social posts toward corporate credit ratings. \nBiography\nRAYMOND Y.K. LAU is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems at City University of Hong Kong. He has worked at the academia and the ICT industry for over twenty years. He is the author of more than 200 refereed international journals and conference papers. His research work is published in renowned journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)\, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering\, IEEE Intelligent Systems\, IEEE Internet Computing\, INFORMS Journal on Computing\, MIS Quarterly\, ACM Transactions on Information Systems\, etc. His research interests include Financial Technology (FinTech)\, Social Media Analytics\, Big Data Analytics\, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Business. He is a senior member of the IEEE and the ACM\, respectively. \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/is-a-picture-worth-a-thousand-words-a-deep-learning-approach-for-assessing-the-impact-of-investors-emotions-mined-from-multimodal-social-postings-on-corporate-credit-ratings/
LOCATION:E11-4045 (University of Macau)
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20181213T150000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20181213T160000
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SUMMARY:Improving Information Security in Ranking Systems and Control Systems
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nDr. Guilherme RAMOS\nPh.D. (2018)\nInformation Security at Instituto Superior Técnico\nLisbon\, Portugal \nAbstract\nIn this work\, we propose to advance in the field of information security in the areas of ranking systems (RS) and control systems\, using ideas from the area of information theory. First\, we propose a RS that groups users based on their preferences\, introducing similarity measures. The system presents possibly distinct rankings for the same product in different user groups. Besides presenting more personalized rankings to users\, it is a system more resistant to attacks than the state-of-the-art. We then explore the effect of bribing in reputation-based RS\, in the usual scenario (a ranking for each product) and in the scenario we proposed. We find the optimal bribing strategies\, and we evaluate our methodology with real data\, being the devised ranking system more robust to bribery. Finally\, in control systems\, we present methods to find the placement of the minimum number of inputs in LTI systems and switched LTI systems\, in the eventual scenario where a set of controllers may fail\, e.g.\, due to a cyberattack. In the first case\, we prove that the problem is NP-complete. We design algorithms to solve the problems explicitly\, and also to approximate the solution in polynomial time. \nKeywords: Ranking Systems\, Control Systems\, Information Security\, Bribing. \nBiography\nDr. Guilherme RAMOS has a Ph.D. (2018) in Information Security at Instituto Superior Técnico\, Lisbon\, Portugal\, through the doctoral programme in Physics and Mathematics of Information. He received the B.Sc. (2011) and M.Sc. (2013) degrees in Applied Mathematics from the Instituto Superior Técnico\, Lisbon\, Portugal. His areas of interest are: Structural Systems; Control Theory; Cryptography; Information Theory; Ranking Systems; Recommender Systems; Consensus Algorithms. \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/improving-information-security-in-ranking-systems-and-control-systems/
LOCATION:E11-1006
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20181214T110000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20181214T120000
DTSTAMP:20260613T201047
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SUMMARY:On Text Analysis and Its Applications
DESCRIPTION:Instructors/Speakers\nProf. Raymond WONG\nSchool of Computer Science & Engineering\nUniversity of New South Wales\, Sydney\nAustralia \nAbstract\nDue to the increasing computation power and availability of big text data\, text analysis research\, such as text mining\, natural language processing\, and sentiment analysis\, has drawn significant attention from both research and industry communities. This seminar presents and summarizes our recent research findings in the area of text analysis\, and shares our experience in several related applications. \nBiography\nRaymond Wong is an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science & Engineering\, University of New South Wales\, Sydney\, Australia. From 2005-2011\, he founded and led the Data Management Program at NICTA (the largest ICT organization in Australia)\, and was a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University\, Beijing in 2011-13. Raymond co-founded several companies including Cohesive Data Inc that have successfully exited. He has also been involved in numerous technology fund raising\, M&A\, and patent valuation activities. His technical expertise lies in database systems\, big data\, machine learning and NLP. He has published more than 200 research publications and 2 US patents in these areas. He has also supervised 20 PhD students to completion. He received his BSc from Australian National University; MPhil and PhD from Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; and did his Postdoc at UCLA and Stanford University. \n 
URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/on-text-analysis-and-its-applications/
LOCATION:E11-4045 (University of Macau)
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Macau:20181218T143000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Macau:20181218T143000
DTSTAMP:20260613T201047
CREATED:20181218T063043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T043359Z
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SUMMARY:Smart City and Sustainability Forum
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URL:https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/event/smart-city-and-sustainability-forum/
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