Browsing by Author "Shankar, M."

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A composite classification model for web services based on semantic & syntactic information integration
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015) Kamath Sâ€¤, S.; Ahmed, A.; Shankar, M.
Automatic and semi-automatic approaches for classification of web services have garnered much interest due to their positive impact on tasks like service discovery, matchmaking and composition. Currently, service registries support only human classification, which results in limited recall and low precision in response to queries, due to keyword based matching. The syntactic features of a service along with certain semantics based measures used during classification can result in accurate and meaningful results. We propose an approach for web service classification based on conversion of services into a class dependent vector by applying the concept of semantic relatedness and to generate classes of services ranked by their semantic relatedness to a given query. We used the OWLS-tc service dataset for evaluating our approach and the experimental results are presented in this work. Â© 2015 IEEE.
A Novel Method for Disease Recognition and Cure Time Prediction Based on Symptoms
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015) Shankar, M.; Pahadia, M.; Srivastava, D.; Ashwin, T.S.; Guddeti, G.
Healthcare is a sector where decisions usually have very high-risk and high-cost associated with them. One bad choice can cost a person's life. With diseases like Swine Flu on the rise, which have symptoms quite similar to common cold, it's very difficult for people to differentiate between medical conditions. We propose a novel method for recognition of diseases and prediction of their cure time based on the symptoms. We do this by assigning different coefficients to each symptom of a disease, and filtering the dataset with the severity score assigned to each symptom by the user. The diseases are identified based on a numerical value calculated in the fashion mentioned above. For predicting the cure time of a disease, we use reinforcement learning. Our algorithm takes into account the similarity between the condition of the current user and other users who have suffered from the same disease, and uses the similarity scores as weights in prediction of cure time. We also predict the current medical condition of user relative to people who have suffered from same disease. Â© 2015 IEEE.
A composite classification model for web services based on semantic & syntactic information integration
(2015) Sowmya, Kamath S.; Ahmed, A.; Shankar, M.
Automatic and semi-automatic approaches for classification of web services have garnered much interest due to their positive impact on tasks like service discovery, matchmaking and composition. Currently, service registries support only human classification, which results in limited recall and low precision in response to queries, due to keyword based matching. The syntactic features of a service along with certain semantics based measures used during classification can result in accurate and meaningful results. We propose an approach for web service classification based on conversion of services into a class dependent vector by applying the concept of semantic relatedness and to generate classes of services ranked by their semantic relatedness to a given query. We used the OWLS-tc service dataset for evaluating our approach and the experimental results are presented in this work. � 2015 IEEE.
Investigating the "wisdom of crowds" at scale
(2015) Mysore, A.S.; Yaligar, V.S.; Ibarra, I.A.; Simoiu, C.; Goel, S.; Arvind, R.; Sumanth, C.; Srikantan, A.; Bhargav, H.S.; Pahadia, M.; Dobhal, T.; Ahmed, A.; Shankar, M.; Agarwal, H.; Agarwal, R.; Anirudh-Kondaveeti, S.; Arun-Gokhale, S.; Attri, A.; Chandra, A.; Chilukuri, Y.; Dharmaji, S.; Garg, D.; Gupta, N.; Gupta, P.; Jacob, G.M.; Jain, S.; Joshi, S.; Khajuria, T.; Khillan, S.; Konam, S.; Kumar-Kolla, P.; Loomba, S.; Madan, R.; Maharaja, A.; Mathur, V.; Munshi, B.; Nawazish, M.; Neehar-Kurukunda, V.; Nirmal-Gavarraju, V.; Parashar, S.; Parikh, H.; Paritala, A.; Patil, A.; Phatak, R.; Pradhan, M.; Ravichander, A.; Sangeeth, K.; Sankaranarayanan, S.; Sehgal, V.; Sheshan, A.; Shibiraj, S.; Singh, A.; Singh, A.; Sinha, P.; Soni, P.; Thomas, B.; Tuteja, L.; Varma-Dattada, K.; Venkataraman, S.; Verma, P.; Yelurwar, I.
In a variety of problem domains, it has been observed that the aggregate opinions of groups are often more accurate than those of the constituent individuals, a phenomenon that has been termed the "wisdom of the crowd." Yet, perhaps surprisingly, there is still little consensus on how generally the phenomenon holds, how best to aggregate crowd judgements, and how social influence affects estimates. We investigate these questions by taking a meta wisdom of crowds approach. With a distributed team of over 100 student researchers across 17 institutions in the United States and India, we develop a large-scale online experiment to systematically study the wisdom of crowds effect for 1,000 different tasks in 50 subject domains. These tasks involve various types of knowledge (e.g., explicit knowledge, tacit knowledge, and prediction), question formats (e.g., multiple choice and point estimation), and inputs (e.g., text, audio, and video). To examine the effect of social influence, participants are randomly assigned to one of three different experiment conditions in which they see varying degrees of information on the responses of others. In this ongoing project, we are now preparing to recruit participants via Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
Investigating the "wisdom of crowds" at scale
(Association for Computing Machinery, Inc acmhelp@acm.org, 2015) Mysore, A.S.; Yaligar, V.S.; Ibarra, I.A.; Simoiu, C.; Goel, S.; Arvind, R.; Sumanth, C.; Srikantan, A.; Bhargav, H.S.; Pahadia, M.; Dobhal, T.; Ahmed, A.; Shankar, M.; Agarwal, H.; Agarwal, R.; Anirudh-Kondaveeti, S.; Arun-Gokhale, S.; Attri, A.; Chandra, A.; Chilukuri, Y.; Dharmaji, S.; Garg, D.; Gupta, N.; Gupta, P.; Jacob, G.M.; Jain, S.; Joshi, S.; Khajuria, T.; Khillan, S.; Konam, S.; Kumar-Kolla, P.; Loomba, S.; Madan, R.; Maharaja, A.; Mathur, V.; Munshi, B.; Nawazish, M.; Neehar-Kurukunda, V.; Nirmal-Gavarraju, V.; Parashar, S.; Parikh, H.; Paritala, A.; Patil, A.; Phatak, R.; Pradhan, M.; Ravichander, A.; Sangeeth, K.; Sankaranarayanan, S.; Sehgal, V.; Sheshan, A.; Shibiraj, S.; Singh, A.; Singh, A.; Sinha, P.; Soni, P.; Thomas, B.; Tuteja, L.; Varma-Dattada, K.; Venkataraman, S.; Verma, P.; Yelurwar, I.
In a variety of problem domains, it has been observed that the aggregate opinions of groups are often more accurate than those of the constituent individuals, a phenomenon that has been termed the "wisdom of the crowd." Yet, perhaps surprisingly, there is still little consensus on how generally the phenomenon holds, how best to aggregate crowd judgements, and how social influence affects estimates. We investigate these questions by taking a meta wisdom of crowds approach. With a distributed team of over 100 student researchers across 17 institutions in the United States and India, we develop a large-scale online experiment to systematically study the wisdom of crowds effect for 1,000 different tasks in 50 subject domains. These tasks involve various types of knowledge (e.g., explicit knowledge, tacit knowledge, and prediction), question formats (e.g., multiple choice and point estimation), and inputs (e.g., text, audio, and video). To examine the effect of social influence, participants are randomly assigned to one of three different experiment conditions in which they see varying degrees of information on the responses of others. In this ongoing project, we are now preparing to recruit participants via Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
A Novel Method for Disease Recognition and Cure Time Prediction Based on Symptoms
(2015) Shankar, M.; Pahadia, M.; Srivastava, D.; Ashwin, T.S.; Ram Mohana Reddy, Guddeti
Healthcare is a sector where decisions usually have very high-risk and high-cost associated with them. One bad choice can cost a person's life. With diseases like Swine Flu on the rise, which have symptoms quite similar to common cold, it's very difficult for people to differentiate between medical conditions. We propose a novel method for recognition of diseases and prediction of their cure time based on the symptoms. We do this by assigning different coefficients to each symptom of a disease, and filtering the dataset with the severity score assigned to each symptom by the user. The diseases are identified based on a numerical value calculated in the fashion mentioned above. For predicting the cure time of a disease, we use reinforcement learning. Our algorithm takes into account the similarity between the condition of the current user and other users who have suffered from the same disease, and uses the similarity scores as weights in prediction of cure time. We also predict the current medical condition of user relative to people who have suffered from same disease. � 2015 IEEE.