A smarthome conversational agent performing implicit demand-response application planning

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Anastasios Alexiadis ◽  
Angeliki Veliskaki ◽  
Alexandros Nizamis ◽  
Angelina D. Bintoudi ◽  
Lampros Zyglakis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Demand Response ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Ai Planning ◽  
Conversational Agent ◽  
Intent Recognition ◽  
Complex Sentences ◽  
Energy Domain ◽  
Planning Methods ◽  
Personal Agents

In recent years, the growing use of Intelligent Personal Agents in different human activities and in various domains led the corresponding research to focus on the design and development of agents that are not limited to interaction with humans and execution of simple tasks. The latest research efforts have introduced Intelligent Personal Agents that utilize Natural Language Understanding (NLU) modules and Machine Learning (ML) techniques in order to have complex dialogues with humans, execute complex plans of actions and effectively control smart devices. To this aim, this article introduces the second generation of the CERTH Intelligent Personal Agent (CIPA) which is based on the RASA framework and utilizes two machine learning models for NLU and dialogue flow classification. CIPA-Generation B provides a dialogue-story generator that is based on the idea of adjacency pairs and multiple intents, that are classifying complex sentences consisting of two users’ intents into two automatic operations. More importantly, the agent can form a plan of actions for implicit Demand-Response and execute it, based on the user’s request and by utilizing AI Planning methods. The introduced CIPA-Generation B has been deployed and tested in a real-world scenario at Centre’s of Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH) nZEB SmartHome in two different domains, energy and health, for multiple intent recognition and dialogue handling. Furthermore, in the energy domain, a scenario that demonstrates how the agent solves an implicit Demand-Response problem has been applied and evaluated. An experimental study with 36 participants further illustrates the usefulness and acceptance of the developed conversational agent-based system.

scholarly journals Zhorai: Designing a Conversational Agent for Children to Explore Machine Learning Concepts

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (09) ◽  
pp. 13381-13388
Author(s):  
Phoebe Lin ◽  
Jessica Van Brummelen ◽  
Galit Lukin ◽  
Randi Williams ◽  
Cynthia Breazeal
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Mental Models ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Conversational Agent ◽  
Conversational Agents ◽  
Limited Knowledge

Understanding how machines learn is critical for children to develop useful mental models for exploring artificial intelligence (AI) and smart devices that they now frequently interact with. Although children are very familiar with having conversations with conversational agents like Siri and Alexa, children often have limited knowledge about AI and machine learning. We leverage their existing familiarity and present Zhorai, a conversational platform and curriculum designed to help young children understand how machines learn. Children ages eight to eleven train an agent through conversation and understand how the knowledge is represented using visualizations. This paper describes how we designed the curriculum and evaluated its effectiveness with 14 children in small groups. We found that the conversational aspect of the platform increased engagement during learning and the novel visualizations helped make machine knowledge understandable. As a result, we make recommendations for future iterations of Zhorai and approaches for teaching AI to children.

scholarly journals Use of Augmented Reality to Create an iOS App with Watson Studio

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 98-100
Author(s):  
Semen Gorokhovskyi ◽  
Yelyzaveta Pyrohova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
The Real ◽  
The World

With the rapid development of applications for mobile platforms, developers from around the world already understand the need to impress with new technologies and the creation of such applications, with which the consumer will plunge into the world of virtual or augmented reality. Some of the world’s most popular mobile operating systems, Android and iOS, already have some well-known tools to make it easier to work with the machine learning industry and augmented reality technology. However, it cannot be said that their use has already reached its peak, as these technologies are at the stage of active study and development. Every year the demand for mobile application developers increases, and therefore more questions arise as to how and from which side it is better to approach immersion in augmented reality and machine learning. From a tourist point of view, there are already many applications that, with the help of these technologies, will provide more information simply by pointing the camera at a specific object.Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that allows you to see the real environment right in front of us with a digital complement superimposed on it. Thanks to Ivan Sutherland’s first display, created in 1968 under the name «Sword of Damocles», paved the way for the development of AR, which is still used today.Augmented reality can be divided into two forms: based on location and based on vision. Location-based reality provides a digital picture to the user when moving through a physical area thanks to a GPS-enabled device. With a story or information, you can learn more details about a particular location. If you use AR based on vision, certain user actions will only be performed when the camera is aimed at the target object.Thanks to advances in technology that are happening every day, easy access to smart devices can be seen as the main engine of AR technology. As the smartphone market continues to grow, consumers have the opportunity to use their devices to interact with all types of digital information. The experience of using a smartphone to combine the real and digital world is becoming more common. The success of AR applications in the last decade has been due to the proliferation and use of smartphones that have the capabilities needed to work with the application itself. If companies want to remain competitive in their field, it is advisable to consider work that will be related to AR.However, analyzing the market, one can see that there are no such applications for future entrants to higher education institutions. This means that anyone can bring a camera to the university building and learn important information. The UniApp application based on the existing Swift and Watson Studio technologies was developed to simplify obtaining information on higher education institutions.

scholarly journals Optimization of heterogeneous systems with AI planning heuristics and machine learning: a performance and energy aware approach

Computing ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suejb Memeti ◽  
Sabri Pllana
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Heterogeneous Computing ◽  
Heterogeneous Systems ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Optimal System ◽  
Ai Planning ◽  
System Configuration ◽  
Energy Aware ◽  
Machine Learning Model ◽  
A Performance

AbstractHeterogeneous computing systems provide high performance and energy efficiency. However, to optimally utilize such systems, solutions that distribute the work across host CPUs and accelerating devices are needed. In this paper, we present a performance and energy aware approach that combines AI planning heuristics for parameter space exploration with a machine learning model for performance and energy evaluation to determine a near-optimal system configuration. For data-parallel applications our approach determines a near-optimal host-device distribution of work, number of processing units required and the corresponding scheduling strategy. We evaluate our approach for various heterogeneous systems accelerated with GPU or the Intel Xeon Phi. The experimental results demonstrate that our approach finds a near-optimal system configuration by evaluating only about 7% of reasonable configurations. Furthermore, the performance per Joule estimation of system configurations using our machine learning model is more than 1000 $$\times $$ × faster compared to the system evaluation by program execution.

Creating an AI-Conversational Agent in Psychotherapy: Recognizing User Intents

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Troitskaya ◽  
Andrey Zakharov
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Decision Tree ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Conversational Agent ◽  
Intent Recognition ◽  
Self Help ◽  
User Query ◽  
Tree Algorithms ◽  
Commit Suicide

In recent years there has been a growth of psychological chatbots performing important functions from checking symptoms to providing psychoeducation and guiding self-help exercises. Technologically these chatbots are based on traditional decision-tree algorithms with limited keyword recognition. A key challenge to the development of conversational artificial intelligence is intent recognition or understanding the goal that the user wants to accomplish. The user query on psychological topic is often emotional, highly contextual and non goal-oriented, and therefore may contain vague, mixed or multiple intents. In this study we made an attempt to identify and categorize user intents with relation to psychological topics using the database of 43 000 messages from iCognito Anti-depression chatbot. We have identified 24 classes of user intents that can be grouped into larger categories, such as: a) intents to improve emotional state; b) intents to improve interpersonal relations; c) intents to improve physical condition; d) intents to solve practical problems; e) intents to make a decision; f) intents to harm oneself or commit suicide; g) intent to blame or criticize oneself. This classification may be used for the development of conversational artificial intelligence in the field of psychotherapy.

Machine Learning for Industrial IoT Systems

2021 ◽  
pp. 336-358
Author(s):  
Mona Bakri Hassan ◽  
Elmustafa Sayed Ali Ahmed ◽  
Rashid A. Saeed
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Operations Management ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Iot Applications ◽  
Industrial Iot ◽  
Effective Decision ◽  
Effective Decision Making

The use of AI algorithms in the IoT enhances the ability to analyse big data and various platforms for a number of IoT applications, including industrial applications. AI provides unique solutions in support of managing each of the different types of data for the IoT in terms of identification, classification, and decision making. In industrial IoT (IIoT), sensors, and other intelligence can be added to new or existing plants in order to monitor exterior parameters like energy consumption and other industrial parameters levels. In addition, smart devices designed as factory robots, specialized decision-making systems, and other online auxiliary systems are used in the industries IoT. Industrial IoT systems need smart operations management methods. The use of machine learning achieves methods that analyse big data developed for decision-making purposes. Machine learning drives efficient and effective decision making, particularly in the field of data flow and real-time analytics associated with advanced industrial computing networks.

scholarly journals Dynamic Voltage Optimization Based on In-Band Sensors and Machine Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (14) ◽  
pp. 2902
Author(s):  
Stan McClellan ◽  
Damian Valles ◽  
George Koutitas
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Demand Response ◽  
Distribution Grid ◽  
High Confidence ◽  
System Parameters ◽  
Grid Monitoring ◽  
Dynamic Voltage ◽  
Control Devices ◽  
Monitoring Devices ◽  
Very High

A feedback-based architecture is presented for the distribution grid which enables the use of Machine Learning (ML) techniques for various applications, including Dynamic Voltage Optimization (DVO) and Demand Response (DR). In this architecture, sensor devices are resident on the distribution grid and therefore have a unique awareness of multiple system parameters. This enables the use of ongoing ML techniques for implementation of critical applications in the Smart Grid. Monitoring devices are placed at the endpoints and monitoring/control devices are placed along the power line on various types of grid-resident systems. Because the devices are grid-resident and interact directly with other devices on the same physical link, applications such as ML-assisted DVO can be targeted with very high confidence.

scholarly journals Sensors of Smart Devices in the Internet of Everything (IoE) Era: Big Opportunities and Massive Doubts

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Masoud ◽  
Yousef Jaradat ◽  
Ahmad Manasrah ◽  
Ismael Jannoud
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Smart Device ◽  
Internet Of Everything ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Machine Learning Applications ◽  
Management Operation

Smart device industry allows developers and designers to embed different sensors, processors, and memories in small-size electronic devices. Sensors are added to enhance the usability of these devices and improve the quality of experience through data collection and analysis. However, with the era of big data and machine learning, sensors’ data may be processed by different techniques to infer various hidden information. The extracted information may be beneficial to device users, developers, and designers to enhance the management, operation, and development of these devices. However, the extracted information may be used to compromise the security and the privacy of humans in the era of Internet of Everything (IoE). In this work, we attempt to review the process of inferring meaningful data from smart devices’ sensors, especially, smartphones. In addition, different useful machine learning applications based on smartphones’ sensors data are shown. Moreover, different side channel attacks utilizing the same sensors and the same machine learning algorithms are overviewed.

scholarly journals A Machine Learning Pipeline for Demand Response Capacity Scheduling

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gautham Krishnadas ◽  
Aristides Kiprakis
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Energy Balance ◽  
Smart Grid ◽  
Demand Response ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Supervised Machine Learning ◽  
Algorithm Selection ◽  
Load Forecast ◽  
Forecast Models

Demand response (DR) is an integral component of smart grid operations that offers the necessary flexibility to support its decarbonisation. In incentive-based DR programs, deviations from the scheduled DR capacity affect the grid’s energy balance and result in revenue losses for the DR participants. This issue aggravates with increasing DR delivery from participants such as large consumer buildings who have limited standard methods to follow for DR capacity scheduling. Load curtailment based DR capacity availability from such consumers can be forecasted reliably with the help of supervised machine learning (ML) models. This study demonstrates the development of data-driven ML based total and flexible load forecast models for a retail building. The ML model development tasks such as data pre-processing, training-testing dataset preparation, cross-validation, algorithm selection, hyperparameter optimisation, feature ranking, model selection and model evaluation are guided by deployment-centric design criteria such as reliability, computational efficiency and scalability. Based on the selected performance metrics, the day-ahead and week-ahead ML based load forecast models developed for the retail building are shown to outperform the timeseries persistence models used for benchmarking. Furthermore, the deployment of these models for DR capacity scheduling is proposed as an ML pipeline that can be realised with the help of ML workflows, computational resources as well as systems for monitoring and visualisation. The ML pipeline ensures faster, cost-effective and large-scale deployment of forecast models that support reliable DR capacity scheduling without affecting the grid’s energy balance. Minimisation of revenue losses encourages increased DR participation from large consumer buildings, ensuring further flexibility in the smart grid.

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