The D-Wave quantum computer – advantages and disadvantages of moving away from the circuit model

The paper is based on a thesis with the same title. The purpose of this thesis is to analyse D-Wave devices using quantum effects. The research focuses on demonstrating the advantages and disadvantages of a company moving away from the circuit model in its computers. The subject of the research is the used adiabatic model of quantum computing based on the mechanism of quantum annealing. The research is based on publicly available, comprehensive documentation of D-Wave Systems. On the basis of scientific papers, conferences and information contained in websites, controversies, disadvantages and advantages of the solutions adopted have been described.

The role of properties of the membership function in construction of fuzzy sets ranking

The paper presents a several new definitions of concepts regarding the properties of fuzzy sets in the aspect of their use in decision support processes. These are concepts such as the image and counter – image of the fuzzy set, the proper fuzzy set, the fuzzy support and the ranking of fuzzy set. These concepts can be important in construction decision support algorithms. Particularly a lot of space was devoted to the study of the properties of membership function of the fuzzy set as a result of operations on fuzzy sets. Two additional postulates were formulated that should be fulfilled by the membership function product of fuzzy sets in decision making.

Attribution of authorship in instant messaging software applications, based on similarity measures of the stylometric features’ vector

This paper describes the issue of authorship attribution based on the content of conversations originating from instant messaging software applications. The results presented in the paper refer to the corpus of conversations conducted in Polish. On the basis of a standardised model of the corpus of conversations, stylometric features were extracted, which were divided into four groups: word and message length distributions, character frequencies, tf-idf matrix and features extracted on the basis of turns (conversational features). The vectors of users’ stylometric features were compared in pairs by using Euclidean, cosine and Manhattan metrics. CMC curves were used to analyse the significance of the feature groups and the effectiveness of the metrics for identifying similar speech styles. The best results were obtained by the group of features being the tf-idf matrix compared with the use of cosine distance and the group of features extracted on the basis of turns compared with the use of the Manhattan metric.

Rewiev of current text representation technics for semantic relationship extraction

Article provides review on current most popular text processing technics; sketches their evolution and compares sequence and dependency models in detecting semantic relationship between words.

Data protection in transactional and statistical applications of databases

The article describes a discussion on the issue of data protection in databases. The discussion attempts to answer the question about the possibility of using a transactional database system as a system capable of data protection in a statistical database. The discussion is preceded by a reminder of the basic issues related to data protection in databases, including reminder of flow control models, access control models and the inference. The key element of the article is the analysis, based on the example of the Oracle database management system, whether data protection mechanisms in transactional databases can be effective in case of data protection in statistical databases.

The method of automatic assignment ICD codes based on semantic information

The paper presents the method of automatic assignment of ICD codes based on semantic information contained in clinical reports of the MIMIC-III database. It is showing the possibility of using multi-criteria optimization methods for simple classifiers fusion in a more precise classifiers complex. ICD code assignment is important in the modern hospital, more accurate automation of assigning codes will make the clinical process more efficient and can help clinicians carry out better diagnostics and effectively improve medical care systems.

Clustering web search results using Wikipedia resource

The paper presents a proposal of a new method for clustering search results. The method uses an external knowledge resource, which can be, for example, Wikipedia. Wikipedia – the largest encyclopedia, is a free and popular knowledge resource which is used to extract topics from short texts. Similarities between documents are calculated based on the similarities between these topics. After that, affinity propagation clustering algorithm is employed to cluster web search results. Proposed method is tested by AMBIENT dataset and evaluated within the experimental framework provided by a SemEval-2013 task. The paper also suggests new method to compare global performance of algorithms using multi – criteria analysis.

Design and implementation of an information system to study the repeatability of the orientation in space for medical applications

The aim of the study was to study the repeatability of the object’s orientation in space. During the study, a self-constructed system of 4 gyroscope and an available robot of the Kuka type were used. An application allowing for comparison of research results was written and presented. The article contains individual stages of work (analytical and implementation), research results, conclusions and discussion.

Methods of generating test data for carrying out the fuzzing process

The article presents and compares modern methods of generating test data in the process of automatic software security testing, so called fuzz testing. The publication contains descriptions of methods used, among others, in local, network or web applications, and then compares them and evaluates their effectiveness in the process of ensuring software security. The impact of the quality of test data corpus on the effectiveness of automated security testing has been assessed.

Fuzzy sets in modeling of patient’s disease states

The paper concerns the mathematical modeling of patient’s disease states and disease unit patterns for the needs of algorithms supporting medical decisions. Due to the specificity of medical data and assessments in the modeling of patient’s disease states as well as diseases, the fuzzy set methodology was used. The paper presents a number of new characteristics of fuzzy sets allowing to assess the quality of medical diagnosis. In addition, a definition of a multi-aspect fuzzy set is presented, which may be useful in supporting medical diagnostics based on multi-criteria similarity models. The presented results can be used in the construction of algorithms for assessing the patient's state of health and mainly in the construction of algorithms for supporting diagnostic processes.