Mirjana Ivanovic

This book examines the impact of such constraints on elastic time-series similarity measures and provides guidance on selecting suitable measures. Time-series classification frequently relies on selecting an appropriate similarity or distance measure to compare time series effectively, often using dynamic programming techniques for more robust results. However, these techniques can be computationally demanding, which results in the usage of global constraints to reduce the search area in the dynamic programming matrix. While these constraints cut computation time significantly (by up to three orders of magnitude), they may also affect classification accuracy. Additionally, the importance of the nearest neighbor classifier (1NN) is emphasized for its strong performance in time-series classification, alongside the kNN classifier which offers stable results. This book further explores the weighted kNN classifier, which gives closer neighbors more influence, showing how it merges accuracy and stability for improved classification outcomes.

This book focuses on the practical application of AI tools and techniques in software project management, offering detailed theoretical explanations and practical examples of over 40 state-of-the-art machine learning and deep learning algorithms applied across each project phase, as well as in risk and resource management. Helping the business world estimate projects more accurately while saving costs and resources is crucial in today’s rapidly changing, fast-paced technological landscape. Moreover, it presents specific aspects of combined approaches through ensemble models, incorporating Taguchi’s optimization method to further improve estimation accuracy, advancing this area of software project management. A valuable resource for students and professionals to deepen their knowledge and skills, it also serves as a great manual for companies adopting smarter strategies to manage and develop projects more efficiently and effectively.

This book provides a comprehensive review of complex networks from three different domains, presents novel methods for analyzing them, and highlights applications with accompanying case studies. Special emphasis is placed on three specific kinds of complex networks of high technological and scientific importance: software networks extracted from the source code of computer programs, ontology networks describing semantic web ontologies, and co-authorship networks reflecting collaboration in science. The book is primarily intended for researchers, teachers and students interested in complex networks and network data analysis. However, it will also be valuable for researchers dealing with software engineering, ontology engineering and scientometrics, as it demonstrates how complex network analysis can be used to address important research issues in these three disciplines.

This monograph provides a comprehensive research review of intelligent techniques for personalisation of e-learning systems. Special emphasis is given to intelligent tutoring systems as a particular class of e-learning systems, which support and improve the learning and teaching of domain-specific knowledge. A new approach to perform effective personalization based on Semantic web technologies achieved in a tutoring system is presented. This approach incorporates a recommender system based on collaborative tagging techniques that adapts to the interests and level of students' knowledge. These innovations are important contributions of this monograph. Theoretical models and techniques are illustrated on a real personalised tutoring system for teaching Java programming language. The monograph is directed to, students and researchers interested in the e-learning and personalization techniques.

This book provides a comprehensive review of complex networks from three different domains, presents novel methods for analyzing them, and highlights applications with accompanying case studies. Special emphasis is placed on three specific kinds of complex networks of high technological and scientific importance: software networks extracted from the source code of computer programs, ontology networks describing semantic web ontologies, and co-authorship networks reflecting collaboration in science. The book is primarily intended for researchers, teachers and students interested in complex networks and network data analysis. However, it will also be valuable for researchers dealing with software engineering, ontology engineering and scientometrics, as it demonstrates how complex network analysis can be used to address important research issues in these three disciplines.

This monograph provides a comprehensive research review of intelligent techniques for personalisation of e-learning systems. Special emphasis is given to intelligent tutoring systems as a particular class of e-learning systems, which support and improve the learning and teaching of domain-specific knowledge. A new approach to perform effective personalization based on Semantic web technologies achieved in a tutoring system is presented. This approach incorporates a recommender system based on collaborative tagging techniques that adapts to the interests and level of students' knowledge. These innovations are important contributions of this monograph. Theoretical models and techniques are illustrated on a real personalised tutoring system for teaching Java programming language. The monograph is directed to, students and researchers interested in the e-learning and personalization techniques.