Swarm Intelligence Clustering Algorithm Based on Attractor
Ant colonies behavior and their self-organizing capabilities have been popularly studied, and various swarm intelligence models and clustering algorithms also have been proposed. Unfortunately, the cluster number is often too high and convergence is also slow. We put forward a novel structure-attractor, which actively attracts and guides the ant's behavior, and implement an efficient strategy to adaptively control the clustering behavior. Our experiments show that swarm intelligence clustering algorithm based on attractor (SICABA for short) greatly improves the convergence speed and clustering quality compared with LF and also has many notable virtues such as flexibility, decentralization compared with conventional algorithms.

title: Semantics Supervised Cluster-Based Index for Video Databases
abstract: High-dimensional index is one of the most challenging tasks for content-based video retrieval (CBVR). Typically, in video database, there exist two kinds of clues for query: visual features and semantic classes. In this paper, we modeled the relationship between semantic classes and visual feature distributions of data set with the Gaussian mixture model (GMM), and proposed a semantics supervised cluster based index approach (briefly as SSCI) to integrate the advantages of both semantic classes and visual features. The entire data set is divided hierarchically by a modified clustering technique into many clusters until the objects within a cluster are not only close in the visual feature space but also within the same semantic class, and then an index entry including semantic clue and visual feature clue is built for each cluster. Especially, the visual feature vectors in a cluster are organized adjacently in disk. So the SSCI-based nearest-neighbor (NN) search can be divided into two phases: the first phase computes the distances between the query example and each cluster index and returns the clusters with the smallest distance, here namely candidate clusters; then the second phase retrieves the original feature vectors within the candidate clusters to gain the approximate nearest neighbors. Our experiments showed that for approximate searching the SSCI-based approach was faster than VA+-based approach; moreover, the quality of the result set was better than that of the sequential search in terms of semantics.

title: Question Answering Summarization of Multiple Biomedical Documents
abstract: In this paper we introduce a system that automatically summarizes multiple biomedical documents relevant to a question. The system extracts biomedical and general concepts by utilizing concept-level knowledge from domain-specific and domain-independent sources. Semantic role labeling, semantic subgraph-based sentence selection and automatic post-editing are involved in the process of finding the information need. Due to the absence of expert-written summaries of biomedical documents, we propose an approximate evaluation by taking MEDLINE abstracts as expert-written summaries. Evaluation results indicate that our system does help in answering questions and the automatically generated summaries are comparable to abstracts of biomedical articles, as evaluated using the ROUGE measure.