• Large scale anomaly detection in mixed numerical and categorical input spaces 

      Eiras-Franco, Carlos; Martínez Rego, David; Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo; Bahamonde, Antonio (Elsevier, 2019)
      [Abstract]: This work presents the ADMNC method, designed to tackle anomaly detection for large-scale problems with a mixture of categorical and numerical input variables. A flexible parametric probability measure is ...
    • Case Study of Anomaly Detection and Quality Control of Energy Efficiency and Hygrothermal Comfort in Buildings 

      Eiras-Franco, Carlos; Flores, Miguel; Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Zaragoza, Sonia; Fernández-Casal, Rubén; Naya, Salvador; Tarrío-Saavedra, Javier (2019)
      [Abstract] The aim of this work is to propose different statistical and machine learning methodologies for identifying anomalies and control the quality of energy efficiency and hygrothermal comfort in buildings. ...
    • Insights into distributed feature ranking 

      Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Sechidis, Konstantinos; Sánchez-Maroño, Noelia; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo; Brown, Gavin (Elsevier, 2019)
      [Abstract]: In an era in which the volume and complexity of datasets is continuously growing, feature selection techniques have become indispensable to extract useful information from huge amounts of data. However, existing ...
    • On developing an automatic threshold applied to feature selection ensembles 

      Seijo Pardo, Borja; Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo (Elsevier, 2019-01)
      [Abstract]: Feature selection ensemble methods are a recent approach aiming at adding diversity in sets of selected features, improving performance and obtaining more robust and stable results. However, using an ensemble ...
    • A Convolutional Network for Sleep Stages Classification 

      Fernández-Varela, Isaac; Hernández-Pereira, Elena; Alvarez-Estevez, Diego; Moret-Bonillo, Vicente (2019-02)
      [Abstract]: Sleep stages classification is a crucial task in the context of sleep studies. It involves the simultaneous analysis of multiple signals recorded during sleep. However, it is complex and tedious, and even the ...
    • Anomaly Detection in IoT: Methods, Techniques and Tools 

      Vigoya, Laura; López-Vizcaíno, Manuel F.; Fernández, Diego; Carneiro, Víctor (MDPI AG, 2019-07-22)
      [Abstract] Nowadays, the Internet of things (IoT) network, as system of interrelated computing devices with the ability to transfer data over a network, is present in many scenarios of everyday life. Understanding how ...
    • A Machine Learning Solution for Distributed Environments and Edge Computing 

      Penas-Noce, Javier; Fontenla-Romero, Óscar; Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha (MDPI AG, 2019-08-09)
      [Abstract] In a society in which information is a cornerstone the exploding of data is crucial. Thinking of the Internet of Things, we need systems able to learn from massive data and, at the same time, being inexpensive ...
    • Distributed correlation-based feature selection in spark 

      Palma Mendoza, Raúl José; Marcos, Luis de; Rodríguez, Daniel; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo (Elsevier, 2019-09)
      [Abstract]: Feature selection (FS) is a key preprocessing step in data mining. CFS (Correlation-Based Feature Selection) is an FS algorithm that has been successfully applied to classification problems in many domains. We ...
    • Distributed classification based on distances between probability distributions in feature space 

      Montero Manso, Pablo; Morán-Fernández, Laura; Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Vilar, José; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo (Elsevier, 2019-09)
      [Abstract]: We consider a distributed framework where training and test samples drawn from the same distribution are available, with the training instances spread across disjoint nodes. In this setting, a novel learning ...
    • A scalable saliency-based feature selection method with instance-level information 

      Cancela, Brais; Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo; Gama, João (Elsevier, 2019-11)
      [Abstract]: Classic feature selection techniques remove irrelevant or redundant features to achieve a subset of relevant features in compact models that are easier to interpret and so improve knowledge extraction. Most ...
    • Wavefront Marching Methods: A Unified Algorithm to Solve Eikonal and Static Hamilton-Jacobi Equations 

      Cancela, Brais; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo (IEEE, 2019-12)
      [Abstract]: This paper presents a unified propagation method for dealing with both the classic Eikonal equation, where the motion direction does not affect the propagation, and the more general static Hamilton-Jacobi ...
    • A scalable decision-tree-based method to explain interactions in dyadic data 

      Eiras-Franco, Carlos; Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo; Bahamonde, Antonio (Elsevier, 2019-12)
      [Abstract]: Gaining relevant insight from a dyadic dataset, which describes interactions between two entities, is an open problem that has sparked the interest of researchers and industry data scientists alike. However, ...
    • Community detection and social network analysis based on the Italian wars of the 15th century 

      Fumanal-Idocin, Javier; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo; Cordón, Oscar; Bustince, Humberto; Minárová, Mária (Elsevier, 2020)
      [Abstract]: In this contribution we study social network modelling by using human interaction as a basis. To do so, we propose a new set of functions, affinities, designed to capture the nature of the local interactions ...
    • Fast Distributed kNN Graph Construction Using Auto-tuned Locality-sensitive Hashing 

      Eiras-Franco, Carlos; Martínez Rego, David; Kanthan, Leslie; Piñeiro, César; Bahamonde, Antonio; Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo (Association for Computing Machinery, 2020)
      [Abstract]: The k-nearest-neighbors (kNN) graph is a popular and powerful data structure that is used in various areas of Data Science, but the high computational cost of obtaining it hinders its use on large datasets. ...
    • Usability Heuristics for Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) 

      Mosqueira-Rey, E.; Alonso Ríos, David (ACM, 2020-03-30)
      [Abstract] The usability of Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) has been attracting considerable interest from researchers lately. In particular, our literature review found many usability studies that make use of subjective ...
    • Regression Tree Based Explanation for Anomaly Detection Algorithm 

      López-Riobóo Botana, Iñigo Luis; Eiras-Franco, Carlos; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo (MDPI AG, 2020-08-18)
      [Abstract] This work presents EADMNC (Explainable Anomaly Detection on Mixed Numerical and Categorical spaces), a novel approach to address explanation using an anomaly detection algorithm, ADMNC, which provides accurate ...
    • On the Effectiveness of Convolutional Autoencoders on Image-Based Personalized Recommender Systems 

      Blanco, Eva; Remeseiro, Beatriz; Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo (MDPI AG, 2020-08-19)
      [Abstract] Over the years, the success of recommender systems has become remarkable. Due to the massive arrival of options that a consumer can have at his/her reach, a collaborative environment was generated, where users ...
    • Adaptive Real-Time Method for Anomaly Detection Using Machine Learning 

      Novoa-Paradela, David; Fontenla-Romero, Óscar; Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha (MDPI AG, 2020-08-20)
      [Abstract] Anomaly detection is a sub-area of machine learning that deals with the development of methods to distinguish among normal and anomalous data. Due to the frequent use of anomaly-detection systems in monitoring ...
    • An Agent-Based Model to Simulate the Spread of a Virus Based on Social Behavior and Containment Measures 

      Seijas Carpente, Manuel; Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha; Alonso-Betanzos, Amparo; Rodríguez-Arias, Alejandro; Dumitru, Adina (MDPI AG, 2020-08-20)
      [Abstract] COVID-19 has brought a new normality in society. However, to avoid the situation, the virus must be stopped. There are several ways in which the governments of the world have taken action, from small measures ...
    • An Intelligent and Collaborative Multiagent System in a 3D Environment 

      Rodríguez Arias, Alejandro; Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha; Sánchez-Maroño, Noelia (MDPI AG, 2020-08-21)
      [Abstract] Multiagent systems (MASs) allow facing complex, heterogeneous, distributed problems difficult to solve by only one software agent. The world of video games provides problems and suitable environments for the use ...