Adrian Stoica

Peter Shmerko, Yumi Iwashita, Adrian Stoica et al.

Mission teams are exposed to the emotional toll of life and death decisions. These are small groups of specially trained people supported by intelligent machines for dealing with stressful environments and scenarios. We developed a composite model for stress monitoring in such teams of human and autonomous machines. This modelling aims to identify the conditions that may contribute to mission failure. The proposed model is composed of three parts: 1) a computational logic part that statically describes the stress states of teammates; 2) a decision part that manifests the mission status at any time; 3) a stress propagation part based on standard Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible (SIS) paradigm. In contrast to the approaches such as agent-based, random-walk and game models, the proposed model combines various mechanisms to satisfy the conditions of stress propagation in small groups. Our core approach involves data structures such as decision tables and decision diagrams. These tools are adaptable to human-machine teaming as well.

Yumi Iwashita, Haakon Moe, Yang Cheng et al.

As global efforts to explore the Moon intensify, the need for high-quality 3D lunar maps becomes increasingly critical-particularly for long-distance missions such as NASA's Endurance mission concept, in which a rover aims to traverse 2,000 km across the South Pole-Aitken basin. Kaguya TC (Terrain Camera) images, though globally available at 10 m/pixel, suffer from altitude inaccuracies caused by stereo matching errors and JPEG-based compression artifacts. This paper presents a method to improve the quality of 3D maps generated from Kaguya TC images, focusing on mitigating the effects of compression-induced noise in disparity maps. We analyze the compression behavior of Kaguya TC imagery, and identify systematic disparity noise patterns, especially in darker regions. In this paper, we propose an approach to enhance 3D map quality by reducing residual noise in disparity images derived from compressed images. Our experimental results show that the proposed approach effectively reduces elevation noise, enhancing the safety and reliability of terrain data for future lunar missions.

Joseph Gatto, Ravi Lanka, Yumi Iwashita et al.

Have you ever wondered how your feature space is impacting the prediction of a specific sample in your dataset? In this paper, we introduce Single Sample Feature Importance (SSFI), which is an interpretable feature importance algorithm that allows for the identification of the most important features that contribute to the prediction of a single sample. When a dataset can be learned by a Random Forest classifier or regressor, SSFI shows how the Random Forest's prediction path can be utilized for low-level feature importance calculation. SSFI results in a relative ranking of features, highlighting those with the greatest impact on a data point's prediction. We demonstrate these results both numerically and visually on four different datasets.

Adrian Stoica, Nikolaos Tselios, Christos Fidas

This paper is concerned with the design and implementation of an innovative user support system in the frame of an open educational environment. The environment adapted is ModelsCreator (MC), an educational system supporting learning through modelling activities. The pupils typical interaction with the system was modelled us-ing Bayesian Belief Networks (BBN). This model has been used in ModelsCreator to build an adaptive help system providing the most useful guidelines according to the current state of interaction. A brief description of the system and an overview of application of Bayesian techniques to educational systems is presented together with discussion about the process of building of the Bayesian Network derived from actual student interaction data. A preliminary evaluation of the developed prototype indicates that the proposed approach produces systems with promising performance.