TY - GEN A1 - Alhosseini Almodarresi Yasin, Seyed Ali A1 - Bin Tareaf, Raad A1 - Najafi, Pejman A1 - Meinel, Christoph T1 - Detect me if you can BT - Spam Bot Detection Using Inductive Representation Learning T2 - Companion Proceedings of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference N2 - Spam Bots have become a threat to online social networks with their malicious behavior, posting misinformation messages and influencing online platforms to fulfill their motives. As spam bots have become more advanced over time, creating algorithms to identify bots remains an open challenge. Learning low-dimensional embeddings for nodes in graph structured data has proven to be useful in various domains. In this paper, we propose a model based on graph convolutional neural networks (GCNN) for spam bot detection. Our hypothesis is that to better detect spam bots, in addition to defining a features set, the social graph must also be taken into consideration. GCNNs are able to leverage both the features of a node and aggregate the features of a node’s neighborhood. We compare our approach, with two methods that work solely on a features set and on the structure of the graph. To our knowledge, this work is the first attempt of using graph convolutional neural networks in spam bot detection. KW - Social Media Analysis KW - Bot Detection KW - Graph Embedding KW - Graph Convolutional Neural Networks Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-1-4503-6675-5 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3308560.3316504 SP - 148 EP - 153 PB - Association for Computing Machinery CY - New York ER - TY - GEN A1 - Fichte, Johannes Klaus A1 - Hecher, Markus A1 - Meier, Arne T1 - Counting Complexity for Reasoning in Abstract Argumentation T2 - The Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the Thirty-First Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, the Ninth AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence N2 - In this paper, we consider counting and projected model counting of extensions in abstract argumentation for various semantics. When asking for projected counts we are interested in counting the number of extensions of a given argumentation framework while multiple extensions that are identical when restricted to the projected arguments count as only one projected extension. We establish classical complexity results and parameterized complexity results when the problems are parameterized by treewidth of the undirected argumentation graph. To obtain upper bounds for counting projected extensions, we introduce novel algorithms that exploit small treewidth of the undirected argumentation graph of the input instance by dynamic programming (DP). Our algorithms run in time double or triple exponential in the treewidth depending on the considered semantics. Finally, we take the exponential time hypothesis (ETH) into account and establish lower bounds of bounded treewidth algorithms for counting extensions and projected extension. Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-1-57735-809-1 SP - 2827 EP - 2834 PB - AAAI Press CY - Palo Alto ER - TY - GEN A1 - Cabalar, Pedro A1 - Fandiño, Jorge A1 - Schaub, Torsten H. A1 - Schellhorn, Sebastian T1 - Lower Bound Founded Logic of Here-and-There T2 - Logics in Artificial Intelligence N2 - A distinguishing feature of Answer Set Programming is that all atoms belonging to a stable model must be founded. That is, an atom must not only be true but provably true. This can be made precise by means of the constructive logic of Here-and-There, whose equilibrium models correspond to stable models. One way of looking at foundedness is to regard Boolean truth values as ordered by letting true be greater than false. Then, each Boolean variable takes the smallest truth value that can be proven for it. This idea was generalized by Aziz to ordered domains and applied to constraint satisfaction problems. As before, the idea is that a, say integer, variable gets only assigned to the smallest integer that can be justified. In this paper, we present a logical reconstruction of Aziz’ idea in the setting of the logic of Here-and-There. More precisely, we start by defining the logic of Here-and-There with lower bound founded variables along with its equilibrium models and elaborate upon its formal properties. Finally, we compare our approach with related ones and sketch future work. Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-3-030-19570-0 SN - 978-3-030-19569-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19570-0_34 SN - 0302-9743 SN - 1611-3349 VL - 11468 SP - 509 EP - 525 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Giannini, Paola A1 - Richter, Tim A1 - Servetto, Marco A1 - Zucca, Elena T1 - Tracing sharing in an imperative pure calculus JF - Science of computer programming N2 - We introduce a type and effect system, for an imperative object calculus, which infers sharing possibly introduced by the evaluation of an expression, represented as an equivalence relation among its free variables. This direct representation of sharing effects at the syntactic level allows us to express in a natural way, and to generalize, widely-used notions in literature, notably uniqueness and borrowing. Moreover, the calculus is pure in the sense that reduction is defined on language terms only, since they directly encode store. The advantage of this non-standard execution model with respect to a behaviorally equivalent standard model using a global auxiliary structure is that reachability relations among references are partly encoded by scoping. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. KW - Imperative calculi KW - Sharing KW - Type and effect systems Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scico.2018.11.007 SN - 0167-6423 SN - 1872-7964 VL - 172 SP - 180 EP - 202 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Banbara, Mutsunori A1 - Inoue, Katsumi A1 - Kaufmann, Benjamin A1 - Okimoto, Tenda A1 - Schaub, Torsten H. A1 - Soh, Takehide A1 - Tamura, Naoyuki A1 - Wanko, Philipp T1 - teaspoon BT - solving the curriculum-based course timetabling problems with answer set programming JF - Annals of operation research N2 - Answer Set Programming (ASP) is an approach to declarative problem solving, combining a rich yet simple modeling language with high performance solving capacities. We here develop an ASP-based approach to curriculum-based course timetabling (CB-CTT), one of the most widely studied course timetabling problems. The resulting teaspoon system reads a CB-CTT instance of a standard input format and converts it into a set of ASP facts. In turn, these facts are combined with a first-order encoding for CB-CTT solving, which can subsequently be solved by any off-the-shelf ASP systems. We establish the competitiveness of our approach by empirically contrasting it to the best known bounds obtained so far via dedicated implementations. Furthermore, we extend the teaspoon system to multi-objective course timetabling and consider minimal perturbation problems. KW - Educational timetabling KW - Course timetabling KW - Answer set programming KW - Multi-objective optimization KW - Minimal perturbation problems Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-018-2757-7 SN - 0254-5330 SN - 1572-9338 VL - 275 IS - 1 SP - 3 EP - 37 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dimopoulos, Yannis A1 - Gebser, Martin A1 - Lühne, Patrick A1 - Romero Davila, Javier A1 - Schaub, Torsten H. T1 - plasp 3 BT - Towards Effective ASP Planning JF - Theory and practice of logic programming N2 - We describe the new version of the Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL)-to-Answer Set Programming (ASP) translator plasp. First, it widens the range of accepted PDDL features. Second, it contains novel planning encodings, some inspired by Satisfiability Testing (SAT) planning and others exploiting ASP features such as well-foundedness. All of them are designed for handling multivalued fluents in order to capture both PDDL as well as SAS planning formats. Third, enabled by multishot ASP solving, it offers advanced planning algorithms also borrowed from SAT planning. As a result, plasp provides us with an ASP-based framework for studying a variety of planning techniques in a uniform setting. Finally, we demonstrate in an empirical analysis that these techniques have a significant impact on the performance of ASP planning. KW - knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning KW - technical notes and rapid communications KW - answer set programming KW - automated planning KW - action and change Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1471068418000583 SN - 1471-0684 SN - 1475-3081 VL - 19 IS - 3 SP - 477 EP - 504 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Metref, Sammy A1 - Cosme, Emmanuel A1 - Le Sommer, Julien A1 - Poel, Nora A1 - Brankart, Jean-Michel A1 - Verron, Jacques A1 - Gomez Navarro, Laura T1 - Reduction of spatially structured errors in Wide-Swath altimetric satellite data using data assimilation JF - Remote sensing N2 - The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission is a next generation satellite mission expected to provide a 2 km-resolution observation of the sea surface height (SSH) on a two-dimensional swath. Processing SWOT data will be challenging because of the large amount of data, the mismatch between a high spatial resolution and a low temporal resolution, and the observation errors. The present paper focuses on the reduction of the spatially structured errors of SWOT SSH data. It investigates a new error reduction method and assesses its performance in an observing system simulation experiment. The proposed error-reduction method first projects the SWOT SSH onto a subspace spanned by the SWOT spatially structured errors. This projection is removed from the SWOT SSH to obtain a detrended SSH. The detrended SSH is then processed within an ensemble data assimilation analysis to retrieve a full SSH field. In the latter step, the detrending is applied to both the SWOT data and an ensemble of model-simulated SSH fields. Numerical experiments are performed with synthetic SWOT observations and an ensemble from a North Atlantic, 1/60 degrees simulation of the ocean circulation (NATL60). The data assimilation analysis is carried out with an ensemble Kalman filter. The results are assessed with root mean square errors, power spectrum density, and spatial coherence. They show that a significant part of the large scale SWOT errors is reduced. The filter analysis also reduces the small scale errors and allows for an accurate recovery of the energy of the signal down to 25 km scales. In addition, using the SWOT nadir data to adjust the SSH detrending further reduces the errors. KW - SWOT KW - correlated errors KW - OSSE KW - projection KW - detrending KW - ensemble kalman filter Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11111336 SN - 2072-4292 VL - 11 IS - 11 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER - TY - GEN A1 - Aguado, Felicidad A1 - Cabalar, Pedro A1 - Fandiño, Jorge A1 - Pearce, David A1 - Perez, Gilberto A1 - Vidal, Concepcion T1 - Revisiting explicit negation in answer set programming T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - A common feature in Answer Set Programming is the use of a second negation, stronger than default negation and sometimes called explicit, strong or classical negation. This explicit negation is normally used in front of atoms, rather than allowing its use as a regular operator. In this paper we consider the arbitrary combination of explicit negation with nested expressions, as those defined by Lifschitz, Tang and Turner. We extend the concept of reduct for this new syntax and then prove that it can be captured by an extension of Equilibrium Logic with this second negation. We study some properties of this variant and compare to the already known combination of Equilibrium Logic with Nelson's strong negation. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - 1104 KW - Answer Set Programming KW - non-monotonic reasoning KW - Equilibrium logic KW - explicit negation Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-469697 SN - 1866-8372 IS - 1104 SP - 908 EP - 924 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Przybylla, Mareen T1 - Interactive objects in physical computing and their role in the learning process T2 - Constructivist foundations N2 - The target article discusses the question of how educational makerspaces can become places supportive of knowledge construction. This question is too often neglected by people who run makerspaces, as they mostly explain how to use different tools and focus on the creation of a product. In makerspaces, often pupils also engage in physical computing activities and thus in the creation of interactive artifacts containing embedded systems, such as smart shoes or wristbands, plant monitoring systems or drink mixing machines. This offers the opportunity to reflect on teaching physical computing in computer science education, where similarly often the creation of the product is so strongly focused upon that the reflection of the learning process is pushed into the background. Y1 - 2019 SN - 1782-348X VL - 14 IS - 3 SP - 264 EP - 266 PB - Vrije Univ. CY - Bussels ER - TY - GEN A1 - Sahlmann, Kristina A1 - Clemens, Vera A1 - Nowak, Michael A1 - Schnor, Bettina T1 - MUP BT - Simplifying Secure Over-The-Air Update with MQTT for Constrained IoT Devices T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) is one of the dominating protocols for edge- and cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. When a security vulnerability of an IoT device is known, it has to be fixed as soon as possible. This requires a firmware update procedure. In this paper, we propose a secure update protocol for MQTT-connected devices which ensures the freshness of the firmware, authenticates the new firmware and considers constrained devices. We show that the update protocol is easy to integrate in an MQTT-based IoT network using a semantic approach. The feasibility of our approach is demonstrated by a detailed performance analysis of our prototype implementation on a IoT device with 32 kB RAM. Thereby, we identify design issues in MQTT 5 which can help to improve the support of constrained devices. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - 1094 KW - Internet of Things KW - security KW - firmware update KW - MQTT KW - edge computing Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-489013 SN - 1866-8372 IS - 1094 ER -