Human activity recognition (HAR) has been of interest in recent years due to the growing demands in many areas. Applications of HAR include healthcare systems to monitor activities of daily living (ADL) (primarily due to the rapidly growing population of the elderly), security environments for automatic recognition of abnormal activities to notify the relevant authorities, and improve human interaction with the computer. HAR research can be classified according to the data acquisition tools (sensors or cameras), methods (handcrafted methods or deep learning methods), and the complexity of the activity. In the healthcare system, HAR based on wearable sensors is a new technology that consists of three essential parts worth examining: the location of the wearable sensor, data preprocessing (feature calculation, extraction, and selection), and the recognition methods. This survey aims to examine all aspects of HAR based on wearable sensors, thus analyzing the applications, challenges, datasets, approaches, and components. It also provides coherent categorizations, purposeful comparisons, and systematic architecture. Then, this paper performs qualitative evaluations by criteria considered in this system on the approaches and makes available comprehensive reviews of the HAR system. Therefore, this survey is more extensive and coherent than recent surveys in this field.
The goal of aggregating the base classifiers is to achieve an aggregated classifier that has a higher resolution than individual classifiers. Random forest is one of the types of ensemble learning methods that have been considered more than other ensemble learning methods due to its simple structure, ease of understanding, as well as higher efficiency than similar methods. The ability and efficiency of classical methods are always influenced by the data. The capabilities of independence from the data domain, and the ability to adapt to problem space conditions, are the most challenging issues about the different types of classifiers. In this paper, a method based on learning automata is presented, through which the adaptive capabilities of the problem space, as well as the independence of the data domain, are added to the random forest to increase its efficiency. Using the idea of reinforcement learning in the random forest has made it possible to address issues with data that have a dynamic behaviour. Dynamic behaviour refers to the variability in the behaviour of a data sample in different domains. Therefore, to evaluate the proposed method, and to create an environment with dynamic behaviour, different domains of data have been considered. In the proposed method, the idea is added to the random forest using learning automata. The reason for this choice is the simple structure of the learning automata and the compatibility of the learning automata with the problem space. The evaluation results confirm the improvement of random forest efficiency.
a b s t r a c tLearning automata (LA) were recently shown to be valuable tools for designing Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning algorithms and are able to control the stochastic games. In this paper, the concepts of stigmergy and entropy are imported into learning automata based multi-agent systems with the purpose of providing a simple framework for interaction and coordination in multi-agent systems and speeding up the learning process. The multi-agent system considered in this paper is designed to find optimal policies in Markov games. We consider several dummy agents that walk around in the states of the environment, make local learning automaton active, and bring information so that the involved learning automaton can update their local state. The entropy of the probability vector for the learning automata of the next state is used to determine reward or penalty for the actions of learning automata. The experimental results have shown that in terms of the speed of reaching the optimal policy, the proposed algorithm has better learning performance than other learning algorithms.
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