Authors: Geoff Boeing
arXiv
This paper was presented as the 8th annual Transactions in GIS plenary address at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting in Washington, DC. The spatial sciences have recently seen grow...
Authors: Richard Granger
arXiv
The machinery of the human brain -- analog, probabilistic, embodied -- can be characterized computationally, but what machinery confers what computational powers? Any such system can be abstractly cas...
Authors: Claire-Alice Hébert, Earl Lawrence, Kary Myers, James P. Colgan, Elizabeth J. Judge
arXiv
The Mars Curiosity rover carries an instrument, ChemCam, designed to measure the composition of surface rocks and soil using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). The measured spectra from this...
Authors: Anna Heath, Maryna Yaskina, Petros Pechlivanoglou, Juan David Rios, Martin Offringa, Terry P Klassen, Naveen Poonai, Eleanor Pullenayegum
arXiv
Aims: Combinations of treatments can offer additional benefit over the treatments individually. However, trials of these combinations are lower priority than the development of novel therapies, which...
Authors: Chaitanya Joshi, Clayton D'Ath, Sophie Curtis-Ham, Deane Searle
arXiv
Developing spatio-temporal crime prediction models, and to a lesser extent, developing measures of accuracy and operational efficiency for them, has been an active area of research for almost two deca...
Authors: Xinyun Chen, Xiuwen Wang
arXiv
As an extension of self-exciting Hawkes process, the multivariate Hawkes process models counting processes of different types of random events with mutual excitement. In this paper, we present a perfe...
Authors: Nan Zhang, Daniel J. Graham, Daniel Hörcher, Prateek Bansal
arXiv
Transit operators need vulnerability measures to understand the level of service degradation under disruptions. This paper contributes to the literature with a novel causal inference approach for esti...
Authors: Kristian Miok, Blaz Skrlj, Daniela Zaharie, Marko Robnik-Sikonja
arXiv
Hate speech is an important problem in the management of user-generated content. To remove offensive content or ban misbehaving users, content moderators need reliable hate speech detectors. Recently,...
Authors: Cyrus DiCiccio, Sriram Vasudevan, Kinjal Basu, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Deepak Agarwal
arXiv
Machine learning models are central to people's lives and impact society in ways as fundamental as determining how people access information. The gravity of these models imparts a responsibility to mo...
Authors: Andreas Apfelbeck, Stefan Wegner, Roman Henze, Ferit Küçükay
arXiv
Characteristic values are essential for the design and assessment of driving dynamics during the early stages of the development process of passenger cars. Compared to other aspects of vehicle dynamic...
Authors: Denis Belomestny, Ekaterina Krymova, Andrey Polbin
arXiv
The main goal of this paper is to develop a methodology for estimating time varying parameter vector auto-regression (TVP-VAR) models with a timeinvariant long-run relationship between endogenous vari...
Authors: Robert Pepperell
arXiv
It is frequently assumed that the fundamental purpose of vision is to extract information from light and process it in the brain in order to gain knowledge about environmental objects. Treating vision...
Authors: Jimmy H. J. Kim, Ila Fiete, David J. Schwab
arXiv
The brain constructs population codes to represent stimuli through widely distributed patterns of activity across neurons. An important figure of merit of population codes is how much information abou...
Authors: Alessandra Cabassi, Denis Seyres, Mattia Frontini, Paul D. W. Kirk
arXiv
Building classification models that predict a binary class label on the basis of high dimensional multi-omics datasets poses several challenges, due to the typically widely differing characteristics o...
Authors: Albert. H. Lee, Edward L Boone, Roy T. Sabo, Erin Donahue
arXiv
Random allocation models used in clinical trials aid researchers in determining which of a particular treatment provides the best results by reducing bias between groups. Often however, this determina...