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This study bridges the knowledge gap on how personal factors affect building occupants' responses in active shooter situations by applying interpretable machine learning methods to data from 107 participants. The personal factors studied…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ruying Liu , Burçin Becerik-Gerber , Gale M. Lucas

High-dimensional self-exciting point processes have been widely used in many application areas to model discrete event data in which past and current events affect the likelihood of future events. In this paper, we are concerned with…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-08 Daren Wang , Yi Yu , Rebecca Willett

In this article I describe a research agenda for securing machine learning models against adversarial inputs at test time. This article does not present results but instead shares some of my thoughts about where I think that the field needs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Ian Goodfellow

When each site of a spatially extended excitable medium is independently driven by a Poisson stimulus with rate h, the interplay between creation and annihilation of excitable waves leads to an average activity F. It has recently been…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2008-05-22 Tiago L. Ribeiro , Mauro Copelli

Generative models of brain activity have been instrumental in testing hypothesized mechanisms underlying brain dynamics against experimental datasets. Beyond capturing the key mechanisms underlying spontaneous brain dynamics, these models…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-18 Rishikesan Maran , Eli J. Müller , Ben D. Fulcher

We describe a unified framework within which we can build survival models. The motivation for this work comes from a study on the prediction of relapse among breast cancer patients treated at the Curie Institute in Paris, France. Our focus…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-05-28 Cécile Chauvel , John O'Quigley

We present a stochastic differential equation model of suicidal progression in U.S. veterans, simulating transitions across mental health states under dynamic stress and covariate influence. Transition rates are modulated by an…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-27 Anna Singley , Carrie Manore , Hannah Highlander , Ben McMahon

Computer modeling of human decision making is of large importance for, e.g., sustainable transport, urban development, and online recommendation systems. In this paper we present a model for predicting the behavior of an individual during a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Chenda Zhang , Hedvig Kjellström

Backdoor attacks inject poisoning samples during training, with the goal of forcing a machine learning model to output an attacker-chosen class when presented a specific trigger at test time. Although backdoor attacks have been demonstrated…

Neural network (NN) interatomic potentials provide fast prediction of potential energy surfaces, closely matching the accuracy of the electronic structure methods used to produce the training data. However, NN predictions are only reliable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Daniel Schwalbe-Koda , Aik Rui Tan , Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

Predicting extreme events in nonlinear dynamical systems is challenging due to a limited understanding of their statistical properties. This study numerically and theoretically investigates the statistical properties of infinite-modal maps…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-07 Masaki Nakagawa

Real-time safety systems are crucial components of intelligent vehicles. This paper introduces a prediction-based collision risk assessment approach on highways. Given a point mass vehicle dynamics system, a stochastic forward reachable set…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-04 Xinwei Wang , Zirui Li , Javier Alonso-Mora , Meng Wang

Economic model predictive control and tracking model predictive control are two popular advanced process control strategies used in various of fields. Nevertheless, which one should be chosen to achieve better performance in the presence of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-07 Jiangbang Liu , Song Bo , Benjamin Decardi-Nelson , Jinfeng Liu , Jingtao Hu , Tao Zou

This work presents a methodology for modeling and predicting human behavior in settings with N humans interacting in highly multimodal scenarios (i.e. where there are many possible highly-distinct futures). A motivating example includes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Boris Ivanovic , Edward Schmerling , Karen Leung , Marco Pavone

Recent studies of cortical neurons driven by fluctuating currents revealed cutoff frequencies for action potential encoding of several hundred Hz. Theoretical studies of biophysical neuron models have predicted a much lower cutoff frequency…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-27 Wei Wei , Fred Wolf

Models for predicting aircraft motion are an important component of modern aeronautical systems. These models help aircraft plan collision avoidance maneuvers and help conduct offline performance and safety analyses. In this article, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Shane Barratt , Mykel Kochenderfer , Stephen Boyd

Self-adaptive systems offer several attack surfaces due to the communication via different channels and the different sensors required to observe the environment. Often, attacks cause safety to be compromised as well, making it necessary to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Thomas Witte , Raffaela Groner , Alexander Raschke , Matthias Tichy , Irdin Pekaric , Michael Felderer

We study a model for freeway traffic which includes strong noise taking into account the fluctuations of individual driving behavior. The model shows emergent traffic jams with a self-similar appearance near the throughput maximum of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 K. Nagel

Density of the reachable states can help understand the risk of safety-critical systems, especially in situations when worst-case reachability is too conservative. Recent work provides a data-driven approach to compute the density…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Yue Meng , Zeng Qiu , Md Tawhid Bin Waez , Chuchu Fan

This paper presents an event-driven way finding algorithm for pedestrians in an evacuation scenario, which operates on a graph-based structure. The motivation of each pedestrian is to leave the facility. The events used to redirect…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-03-22 A. U. Kemloh Wagoum , A. Seyfried , S. Holl