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Recent years have experienced increasing utilization of complex machine learning models across multiple sources of data to inform more generalizable decision-making. However, distribution shifts across data sources and privacy concerns…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-16 Yi Liu , Alexander W. Levis , Sharon-Lise Normand , Larry Han

In this work we study the problem of inferring a discrete probability distribution using both expert knowledge and empirical data. This is an important issue for many applications where the scarcity of data prevents a purely empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Rémi Besson , Erwan Le Pennec , Stéphanie Allassonnière

We are concerned with three types of uncertainties: probabilistic, possibilitistic and interval. By using possibility and necessity measures as an Interval Valued Probability Measure (IVPM), we present IVPM's interval expected values whose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-01-25 Phantipa Thipwiwatpotjana , Weldon A. Lodwick

In practical situations, interval-valued fuzzy sets are frequently encountered. In this paper, firstly, we present shadowed sets for interpreting and understanding interval fuzzy sets. We also provide an analytic solution to computing the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-12-23 Guangming Lang

The problem of developing models and algorithms for multilevel association mining pose for new challenges for mathematics and computer science. These problems become more challenging, when some form of uncertainty like fuzziness is present…

Databases · Computer Science 2010-03-25 Pratima Gautam , Neelu Khare , K. R. Pardasani

Fusion learning refers to synthesizing inferences from multiple sources or studies to provide more effective inference and prediction than from any individual source or study alone. Most existing methods for synthesizing inferences rely on…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-11-16 Dungang Liu , Regina Y. Liu , Minge Xie

Multivariate categorical data are common in many fields. We are motivated by election polls studies assessing evidence of changes in voters opinions with their candidates preferences in the 2016 United States Presidential primaries or…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-08-10 Massimiliano Russo , Daniele Durante , Bruno Scarpa

Bayesian variable selection is a powerful tool for data analysis, as it offers a principled method for variable selection that accounts for prior information and uncertainty. However, wider adoption of Bayesian variable selection has been…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-06 Martin Jankowiak

To conduct Bayesian inference with large data sets, it is often convenient or necessary to distribute the data across multiple machines. We consider a likelihood function expressed as a product of terms, each associated with a subset of the…

Computation · Statistics 2020-04-09 Lewis J. Rendell , Adam M. Johansen , Anthony Lee , Nick Whiteley

Re-ranking is a process of rearranging ranking list to more effectively meet user demands by accounting for the interrelationships between items. Existing methods predominantly enhance the precision of search results, often at the expense…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Huimu Wang , Mingming Li , Dadong Miao , Songlin Wang , Guoyu Tang , Lin Liu , Sulong Xu , Jinghe Hu

The Ordinal Priority Approach (OPA) is a multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) method to determine the relative importance (weights) of experts, attributes, and alternatives. This study formally establishes the fundamental properties of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Renlong Wang

In the item there are presented Interval Structure allow to extend the class of multicriteria decision making problems including incomplete Initial Information. this step will facilitate dada gathering in pairs matching for decision making.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 V. Zhukovin , Z. Alimbarashvili

The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) models and methods presents growing challenges for research software engineers and researchers who must select, integrate, and maintain appropriate models within complex research…

Intermittent demand forecasting is a ubiquitous and challenging problem in production systems and supply chain management. In recent years, there has been a growing focus on developing forecasting approaches for intermittent demand from…

Applications · Statistics 2022-09-01 Li Li , Yanfei Kang , Fotios Petropoulos , Feng Li

Bayesian causal inference offers a principled approach to policy evaluation of proposed interventions on mediators or time-varying exposures. We outline a general approach to the estimation of causal quantities for settings with…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-02-28 Leah Comment , Brent A. Coull , Corwin Zigler , Linda Valeri

Effort Estimation has always been a challenging task for the Project managers. Many researchers have tried to help them by creating different types of models. This has been already proved that none is successful for all types of projects…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Sumeet Kaur Sehra , Dr. Yadwinder Singh Brar , Dr. Navdeep Kaur

Insights into complex, high-dimensional data can be obtained by discovering features of the data that match or do not match a model of interest. To formalize this task, we introduce the "data selection" problem: finding a lower-dimensional…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-09-10 Eli N. Weinstein , Jeffrey W. Miller

Information fusion is an advanced research area which can assist decision makers in enhancing their decisions. This paper aims at designing a new multi-layer framework that can support the process of performing decisions from the obtained…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Tamer M. Abo Neama , Ismail A. Ismail , Tarek S. Sobh , M. Zaki

Often in surveys, key items are subject to measurement errors. Given just the data, it can be difficult to determine the distribution of this error process, and hence to obtain accurate inferences that involve the error-prone variables. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-10-04 Tracy Schifeling , Jerome P. Reiter , Maria DeYoreo

Bayesian inference is widely used in many different fields to test hypotheses against observations. In most such applications, an assumption is made of precise input values to produce a precise output value. However, this is unrealistic for…

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