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Models such as finite state automata are widely used to abstract the behavior of software systems by capturing the sequences of events observable during their execution. Nevertheless, models rarely exist in practice and, when they do, get…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Donato Clun , Donghwan Shin , Antonio Filieri , Domenico Bianculli

Inferring the means in the multivariate normal model $X \sim N_n(\theta, I)$ with unknown mean vector $\theta=(\theta_1,...,\theta_n)' \in \mathbb{R}^n$ and observed data $X=(X_1,...,X_n)'\in {\mathbb R}^n$ is a challenging task, known as…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-21 Chuanhai Liu

Agent Based Modeling (ABM) has become a widespread approach to model complex interactions. In this chapter after briefly summarizing some features of ABM the different approaches in modeling spatial interactions are discussed. It is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-05-06 Marcel Ausloos , Herbert Dawid , Ugo Merlone

Learning to coordinate many agents in partially observable and highly dynamic environments requires both informative representations and data-efficient training. To address this challenge, we present a novel model-based multi-agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Zhizun Wang , David Meger

In this paper, we consider statistical estimation of time-inhomogeneous aggregate Markov models. Unaggregated models, which corresponds to Markov chains, are commonly used in multi-state life insurance to model the biometric states of an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Jamaal Ahmad , Mogens Bladt

Simulation-based inference enables learning the parameters of a model even when its likelihood cannot be computed in practice. One class of methods uses data simulated with different parameters to infer models of the likelihood-to-evidence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Giulio Isacchini , Natanael Spisak , Armita Nourmohammad , Thierry Mora , Aleksandra M. Walczak

We consider an evolving system for which a sequence of observations is being made, with each observation revealing additional information about current and past states of the system. We suppose each observation is made without error, but…

Computation · Statistics 2021-03-10 Valentina Di Marco , Jonathan Keith

Standard tomographic analyses ignore model uncertainty. It is assumed that a given model generated the data and the task is to estimate the quantum state, or a subset of parameters within that model. Here we apply a model averaging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-26 Christopher Ferrie

Discrete choice models (DCMs) have been widely utilized in various scientific fields, especially economics, for many years. These models consider a stochastic environment influencing each decision maker's choices. Extensive research has…

General Economics · Economics 2026-01-13 Amirreza Talebi

An increasing number of emerging applications, e.g., internet of things, vehicular communications, augmented reality, and the growing complexity due to the interoperability requirements of these systems, lead to the need to change the tools…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Merim Dzaferagic , M. Majid Butt , Maria Murphy , Nicholas Kaminski , Nicola Marchetti

In increasingly digitalized and metered distribution networks, state estimation is generally recognized as a key enabler of advanced network management functionalities. However, despite decades of research, the real-life adoption of state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Frederik Geth , Marta Vanin , Werner Van Westering , Terese Milford , Amritanshu Pandey

Building models that generalize across physical systems without retraining remains a central challenge in computational science. Here we introduce In-Context Modeling (ICM), a retrain-free paradigm that infers physical relationships…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Lingfeng Li , Zhuoyuan Li , Shun Li , Kaixin Zhan , Huajian Gao , Changqing Chen , Liu Yang

In the last few decades, the study of ordinal data in which the variable of interest is not exactly observed but only known to be in a specific ordinal category has become important. In Psychometrics such variables are analysed under the…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-01-22 Bernard M. S. van Praag , J. Peter Hop , William H. Greene

Hybrid quantum/molecular mechanics models (QM/MM methods) are widely used in material and molecular simulations when MM models do not provide sufficient accuracy but pure QM models are computationally prohibitive. Adaptive QM/MM coupling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Yangshuai Wang , Huajie Chen , Mingjie Liao , Christoph Ortner , Hao Wang , Lei Zhang

State-space models (SSMs) are a powerful statistical tool for modelling time-varying systems via a latent state. In these models, the latent state is never directly observed. Instead, a sequence of observations related to the state is…

Computation · Statistics 2025-03-25 Benjamin Cox , Emilie Chouzenoux , Victor Elvira

State estimation allows to monitor power networks, exploiting field measurements to derive the most likely grid state. In the literature, measurement errors are usually assumed to follow zero-mean Gaussian distributions; however, it has…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Marta Vanin , Tom Van Acker , Reinhilde D'hulst , Dirk Van Hertem

Real-world dynamical systems often consist of multiple stochastic subsystems that interact with each other. Modeling and forecasting the behavior of such dynamics are generally not easy, due to the inherent hardness in understanding the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Fan Yang , Ling Chen , Fan Zhou , Yusong Gao , Wei Cao

In modern computer experiment applications, one often encounters the situation where various models of a physical system are considered, each implemented as a simulator on a computer. An important question in such a setting is determining…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-08 John C. Yannotty , Thomas J. Santner , Richard J. Furnstahl , Matthew T. Pratola

Probabilistic model checking is a technique for formal automated reasoning about software or hardware systems that operate in the context of uncertainty or stochasticity. It builds upon ideas and techniques from a diverse range of fields,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-08 David Parker

In this paper, we propose a Model-Based Reinforcement Learning (MBRL) algorithm for Partially Measurable Systems (PMS), i.e., systems where the state can not be directly measured, but must be estimated through proper state observers. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Fabio Amadio , Alberto Dalla Libera , Ruggero Carli , Daniel Nikovski , Diego Romeres