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Collective, especially group-based, managerial decision making is crucial in organizations. Using an evolutionary theoretic approach to collective decision making, agent-based simulations were conducted to investigate how human collective…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Shelley D. Dionne , Hiroki Sayama , Francis J. Yammarino

The optimization of dynamic problems is both widespread and difficult. When conducting dynamic optimization, a balance between reinitialization and computational expense has to be found. There are multiple approaches to this. In parallel…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Ronald Hochreiter , Christoph Waldhauser

We present a method for synthesizing naturally looking images of multiple people interacting in a specific scenario. These images benefit from the advantages of synthetic data: being fully controllable and fully annotated with any type of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Igor Kviatkovsky , Nadav Bhonker , Gerard Medioni

Animal and robotic collective behaviours can exhibit complex dynamics that require multi-level descriptions. Here, we are interested in developing a multi-level modeling framework for the use of robots in studies about animal collective…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-02-12 Leo Cazenille , Nicolas Bredeche , José Halloy

Humans are able to perform a myriad of sophisticated tasks by drawing upon skills acquired through prior experience. For autonomous agents to have this capability, they must be able to extract reusable skills from past experience that can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Xue Bin Peng , Michael Chang , Grace Zhang , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

In the combinatorial recommender systems, multiple items are fed to the user at one time in the result page, where the correlations among the items have impact on the user behavior. In this work, we model the combinatorial recommendation as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Fan Wang , Xiaomin Fang , Lihang Liu , Yaxue Chen , Jiucheng Tao , Zhiming Peng , Cihang Jin , Hao Tian

Collecting, analyzing and gaining insight from large volumes of data is now the norm in an ever increasing number of industries. Data analytics techniques, such as machine learning, are powerful tools used to analyze these large volumes of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Karl Mason , Sadegh Vejdan , Santiago Grijalva

This article focuses on the optimization of a complex system which is composed of several subsystems. On the one hand, these subsystems are subject to multiple objectives, local constraints as well as local variables, and they are…

Capture-recapture studies are widely used to obtain information about abundance (population size or density) of animal populations. A common design is that in which multiple distinct populations are sampled, and the research objective is…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-11-27 J. Andrew Royle , Sarah J. Converse , William A. Link

Effective modeling of heterogeneous subpopulations presents a significant challenge due to variations in individual characteristics and behaviors. This paper proposes a novel approach to address this issue through multi-task learning (MTL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Elif Konyar , Mostafa Reisi Gahrooei , Kamran Paynabar

While the design of automated knowledge-based sensor scheduling is relevant to many multi-target detection and tracking problems, tracking algorithms are rarely built for this purpose and their outputs provide little flexibility for the…

Applications · Statistics 2016-07-13 Emmanuel Delande , Jeremie Houssineau , Daniel E. Clark

Subset selection in multiple linear regression aims to choose a subset of candidate explanatory variables that tradeoff fitting error (explanatory power) and model complexity (number of variables selected). We build mathematical programming…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-04 Young Woong Park , Diego Klabjan

Electronic health records (EHR) often contain different rates of representation of certain subpopulations (SP). Factors like patient demographics, clinical condition prevalence, and medical center type contribute to this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Oriel Perets , Nadav Rappoport

The Cloud paradigm is at a critical point in which the existing energy-efficiency techniques are reaching a plateau, while the computing resources demand at Data Center facilities continues to increase exponentially. The main challenge in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Jaime Pérez , Patricia Arroba , José M. Moya

An agent-based computer simulation of death by inheritable mutations in a changing environment shows a maximal population, or avoids extinction, at so intermediate mutation rate of the individuals. Thus death seems needed to al for…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2008-09-02 J. S. Sa Martins , D. Stauffer , P. M. C. de Oliveira , S. Moss de Oliveira

Generating virtual populations of anatomy that capture sufficient variability while remaining plausible is essential for conducting in-silico trials of medical devices. However, not all anatomical shapes of interest are always available for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Haoran Dou , Seppo Virtanen , Nishant Ravikumar , Alejandro F. Frangi

In this paper, we present ConvoGen: an innovative framework for generating synthetic conversational data using multi-agent systems. Our method leverages few-shot learning and introduces iterative sampling from a dynamically updated few-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Reem Gody , Mahmoud Goudy , Ahmed Y. Tawfik

This paper extends and generalizes previous works on constructing combinatorial multivector fields from continuous systems (see [10]) and the construction of combinatorial vector fields from data (see [2]) by introducing an optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Dominic Desjardins Côté , Donald Woukeng

The analysis of data from multiple experiments, such as observations of several individuals, is commonly approached using mixed-effects models, which account for variation between individuals through hierarchical representations. This makes…

Computation · Statistics 2026-03-05 Henrik Häggström , Sebastian Persson , Marija Cvijovic , Umberto Picchini

When modeling a social dynamics with an agent-oriented approach, researchers have to describe the structure of interactions within the population. Given the intractability of extensive network collecting, they rely on random network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Samuel Thiriot