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Predictive policing systems are increasingly used to determine how to allocate police across a city in order to best prevent crime. Discovered crime data (e.g., arrest counts) are used to help update the model, and the process is repeated.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Danielle Ensign , Sorelle A. Friedler , Scott Neville , Carlos Scheidegger , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Ensuring urban safety is an essential part of developing sustainable cities. An urban safety map can assist cities to prevent future crimes. However, mapping is costly in terms of both time and money due to the need for manual data…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Alameen Najjar , Shun'ichi Kaneko , Yoshikazu Miyanaga

Analyzing crime events is crucial to understand crime dynamics and it is largely helpful for constructing prevention policies. Point processes specified on linear networks can provide a more accurate description of crime incidents by…

Applications · Statistics 2026-01-21 Sujeong Lee , Won Chang , Jorge Mateu , Heejin Lee , Jaewoo Park

Kernel smoothing is a widely used nonparametric method in modern statistical analysis. The problem of efficiently conducting kernel smoothing for a massive dataset on a distributed system is a problem of great importance. In this work, we…

Computation · Statistics 2024-10-08 Yuan Gao , Rui Pan , Feng Li , Riquan Zhang , Hansheng Wang

This paper focuses on Crime zone Identification. Then, it clarifies how we conducted the Belief Rule Base algorithm to produce interesting frequent patterns for crime hotspots. The paper also shows how we used an expert system to forecast…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Abhijit Pathak , Abrar Hossain Tasin

This paper presents a kernelized offset-free data-driven predictive control scheme for nonlinear systems. Traditional model-based and data-driven predictive controllers often struggle with inaccurate predictors or persistent disturbances,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Thomas Oliver de Jong , Mircea Lazar

This paper presents a new spatial-temporal nonlocal traffic flow model formulated to overcome the boundedness limitations inherent in classical local formulations. The model introduces an adaptive kernel that captures both spatial and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Animesh Biswas , Archie Huang , Shaurya Agarwal , Christopher Housholder

To tackle ever-increasing city traffic congestion problems, researchers have proposed deep learning models to aid decision-makers in the traffic control domain. Although the proposed models have been remarkably improved in recent years,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Hyunwook Lee , Cheonbok Park , Seungmin Jin , Hyeshin Chu , Jaegul Choo , Sungahn Ko

In this paper, we solve the problem of predicting the next locations of the moving objects with a historical dataset of trajectories. We present a Next Location Predictor with Markov Modeling (NLPMM) which has the following advantages: (1)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Meng Chen , Yang Liu , Xiaohui Yu

This paper reports on a data-driven, interaction-aware motion prediction approach for pedestrians in environments cluttered with static obstacles. When navigating in such workspaces shared with humans, robots need accurate motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Mark Pfeiffer , Giuseppe Paolo , Hannes Sommer , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart , Cesar Cadena

Predicting human trajectories is a challenging task due to the complexity of pedestrian behavior, which is influenced by external factors such as the scene's topology and interactions with other pedestrians. A special challenge arises from…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-31 Raphael Korbmacher , Huu-Tu Dang , Antoine Tordeux

Predicting where people can walk in a scene is important for many tasks, including autonomous driving systems and human behavior analysis. Yet learning a computational model for this purpose is challenging due to semantic ambiguity and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Jin Sun , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Qianqian Wang , Noah Snavely

Effectively modeling non-stationary dynamics in probabilistic multivariate time series(MTS) forecasting requires balancing expressiveness with robustness. Existing parametric approaches benefit from strong inductive biases but lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Jinglin Li , Jun Tan , QI Fang , Ning Gui

Real-time crime forecasting is important. However, accurate prediction of when and where the next crime will happen is difficult. No known physical model provides a reasonable approximation to such a complex system. Historical crime data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Bao Wang , Penghang Yin , Andrea L. Bertozzi , P. Jeffrey Brantingham , Stanley J. Osher , Jack Xin

This paper presents a method for local motion planning in unstructured environments with static and moving obstacles, such as humans. Given a reference path and speed, our optimization-based receding-horizon approach computes a local…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Bruno Brito , Boaz Floor , Laura Ferranti , Javier Alonso-Mora

Density estimation in high-dimensional settings is an important and challenging statistical problem.Traditional methods based on kernel smoothing are inefficient in high dimensions due to the difficulties in specifying appropriate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-14 Ruitong Zhang , Ke Deng

Improving road safety is hugely important with the number of deaths on the world's roads remaining unacceptably high; an estimated 1.35 million people die each year (WHO, 2020). Current practice for treating collision hotspots is almost…

Applications · Statistics 2023-02-02 Nicola Hewett , Andrew Golightly , Lee Fawcett , Neil Thorpe

Objectives: To develop a deep learning framework to evaluate if and how incorporating micro-level mobility features, alongside historical crime and sociodemographic data, enhances predictive performance in crime forecasting at fine-grained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Ariadna Albors Zumel , Michele Tizzoni , Gian Maria Campedelli

This paper develops a data-driven learning framework for approximating the feasible region and invariant set of a nonlinear system under the nonlinear Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme. The developed approach is based on the feasibility…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Yuanqiang Zhou , Dewei Li , Yugeng Xi , Yunwen Xu

Our goal is to predict the location of the next crime in a crime series, based on the identified previous offenses in the series. We build a predictive model called Next Hit Predictor (NHP) that finds the most likely location of the next…

Applications · Statistics 2018-12-14 Yunyi Li , Tong Wang