In recent years, the frequency of weather-related natural disasters—cyclones, torrential rains, floods—has increased as a consequence of global warming. These disasters cause billions of dollars in ...

We consider the problem of fitting a reinforcement learning (RL) model to some given behavioral data under a multi-armed bandit environment. These models have received much attention in recent years ...

There are more than one million investors involved in SMSFs and it’s not just that they run their own money – ensuring they will never need to tap the wider public for an aged pension – they do it ...

1 Department of Basic Sciences and Humanities, University of Asia Pacific, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2 General Education Department, City University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 3 Department of Mathematics, ...

Nestled among the impressive domes and spires of Yale University is the simple office of Daniel Spielman. His shelves are lined with tall black notebooks, containing decades of handwritten notes, and ...

For the analysis of simultaneous EEG-fMRI recordings, it is vital to use effective artifact removal tools. This applies in particular to the ballistocardiogram (BCG) artifact which is difficult to ...

Patterns in nature and society are described as complex systems due to their complicated and highly interconnected properties. Capturing the ebb and flow of their structures sheds a light on our ...

In this work, a new method is presented for determining the binding constraints of a general linear maximization problem. The new method uses only objective function values at points which are ...

Worse-case analysis takes a “Murphy’s Law” approach to algorithm analysis, which is too crude to give meaningful algorithmic guidance for many important problems, including linear programming, ...