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Planning Algorithms

by Steven M LaValle , 2004
"... This book presents a unified treatment of many different kinds of planning algorithms. The subject lies at the crossroads between robotics, control theory, artificial intelligence, algorithms, and computer graphics. The particular subjects covered include motion planning, discrete planning, planning ..."
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This book presents a unified treatment of many different kinds of planning algorithms. The subject lies at the crossroads between robotics, control theory, artificial intelligence, algorithms, and computer graphics. The particular subjects covered include motion planning, discrete planning

Job Creation and Destruction

by J. C. Haltiwanger, S. Schuh , 1996
"... With unemployment at historically high levels in many OECD countries, increased job creation has risen to the top of the policy agenda for many western governments-but how can this be achieved? The importance of job creation (and destruction) in an economy cannot be overstated. Labour is organized a ..."
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in recent years. Fur-thermore, job destruction can lead to involuntary worker separations and possibly substantial adjustment costs for individuals. This well-written book assembles much of the empirical work written on job creation and destruction. It is well laid out and accessible to both specialists

Convex Analysis

by R. Tyrrell Rockafellar , 1970
"... In this book we aim to present, in a unified framework, a broad spectrum of mathematical theory that has grown in connection with the study of problems of optimization, equilibrium, control, and stability of linear and nonlinear systems. The title Variational Analysis reflects this breadth. For a lo ..."
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In this book we aim to present, in a unified framework, a broad spectrum of mathematical theory that has grown in connection with the study of problems of optimization, equilibrium, control, and stability of linear and nonlinear systems. The title Variational Analysis reflects this breadth. For a

Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques

by Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber , 2000
"... Our capabilities of both generating and collecting data have been increasing rapidly in the last several decades. Contributing factors include the widespread use of bar codes for most commercial products, the computerization of many business, scientific and government transactions and managements, a ..."
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of data and information. This explosive growth in stored data has generated an urgent need for new techniques and automated tools that can intelligently assist us in transforming the vast amounts of data into useful information and knowledge. This book explores the concepts and techniques of data mining

Review of Shadows of the Mind By Roger Penrose

by John McCarthy , 1994
"... This book and its predecessor The Emperor's New Mind argue that natural minds cannot be understood and artificial minds cannot be constructed without new physics, about which the book gives some ideas. We have no objection to new physics but don't see it as necessary for artificial intel ..."
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intelligence. We see artificial intelligence research as making definite progress on difficult scientific problems. I take it that students of natural intelligence also see present physics as adequate for understanding mind. This review concerns only some problems with the first part of the book.

Hierarchical Modelling and Analysis for Spatial Data. Chapman and Hall/CRC,

by S Banerjee , B P Carlin , A E Gelfand , Chapman , / Hall , New Crc , N York; Cressie , P J Diggle , P J Ribeiro Jr , B D Ripley , 2004
"... Abstract Often, there are two streams in statistical research -one developed by practitioners and other by main stream statisticians. Development of geostatistics is a very good example where pioneering work under realistic assumptions came from mining engineers whereas it is only now that statisti ..."
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that statistical framework is getting more transparent. The subject with statistical emphasis has been evolving, as seen by various excellent books from statistical sides (Banerjee, S., Introduction It is well known that the maximum likelihood (ML) method is a powerful statistical tool in estimation

The Determinants of Credit Spread Changes.

by Pierre Collin-Dufresne , Robert S Goldstein , J Spencer Martin , Gurdip Bakshi , Greg Bauer , Dave Brown , Francesca Carrieri , Peter Christoffersen , Susan Christoffersen , Greg Duffee , Darrell Duffie , Vihang Errunza , Gifford Fong , Mike Gallmeyer , Laurent Gauthier , Rick Green , John Griffin , Jean Helwege , Kris Jacobs , Chris Jones , Andrew Karolyi , Dilip Madan , David Mauer , Erwan Morellec , Federico Nardari , N R Prabhala , Tony Sanders , Sergei Sarkissian , Bill Schwert , Ken Singleton , Chester Spatt , René Stulz - Journal of Finance , 2001
"... ABSTRACT Using dealer's quotes and transactions prices on straight industrial bonds, we investigate the determinants of credit spread changes. Variables that should in theory determine credit spread changes have rather limited explanatory power. Further, the residuals from this regression are ..."
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t ≡ r 10 t − r 2 t . We interpret this proxy as both an indication of expectations of future short rates, and as an indication of overall economic health. Firm Leverage For each bond i, market values of firm equity from CRSP and book values of firm debt from COMPUSTAT are used to obtain leverage ratios

The adaptive nature of human categorization

by John R. Anderson - Psychological Review , 1991
"... A rational model of human categorization behavior is presented that assumes that categorization reflects the derivation of optimal estimates of the probability of unseen features of objects. A Bayesian analysis is performed of what optimal estimations would be if categories formed a disjoint partiti ..."
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to some criteria of adaptive importance. This article begins with a general char-acterization ofhow one develops a rational theory of a particu-lar cognitive phenomenon. Then I present the basic theory of categorization developed in Anderson (1990) and review the applications from that book. Since

Applying the Rasch model: Fundamental measurement in the human sciences

by Trevor G. Bond, Ph. D, Trevor G. Bond, Christine M. Fox , 2001
"... I guess I just grew sick and tired of the same old request after almost every presentation I made at conferences involving developmental psychologists: “Trevor, could you just give me a simple ten minute explanation of what Rasch analysis is all about? ” After a dozen or so inquiries of this nature, ..."
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I guess I just grew sick and tired of the same old request after almost every presentation I made at conferences involving developmental psychologists: “Trevor, could you just give me a simple ten minute explanation of what Rasch analysis is all about? ” After a dozen or so inquiries of this nature

Improving recommendation lists through topic diversification

by Cai-nicolas Ziegler, Sean M. Mcnee , 2005
"... In this work we present topic diversification, a novel method designed to balance and diversify personalized recommendation lists in order to reflect the user’s complete spectrum of interests. Though being detrimental to average accuracy, we show that our method improves user satisfaction with recom ..."
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In this work we present topic diversification, a novel method designed to balance and diversify personalized recommendation lists in order to reflect the user’s complete spectrum of interests. Though being detrimental to average accuracy, we show that our method improves user satisfaction
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