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48 results for Ancillary Services

This paper improves bidding price prediction for ancillary services markets, boosting revenues.

problem Volatility in renewable energy sources affects grid stability and revenue optimization.
method Machine learning models (SVR, DT, k-NN) and offset adjustment for pay-as-bid markets.
result The proposed approach increases potential revenues by 27.43% to 37.31% compared to baseline models.

DART2 enhances multiple testing by leveraging ancillary information robustly.

problem Enhancing multiple testing power with uncertain ancillary information.
method Distance-assisted multiple testing procedure (DART2) that handles both helpful and misleading ancillary information.
result DART2 asymptotically controls FDR and improves power when ancillary information is helpful, maintaining FDR and power otherwise.

Ancillaries have become a major source of revenue and profitability in the travel industry. Yet, conventional pricing strategies are based on business rules that are poorly optimized and do not respond to changing market conditions. This paper describes the dynamic pricing model developed by Deepair solutions, an AI te…

2019-02-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimizes profit in targeted marketing across multiple markets with varying marketing expenditures.

problem Maximizing profit in a sequential marketing strategy with multiple markets and varying marketing costs.
method Near-optimal algorithms in an adversarial bandit setting, proving regret bounds for different demand curve types.
result Proved near-optimal regret bounds for the profit-maximization problem in targeted marketing.

Proposes a new GAN architecture for generating data conditioned on partial information.

problem Generating data conditioned on partial ancillary information.
method Introduces a new Adversarial Network architecture and training strategy.
result The proposed method outperforms standard Conditional GANs in generating data under partial conditioning.

Automated service classification plays a crucial role in service discovery, selection, and composition. Machine learning has been widely used for service classification in recent years. However, the performance of conventional machine learning methods highly depends on the quality of manual feature engineering. In this…

2018-06-14abs ↗pdf ↗

OTT services are replacing traditional telecom services, affecting revenue streams.

problem OTT services are reducing traditional telecom revenue streams.
method Quantitative analysis of mobile user trends and revenue changes.
result OTT services are becoming more prevalent and impacting telecom revenue.

Study examines barriers to grid-connected battery systems in Spain, finding high cycle cost remains main obstacle.

problem Barriers to grid-connected battery systems in Spain's deregulated electricity market.
method Utilization analysis and concept of 'potentially profitable utilization time' introduced.
result High cycle cost remains the main barrier for grid-connected battery systems in Spain.

This paper tackles fair same-day delivery service by optimizing regional service rates.

problem Fairness in same-day delivery service for different neighborhoods.
method Partition service area into regions, use multi-objective Markov decision process and deep Q-learning.
result Our approach maximizes fairness across all regions while maintaining overall service rate.

Service system dynamics occur at the interplay between customer behaviour and a service provider's response. This kind of dynamics can effectively be modeled within the framework of queuing theory where customers' arrivals are described by point process models. However, these approaches are limited by parametric assump…

2019-06-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimizes resource allocation for virtualized network functions based on performance profiles.

problem Mapping SLA performance requirements to dynamic virtualized infrastructure resources.
method Profile-based resource allocation using VNF performance datasets and machine learning models.
result A method to predict and recommend optimal resource allocation for network services.

This paper strengthens the central limit theorem for order statistics using relative entropy.

problem Establishing a stronger mode of convergence for central limit behavior of order statistics.
method Using relative entropy to ensure a stronger mode of convergence for central limit behavior of order statistics.
result An order O(1/n)O(1/\sqrt{n}) rate of convergence is established under mild conditions.

This work analyzes how users and services adapt to reduce risk, leading to specialization.

problem Adaptation of users and services to reduce risk affects learning and performance.
method Analyzed a class of dynamics where users allocate participation and services update parameters.
result Repeated myopic updates with multiple learners lead to better outcomes than repeated risk minimization.

AI agent predicts industry and product/service codes for companies.

problem Manual curation of company data is expensive and prone to errors.
method Hierarchical multi-class industry code classifier with multi-label product/service code classifier.
result High accuracy (92-96%) achieved with limited labeled data.

I present a web service for querying an embedding of entities in the Wikidata knowledge graph. The embedding is trained on the Wikidata dump using Gensim's Word2Vec implementation and a simple graph walk. A REST API is implemented. Together with the Wikidata API the web service exposes a multilingual resource for over …

2017-10-11abs ↗pdf ↗

We aim to predict and explain service failures in supply-chain networks, more precisely among last-mile pickup and delivery services to customers. We analyze a dataset of 500,000 services using (1) supervised classification with Random Forests, and (2) Association Rules. Our classifier reaches an average sensitivity of…

2018-10-20abs ↗pdf ↗

TIMeSynC combines financial service interactions for intent prediction.

problem Aligning and learning from multi-domain, multi-resolution sequences for accurate intent prediction.
method An encoder-decoder transformer model addressing sequence alignment, temporal dynamics, and dynamic/static sequence combination.
result Significant improvement in intent prediction over existing methods.

Machine learning methods are widely used for a variety of prediction problems. \emph{Prediction as a service} is a paradigm in which service providers with technological expertise and computational resources may perform predictions for clients. However, data privacy severely restricts the applicability of such services…

2018-06-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Game theory helps analyze ESOs/EBIs in production and service sectors.

problem Economic incentives affect traditional production/service functions and create intangible capital.
method Uses game theory to analyze interactions in ESO/EBI transactions.
result No perfect Nash Equilibria for two-stage games involving many participants.

Multiple machine learning and prediction models are often used for the same prediction or recommendation task. In our recent work, where we develop and deploy airline ancillary pricing models in an online setting, we found that among multiple pricing models developed, no one model clearly dominates other models for all…

2019-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph learning categorizes DeFi services into similar functionalities.

problem Identifying similar financial services in decentralized finance protocols.
method Graph representation learning (GRL) to categorize smart contract blocks into clusters.
result Purity of clustering reaches .888 in the best-case scenario.

AI enhances financial services but humans are irreplaceable for empathy, presence, and ethics.

problem AI's limitations in financial services, especially with small datasets and human judgment.
method EPOCH framework highlighting five irreplaceable human capabilities: Empathy, Presence, Opinion, Creativity, and Hope.
result Humans are essential for trust, innovation, and consumer experience in financial services.

This study compares community detection algorithms for delineating health service areas.

problem Delineating health service areas to improve health care services.
method Comparative analysis of community detection algorithms on hospital-patient discharge networks.
result Infomap algorithm produced the best delineation of health service areas.

The professional services sector is at a turning point, with some industries showing growth opportunities.

problem Identifying growth opportunities in the professional services sector after decades of growth.
method A simple framework applied to the US economic context to diagnose growth opportunities.
result The professional services sector is expected to stall at a national level, but some industries still offer growth opportunities.

With the widespread use of machine learning (ML) techniques, ML as a service has become increasingly popular. In this setting, an ML model resides on a server and users can query it with their data via an API. However, if the user's input is sensitive, sending it to the server is undesirable and sometimes even legally …

2018-08-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Classification-as-a-Service (CaaS) is widely deployed today in machine intelligence stacks for a vastly diverse set of applications including anything from medical prognosis to computer vision tasks to natural language processing to identity fraud detection. The computing power required for training complex models on l…

2019-08-08abs ↗pdf ↗

The authors characterize flexibility in power and energy markets considering time, spatiality, resource, and risk.

problem Evaluating and maximizing flexibility in power systems and markets.
method Characterization of flexibility dimensions (time, spatiality, resource, risk) and their interrelations with flexibility assets, products, and services.
result Flexibility should be evaluated based on multiple dimensions for efficient power systems and markets.

Study on electronic banking satisfaction in Nigeria.

problem Limited research on factors enhancing end users' satisfaction in electronic banking.
method Empirical analysis of factors influencing electronic banking user satisfaction.
result Factors influencing electronic banking user satisfaction and their relationship with satisfaction.