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48 results for engineering infrastructure

Bayesian model transfers knowledge across different engineering fleets.

problem Data sparsity in predictive models for engineering infrastructure.
method Hierarchical Bayesian approach with multitask learning.
result Improves survival analysis and power prediction in truck fleets and wind farms.

Despite incredible recent advances in machine learning, building machine learning applications remains prohibitively time-consuming and expensive for all but the best-trained, best-funded engineering organizations. This expense comes not from a need for new and improved statistical models but instead from a lack of sys…

2017-05-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Hybrid framework predicts Arctic permafrost decline, risks infrastructure, and provides tools.

problem Tackles permafrost decline and infrastructure risk assessment in Arctic territories.
method Hybrid physics-machine learning framework integrating 2.9 million observations.
result Projects mean permafrost fraction decline of -20.3 pp under RCP8.5 forcing, with high-risk zones identified.

Novel framework identifies pump-specific deterioration rates using Bayesian hierarchical hazard modeling and causal discovery.

problem Challenges in asset management due to heterogeneous deterioration rates in pump equipment.
method Bayesian hierarchical hazard modeling with causal discovery, GPU-accelerated No-U-Turn Sampling (NUTS), and DirectLiNGAM.
result Identified striking heterogeneity in deterioration rates, with negative effects 400 times larger than positive effects.

VTrackIt creates a synthetic dataset with infrastructure and vehicle info for AVs.

problem Lack of infrastructure and pooled vehicle info in existing AV datasets.
method Developed VTrackIt, a synthetic dataset with intelligent infrastructure and pooled vehicle info, and introduced InfraGAN for trajectory predictions.
result VTrackIt reduces high-risk edge cases in AV trajectory predictions.

Study evaluates machine learning methods for large-scale network reliability, revealing ANN's and PR's performance.

problem Tackles the NP-hard problem of approximating binary-state network reliability for large-scale systems.
method Compares 20 machine learning methods across three reliability regimes and evaluates their performance on large-scale networks.
result Large-scale networks with arc reliability ≥ 0.9 exhibit near-unity system reliability, enabling computational simplifications.

Cryptocurrency markets show similar returns but different volatility responses to infrastructure and regulatory shocks.

problem Understanding how cryptocurrency markets differentiate between infrastructure and regulatory shocks.
method Event-level block bootstrap inference on 31 cryptocurrency events across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and Cardano (2019-2025).
result No statistically significant difference in cumulative abnormal returns between infrastructure failures and regulatory enforcement.

This study analyzes dynamic connectedness in global supply chain infrastructure portfolios, identifying key risk factors and extreme events.

problem Understanding dynamic connectedness in global supply chain infrastructure portfolios under various risk factors and extreme events.
method Time-varying parameter vector autoregression (TVP-VAR) model to study spillover and interconnectedness of risk factors.
result Risk shocks influence dynamic connectedness between portfolios and risk factors, and extreme events affect investment outcomes.

Study optimizes inspection and monitoring of deteriorating structures using POMDPs.

problem Optimizing decision-making for deteriorating engineering systems with uncertain observations.
method Developed theoretical and computational foundations for Value of Information (VoI) and Value of Structural Health Monitoring (VoSHM) in POMDPs.
result POMDP policies inherently leverage VoI to guide optimal observational actions, improving long-term cost.

Research quantifies financial exclusion risks in UK, focusing on cash infrastructure and socio-economic factors.

problem Localised financial exclusion in the UK as cash infrastructure declines.
method Developed a composite indicator using various input variables.
result Financial exclusion is more prevalent in deprived communities and affluent areas.

Electroencephalography (EEG) is an extensively-used and well-studied technique in the field of medical diagnostics and treatment for brain disorders, including epilepsy, migraines, and tumors. The analysis and interpretation of EEGs require physicians to have specialized training, which is not common even among most do…

2017-11-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Fragmented exchanges arise due to speed advantages in high-activity regions.

problem Fragmentation of distributed securities exchanges due to speed advantages in high-activity regions.
method Economic model and Monte Carlo simulations of a decentralized exchange with two miner clusters.
result Speed advantage increases with infrastructure asymmetry between regions.

Infrastructure monitors AI/ML radiology models across multiple sites.

problem Monitoring and improving AI/ML radiology models across multiple sites.
method Interactive radiology reporting, centralized cloud system, post-marketing surveillance.
result Efficient monitoring and iterative development of AI/ML models without radiologist burden.

Automated road infrastructure mapping using connected vehicle data and deep learning.

problem Manual identification of intersections is laborious and time-consuming.
method Geohashing, YOLOv5 algorithm for classification of road segments and intersections.
result Overall classification accuracy of 95%, with high F1 scores for straight roads and intersections.

Methodology measures financial impacts using existing credit loss infrastructure.

problem Measuring the impact of financial scenarios on expected credit losses.
method Captures scenario effects through changes in default probabilities; uses existing provisioning infrastructure.
result Methodology validated through standardized climate scenario exercise in Canada and Quebec.

Develops a framework to assess infrastructure reliability under natural and malicious events.

problem Assessing reliability and costs of infrastructure under various hazards.
method Coupling mechanical reliability analyses with economical reliability analyses using probabilistic considerations.
result Indicators of probable cost of failure for infrastructure, aiding safety investments.

The study examines how modernizing settlement infrastructure affects inside money elasticity and network efficiency.

problem Understanding the impact of modernizing settlement infrastructure on inside money elasticity and network efficiency.
method Constructed a panel dataset of 809 reform events across 24 advanced economies, decomposed into economic channels and phases, and used a T2S event-study and synthetic control method.
result Modernizing settlement infrastructure generates network-conditional balance sheet efficiencies, with an estimated +13.4 percent efficiency recovery from 2027-2032.

Investigates ways to train larger models with fewer resources, finding that test loss depends only on the actual number of trainable parameters.

problem Training larger models for cheaper under hardware constraints.
method Emulates an increase in effective parameters using frozen random parameters or fast structured transforms.
result Scaling laws cannot be deceived by spurious parameters; test loss depends only on the actual number of trainable parameters.

Proposes a multi-objective variational autoencoder for smart infrastructure damage detection.

problem Detecting and diagnosing damage in smart infrastructure using multi-way data.
method Multi-objective variational autoencoder (MVA) method for smart infrastructure damage detection and diagnosis.
result The method accurately detects structural damage, estimates severity, and captures damage locations.

Optimizes electric aircraft deployment for Canadian aviation to reduce emissions.

problem Limited fleet capacity and operational structure hinder electric aircraft transition.
method Multi-period mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) framework.
result Electric aircraft can reduce emissions by over 70% within five years.

Novel CMG framework improves financial sentiment forecasting.

problem Challenges in short-term sentiment forecasting of financial OHLC data.
method Integrates chaos theory, Markov chains, and Gaussian processes with transformer models.
result Consistently outperforms traditional models in accuracy and efficiency.

The simulator is an R package that streamlines the process of performing simulations by creating a common infrastructure that can be easily used and reused across projects. Methodological statisticians routinely write simulations to compare their methods to preexisting ones. While developing ideas, there is a temptatio…

2016-06-30abs ↗pdf ↗

To be prepared against cyberattacks, most organizations resort to security information and event management systems to monitor their infrastructures. These systems depend on the timeliness and relevance of the latest updates, patches and threats provided by cyberthreat intelligence feeds. Open source intelligence platf…

2019-04-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Time series are used in many domains including finance, engineering, economics and bioinformatics generally to represent the change of a measurement over time. Modeling techniques may then be used to give a synthetic representation of such data. A new approach for time series modeling is proposed in this paper. It cons…

2013-12-25abs ↗pdf ↗

We collect and analyze the data for working time, life expectancy, and the pair output and infrastructure of industrializing nations. During S-functional recovery from disaster the pair's time shifts yield 25 years for the infrastructure's physical lifetime. At G7 level the per capita outputs converge and the time shif…

2012-12-06abs ↗pdf ↗