The study measures home bias in stock portfolios of emerging and developed markets.
problem Measuring and understanding home bias in stock portfolios across emerging and developed markets.
method An international capital asset pricing model with cross-section econometrics, analyzing 20 countries from 2008 to 2013.
result All countries have high home bias in their stock portfolios, with different factors affecting them.
New method learns time-varying home field advantage in football.
problem Discovering causal factors behind home field advantage in sports.
method DYNAMO: a novel causal discovery method for non-stationary processes.
result Time-varying home field advantages influenced by referee bias.
Optimal buying and selling times for homes in fluctuating interest rates.
problem Maximizing profit from buying and selling homes in a market with variable interest rates.
method Nested optimal stopping problem solved using a nonnegative concave majorant approach.
result Investor's optimal buying and selling strategies derived for CIR interest rates.
Paper introduces Privacy Mining Approach (PMA) to reveal privacy from smart homes.
problem Privacy disclosure from IoT-based smart homes for elders.
method Conducts deductions and analyses on sensor datasets to reveal privacy.
result PMA can deduce a global sensor topology and disclose elders' privacy.
Arcades uses deep learning to adapt smart-home behavior based on context.
problem Adaptive decision making in voice-controlled smart-home environments.
method Deep reinforcement learning with graphical representation of home automation system.
result Arcades promises long-term context-aware control of smart-home systems.
The paper introduces mortgage-rate-adjusted home prices to help buyers and adjust housing indices.
problem Impact of mortgage rates on home prices and property purchase decisions.
method Derives mortgage-rate-adjusted 'effective price' and constructs a price-mortgage rate neutrality line.
result Mortgage rates significantly affect home prices over long periods but not during the pandemic.
Examines how extending home loan durations affects French households financially.
problem Financial implications for households with extended home loan durations.
method Analysis of French and international home loan systems, including bullet loans and Japanese home loans.
result Extending home loan durations can reduce monthly payments but raises financial risks.
This paper presents a case study of a recommender system that can be used to save energy in smart homes without lowering the comfort of the inhabitants. We present an algorithm that uses consumer behavior data only and uses machine learning to suggest actions for inhabitants to reduce the energy consumption of their ho…
Study uses SVM to predict weather-induced home insurance claims and losses.
problem Assessing future weather-induced home insurance claims and losses for disaster preparedness.
method Support Vector Machine (SVM) regression for forecasting future claim dynamics.
result Illustrates SVM approach in forecasting weather-induced home insurance claims in a Canadian city.
Efficient neural network improves disaggregation of home energy usage.
problem Estimating power consumption of individual appliances from total home power.
method Fully convolutional neural network architecture with improved computational efficiency.
result Achieves state-of-the-art disaggregation performance with reduced training and prediction times.
Active sensing improves energy breakdown without installing sensors.
problem Reduce energy consumption by providing appliance-level energy breakdown.
method Active learning solution based on low-rank tensor completion.
result Our approach gives better performance with fewer sensors installed.
This paper discusses how usage patterns and preferences of inhabitants can be learned efficiently to allow smart homes to autonomously achieve energy savings. We propose a frequent sequential pattern mining algorithm suitable for real-life smart home event data. The performance of the proposed algorithm is compared to …
Analyzes national real estate investment risks and returns.
problem Investors and home buyers face increasing costs and risks.
method Examines economic vulnerabilities and traditional market analysis.
result Ensures positive returns and fair prices for real estate investments.
Study integrates ESG factors into home price predictions for U.S. cities.
problem Predicting average annual home prices using ESG factors.
method Used P-spline GAM and GLM models, transformed time series data.
result ESG factors influence home prices differently by city.
Deep learning model classifies human activities without prior knowledge.
problem Human activity recognition using smart home sensors.
method Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) Recurrent Neural Network applied to three real-world datasets.
result The proposed approach outperforms existing methods in terms of accuracy and performance.
Twitter releases dataset to study user engagement on Home Timeline, focusing on privacy.
problem Limited exploration of user feedback on Twitter's Home Timeline.
method Release of a large-scale dataset of 160 million Tweets with engagement information.
result Demonstrates challenges in predicting user engagements and privacy concerns.
Paper explores activity recognition and prediction in real homes using sensor data and video.
problem Improving accuracy of activity recognition and prediction in real home environments.
method Binary sensor data, depth video data, field trial, probabilistic methods, LSTM networks, transfer learning, IIR filter.
result Achieved good accuracy in predicting next sensor event and its mean time of occurrence using LSTM model.
Bayesian algorithm learns consumer preferences for energy-saving home automation.
problem Effective energy saving for residential consumers in real-time tariffs.
method Bayesian learning algorithm to estimate comfort level from appliance use history.
result Algorithm outperforms regression analysis in numeric experiments with simulated consumer behavior.
Study shows how algorithmic prediction affects US housing market, reducing racial wealth disparities.
problem Impact of algorithmic prediction on housing market and racial wealth disparities.
method Natural experiment using digitization of housing records to study entry, allocation, and prices.
result Digitization leads to increased sale prices for minority-owned homes, reducing racial wealth disparities.
Automated model tracks mouse behavior in home cages.
problem Confounding analysis in specialized arenas.
method Group Behaviour Model (GBM) using permutation matrix.
result Model captures individual and group behavior.
Federated learning improves wake word detection in smart home devices.
problem Out-of-domain issues with continuously running speech-based models.
method Federated learning with adaptive averaging strategy.
result Reduces communication rounds and upstream communication costs.
SafeAccess identifies people in smart homes for safer access.
problem Enhancing safety and independence for people with disabilities.
method Change detection, Faster-RCNN, LBP/FaceNet, MTCNN, MMS.
result Average F-score of 0.97 for identifying friends/families/caregivers versus intruders/unknown.
FedRule uses graph neural networks to recommend rules for smart homes without centralizing data.
problem Manual rule setup for smart devices is inefficient and privacy-compromising.
method FedRule constructs user-specific graphs for rule recommendation, using federated learning to protect privacy.
result FedRule achieves comparable performance to centralized methods and outperforms others.
Study on systemic risk in European insurance sector, showing insurer connections during stress.
problem Understanding systemic risk connectedness in European insurance sector.
method Common connectedness framework applied to returns, volatility, value-at-risk, and expected shortfall.
result Insurers are a significant component of systemic risk connectedness, especially during stress episodes.
Deep learning predicts baseball home runs with better accuracy.
problem Predicting player performance in baseball.
method Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network.
result LSTM outperformed other models in predicting home runs.
New mortgage contracts reduce underwater default by adjusting loan balances, but must balance prepayment incentives.
problem Underwater default incentives in mortgages.
method Analyzes automatic balance adjustment and prepayment penalties in mortgage contracts.
result Automatic balance adjustments are preferable to traditional contracts at certain spreads, reducing underwater default.
Machine learning identifies underpriced homes for investors.
problem Identifying houses listed below market price for quick sale.
method Feature engineering and machine learning algorithms (regression trees, k-nearest neighbors, SVM, neural networks).
result High predictive performance in estimating market prices.
Homeownership boosts wealth and welfare compared to renting, according to new research.
problem The conventional wisdom that renting is better than owning a home.
method Block-bootstrap lifecycle simulation to compare homeownership and renting strategies.
result Homeownership generates more wealth and welfare gains than renting, especially for households with high labor income.
GAN-based data augmentation can perpetuate biases in synthetic data.
problem Biases in synthetic data generated by GANs.
method Used a dataset of engineering researchers' head-shots to demonstrate how GANs can reinforce and amplify biases.
result GAN-based data augmentation can amplify biases in synthetic data.
Smart meters detect dementia patients' daily activities to prevent crises.
problem Monitoring dementia patients' daily activities without intruding.
method Machine learning and signal processing for smart meter load disaggregation.
result SVM and Decision Forest models accurately detect ADLs and routine changes.
Spotify improves content mix using contextual bandits.
problem Skewed historical data and varying user preferences across contexts.
method Contextual bandits to dynamically learn optimal content type distribution.
result Improved precision and user engagement with under-represented content types.
New indicator detects financial strain through smart meter data.
problem Fuel poverty in households, affecting millions.
method Smart meters and machine learning for behavior measurement.
result Early detection of financial strain in households.
Study uses HMM for real-time activity recognition from sensor data.
problem Real-time activity recognition from streaming sensor data.
method Online hierarchical hidden Markov model.
result Improved activity recognition accuracy compared to existing methods.
We propose a new framework for single-channel source separation that lies between the fully supervised and unsupervised setting. Instead of supervision, we provide input features for each source signal and use convex methods to estimate the correlations between these features and the unobserved signal decomposition. We…
SA-BCP combines long-term and local evidence for efficient, adaptive online prediction.
problem Balancing fast adaptation and stable coverage in online prediction.
method State-Adaptive Bayesian Conformal Prediction (SA-BCP) using gated convex combination of temporal inertia and spatial evidence.
result SA-BCP achieves at-or-above-nominal coverage with substantially sharper intervals compared to discounted Bayesian CP.
Researchers in Flint use predictive tools to locate lead pipes.
problem Detecting and replacing lead pipes in Flint, Michigan after water contamination.
method Statistical and machine learning approaches, along with government recommendations.
result Developed a statistical model that adapts to new information.
Process mining is a research field focused on the analysis of event data with the aim of extracting insights in processes. Applying process mining techniques on data from smart home environments has the potential to provide valuable insights in (un)healthy habits and to contribute to ambient assisted living solutions. …
In this article, we develop a model for the evolution of real estate prices. A wide range of inputs, including stochastic interest rates and changing demands for the asset, are considered. Maximizing their expected utility, home owners make optimal sale decisions given these changing market conditions. Using these opti…
Novel approach integrates Multivariate Square-root Lasso into Synthetic Control for high-dimensional data.
problem Challenges in practical implementation and computational efficiency of Synthetic Control method for high-dimensional disaggregated data.
method Integrates Multivariate Square-root Lasso into Synthetic Control framework.
result Demonstrates superior computational efficiency without compromising estimation accuracy.
Proposes a novel Out-of-Bag anomaly detection method for ML systems.
problem Challenges of detecting data anomalies in real-world datasets.
method Model-based approach decomposing unsupervised problem into ensemble models using Out-of-Bag estimates.
result Demonstrates state-of-the-art performance and improved accuracy in ML systems.
New method generates geolocated synthetic populations from real data.
problem Generating synthetic populations with explicit geographic coordinates.
method Mapping coordinates into a latent space using Normalizing Flows (NF), then combining with other features in a Variational Autoencoder (VAE).
result NF+VAE architecture outperforms existing methods in generating geolocated synthetic populations.
Bayesian models fuse multiple sensor types for health monitoring in homes.
problem Challenges in fusing heterogeneous sensor data for health monitoring.
method Introduces Bayesian models for sensor fusion of multiple sensor types.
result Identifies most useful sensor modalities and features for activities.
Machine learning assesses balance outside clinics, improving therapy efficiency.
problem Lack of feedback from PTs in home balance training.
method Trunk sway data analysis with multi-class SVM.
result ML model achieved 82% accuracy in assessing balance.
Predicts lead contamination in Flint's water system based on home attributes.
problem Understanding and predicting lead contamination in Flint's water system.
method Data science approach using a large dataset of water tests and a crowd-sourced prediction challenge.
result Elevated lead risks can be weakly predicted from observable home attributes.
Complex and Hermitian structures on hom-Lie algebras are introduced and some examples of these structures are presented. Also, it is shown that there not exists a proper complex (Hermitian) home-Lie algebra of dimension two. Then using a hom-left symmetric algebra, a phase space is provided and then a complex structure…
Workplace communications became more siloed during the pandemic, reducing stability within communities.
problem Understanding changes in intra-organizational communication networks during the pandemic.
method Analyzed aggregated email metadata from 4,361 organizations worldwide over 24 months.
result Organizations became more siloed in 2020, with decreased stability within silos.
The purpose of this paper is to identify a relevant statistical correlation between rate of default, RD, and loss given default, LGD, in a major Brazilian financial institution Retail Home Equity exposure rated using the IRB approach, so that we may find a causal relationship between the two risk parameters. Therefore,…
AutoTune learns wireless identifiers for facial recognition in real-world settings.
problem Facial recognition requires extensive user training, making it impractical for widespread deployment.
method Uses ambient wireless identifiers to train deep neural networks for facial recognition without user effort.
result Demonstrates a system that continuously refines facial recognition using wireless identifiers over time.