Model calculates capital requirements for multi-line insurance companies.
problem Measuring and capitalizing on incurred claims risk for multi-line property and casualty insurers.
method Stochastic model integrating accident semester, development lag effects, autocorrelation, and hierarchical copula.
result Model accurately reproduces empirical loss ratio dynamics and quantifies overall portfolio risk.
Model predicts terror attacks' likelihood and casualties.
problem Predicting terror attacks' likelihood and casualties.
method Self-exciting marked spatio-temporal model with Gaussian Process prior.
result Model accurately predicts future attacks with various covariates.
This paper tests yield curve generators for property-casualty insurers.
problem Quantifying interest-rate risk for property-casualty insurers with high bond holdings.
method Develops and tests yield curve generators to quantify bond-value changes.
result Tests yield curve generators against known distributional properties of yield curves.
AI model identifies chemical agents in MCI with high accuracy.
problem Identifying chemical agents in mass casualty incidents.
method Reverse engineered signs/symptoms, trained using ANN, BDT, and WISER.
result WISER outperformed ANN and BDT in identifying chemical agents.
Paper aims to make insurance models more understandable.
problem Lack of transparency in machine learning models for insurance pricing.
method Proposes a framework for explaining machine learning models in insurance ratemaking.
result Illustrates the proposed framework with a case study.
Paper develops flood forecasting system for data scarce regions.
problem Flood forecasting in developing countries with data scarcity.
method Operational system for flood extent forecasts in India.
result Scalable and cost-efficient flood forecasting system.
Deviance Voronoi residuals improve earthquake insurance risk assessment.
problem Assessing earthquake insurance risk using spatio-temporal point process models.
method Extended Voronoi residuals and created simulation-based approach.
result Proposed formula for country-wide minimum capital test.
LLMs help automate extraction of actuarial variables from unstructured claims data.
problem Manual processing of unstructured claims data is time-consuming and inconsistent.
method Two-stage processing architecture using LLMs, modular Python pipeline.
result LLM-based extraction achieved high accuracy and practical actuarial value.
Generative adversarial networks create synthetic insurance datasets from confidential originals.
problem Difficulty in accessing or sharing confidential insurance datasets for research.
method Design and use of three GAN architectures tailored for multi-categorical insurance data.
result MC-WGAN-GP synthesizes the best data, CTGAN is easiest to use, and MNCDP-GAN ensures differential privacy.
Despite continuing medical advances, the rate of newborn morbidity and mortality globally remains high, with over 6 million casualties every year. The prediction of pathologies affecting newborns based on their cry is thus of significant clinical interest, as it would facilitate the development of accessible, low-cost …
Within the Solvency II framework the insurance industry requires a realistic modelling of the risk processes relevant for its business. Every insurance company should be capable of running a holistic risk management process to meet this challenge. For property and casualty (P&C) insurance companies the risk adequate mo…
The bipartite record linkage task consists of merging two disparate datafiles containing information on two overlapping sets of entities. This is non-trivial in the absence of unique identifiers and it is important for a wide variety of applications given that it needs to be solved whenever we have to combine informati…
Due to increasing urban population and growing number of motor vehicles, traffic congestion is becoming a major problem of the 21st century. One of the main reasons behind traffic congestion is accidents which can not only result in casualties and losses for the participants, but also in wasted and lost time for the ot…
Framework detects anomalies in fleet-based machine monitoring.
problem Detecting faults in fleets of similar machines without large historical data.
method Unsupervised, generic anomaly detection using online fleet comparisons and user-defined measures.
result Framework detects anomalies in real-time with minimal historical data.
Modeling daily river flow distribution with seasonal and long-term trends.
problem Capturing both seasonal and gradual long-term changes in environmental variables.
method Distributional regression using GAMLSS framework to estimate daily distribution of river flows.
result Model successfully captures seasonal variation and long-term trends in river flow data.
Groups with Property (T) have fiber products with Property (T).
problem When does the fiber product of groups with Property (T) have Property (T)?
method Analyzing fiber products of groups with Property (T).
result Fiber products of groups with Property (T) also have Property (T).
We prove recognition theorems for codimension one manifold factors of dimension n≥4. In particular, we formalize topographical methods and introduce three ribbons properties: the crinkled ribbons property, the twisted crinkled ribbons property, and the fuzzy ribbons property. We show that X×R i…
The study shows that several properties are not profinite invariants.
problem Determining which properties are profinite invariants.
method Combining Rips constructions and iterated group-theoretic Dehn filling on hyperbolic virtually special groups.
result Several properties (stable commutator length, quasimorphisms, property NL, property FW∞, property FA, and non-abelian free subgroups) are not profinite invariants. We show that all finite-dimensional resolvable generalized manifolds with the piecewise disjoint arc-disk property are codimension one manifold factors. We then show how the piecewise disjoint arc-disk property and other general position properties that detect codimension one manifold factors are related. We also note …
Investigates stability properties of Haezendonck-Goovaerts premium principles in Orlicz spaces.
problem Stability properties of Haezendonck-Goovaerts premium principles in various Orlicz spaces.
method Analysis of stability properties including Fatou and Lebesgue properties, and continuity with respect to Φ-weak convergence. result Haezendonck-Goovaerts principles satisfy the Fatou property and Lebesgue property under certain conditions.
The paper explores higher property T in lattices and its connections to geometric phenomena.
problem Understanding higher property T in lattices and related geometric phenomena.
method Operator-algebraic characterizations of higher property T and connections to lattice geometry.
result Unified framework for understanding higher property T and related geometric phenomena.
Asymptotic property C was introduced by Dranishnikov to study spaces with infinite asymptotic dimension. We show that asymptotic property C is preserved by infinite products. We also show that countable restricted direct products of countable groups with finite asymptotic dimension have asymptotic property C. Then we i…
Groups of importance in group theory have flexible stability properties.
problem Stability and flexibility of groups in geometric and combinatorial group theory.
method Establishing Kirchberg's Local Lifting Property and Lubotzky--Shalom's Property FD for specific groups.
result Groups like 3-manifold groups, limit groups, and certain one-relator groups are very flexibly stable. This paper generalizes property (QT) to a broader class of groups.
problem Proving property (QT) for a wider range of groups.
method Using projection complex machinery and hierarchical hyperbolic groups.
result Established sufficient conditions for groups to have property (QT).
Proves a vanishing property for symplectic manifold cohomology.
problem Generalizing complex geometry results to symplectic geometry.
method Based on Tseng and Zhou's vanishing property under symplectic flatness.
result Establishes necessity of symplectic flatness for certain results.
Survey on foliations and diffeomorphism groups.
problem Relationship between algebraic and homotopical properties.
method Survey and analysis of existing literature.
result Explains the connection between diffeomorphism groups and foliations.
We prove extension theorems for several geometric properties such as asymptotic property C (APC), finite decomposition complexity (FDC), strict finite decomposition complexity (sFDC) which are weakenings of Gromov's finite asymptotic dimension (FAD). The context of all theorems is a finitely generated group G with a …
Study generalizes property elicitation to imprecise probabilities.
problem Minimizing risk over imprecise probability distributions.
method Maximin risk minimization over a set of imprecise probabilities.
result Conditions for elicitability of IP-properties.
Introduces bounded scale measure and generalizes property A.
problem Defining property A for large scale spaces with bounded geometry.
method Introduces bounded scale measure, shows its coarse invariance, and generalizes property A.
result Definition of property A for large scale spaces with bounded scale measure is a coarse invariant.
Study cohomological and metric properties of non-Kähler complex manifolds.
problem Understanding cohomological invariants and metrics of non-Kähler complex manifolds.
method Partial account of problems through cohomological and metric properties.
result Partial insights into cohomological and metric properties of non-Kähler manifolds.
Model predicts price polarity of real estate properties using website information.
problem Predicting price polarity of real estate properties.
method Uses doc2vec and xgboost to learn correlations between price and text descriptions of properties.
result Text descriptions provide slightly higher accuracy than features alone.
The paper explores the twisted Rokhlin property in mapping class groups of surfaces.
problem Classifying surfaces whose mapping class groups have the twisted Rokhlin property.
method Generalizing the Rokhlin property to the twisted version, the authors classify surfaces based on their mapping class groups' properties.
result The mapping class groups of connected orientable infinite-type surfaces without boundaries have the twisted Rokhlin property, while those of other surfaces do not.
The balance property is crucial for insurance pricing, ensuring total actuarial price equals loss. Maximum likelihood GLMs fulfill it, but Lindholm-Wüthrich suggests three methods, with constrained GLM being superior.
problem Ensuring the balance property in insurance pricing models
method Using constrained GLM fitting
result Constrained GLM fitting is superior to the two previously discussed balance correction methods
We prove some general results about quasi-actions on trees and define Property (QFA), which is analogous to Serre's Property (FA), but in the coarse setting. This property is shown to hold for a class of groups, including SL(n,Z) for n≥3. We also give a way of thinking about Property (QFA) by breaking it down …
We present examples of metric spaces that are not Riemannian manifolds nor dimensionally homogeneous that satisfy the Tetrahedral Property. In spite of that, Euclidean cones over metric spaces with small diameter do not satisfy this property. We extend Sormani's Tetrahedral Property to a less restrictive property and p…
Study Finsler metric measure manifolds' concentration properties.
problem Understanding concentration properties in Finsler metric measure manifolds.
method Established relationships with observable diameter, isoperimetric inequalities, and first eigenvalue.
result Derived a Cheng type upper bound estimate for the first closed eigenvalue.
The paper examines curvature properties of twistor spaces.
problem None explicitly stated in the abstract.
method Review of Riemannian and almost Hermitian geometry of twistor spaces.
result Curvature properties of twistor spaces are explored.
Paper proves naturally reductive property is inaudible for certain manifolds.
problem Proving naturally reductive property is inaudible for specific manifolds.
method Using a pair of non-compact 11-dimensional generalized Heisenberg groups, the paper proves the naturally reductive property is inaudible.
result The naturally reductive property is inaudible for certain manifolds.
Hybrid clustering combines partitional and hierarchical clustering for computational effectiveness and versatility in cluster shape. In such clustering, a dissimilarity measure plays a crucial role in the hierarchical merging. The dissimilarity measure has great impact on the final clustering, and data-independent prop…
3-manifold groups have a property that allows them to act on quasi-trees.
problem Proving property (QT) for 3-manifold groups.
method Analyzing the geometry of 3-manifolds and using quasi-trees.
result Compact, orientable 3-manifold groups have property (QT) if they don't support Sol or Nil geometry.
Unified method for estimating properties of large domain distributions efficiently.
problem Estimating properties of distributions over large domains efficiently.
method Piecewise-polynomial approximation technique for constructing sample- and time-efficient estimators.
result Near-linear-time computable estimators with optimal and highly-concentrated approximation values.
The average shadowing property is considered for set-valued dynamical systems, generated by parameterized IFS, which are uniformly contracting, or conjugacy, or products of such ones. We also prove that if a continuous surjective IFS F on a compact metric space X has the aver- age shadowing property, then every point x…
A property, or statistical functional, is said to be elicitable if it minimizes expected loss for some loss function. The study of which properties are elicitable sheds light on the capabilities and limitations of point estimation and empirical risk minimization. While recent work asks which properties are elicitable, …
Simplicial spheres have a weak Lefschetz property in characteristic 2.
problem Proving the weak Lefschetz property for simplicial spheres.
method Using bistellar moves to show the property is preserved.
result The weak Lefschetz property is preserved by bistellar moves for PL-spheres.
In this article, we survey recent developments in defining the quasi-local mass in general relativity. We discuss various approaches and the properties and applications of the different definitions. Among the expected properties, we focus on the rigidity property: for a surface in the Minkowski spacetime, one expects t…
Groups with hyperbolic properties don't have strong Property (T).
problem Proving groups with hyperbolic properties don't have strong Property (T).
method Constructing an unbounded affine representation with polynomial growth.
result Groups with hyperbolic properties do not have strong Property (T).
Paper proposes a method to design molecules with specific properties.
problem Designing molecules with desired chemical and biological properties.
method Energy-based model in latent space, SGDS algorithm for gradual distribution shifting.
result Method achieves strong performances on various molecule design tasks.
The paper tests properties of trees in graphical models using covariance queries.
problem Testing properties of trees in graphical models.
method Covariance queries model, randomized tests for tree properties.
result Efficient testing of global tree properties using sub-quadratic number of queries.