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48 results for public services

Framework optimizes targeting high-need individuals while estimating treatment effects.

problem Balancing resource allocation to high-need individuals with evaluating treatment effects.
method Proposes a framework to design randomized allocation rules that balance targeting high-need recipients with learning treatment effects.
result Optimized policies can significantly mitigate the tradeoff between targeting high-need individuals and estimating treatment effects.

Polestar optimizes public transportation routes for efficiency and user satisfaction.

problem Difficulty in finding optimal public transportation routes due to complex networks and dynamic situations.
method Developed a Public Transportation Graph (PTG) and a route search algorithm with station binding and ranking modules.
result Demonstrated superior efficiency and user satisfaction compared to existing systems.

The aim of the present article is to treat the Greek public debt issue strictly as a curve fitting problem. Thus, based on Eurostat data and using the Mathematica technical computing software, an exponential function that best fits the data is determined modelling how the Greek public debt expands with time. Exploring …

2012-12-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Large companies need to monitor various metrics (for example, Page Views and Revenue) of their applications and services in real time. At Microsoft, we develop a time-series anomaly detection service which helps customers to monitor the time-series continuously and alert for potential incidents on time. In this paper, …

2019-06-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Study uses AI to predict changes in international public finances based on US markets.

problem Understanding correlations between US and international public finances.
method Artificial intelligence and neural networks to model and predict changes.
result Neural network model achieved MSE of 2.79, indicating significant correlation and impact of US market volatility on international markets.

Bus transit systems are the backbone of public transportation in the United States. An important indicator of the quality of service in such infrastructures is on-time performance at stops, with published transit schedules playing an integral role governing the level of success of the service. However there are relativ…

2019-11-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Peer review is the foundation of scientific publication, and the task of reviewing has long been seen as a cornerstone of professional service. However, the massive growth in the field of machine learning has put this community benefit under stress, threatening both the sustainability of an effective review process and…

2018-12-18abs ↗pdf ↗

The key characteristic of a true free market economy is that exchanges are entirely voluntary. When there is a monopoly in the creation of currency as we have in today's markets, you no longer have a true free market. Features of the current economic system such as central banking and taxation would be nonexistent in a…

2015-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Developing a visual platform for faster astronomical source cataloging.

problem Speeding up cataloging of large area surveys in radio astronomy.
method Integration of advanced source finding and classification tools into a visual analytic platform.
result Improvement and acceleration of cataloging process in astronomical surveys.

New method detects anomalies in time series data, especially useful for monitoring services.

problem Detecting anomalies in time series data, especially for monitoring services and cloud resources.
method Models time series of probability distributions over real values, scales to millions of time series.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art methods in detecting anomalies on various data sets.

MCAL reduces labeling costs by 6x for auto-labeling data sets.

problem Expensive human annotation for ground-truth data sets.
method Iterative approach that trains a classifier to auto-label part of the data set, determining which samples to label using humans and which to label using the classifier at each step.
result 6x lower overall cost compared to human labeling the entire data set, always cheaper than competing strategies.

Deep learning (DL) training-as-a-service (TaaS) is an important emerging industrial workload. The unique challenge of TaaS is that it must satisfy a wide range of customers who have no experience and resources to tune DL hyper-parameters, and meticulous tuning for each user's dataset is prohibitively expensive. Therefo…

2016-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning (ML) models may be deemed confidential due to their sensitive training data, commercial value, or use in security applications. Increasingly often, confidential ML models are being deployed with publicly accessible query interfaces. ML-as-a-service ("predictive analytics") systems are an example: Some …

2016-09-09abs ↗pdf ↗

This research quantifies cross-sectoral inequalities using latent class analysis.

problem Addressing multiple and intersecting forms of inequality in various sectors.
method Innovative latent class analysis approach to quantify discrepancies.
result Significant discrepancies found among minority ethnic groups and between them and non-minority groups.

Study maps research streams in biodiversity finance, identifies key areas.

problem Biodiversity loss and need for finance to reverse trends.
method Quantitative bibliometric analysis of 189,456 references.
result Identifies eight primary research streams in biodiversity finance.

Low-rate application layer distributed denial of service (LDDoS) attacks are both powerful and stealthy. They force vulnerable webservers to open all available connections to the adversary, denying resources to real users. Mitigation advice focuses on solutions that potentially degrade quality of service for legitimate…

2019-03-12abs ↗pdf ↗

The preponderance of connected devices provides unprecedented opportunities for fine-grained monitoring of the public infrastructure. However while classical models expect high quality application-specific data streams, the promise of the Internet of Things (IoT) is that of an abundance of disparate and noisy datasets …

2019-03-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows how missing data from certain groups can unfairly bias risk models.

problem Data missingness without indicators of missingness can unfairly bias risk models.
method Developed an analytically tractable model of differential feature under-reporting and proposed new methods to mitigate bias.
result Under-reporting typically leads to increasing disparities in risk models.

The paper assesses VASPs' solvency using multiple data sources.

problem Insolvency risk in VASPs without systematic auditing.
method Cross-referencing cryptoasset wallets, balance sheets, and supervisory data.
result Inconsistent data between DLT transactions and balance sheets for some VASPs.

We develop a chatbot using Deep Bidirectional Transformer models (BERT) to handle client questions in financial investment customer service. The bot can recognize 381 intents, and decides when to say "I don't know" and escalates irrelevant/uncertain questions to human operators. Our main novel contribution is the discu…

2020-02-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Study examines cryptoasset service providers in Austria, revealing global integration and distinct responses to market shocks.

problem Understanding cryptoasset integration and stress behavior in national economies.
method Directly identified on-chain addresses of Austrian crypto-asset service providers, reconstructing transaction activity across multiple cryptocurrencies.
result Austrian crypto-asset service providers are globally integrated, with distinct responses to market shocks.

These are notes of a talk I gave in a seminar at the University of Pennsylvania summarizing results in the Ph.D. thesis of Michael Mueter obtained under the direction of Wolfgang Meyer at the University of Muenster. His thesis on "Kruemmungserhoehende Deformationen mittels Gruppenaktionen" examines in detail curvature …

2009-09-01abs ↗pdf ↗

These are notes of a talk I gave in a seminar at the University of Pennsylvania summarizing results in the Habilitation by Jost Eschenburg on "Freie isometrische Aktionen auf kompakten Lie-Gruppen mit positiv gekruemmten Orbitraeumen". Due to the fact that it is published in a not easily accesible journal (and is writt…

2009-09-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Bitcoin reacts positively to USDT minting but not burning, showing state-dependence.

problem Understanding Bitcoin's response to Tether's supply changes.
method Analyzing Bitcoin's intraday price movements in response to USDT minting and burning events.
result Bitcoin's response to USDT minting events declines after 60 minutes and is influenced by investor sentiment and public announcements.

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.

The rapid digital transformation without security considerations has resulted in the rise of global-scale cyberattacks. The first line of defense against these attacks are Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS). Once deployed, however, these systems work as blackboxes with a high rate of false positives with no mea…

2019-08-26abs ↗pdf ↗