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Journal articles on the topic "Utility dependencies"

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Russell, Richard, and Sean Holden. "Handling Goal Utility Dependencies in a Satisfiability Framework." Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling 20 (May 25, 2021): 145–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/icaps.v20i1.13401.

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Goal utility dependencies arise when the utility of achieving a goal depends on the other goals that are achieved with it. This complicates the planning procedure because achieving a new goal can potentially alter the utilities of all the other goals currently achieved. In this paper, we present an encoding procedure that enables general-purpose Max-SAT solvers to be used to solve planning problems with goal utility dependencies. We compare this approach to one using integer programming via an empirical evaluation using benchmark problems from past international planning competitions. Our results indicate that this approach is competitive and sometimes more successful than an integer programming one -- solving two to three times more subproblems in some domains, while being outperformed by only a significantly smaller margin in others.
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Pastore, Richard E., and Edward J. Crawley. "Locus equation: Assumption and dependencies." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21, no. 2 (April 1998): 278–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x98441177.

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Evaluating the current locus equation under ideal conditions identifies important and unexpected parameter dependencies. Locus equation (LE) utility, either as a valid laboratory tool or possible invariant cue, depends on stringent specification of critical parameters and rigorous empirical testing.
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Batzilla, Alina, Junyan Lu, Jarno Kivioja, Kerstin Putzker, Joe Lewis, Thorsten Zenz, and Wolfgang Huber. "Inferring tumor-specific cancer dependencies through integrating ex vivo drug response assays and drug-protein profiling." PLOS Computational Biology 18, no. 8 (August 22, 2022): e1010438. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010438.

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The development of cancer therapies may be improved by the discovery of tumor-specific molecular dependencies. The requisite tools include genetic and chemical perturbations, each with its strengths and limitations. Chemical perturbations can be readily applied to primary cancer samples at large scale, but mechanistic understanding of hits and further pharmaceutical development is often complicated by the fact that a chemical compound has affinities to multiple proteins. To computationally infer specific molecular dependencies of individual cancers from their ex vivo drug sensitivity profiles, we developed a mathematical model that deconvolutes these data using measurements of protein-drug affinity profiles. Through integrating a drug-kinase profiling dataset and several drug response datasets, our method, DepInfeR, correctly identified known protein kinase dependencies, including the EGFR dependence of HER2+ breast cancer cell lines, the FLT3 dependence of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with FLT3-ITD mutations and the differential dependencies on the B-cell receptor pathway in the two major subtypes of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Furthermore, our method uncovered new subgroup-specific dependencies, including a previously unreported dependence of high-risk CLL on Checkpoint kinase 1 (CHEK1). The method also produced a detailed map of the kinase dependencies in a heterogeneous set of 117 CLL samples. The ability to deconvolute polypharmacological phenotypes into underlying causal molecular dependencies should increase the utility of high-throughput drug response assays for functional precision oncology.
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Beisbart, Claus, and Stephan Hartmann. "Welfarist evaluations of decision rules under interstate utility dependencies." Social Choice and Welfare 34, no. 2 (June 9, 2009): 315–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00355-009-0399-z.

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Wettergren, Thomas A., and John G. Baylog. "Modeling Sequential Searches with Ancillary Target Dependencies." Advances in Decision Sciences 2010 (February 28, 2010): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/472809.

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We develop a mathematical modeling approach to evaluate the effectiveness of a Bayesian search for objects in cases where the target exhibits ancillary dependencies. These dependencies occur in situations where there are multiple search passes of the same region, and they represent a change in search probability from that predicted using an assumption of independent scans. This variation from independent scans is typically found in situations of advanced detection processing due to fusion and/or collaboration between searchers. The framework developed is based upon the evaluation of a recursion process over spatial search cells, and the dependencies appear as additive utility components within the recursion. We derive expressions for evaluating this utility and illustrate in detail some specific instantiations of the dependency. Computational examples are provided to demonstrate the capabilities of the method.
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Ortega, Eva–María, and Laureano F. Escudero. "On expected utility for financial insurance portfolios with stochastic dependencies." European Journal of Operational Research 200, no. 1 (January 2010): 181–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2008.11.042.

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Paetz, Friederike, and Winfried J. Steiner. "The benefits of incorporating utility dependencies in finite mixture probit models." OR Spectrum 39, no. 3 (May 6, 2017): 793–819. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00291-017-0478-y.

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Grau, Jan, Martin Nettling, and Jens Keilwagen. "DepLogo: visualizing sequence dependencies in R." Bioinformatics 35, no. 22 (June 21, 2019): 4812–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btz507.

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Abstract Summary Statistical dependencies are present in a variety of sequence data, but are not discernible from traditional sequence logos. Here, we present the R package DepLogo for visualizing inter-position dependencies in aligned sequence data as dependency logos. Dependency logos make dependency structures, which correspond to regular co-occurrences of symbols at dependent positions, visually perceptible. To this end, sequences are partitioned based on their symbols at highly dependent positions as measured by mutual information, and each partition obtains its own visual representation. We illustrate the utility of the DepLogo package in several use cases generating dependency logos from DNA, RNA and protein sequences. Availability and implementation The DepLogo R package is available from CRAN and its source code is available at https://github.com/Jstacs/DepLogo. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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JIANG, Zhi-Hua, Dong-Ning RAO, Yun-Fei JIANG, and Jian WENG. "Handling Goal Utility Dependencies in OSP Problems with Derived Predicates and Preferences." Journal of Software 23, no. 3 (April 28, 2012): 439–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1001.2012.03985.

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Zhai, Jian, Robert James, and Artem Prokhorov. "Technical and allocative inefficiency in production systems: a vine copula approach." Dependence Modeling 10, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 145–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/demo-2022-0108.

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Abstract Modeling the error terms in stochastic frontier models of production systems requires multivariate distributions with certain characteristics. We argue that canonical vine copulas offer a natural way to model the pairwise dependence between the two main error types that arise in production systems with multiple inputs. We introduce a vine copula construction that permits dependence between the magnitude (but not the sign) of the errors. By using a recently proposed family of copulas, we show how to construct a simulated likelihood based on C-vines. We discuss issues that arise in the estimation of such models and outline why such models better reflect the dependencies that arise in practice. Monte Carlo simulations and a classic empirical application to electricity generation plants illustrate the utility of the proposed approach.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Utility dependencies"

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Sonnewald, Maike. "Ocean model utility dependence on horizontal resolution." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2016. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/397412/.

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This thesis examines the change in ocean model utility with changing horizontal resolution. Oceans are a crucial part of the climate system, with numerical models offering important insights into our mechanistic understanding. We use a 30 year integration (1978 to 2007) of the NEMO model at 1o, 1/4o and 1/12o to investigate the impact of modelling choices associated with horizontal resolution changes. Changes in degrees of freedom associated with the increasing resolution allow alternative energy dissipation pathways, with potential impact on model accuracy. We develop a measure of utility based on an estimate of the accuracy, as well as a penalisation which scales with resolution. Overall, accuracy is thought to increase with resolution, and we examine the associated change in utility on a range of model fields. The exploration of the NEMO model assesses the surface mixed layer, deep (>2000m) to surface (<2000m) communication through the ocean interior and the changes in the meridional overturning with topographic interactions. Assessing these areas, we illustrate potential changes in the energy pathways in the system. We investigate the surface in terms of the mixed layer depth globally, but also investigating a case study in the Southern Ocean. We find that the mixed layer does not change significantly with resolution, and that NEMO compares well with observations. Minor changes with resolution are attributed to increased numbers of fronts with increasing resolution. When the mixed layer is assessed, we see no significant change with resolution, and so find that 1o has the highest utility. For our case study, we investigate the zonally asymmetric deepening of the mixed layer in the Southern Ocean. We find that the stratification set by the advection is key, and confirm this using the 1D Price-Weller-Pinkel model. The communication between the surface and the deep ocean is assessed by looking at the steric height variability, and specifically its covariance between the surface and the deep. We find that there are large changes with resolution, and attribute these to the higher resolutions' ability to include eddy effects. This suggests that the Gent-McWilliams scheme that is active at low resolution fails to capture this. We look at the low and high frequency parts of the variance, finding that strongly eddying regions dominate the high frequency steric height covariance, confirming the importance of eddies. The ratio between the surface and the deep steric height shows poor utility in both ORCA1 and ORCA025, while we find seasonal leakage obscuring our accuracy measure for the steric height. The overturning is assessed in density space, and we notice a strengthening of the anti-clockwise component in the Southern Ocean. Decomposing the transport into its baroclinic and barotropic components, we find that changes in the baroclinic overturning can account for this. The lack of western boundaries in the Southern Ocean suggests that eddies, as well as interaction with topography, are especially important here, and we investigate the change in the balance of forcing in terms of the associated vortex stretching. We assess this in terms of the bottom pressure torque, but find the major changes in the baroclinic component of the bottom pressure torque. We find that increasing the resolution still leads to increased utility, particularly in the barotropic and baroclinic density space overturning case. The major implications of our results are that low resolution is appropriate for fields such as the mixed layer depth, but increasing the resolution is seen to improve the mean overturning through allowing eddy activity.
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McGuire, Kathryn Anne. "The utility of spontaneous electroencephalography in research on alcohol dependence and risk for alcohol dependence /." Diss., ON-CAMPUS Access For University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Click on "Connect to Digital Dissertations", 2000. http://www.lib.umn.edu/articles/proquest.phtml.

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Werner, Katarzyna Maria. "Essays on non-expected utility theory and individual decision making under risk." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/essays-on-nonexpected-utility-theory-and-individual-decision-making-under-risk(e73bd3eb-8031-45f9-b34d-e5e9edb78e03).html.

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This thesis investigates the choices under risk in the framework of non-expected utility theories. One of the key contributions of this thesis is providing an approach that allows for a complete characterisation of Cumulative Prospect Theory (CPT) preferences without prior knowledge of the reference point. The location of the reference point that separates gains from losses is derived endogenously, thus, without any additional assumptions on the decision maker’s risk behaviour. This is different to the convention used in the literature, according to which, the reference point is preselected. The problem arising from imposing the location of the reference point is that the underlying preference conditions might not be alligned with the predictions made by the model. Consequently, it is difficult to verify such a model or to test it empirically. The present contribution offers a set of normatively and descriptively appealing preference conditions, which enable the elicitation of the reference point from the decision maker’s behaviour. Since these conditions are derived using objective probabilities, they can also be applied to settings such as health or insurance, where the continuity of the utility function is not required. As a result, the obtained representation theorem is not only the most general foundation for CPT currently available, but it also provides further support for the use of CPT as a modelling tool in decision theory and fi…nance. Another contribution that this thesis can be credited with is an application of rank-dependent utility theory (RDU) to the problem of insurance demand in the monopoly market affected by adverse selection. The present approach extends the classical model of Stiglitz (1977) by accounting for an additional component of heterogeneity among consumers, the heterogeneity in risk perception. Speci…fically, consumers employ distinctive probability weighting functions to assess the likelihood of risky events. This aspect of consumers’' behaviour highlights the importance that the probabilistic risk attitudes within the RDU framework, such as optimism and pessimism, have for the choice of insurance contract. The analysis yields a separating equilibrium, with full insurance for a sufficiently pessimistic decision maker. An important implication of this result is that any low-risk individual who sufficiently overestimates his probability of loss will induce the uninformed insurer to o¤er him full coverage, thereby, affecting the high-risk type adversely. This outcome is consistent with the recent empirical puzzle regarding the correlation between ex-post risk and insurance coverage, according to which, agents with low exposure to risk receive a larger amount of compensation. By providing an explanation of this pattern of individual behaviour, the current work demonstrates that theory and practice of insurance demand can be reconciled to a greater extent. The paper also provides a behavioural rationale for policy intervention in the market with RDU agents, where the initial distortions in contracts due to unobservable risks are aggravated by the non-linear weighting of probability of a risky event.
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Books on the topic "Utility dependencies"

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Caie, Michael. A Problem for Credal Consequentialism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779681.003.0009.

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Caie focuses on an epistemic utility theory picture of epistemic norms where epistemic utility functions measure the value of degrees of belief, and rationality consists in maximizing expected epistemic utility. Caie argues that in a wide variety of cases this view says that all degreed beliefs are rational, or none are, or it issues no verdicts. This is, roughly, because an agent’s degrees of beliefs will often not encode the appropriate dependence hypotheses that are needed so that various beliefs have expected epistemic utility values. Caie thus argues the unintuitive verdicts of epistemic utility theory are not limited to the byzantine examples of epistemic trade-offs, but are much more widespread.
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Del Boca, Frances K., Jack Darkes, and Bonnie McRee. Self-Report Assessments of Psychoactive Substance Use and Dependence. Edited by Kenneth J. Sher. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199381708.013.005.

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Accurate assessment is critical to clinical interventions for problems associated with the use of alcohol and other drugs, and it is essential for research on the causes, consequences, and treatment of addiction. Verbal report is the most common method of assessing substance use behavior, diagnosing alcohol and drug use disorders, and measuring dependence severity. The authors describe self-report methods for the assessment of substance use and related constructs, together with the factors that influence their validity and utility. First, assessment procedures are described in terms of the characteristics and dimensions on which they vary. Guidelines for selecting specific types of instruments for clinical and research purposes are then provided, and the strengths and limitations of major assessment approaches are discussed. Finally, a social-psychological framework for understanding the question-answering process is presented, and assessment methods are evaluated in relation to the model. The authors conclude by identifying relevant areas of research.
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Kimmel, Ryan J., Peter P. Roy-Byrne, and Deborah S. Cowley. Pharmacological Treatments for Panic Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Specific Phobia, and Social Anxiety Disorder. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780199342211.003.0015.

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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are the first-line pharmacological treatment for panic disorder based on their low rate of side effects, lack of dietary restrictions, and absence of tolerance. SSRIs and venlafaxine are attractive first-line treatments for social anxiety disorder. Pharmacological treatments of choice for generalized anxiety disorder are buspirone and antidepressants, including SSRIs and venlafaxine. Benzodiazepines, although effective for all these disorders, lack efficacy for comorbid depression and carry the risk of physiological dependence and withdrawal symptoms. Their greatest utility seems to be as an initial or adjunctive medication for patients with disabling symptoms requiring rapid relief and for those unable to tolerate other medications. Chronic treatment with benzodiazepines is generally safe and effective but should probably be reserved for patients nonresponsive or intolerant to other agents. Larger trials are necessary to determine whether pharmacological agents might be useful as monotherapies, or adjuncts to exposure psychotherapy, for specific phobia.
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Farina, Joaquín. La tasa de explotación como medida de desigualdad global (1973-2012). Teseo, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.55778/ts877831429.

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<p>En esta investigación se intenta demostrar cómo ante la tendencial caída de la tasa de ganancia prevista por Marx se utiliza la tasa de explotación como una de las variables de ajuste que actúa como causa contrarrestante. Esta dinámica es una de las principales fuentes de desigualdad en el reparto de la riqueza desde el fin de la segunda Edad de Oro del capitalismo (que duró desde la posguerra de la Segunda Guerra Mundial hasta principios de los 70). El aporte de este trabajo se ubica centralmente en el cálculo global de la tasa de explotación, en la potencial relación con la tasa de ganancia y en mostrar una posible dependencia de estas variables por cuestiones histórico-cualitativas en el marco de acontecimientos macroeconómicos, regionales, geopolíticos y/o inscribibles en la lucha de clases. El período a analizar comprende desde principios de la década del 70 del siglo XX hasta principios del siglo XXI (1973-2012). La selección del período se inicia, como ya se mencionó, en el final de una de las mejores etapas –que mostró un crecimiento más acelerado– de la historia del capitalismo. Por otro lado, en el aspecto geográfico nos limitaremos al mundo capitalista.</p>
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Book chapters on the topic "Utility dependencies"

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Asharov, Gilad, and Yehuda Lindell. "Utility Dependence in Correct and Fair Rational Secret Sharing." In Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2009, 559–76. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03356-8_33.

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Lentz, Barry R., Stephen W. Burgess, and Enrico Grattont. "Concentration Dependence of DPHpPC Fluorescence Lifetime: Photophysics and Utility for Monitoring Membrane Fusion." In Molecular Mechanisms of Membrane Fusion, 557–66. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1659-6_41.

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Massof, Robert W., and Chris Bradley. "An Adaptive Strategy for Measuring Patient-Reported Outcomes: Incorporating Patient Preferences Relevant to Cost-Benefit Assessments of Vision Rehabilitation." In Springer Series in Measurement Science and Technology, 107–50. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07465-3_5.

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AbstractVision rehabilitation aims to improve daily functioning in patients with chronic disabling vision impairments – low vision – by providing vision assistive equipment and teaching patients effective use of the equipment; teaching patients adaptations to obviate dependence on vision; modifications of the patient’s environment to improve visibility and increase safety; and psychosocial counseling and education to help patients cope with the stress of impaired vision. The interventions that constitute vision rehabilitation are tailored to each patient’s functional goals and personal preferences. This chapter describes the theory, structure, and mechanics of an adaptive patient-reported outcome measure – the Activity Inventory (AI). The AI was developed to identify each patient’s unique set of functional goals within a hierarchical framework, to specify the cognitive and motor activities (i.e., tasks in different functional domains) the patient customarily performs to achieve his or her personal goals, and to elicit ordinal patient ratings of the importance and difficulty of each goal and the difficulty of relevant subsidiary tasks under goals that meet or exceed defined importance and difficulty criteria. The theoretical assumptions of a Rasch psychometric model that is employed to estimate measures of the patient’s overall visual ability from goal difficulty ratings and ability in each functional domain from task difficulty ratings before and after vision rehabilitation are presented and the results for a large group of low vision patients are reviewed. This chapter then explores the issue of how individual patient preferences must be factored into the outcome measures to determine the utility of functional improvements from vision rehabilitation. A theoretical framework for incorporating the utility of individual vision rehabilitation outcomes is offered and its application to functional outcome data is demonstrated.
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"Utility-Scale Wind Plant System: Value Analysis of Interactions, Dependencies, and Synergies." In Case Studies in System of Systems, Enterprise Systems, and Complex Systems Engineering, 283–316. CRC Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b17139-20.

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Zhdanov, Dmitriy A. "Agency Cost Management in the Digital Economy." In Challenges and Opportunities of Corporate Governance Transformation in the Digital Era, 130–51. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2011-6.ch007.

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The purpose of the present study was to find the answer to the following questions: How the growing digitalization will affect agency relations, an important element of corporate governance, and what preventive measures should be taken in this situation? Therefore, the impact of digitalization on opportunistic behavior and agency costs was reviewed. The analysis revealed that digitalization provokes reduction of information asymmetry, leads to a decrease in the initiative of top managers, thereby changing the preconditions of opportunistic behavior. On the basis of the ordinal approach, an original toolkit was developed, which made it possible to model the identified dependencies, transformation of the agents' utility in case the principals' demands altering, and to demonstrate ways to reduce agency costs by proper selection of candidates for top manager positions. In conclusion, by means of the developed toolkit, the methodological recommendations were suggested for selecting the agents during the process of recruitment, taking into account the impact of digitalization.
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Mittelstadt, Brent. "Interpretability and Transparency in Artificial Intelligence." In The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198857815.013.20.

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Abstract Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are frequently thought of as opaque, meaning their performance or logic is thought to be inaccessible or incomprehensible to human observers. Models can consist of millions of features connected in a complex web of dependent behaviours. Conveying this internal state and dependencies in a humanly comprehensible way is extremely challenging. Explaining the functionality and behaviour of AI systems in a meaningful and useful way to people designing, operating, regulating, or affected by their outputs is a complex technical, philosophical, and ethical project. Despite this complexity, principles citing ‘transparency’ or ‘interpretability’ are commonly found in ethical and regulatory frameworks addressing technology. This chapter provides an overview of these concepts and methods design to explain how AI works. After reviewing key concepts and terminology, two sets of methods are examined: (1) interpretability methods designed to explain and approximate AI functionality and behaviour; and (2) transparency frameworks meant to help assess and provide information about the development, governance, and potential impact of training datasets, models, and specific applications. These methods are analysed in the context of prior work on explanations in the philosophy of science. The chapter closes by introducing a framework of criteria to evaluate the quality and utility of methods in explainable AI (XAI) and to clarify the open challenges facing the field.
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Zhao, Huimin. "Matching Attributes across Overlapping Heterogeneous Data Sources Using Mutual Information." In Cross-Disciplinary Models and Applications of Database Management, 417–37. IGI Global, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-471-0.ch017.

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Identifying matching attributes across heterogeneous data sources is a critical and time-consuming step in integrating the data sources. In this paper, the author proposes a method for matching the most frequently encountered types of attributes across overlapping heterogeneous data sources. The author uses mutual information as a unified measure of dependence on various types of attributes. An example is used to demonstrate the utility of the proposed method, which is useful in developing practical attribute matching tools.
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Dinis, Ana Arromba, and Liliana Pereira. "Tax Incentives for Tourism." In Sustainability and Competitiveness in the Hospitality Industry, 95–118. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9285-4.ch004.

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The current context caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the greatest impact on tourism, showed the countries´ economic dependence on this sector. In fact, tourism is fundamental for the economic development of a country and should be one of the priorities of the public policies of municipalities, as a stakeholder in the development of regions. In this sense, the present research focuses on the study of tax incentives to tourism of regional scope, and on the benefits granted to Portuguese companies with touristic utility statute. The authors conclude that the tax benefits understudy have not been a practice generally adopted by Portuguese companies and concentrated on a small number of municipalities in Portugal.
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Singh Patial, Balbir. "Calorimetry to Understand Structural Relaxation in Chalcogenide Glasses." In Applications of Calorimetry. IntechOpen, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.104418.

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Thermal behavior of chalcogen additive materials synthesized via melt quench method can be studied by reheating the bulk samples in differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) or differential thermal analyzer (DTA) experiment. It involves kinetics of structural transformations as three basic characteristic phenomena correspond to glass transition, crystallization and melting are involved. Thermal stability and glass forming ability are important factors from technological point of view in various applications. Thermal stability of glasses can be ascertained based on calorimetric measurements. In the glass transition region (first region in reheating experiment), structural relaxation takes place. The temperature in glass transition region, its heating rate dependence and empirical approaches for estimation of apparent activation energy are useful to determine utility of these materials in various applications.
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Rusko, Rauno. "Supply Chain Management in the Context of Economic Area." In Digital Economy Innovations and Impacts on Society, 15–25. IGI Global, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1556-4.ch002.

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This study introduces geographical viewpoints for supply chain management (SCM) focusing on the branch of information communication technology (ICT) in the case of city and region of Oulu. The City of Oulu is a remarkable planning and administration centre of ICT branch in Finland. In this study we - instead of using commonly used cluster or resource dependence theories - utilize SCM framework to describe the development and path-dependence of knowledge-intensive geographical area, which is specialized in high tech or actually ICT business. In the context of geographical analysis, or of geographical economics, SCM is less-used viewpoint. This case study shows that SCM, and especially strategic level SC endowment viewpoint (introduced initially in Rusko, Kylänen & Saari, 2009), is valuable and useful tool in analysing the geo-economic development and path-dependence of a high tech centre. As a result, we notice that the development of Oulu is based on the development of SC endowment connected with amounts of talents and also multi-dimensional coopetition. One essential result is the observed erosion in the SC endowment of high tech Oulu, which sets remarkable challenges for city planning.
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Conference papers on the topic "Utility dependencies"

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Iram, Shamaila, Terrence Fernando, and May Bassanino. "Exploring Cross-Domain Data Dependencies for Smart Homes to Improve Energy Efficiency." In UCC '17: 10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3147234.3148096.

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Williams, N., S. Azarm, and P. K. Kannan. "Multi-Category Design of Bundled Products for Retail Channels Considering Demand Uncertainty and Competition." In ASME 2008 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2008-49210.

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Modern retailers now control in excess of 70% of many markets and thereby control the access manufacturers have to the end customer. Success of a new product design therefore depends upon acceptance of the product by the powerful retailer as well as the end customer. One prevalent approach to increasing both retailer and manufacturer revenues is to improve the attractiveness of a product offering by bundling related items together for one price. To be most effective, bundled products should be developed with an integrated design approach that seeks to achieve utility for the end customer as well as cost efficiencies through measures such as using common parts. We propose a bundled product design approach that endogenizes the profit maximizing prices set by the channel controlling (monopolist) retailer. The approach accounts for demand dependencies between the product categories and thus the impact of the bundle and cross-category competition on proposed engineering designs is known. Additionally, the approach simultaneously considers uncertainty in engineering design, competing manufacturer product attributes and customer preferences to ensure acceptable product profitability and market share under interval uncertainty. A bundled product design case study is presented for two complimentary power tools. Manufacturer profit and market share are optimized both deterministically and under uncertainty. We find that considering demand dependencies can create optimal bundle and individual product designs that increase profits for both retailer and manufacturer.
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Gao, Z., and K. Ng. "Fluid Dynamics of Microfluidic Devices." In ASME 2011 9th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icnmm2011-58285.

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The subject of fluid dynamics of microfluidic devices such as instability, droplet formation, and control has gained considerable momentum in recently years. This is due partially to the fact that modern developments in the design and utilization of microfluidic devices for fluid transport have found many applications such as drug design and diagnostic devices in biomedicine and microdrop generators for image printing. Furthermore, the new development of nonlinear dynamics of droplets has created a new paradigm of scaling and instability theory that opened a new approach to this classic phenomenon. The utility of a microfluidic device is linked directly to its ability to control microdroplets in precision and speed for desired functionalities. An example of such a device is Kodak’s Continuous Inkjet System, which is capable of stimulating drop breakup of jets of complex fluids with unprecedented precision, speed, and selectivity. We will utilize such a microfluidic device to discuss some of the fluid dynamics topics in microfluidic devices, and to illustrate that the fluid dynamic behavior of such a device is not only influenced by the device architecture, but also by the fluidic properties and by the way the fluid is energized to induce the drop formation and movement. The topics will include a discussion of fluid properties relative to jet modulation, wavelength dependencies, thermal modulation schemes, satellite drop formation, and aerodynamic effects.
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Kannapan, Srikanth M., and Dean L. Taylor. "Conflict Resolution in Concurrent Engineering Processes." In ASME 1994 Design Technical Conferences collocated with the ASME 1994 International Computers in Engineering Conference and Exhibition and the ASME 1994 8th Annual Database Symposium. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc1994-0015.

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Abstract Naive interpretations of concurrent engineering may expect extreme parallelization of tasks and simultaneous accommodation of multiple perspectives. In fact, from our efforts at modeling tasks in a MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) pressure sensor design project, it appears that data dependencies due to the structure of tasks and the product itself result in scenarios of decision and action that must be carefully coordinated. This paper refines a previously described information model for defining evolving contexts of product model aspects and team member perspectives, with software agents acting on behalf of team members to execute tasks. The pressure sensor design project is analyzed in the framework of the information model. A scenario of decision and action for design of the pressure sensor is modeled as a design process plan. Conflict on a shared parameter occurs as a consequence of introducing some parallelism between the capacitance and deflection agents in the process. We present a technique for negotiating such conflicts by definition and propagation of utility functions on decision parameters and axiomatic negotiation.
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Bunker, W. J. Benjamin, and Ming Xu. "Dependence of wind energy on electric utility in the US." In 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/issst.2011.5936885.

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Bunker, W. J. Benjamin, and Ming Xu. "Dependence of wind energy on electric utility in the U.S." In 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/issst.2011.5936886.

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Kim, Yoonik, Chansoo Kim, Moosung Jae, Chang Hyun Chung, and Ji Hwan Jung. "A Method to Identify Dependencies Between Organizational Factors Using Statistical Independence Test." In 12th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone12-49125.

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A considerable number of studies on organizational factors in nuclear power plants have been made especially in recent years, most of which have assumed organizational factors to be independent. However, since organizational factors characterize the organization in terms of safety and efficiency etc. and there would be some factors that have close relations between them. Therefore, from whatever point of view, if we want to identify the characteristics of an organization, the dependence relationships should be considered to get an accurate result. In this study the organization of a reference nuclear power plant in Korea was analyzed for the trip cases of that plant using 20 organizational factors that Jacobs and Haber had suggested. By utilizing the results of the analysis, a method to identify the dependence relationships between organizational factors is presented. The statistical independence test for the analysis result of the trip cases is adopted to reveal dependencies. This method is geared to the needs to utilize many kinds of data that has been obtained as the operating years of nuclear power plants increase, and more reliable dependence relations may be obtained by using these abundant data.
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Бабичев, Rudolf Babichev, Левендорский, K. Levendorskiy, Бабичева, G. Babicheva, Натхин, and I. Natkhin. "Band-pass filter based on magnetostatic surface waves, exciting by symmetric coplanar line." In XXIV International Conference. Москва: Infra-m, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/22885.

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An excitation of magnetostatic surface waves (MSSW) by symmetric coplanar transmission line was considered for the case, when coplanar line is placed at some distance from the ferrite film surface. The dependence of symmetric coplanar line impedance on the spacing between the line and ferrite film has been studied for design of band-pass filter. Approximate theoretical method of band-pass filter design is presented. Experimental frequency responses of band-pass filter which utilize a yttrium-iron-garnet (YIG) films with different thickness are presented and compared. Frequency dependences of symmetric coplanar line radiation resistance and insertion losses of band-pass filter are discussed.
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Бабичев, Rudolf Babichev, Левендорский, K. Levendorskiy, Натхин, I. Natkhin, Тахтамышьян, and V. Takhtamyshyan. "Band-pass filter based on magnetostatic surface waves, exciting by a one screen coplanar line." In XXIV International Conference. Москва: Infra-m, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/22886.

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An excitation of magnetostatic surface waves (MSSW) by a one screen coplanar transmission line was considered for the case, when coplanar line is placed at some distance from the ferrite film surface. The dependence of coplanar line impedance on the spacing between the line and ferrite film has been studied for design of band-pass filter. Approximate theoretical method of band-pass filter design is presented. Experimental frequency responses of band-pass filter which utilize a yttrium-iron-garnet (YIG) films with different thickness are presented and compared. Frequency dependences of a one screen coplanar line radiation resistance and insertion losses of band-pass filter are discussed.
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Бабичев, Rudolf Babichev, Левендорский, K. Levendorskiy, Натхин, and I. Natkhin. "Band-pass filter based on magnetostatic surface waves, exciting by a one screen coplanar line." In XXIV International Conference. Москва: Infra-m, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/22887.

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An excitation of magnetostatic surface waves (MSSW) by a one screen coplanar transmission line was considered for the case, when coplanar line is placed at some distance from the ferrite film surface. The dependence of coplanar line impedance on the spacing between the line and ferrite film has been studied for design of band-pass filter. Approximate theoretical method of band-pass filter design is presented. Experimental frequency responses of band-pass filter which utilize a yttrium-iron-garnet (YIG) films with different thickness are presented and compared. Frequency dependences of a one screen coplanar line radiation resistance and insertion losses of band-pass filter are discussed.
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Reports on the topic "Utility dependencies"

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Ruosteenoja, Kimmo. Applicability of CMIP6 models for building climate projections for northern Europe. Finnish Meteorological Institute, September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35614/isbn.9789523361416.

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In this report, we have evaluated the performance of nearly 40 global climate models (GCMs) participating in Phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6). The focus is on the northern European area, but the ability to simulate southern European and global climate is discussed as well. Model evaluation was started with a technical control; completely unrealistic values in the GCM output files were identified by seeking the absolute minimum and maximum values. In this stage, one GCM was rejected totally, and furthermore individual output files from two other GCMs. In evaluating the remaining GCMs, the primary tool was the Model Climate Performance Index (MCPI) that combines RMS errors calculated for the different climate variables into one index. The index takes into account both the seasonal and spatial variations in climatological means. Here, MCPI was calculated for the period 1981—2010 by comparing GCM output with the ERA-Interim reanalyses. Climate variables explored in the evaluation were the surface air temperature, precipitation, sea level air pressure and incoming solar radiation at the surface. Besides MCPI, we studied RMS errors in the seasonal course of the spatial means by examining each climate variable separately. Furthermore, the evaluation procedure considered model performance in simulating past trends in the global-mean temperature, the compatibility of future responses to different greenhouse-gas scenarios and the number of available scenario runs. Daily minimum and maximum temperatures were likewise explored in a qualitative sense, but owing to the non-existence of data from multiple GCMs, these variables were not incorporated in the quantitative validation. Four of the 37 GCMs that had passed the initial technical check were regarded as wholly unusable for scenario calculations: in two GCMs the responses to the different greenhouse gas scenarios were contradictory and in two other GCMs data were missing from one of the four key climate variables. Moreover, to reduce inter-GCM dependencies, no more than two variants of any individual GCM were included; this led to an abandonment of one GCM. The remaining 32 GCMs were divided into three quality classes according to the assessed performance. The users of model data can utilize this grading to select a subset of GCMs to be used in elaborating climate projections for Finland or adjacent areas. Annual-mean temperature and precipitation projections for Finland proved to be nearly identical regardless of whether they were derived from the entire ensemble or by ignoring models that had obtained the lowest scores. Solar radiation projections were somewhat more sensitive.
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