Stability problems in non-statistical classification theory

Non-Classical Problems in the Theory of Elastic Stability

When a structure is put under an increasing compressive load, it may become unstable and buckle. Buckling is a particularly significant concern in designing shell structures such as aircraft, automobiles, ships, or bridges. This book discusses stability analysis and buckling problems and offers practical tools for dealing with uncertainties that inherently exist in real systems. The techniques ...

Classification Problems in Continuum Theory

We study several natural classes and relations occurring in continuum theory from the viewpoint of descriptive set theory and infinite combinatorics. We provide useful characterizations for the relation of likeness among dendrites and show that it is a bqo with countably many equivalence classes. For dendrites with finitely many branch points the classes of homeomorphism and quasi-homeomorphism...

Some statistical estimation problems in ruin theory

Much research in ruin theory in insurance mathematics focuses on the behaviour of various quantities of interest, such as the probability of ruin or the ruin-time moments, for a particular risk model in insurance. In practice, precise knowledge of the risk model is available only via observed data. In this presentation, the problem of statistical estimation of the quantities of interest, given ...

Model Problems in Numerical Stability Theory for Initial Value Problems

Dimensionality Reduction, Classification and Reconstruction Problems in Statistical Learning Approaches

Statistical learning theory explores ways of estimating functional dependency from a given collection of data. The specific sub-area of supervised statistical learning covers important models like Perceptron, Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Linear Discriminate Analysis (LDA). In this paper we firstly review the theory of such models. Then, we compare their separating hypersurfaces for extract...