Cognitive development is a process from an initial knowledge state at birth to a later mature one. The problem of developmental psychology is to describe and explain the intricacies of this process. In “The Scientist in the Crib”, Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff and Patricia K. Kuhl approach this problem from the perspective of one theory in developmental psychology — the theory theory. The b...

Bloom filters are a type of data structure that is used to test whether or not an element member set. They known for being space-efficient and commonly employed in various applications, such as network routers, web browsers, databases. These work by allowing fixed probability incorrectly identifying the set, false positive rate (FPR). However, traditional bloom suffer from high FPR extensive me...

Financial surveillance technology alerts analysts to suspicious trading events. Our aim is to identify explainable false positives (e.g., caused by price-sensitive information in company news) and explainable true positives (e.g., caused by ramping in forums) by aligning these alerts with publicly available information. Our system aligns 99% of alerts, which will speed the analysts’ task by hel...

In this paper we describe a novel approach, called improbability filtering, to rejecting false-positive observations from degrading the tracking performance of an Extended Kalman-Bucy fdter. False-positives, incorrect observations reported with a high confidence, are a form of non-Gaussian white noise and therefore degrade the tracking performance of an Extended Kalman-Bucy Filter. Improbabilit...

Cyber-physical systems (CPSes) are rapidly evolving in critical infrastructure (CI) domains such as smart grid, healthcare, the military, and telecommunication. These continually threatened by malicious software (malware) attacks adversaries due to their improvised tactics attack methods. A minor configuration change a CPS through malware has devastating effects, which world seen Stuxnet, Black...

Resources being amassed for genome-wide association (GWA) studies include "control databases" genotyped with a large-scale SNP array. How to use these databases effectively is an open question. We develop a method to match, by genetic ancestry, controls to affected individuals (cases). The impact of this method, especially for heterogeneous human populations, is to reduce the false-positive rat...

Software Configuration Management (SCM) systems are employed to facilitate collaboration on software engineering artifacts such as models. Therefore, they need to detect concurrent change – also known as conflict detection. However, many researchers recognized that conflict detection on models is not well supported in traditional SCM systems since they are engineered for textual files. Their co...

Set similarity joins compute all pairs of similar sets from two collections of sets. Set similarity joins are typically implemented in a filter-verify framework: a filter generates candidate pairs, possibly including false positives, which must be verified to produce the final join result. Good filters produce a small number of false positives, while they reduce the time they spend on hopeless ...