Debabrata Payra, Masanobu Naito, * Yoshihisa Fujii, and Yuki Nagao a Research Center for Strategic Materials, Structural Materials Unit, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan b Advanced Key Technologies Division, Polymer Materials Unit, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan c School ...

from rosana's point of view, following the decline of the dominant role of states in the international arena, the world system has changed from a uni-polar to a multi-polar system. in the new system, there are many independent players. in crease in citizen's knowldge and individual expertise is one of the charactristics of our new world. in this era, legitimacy is no longer derived fr...

This paper uses an information-theoretic perspective to propose multi-locus informativeness measures for ancestry inference. These measures describe the potential for correct classification of unknown individuals to their source populations, given genetic data on population structure. Motivated by Shannon‟s axiomatic approach in deriving a unique information measure for communication (Shannon 1...

Comparisons are made for the amount of agreement of the composite likelihood information criteria and their full likelihood counterparts when making decisions among the fits of different models, and some properties of penalty term for composite likelihood information criteria are obtained. Asymptotic theory is given for the case when a simpler model is nested within a bigger model, and the bigg...

Choosing a model with too few parameters can involve making unrealistically simple assumptions and lead to high bias, poor prediction, and missed opportunities for insight. Such models are not flexible enough to describe the sample or the population well. A model with too many parameters can fit the observed data very well, but be too closely tailored to it. Such models may generalize poorly. P...

Within information hiding technology, digital watermarking is one of the most important technologies for copyright protection of digital content. Many digital watermarking schemes have been proposed in academia. However, these schemes are not used, because they are not practical; one reason for this is that the evaluation criteria are loosely defined. To make the evaluation more concrete and im...

In many data analysis tasks, one is often confronted with very high dimensional data. The feature selection problem is essentially a combinatorial optimization problem which is computationally expensive. To overcome this problem it is frequently assumed either that features independently influence the class variable or do so only involving pairwise feature interaction. In prior work [18], we ha...

Millions of people use public transportation and consult electronic timetable information systems. A customer selects from the connections offered by the system according to personal preferences. The chosen connection is typically a compromise based on the importance of several criteria, including departure and arrival time, travel time, comfort and ticket cost. Consequently, multi-criteria opt...