Good evening. It is a pleasure and an honour to be here at NIESR give the annual Dow lecture. We are very lucky in UK have high-quality independent institutions such as focusing on policy landscape, my time MPC I always valued their commentary research.

A more comprehensive understanding of the role irrigation in coupled natural–human systems is needed to minimize negative consequences for climate, ecosystems and public health.

We consider selective classification, a term we adopt here to refer to ‘classification with a reject option.’ The essence in selective classification is to trade-off classifier coverage for higher accuracy. We term this trade-off the risk-coverage (RC) trade-off. Our main objective is to characterize this trade-off and to construct algorithms that can optimally or near optimally achieve the bes...

Trade-off analysis, one of the key elements of transportation asset management (TAM), helps decision makers to not only quantify how different resource allocations affect system performance but also investigate the trade-off relationships between cost and performance measures and between different performance measures. In the fast-growing field of TAM, researchers are beginning to quantify the ...