The trigram statistical language model is remarkably successful when used in such applications as speech recognition. However, the trigram model is static in that it only considers the previous two words when making a prediction about a future word. The work presented here attempts to improve upon the trigram model by considering additional contextual and longer distance information. This is fr...

African history and world history each became substantial fields of historical study in the aftermath of the Second World War. African history organized rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s, an era dominated by modernization-thinking. World history developed slowly until the 1990s, then quickly expanded and generated institutional homes in a time of globalization-thinking. This piece considers issues...

This paper presents a new ridesharing simulation model that accounts for dynamic driver supply and passenger demand, complex interactions between drivers passengers. The proposed explicitly considers acceptance/rejection on the matching options, cancelation before/after being matched. New events, procedures modules have been developed to handle these realistic interactions. Ridesharing pricing ...