We provide a device, called the local predictor, which extends the idea of the predictable compensator. It is shown that a fBm with the Hurst index greater than 1/2 coincides with its local predictor while fBm with the Hurst index smaller than 1/2 does not admit any local predictor. 1 Intoduction The question in the title is provocative, of course. Everybody familiar with the theory of stochast...

JULY 2003 AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY | A recent analysis of 12 statistical and dynamical models used for El Niño predictions finds that at the long (1–2 yr) and even medium (6–11 months) ranges there were “no models that provided useful and skillful forecasts for the entirety of the 1997/98 El Niño” (Landsea and Knaff 2000). Most of the models were wrong in predicting the timing of the ons...

We initiate a formal investigation on the power of predictability for argument of knowledge systems for NP. Specifically, we consider private-coin argument systems where the answers of the prover can be predicted, given the private randomness of the verifier. We show that predictable arguments of knowledge (PAoK) can be made extremely laconic, with the prover sending a single bit, and assumed t...

We propose a Predictable Dual-View Hashing (PDH) algorithm which embeds proximity of data samples in the original spaces. We create a cross-view hamming space with the ability to compare information from previously incomparable domains with a notion of ‘predictability’. By performing comparative experimental analysis on two large datasets, PASCAL-Sentence and SUN-Attribute, we demonstrate the s...

The Worst-Case Execution-Time Analysis (WCET Analysis) of program code that is to be executed on modern processors is a highly complex task. First, it involves path analysis, to identify and describe the possible execution paths through the code. Second, it models the worst-case timing of possible paths on the target hardware, where the characterization of the timing of sophisticated hardware f...

1. SEMANTIC FIELD OF TACTUAL VERBS 1. The sense of touch has always been related to the field of emotions. Expressions such as I'm deeply touched or touching words are widely used in English. Hans Kurath (1921) had already classified sense perception in respect to emotions and stated how 'the kinaesthetic, the visceral, and the tactual perceptions have a relatively stronger tone than those of h...

Humans experience more stress about uncertain situations than certain situations. However, the neural mechanism underlying the uncertainty of a negative stimulus has not been determined. In the present study, event-related potential was recorded to examine neural responses during the dread of unpredictable pain. We used a cueing paradigm in which predictable cues were always followed by electri...

In recent work we showed that models constructed from planner performance data over a large suite of benchmark problems are surprisingly accurate; 91-99% accuracy for success and 3-496 seconds RMSE for runtime. In this paper, we examine the underlying causes of these accurate models. We deconstruct the learned models to assess how the features, the planners, the search space topology and the am...