Although ecosystem service (ES) modeling has progressed rapidly in the last 10–15 years, comparative studies on data and model selection effects have become more common only recently. Such studies have drawn mixed conclusions about whether different data and model choices yield divergent results. In this study, we compared the results of different models to address these questions at national, ...

This paper describes a rigorous Bayesian approach to model selection and state estimation for sensorbased robot tasks. The approach is illustrated with an example from autonomous compliant motion: simultaneous Contact Formation recognition and estimation of geometrical parameters. Previous research in this area tries to solve one of the two subproblems, or treats the Contact Formation recogniti...

The origin of altruistic behavior has long been a challenge for students of evolutionary biology. The populations with altruistic individuals do better than those without altruists; however, the altruists within a population do worse than the non-altruists and their prevalence in the population decreases due to individual selection. Under certain conditions, the strength of group selection, i.e...

This paper provides an empirical comparison of various selection and penalized regression approaches for forecasting with vector autoregressive systems. In particular, we investigate the effect of the system size as well as the effect of various prior specification choices on the relative and overall forecasting performance of the methods. The data set is a typical macroeconomic quarterly data ...

Natural selection and sexual selection are usually seen as either two different and separate processes or with sexual selection being a subset of natural selection but distinct from other processes such as kin selection. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of a connection between discriminatory altruistic behaviors consistent with kin selection and the sex-specific criteria that men a...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First and foremost, I want to express my greatest appreciation to my supervisor, Dr. Ming Dong. Under his guidance, I have learned a lot in different aspects of conducting research, including finding a good research topic and writing convincing technical paper. It is his guidance , support and tremendous help that made this dissertation possible. I am also very thankful to the r...

We propose some models to simulate human choice behavior to select facilities. In order to consider models for human behavior, we develop a web-based experimental system to collect the data of human choice behavior in facility selection. Using the developed system, human subjects act their facility selection according to the information such as the congestion level of the facility selected last...