Many spatial processes in environmental applications, such as climate variables and climate model errors on a global scale, exhibit complex nonstationary dependence structure, in not only their marginal covariance but also their cross-covariance. Flexible crosscovariance models for processes on a global scale are critical for an accurate description of each spatial process as well as the cross-...

Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs) are implemented mainly by the three steps: selecting the promising subset from the current population, modeling the distribution of the selected population and sampling from the estimated model. Modeling and sampling are key steps of EDAs. They are also research topic of copula theory to represent the multivariate joint distribution by a copula and t...

Citation Suresh Kumar K. Numerical modeling of an autogenous butt joint welding of low carbon ferritic steel sheets using a pulsed Nd: YAG laser beam.

This work describes an automated negotiation agent called OMAC which was awarded the joint third place in the 2012 Automated Negotiating Agent Competition (ANAC 2012). OMAC, standing for “Opponent Modeling and Adaptive Concession”, combines efficient opponent modeling and adaptive concession making. Opponent modeling is achieved through standard wavelet decomposition and cubic smoothing spline;...