The Shapley value (SV) is a fair and principled metric for contribution evaluation in cross-silo federated learning (cross-silo FL), wherein organizations, i.e., clients, collaboratively train prediction models with the coordination of parameter server. However, existing SV calculation methods FL assume that server can access raw public test data. This may not be valid assumption practice consi...

The loss rates and financial profitability of maize storage conservation technologies were assessed in the central northern regions Republic Benin. experimentations conducted specifically villages Boukoumbé Savalou randomly sampled. A total four offered to 137 producers: polypropylene bag, Purdue Improved Cowpea Storage (PICS) metal silo, improved closed earthen attic (with or without stock pro...

The Optimistic Concurrency Control (OCC) method has been commonly used for in-memory databases to ensure transaction serializability — a transaction will be aborted if its read set has been changed during execution. This simple criterion to abort transactions causes a large proportion of false positives, leading to excessive transaction aborts. Transactions aborted false-positively (i.e. false ...