Steele et al. (2005) describe a general framework for the analysis of correlated event histories, with an application to a study of partnership transitions and fertility among a cohort of British women. A multilevel multistate competing risks model is used to examine the relationship between prior fertility outcomes (the presence and characteristics of children and current pregnancy) and the di...

This paper describes the phrase-based SMT systems developed for our participation in the WMT13 Shared Translation Task. Translations for English↔German and English↔French were generated using a phrase-based translation system which is extended by additional models such as bilingual, fine-grained part-ofspeech (POS) and automatic cluster language models and discriminative word lexica (DWL). In a...

In Distributed Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), multiple agents generate a global map of the environment while each performing its local SLAM operation. One of the main challenges is to identify overlapping maps, especially when agents do not know their relative starting positions. In this paper we are introducing a distributed framework which uses an appearance based method to ide...

Set comprehension is a mathematical notation for defining sets on the basis of a property of their members. Although set comprehension is widely used in mathematics and some programming languages, direct support for reasoning about it is still not readily available in state-of-the-art SMT solvers. This paper presents a technique for translating formulas which express constraints involving set c...

Results on the simultaneous scaling of nonnegative matrices involving one sided inequalities are presented. These are applied to scalings involving two sided inequalities. The proofs are graph theoretic. The setting is generalized to matrices with elements in lattice ordered Abelian groups with 0.

E Ciavolino and Jens Jörn Dahlgaard , Simultaneous Equation Model based on the generalized maximum entropy for studying the effect of management factors on enterprise performance, 2009, JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS, (36), 7, 801-815. JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS is available online at informaworldTM: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02664760802510026 Copyright: Taylor & Francis http://www.tandf.co.u...

This note revisits the identification theorems of B. Brown (1983) and Roehrig (1988). We describe an error in the proofs of the main identification theorems in these papers, and provide an important counterexample to the theorems on the identification of the reduced form. Specifically, contrary to the theorems, the reduced form of a nonseparable simultaneous equations model is not identified ev...

A technique for simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) for large scale scenarios is presented. This solution is based on the use of independent submaps of a limited size to map large areas. In addition, a global stochastic map, containing the links between adjacent submaps, is built. The information in both levels is corrected every time a loop is closed: local maps are updated with the i...