This paper explains how goal-oriented requirements engineering can be transposed into regulation modelling. It motivates also why this way of modelling regulations is worthwhile for people responsible for preparing regulations. In addition, the paper recounts how the approach has been applied to model ICAO Security Regulation for Civil Aviation in the context of the

This paper deals with the occupational absorption of female immigrants from the former Soviet Union (now the CIS) into Israel’s labor market, and their participation in subsidized vocational training courses. About 43 percent of these immigrants had participated in such a course during their first five years in Israel. A calibration of a dynamic choice model in which immigrants’ decision regard...

We propose a principled approach to video summarization using optimal reconstruction as a metric to guide the creation of the summary output. The spatio-temporal video patches included in the summary are viewed as observations about the local motion of the original input video and are chosen to minimize the reconstruction error of the missing observations under a set of learned predictive model...

Although dogs are used by subsistence hunters in many locations throughout the world, hunters with dogs have not been studied from an optimal foraging perspective. A study of indigenous Mayangna and Miskito hunters in Nicaragua indicates that the use of dogs affects both the encounter rates and the pursuit times of several prey types. Before hunters can identify the prey type and initiate a pur...

Four studies out of a series of 6 previous studies have found that predictive models are more accurate at predicting actual match outcomes when the modelling assumptions are violated than when data are transformed to satisfy the assumptions. The current investigation produced two sets of two predictive models of the 2011 Rugby World Cup; one set of models used raw independent variables that vio...

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OF THE DISSERTATION Stochastic Modeling of Advection-Diffusion-Reaction Processes in Biological Systems

We introduce and analyze an inter-temporal choice model where customer valuations are uncertain and evolve over time. The model leads directly to the study of call options on capacity that are similar to partially refundable fares. We show that the capacity provider earns significantly higher revenues by selling real options on capacity than low-to-high pricing. We also investigate the social i...

We describe and analyze the idea of data-enhanced predictive modeling (DEM). The term “enhanced” here refers to the case that the data used for modeling is sampled not from the true target population, but from an alternative (closely related) population, from which much larger samples are available. This leads to a “bias-variance” tradeoff, which implies that in some cases, DEM can improve pred...

In this paper, we explore the surface tessellation problem, in particular, the problem of meshing a surface with the added consideration of incorporating constructible building components. When a surface is tessellated into discrete counterparts, there are certain conditions that usually occur at the boundary of the surface, especially, when the surface is being trimmed, for example, irregularl...