Decentralized federated learning, inherited from decentralized enables the edge devices to collaborate on model training in a peer-to-peer manner without assistance of server. However, existing learning frameworks usually assume perfect communication among devices, where they can reliably exchange messages, <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/19...

Unreliable data is present in datasets, and is either ignored, acknowledged ad hoc, or undetected. This paper discusses data quality issues with a potential framework in mind to deal with them. Such a framework should be applied within data-to-text systems at the generation of text rather than being an afterthought. This paper also shows ways to express uncertainty through language and World He...

This paper presents the various ways that lithium-ion batteries are being counterfeited, problems counterfeit present, how they enter consumer market, and difficulties of detection. Simple external visual inspection battery is unreliable. As shown in presented case study, even for same brand batteries, their internal structures different. The current prevention methods focus on manufacturing st...

Although affordability is important, people do not need to be money poor experience energy deprivation. This paper examines how an electricity tariff increase affects household consumption by situating the price change within broader context of service provision in Ethiopia. We place households’ lived interaction with institutional and infrastructural dynamics that constitute sector Addis Ababa...

Access to power is tied to a country’s development. It facilitates improved social welfare, education, health and income generating opportunities. Uganda’s economy is stifled by its low electrification rates 16% nationally. This study builds a working theory on the internal setup of Uganda’s power sector utilizing this theory to surface influential behavior modes as they pertain to power genera...

The traditional problem often called “electricity development” is to improve and expand services from an established monopolistic electricity supplier. The lack of an effective dominant utility, however, is a defining condition for the 1.4 billion people without access for electricity, the so-called unserved. Therefore, the issues that arise are different from those of traditional utility servi...

Surveys suggest that supply chain risk is a growing issue for executives and that supplier reliability is of particular concern. A common mitigation strategy observed in practice is for the buying firm to expend effort improving the reliability of its supply base. We explore a model in which a firm can source from multiple suppliers and/or exert effort to improve supplier reliability. For both ...

Moisture supply in the Pamir Mountains of Central Asia significantly determines the hydrological cycle and, as a result, impacts the local communities via hazards or socioeconomic aspects, such as hydropower, agriculture and infrastructure. Scarce and unreliable in situ data prevent an accurate assessment of moisture supply, as well as its temporal and spatial variability in this strongly-heter...

The advantage of multiple sourcing to protect against supplier failures arising from undependable products due to latent defects is examined using a model with non-linear external failure costs. Prior research has focused only on supplier failures arising from unreliable supply, such as late/insufficient/no delivery. I derive a closed-form characterization of the optimal production quota alloca...