Using a sequential conditional independence assumption, this paper discusses fully nonparametric estimation of natural direct and indirect causal effects in causal mediation analysis based on inverse probability weighting. We propose estimators of the average indirect effect of a binary treatment, which operates through intermediate variables (or mediators) on the causal path between the treatm...

saltwater intrusion into freshwater in coastal areas has been a serious concern for many countries. providing fresh water in some regions is very crucial. in fact, the areas that  are prone to encountering salt water zones should be checked meticulously. the preferred method for such investigation is a precise 3-d model of distribution of fresh and salt water in order to reach such a model, rel...

This paper describes the parallelization of the Mermaid multicomputer simulation environment. Due to our simulation methodology, this parallelization is reasonably straightforward as it does not require any measures to guarantee the causality within the simulated system. The resulting distributed simulator increases the simulation performance without any loss of simulation accuracy. Furthermore...

This paper proposes DBP, an automatic technique that transparently parallelizes a sequential binary executable while it is running. A prototype implementation in simulation was able to increase sequential execution speeds by up to 1.96x, averaged over three benchmarks suites.