This report presents a survey of performance models for parallel al-gorithmic skeletons. First, higher-order functions (HOFs) are presented according to the modelled skeletons. Next, the corresponding parallel implementations (skeletons) for the HOFs are discussed with the performance models that were constructed for the skeletons.

College Education and Wages in the U.K.: Estimating Conditional Average Structural Functions in Nonadditive Models with Binary Endogenous Variables We propose and implement an estimator for identifiable features of correlated random coefficient models with binary endogenous variables and nonadditive errors in the outcome equation. It is suitable, e.g., for estimation of the average returns to c...

The goal of this chapter is to develop a taxonomy of decentralisation measures and how they are related to each other. In addition to introducing a common language for the different strands of literature, this taxonomy is instrumental for studying the outcomes of decentralisation. Using cross-state data from the United States, we show that aggregating distinct dimensions of fiscal decentralisat...

Factorization machines (FMs) are a supervised learning approach that can use second-order feature combinations even when the data is very high-dimensional. Unfortunately, despite increasing interest in FMs, there exists to date no efficient training algorithm for higher-order FMs (HOFMs). In this paper, we present the first generic yet efficient algorithms for training arbitrary-order HOFMs. We...

The majority of real-world networks are dynamic and extremely large (e.g., Internet Traffic, Twitter, Facebook, ...). To understand the structural behavior of nodes in these large dynamic networks, it may be necessary to model the dynamics of behavioral roles representing the main connectivity patterns over time. In this paper, we propose a dynamic behavioral mixed-membership model (DBMM) that ...

In axiomatic way, in fuzzy setting, we introduce the measure of crispness and the measure of conditional clearness. For these measures we propose a functional form. Then, for the last measure, we give some aggregation operators. Keywords— Aggregation operators, functional equations, fuzzy sets, measures of fuzziness, crispness measures, conditional crispness.

We present a method of producing normal subgroups of the free group on r generators not containing a given word. Special attention is given to the normal subgroups of the free group on two generators. In considering the exponent sum of the generators in a given word, we produce such subgroups and clearly state for what class of words these subgroups are not easily obtainable. We also provide a ...

The temperature evolution of structural effects associated with charge order (CO) and spin order in La1.67Sr0.33NiO4 has been investigated using neutron powder diffraction. We report an anomalous shrinking of the c/a lattice parameter ratio that correlates with T(CO). The sign of this change can be explained by the change in interlayer Coulomb energy between the static-stripe-ordered state and ...

The determination of the mean survival time t ~i.e., inverse reaction rate! associated with diffusion-controlled reactions among static traps is a problem of long-standing interest, dating back to the classical work of Smoluchkowski. For the broad class of model particulateand digitized-based models considered here, we find a universal curve for the mean survival time t for a wide range of poro...