This paper develops a flexible approach to combine forecasts of future spot rates with forecasts from time-series models or macroeconomic variables. We find empirical evidence that accounting for both regimes in interest rate dynamics and combining forecasts from different models helps improve the out-of-sample forecasting performance for US short-term rates. Imposing restrictions from the expe...

In this paper, we propose a functional approach to overcome the lack of expressiveness of predicative approaches for extensional reference resolution. This later approach indeed forces designers of dialogue systems to use specific heuristics when solving some reference cases, which they can’t integrate in a unified representation framework. As we focus on extensional reference resolution in a g...

In recent ten years, there has been much concentration and increased research activities on Hamilton’s Ricci flow evolving on a Riemannian metric and Perelman’s functional. In this paper, we extend Perelman’s functional approach to include logarithmic curvature corrections induced by quantum effects. Many interesting consequences are revealed. During the last decades, there has been more attent...

Speed management represents an important strategy in order to improve road safety, because a strong relationship is between speed and crash occurrence and severity. Speed limits enforcement is the main measure to control operating speeds but to obtain the compliance of drivers, the limits must be safe but also credible. This means that road users have to regard the speed limit as logical under ...

One of the most sustainable ways of improving the landscape value is the valorisation of the countryside dirt road network with the purpose of creating a greenweb, a communication system able to improve the territory attractiveness. The study assumes an axiological approach to land planning, including a qualitative valuation model and an interactive multicriteria tool based on the combination o...

A statistical analysis of functional data, obtained as reflectance values measured using a hyperspectral sensor, was used to determine water content in vine leaves. Our study was conducted using a sample of 80 vine leaves whose water content was determined by calculating the weight difference between leaves before and after drying in an oven. Two regression models, one linear and the other non-...

Interval information systems are generalizedmodels of single-valued information systems. By introducing a dominance relation to interval information systems, we propose a ranking approach for all objects based on dominance classes and establish a dominance-based rough set approach, which is mainly based on substitution of the indiscernibility relation by the dominance relation. Furthermore, we ...

We use a Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional approach to establish the exponential stability of linear systems with time-varying delay. Our delay-dependent condition allows to compute simultaneously the two bounds that characterize the exponential stability rate of the solution. A simple procedure for constructing switching rule is also presented. Mathematics Subject Classification 2000: 34K20, 93C1...

In order to handle inconsistencies in ordinal and monotonic information systems, the Variable Consistency Dominance-based Rough Set Approach (VC-DRSA) has been proposed and successfully applied in real decision making. However, there exists an error spread of inconsistencies in VC-DRSA. In this paper, we firstly induce a strict-dominance relation into Variable-Precision Rough Sets (VPRS). Two n...