Comparisons are made for the amount of agreement of the composite likelihood information criteria and their full likelihood counterparts when making decisions among the fits of different models, and some properties of penalty term for composite likelihood information criteria are obtained. Asymptotic theory is given for the case when a simpler model is nested within a bigger model, and the bigg...

Choosing a model with too few parameters can involve making unrealistically simple assumptions and lead to high bias, poor prediction, and missed opportunities for insight. Such models are not flexible enough to describe the sample or the population well. A model with too many parameters can fit the observed data very well, but be too closely tailored to it. Such models may generalize poorly. P...

Within information hiding technology, digital watermarking is one of the most important technologies for copyright protection of digital content. Many digital watermarking schemes have been proposed in academia. However, these schemes are not used, because they are not practical; one reason for this is that the evaluation criteria are loosely defined. To make the evaluation more concrete and im...

In many data analysis tasks, one is often confronted with very high dimensional data. The feature selection problem is essentially a combinatorial optimization problem which is computationally expensive. To overcome this problem it is frequently assumed either that features independently influence the class variable or do so only involving pairwise feature interaction. In prior work [18], we ha...

Millions of people use public transportation and consult electronic timetable information systems. A customer selects from the connections offered by the system according to personal preferences. The chosen connection is typically a compromise based on the importance of several criteria, including departure and arrival time, travel time, comfort and ticket cost. Consequently, multi-criteria opt...

Three criteria are considered for designing patient information both printed and displayed on computer screens: readability, usability, likeability. These criteria relate to the ingredients necessary to support people using patient information, as they seek to find the answers to questions, understand the intended message, and interpret that understanding in relation to their own circumstances....

This work is framed within the context of computer graphics starting out from the intersection of three fields: rendering , information theory , and complexity . Initially, the concept of scene complexity is analysed considering three perspectives from a geometric visibility point of view: complexity at an interior point , complexity of an animation, and complexity of a region. The main focus o...

Information quality (IQ) is one of the most important aspects of information integration on the Internet. Many projects realize and address this fact by gathering and classifying IQ criteria. Hardly ever do the projects address the immense difficulty of assessing scores for the criteria. This task must precede any usage of criteria for qualifying and integrating information. After reviewing pre...