Backtracking is necessary when design alternatives are explored or dead ends are reached. Unfortunately, current approaches support chronological backtracking only (undo or versio...
Interval number is a kind of special fuzzy number and the interval approach is a good method to deal with some uncertainty. The semi-absolute deviation risk function is extended to...
Abstract: Our main contribution is to propose a novel model selection methodology, expectation minimization of information criterion (EMIC). EMIC makes a significant impact on the...
Statistical methods for voice conversion are usually based on a single model selected in order to represent a tradeoff between goodness of fit and complexity. In this paper we ass...
We develop a multi-level selection model in the framework of indirect reciprocity. Using two levels of selection, one at the individual level and another at the group level, we pro...
Francisco C. Santos, Fabio A. C. C. Chalub, Jorge ...