The numerous recent breakthroughs in machine learning make imperative to carefully
ponder how the scientific community can benefit from a technology that, although not …

Developed democracies are settling an increased number of refugees, many of whom face
challenges integrating into host societies. We developed a flexible data-driven algorithm that …

Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Real-Time Decision-Making for High-Impact Weather
in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 98 Issue 10 (2017) Jump to …

An end-to-end real-time scene text localization and recognition method is presented. The
real-time performance is achieved by posing the character detection problem as an efficient …

Online learning has become more popular in higher education since it adds convenience
and flexibility to students' schedule. But, it has faced difficulties in the retention of the …

We examine the relationship between the predictions made by different learning algorithms
and true posterior probabilities. We show that maximum margin methods such as boosted …

Energy scenarios, relying on wide-ranging assumptions about the future, do not always
adequately reflect the lock-in risks caused by planned power-generation projects and the …

Abstract Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have received widespread attention for
their potential to scale higher education, with multiple platforms such as Coursera, edX and …

Many school districts have developed successful intervention programs to help students
graduate high school on time. However, identifying and prioritizing students who need those …

Many performance metrics have been introduced in the literature for the evaluation of
classification performance, each of them with different origins and areas of application …