Chapter 1: Stories Of Successful Careers In Psychometrics And What We Can Learn From Them
Chapter 2: Developing A Concept Map For Rasch Measurement Theory
Chapter 3: Person Parameter Estimation For IRT Models Of Forced-Choice Data: Merits And Perils Of Pseudo-Likelihood Approaches
Chapter 4: An Extended Item Response Tree Model For Wording Effects In Mixed-Format Scales
Chapter 5: The Four-Parameter Normal Ogive Model With Response Time
Chapter 6: A Bayesian Graphical And Probabilistic Proposal For Bias Analysis
Chapter 7: Comparing Hyperprior Distributions To Estimate Variance Components For Interrater Reliability Coefficients
Chapter 8: A Hierarchical Joint Model For Bounded Response Time And Response Accuracy
Chapter 9: Selecting A Presmoothing Model In Kernel Equating
Chapter 10: Practical Implementation Of Test Equating Using R
Chapter 11: Predictive Validity Under Partial Observability
Chapter 12: Multiple-Group Propensity Score Inverse Weights Trimming And Its Impact On Covariate Balance And On Bias In Treatment Effect Estimation
Chapter 13: Procrustes Penalty Function For Matching Matrices To Targets With Its Applications
Chapter 14: Factor Score Estimation From The Perspective Of Item Response Theory
Chapter 15: On The Precision Matrix In The Semi-High Dimensional Settings
Chapter 16: The Performance Of The Modified Continuous A-Stratification Indices In Computerized Adaptive Testing
Chapter 17: Constant CSEM Achieved Through Scale Transformation And Adaptive Testing
Chapter 18: Synergized Bootstrapping: The Whole Is Faster Than The Sum Of Its Parts
Chapter 19: Synchronized Time Profile With Applications To Nearest Neighbor Classification
Chapter 20: Topic Modeling Of Constructed-Response Answers On Social Study Assessments
Chapter 21: Impact Of Measurement Bias On Diagnostic Clinical Measures
Chapter 22: Reliability And Structure Validity Of A Teacher Pedagogical Competencies Scale: A Case Study From Chile
Chapter 23: Psychoperiscope
Chapter 24: Modeling Household Food Insecurity With A Polytomous Rasch Model
Chapter 25: Classical Perspectives Of Controlling Acquiescence With Balanced Scales
Chapter 26: Testing Heterogeneity In Inter-Rater Reliability
Chapter 27: An Application Of Regularized Extended Redundancy Analysis Via Generalized Redundancy Analysis Via Generalized Estimating Equations To The Study Of Co-Occurring Substance Use Among US Adults
Chapter 28: Permutation Test Of Regression Coefficients In Social Network Data Analysis
Index
Chapter 1: Stories Of Successful Careers In Psychometrics And What We Can Learn From Them
Chapter 2: Developing A Concept Map For Rasch Measurement Theory
Chapter 3: Person Parameter Estimation For IRT Models Of Forced-Choice Data: Merits And Perils Of Pseudo-Likelihood Approaches
Chapter 1 - Text Analytics: present, past, and future (Domenica Fioredistella Iezzi, Livia Celardo)
Chapter 2 - Unsupervised analytic strategies to explore large document collections (Michelangelo Misuraca and Maria Spano)
Chapter 3 - Studying narrative flows by Text Analysis e Network Text Analysis (Cristiano Felaco)
Chapter 4 - Key passages : from statistics to deep learning (Laurent Vanni, Marco Corneli, Dominique Longree, Damon Mayaffre and Frederic Precioso)
Chapter 5 - Concentration indices for dialogue dominance phenomena in TV series: the case of the Big Bang Theory (Andrea Fronzetti Colladon and Maurizio Naldi).-Chapter 6 - A conversation analysis of interactions in personal finance forums (Maurizio Naldi)
PART - 2 :Dictionaries and specific languages
Chapter 7 - Big Corpora and Text Clustering: the Italian accounting jurisdiction case (Domenica Fioredistella Iezzi, Rosamaria Berté)
Chapter 8 - Lexicometric paradoxes of frequency: Comparing VoBIS and NVdB (Luisa Revelli)
Chapter 9 - Emotions and dense words in emotional text analysis: An invariant or a contextual relationship? (Nadia Battisti, Francesca Dolcetti).-Chapter 10 – Text Mining of Public Administration documents: preliminary results on judgements (Romano Maria Francesca, Baldassarini Antonella, Pavone Pasquale)
Chapter 11 - Using the First Axis of a Correspondence Analysis as an Analytic Tool (Bénédicte Pincemin, Alexei Lavrentiev and Céline Guillot-Barbance)
Chapter 12 - Discursive Functions of French Modal Forms: What can Correspondence Analysis tell us about Genre and Diachronic Variation? (Corinne Rossari, Ljiljana Dolamic, Annalena Hütsch, Claudia Ricci, Dennis Wandel)
PART - 3 :Multilingual Text Analysis
Chapter 13 - How to think about finding a sign for a multilingual and multimodal French written
French sign language platform? (Cédric Moreau)
Chapter 14 - Corpus in “natural” language vs “translation” language: LBC corpora, a tool for bilingual lexicographic writing (Annick Farina, Riccardo Billero)
Chapter 15 - The conditional perfect, a quantitative analysis in English-French comparable-parallel corpora (Daniel Henkel)
Chapter 16 - Repeated and anaphoric segments applied to trilingual knowledge extraction (Lionel Shen)
Chapter 17 - Looking for topics: a brief review (Ludovic Lebart)
PART - 4 :Applications
Chapter 18 - Where are the Social Sciences going to? The Case of the EU-Funded SSH Research Projects (Matteo Gerli)
Chapter 19 - Topic modeling of Twitter conversations: the case of the National University of Colombia (Eliana Sanandres)
Chapter 20 - Analysing occupational safety culture through mass media monitoring (Livia Celardo, Rita Vallerotonda, Daniele De Santis, Claudio Scarici, Antonio Leva)
Chapter 21 – What volunteers do? A textual analysis of voluntary activities in the Italian context (Francesco Santelli, Giancarlo Ragozini, Marco Musella)
Chapter 22 - Free text analysis in electronic clinical documentation (Antonella Bitetto, Luigi Bollani)
Chapter 23 - Educational culture and job market: A text mining approach (Barbara Cordella, Francesca Greco, Paolo Meoli, Vittorio Palermo & Massimo Grasso)
PART - 1 :Techniques, Methods and Models
Chapter 1 - Text Analytics: present, past, and future (Domenica Fioredistella Iezzi, Livia Celardo)
Chapter 2 - Unsupervised analytic strategies to explore large document collections (Michelangelo Misuraca and Maria Spano)
Part I Invited Talks, H. Dong and M. K. Nakayama, A Tutorial on Quantile Estimation via Monte Carlo
L. Herrmann and C. Schwab, Multilevel Quasi-Monte Carlo Uncertainty Quantification for Advection-Diffusion-Reaction
B. L. Nelson, Selecting the Best Simulated System: Thinking Differently About an Old Problem
F. Pillichshammer, Discrepancy of Digital Sequences: New Results on a Classical QMC Topic
Part II Regular Talks, L. Bian, T. Cui, G. Sofronov and J. Keith, Network Structure Change Point Detection by Posterior Predictive Discrepancy
M. Billaud-Friess, A. Macherey, A. Nouy and C. Prieur, Stochastic Methods for Solving High-Dimensional Partial Differential Equations
N. Binder and A. Keller, Massively Parallel Construction of Radix Tree Forests for the Efficient Sampling of Discrete or Piecewise Constant Probability Distributions
Y. Ding, F. J. Hickernell, and L. A. J. Rugama, An Adaptive Algorithm Employing Continuous Linear Functionals
A. Ebert, P. Kritzer and D. Nuyens, Constructing QMC Finite Element Methods for Elliptic PDEs with Random Coefficients by a Reduced CBC Construction
R. El Haddad, J. El Maalouf, C. Lecot and P. L’Ecuyer, Sudoku Latin, Square Sampling for Markov Chain Simulation
T. Hartung, K. Jansen, H. Leovey, and J. Volmer, Avoiding the Sign Problem in Lattice Field Theory
R. Hofer, On Hybrid Point Sets Stemming from Halton-Type Hammersley Point Sets and Polynomial Lattice Point Sets
M. Huber, Robust Estimation of the Mean with Bounded Relative Standard Deviation
H. Hult, P. Nyquist and C. Ringqvist, Infinite Swapping Algorithm for Training Restricted Boltzmann Machines
I. Iscoe and A. Kreinin, Sensitivity Ranks by Monte Carlo
R. Kritzinger and F. Pillichshammer, Lower Bounds on the Lp Discrepancy of Digital NUT Sequences
H. Leovey and W. Romisch, Randomized QMC Methods for Mixed-Integer Two-Stage Stochastic Programs with Application to Electricity Optimization
A. F. Lopez-Lopera, F. Bachoc, N. Durrande, J. Rohmer, D. Idier and O. Roustant, Approximating Gaussian Process Emulators with Linear Inequality Constraints and Noisy Observations via MC and MCMC
E. Løvbak, G. Samaey and S. Vandewalle, A Multilevel Monte Carlo Asymptotic-Preserving Particle Method for Kinetic Equations in the Diffusion Limit
D. Mandel and G. Okten, Randomized Global Sensitivity Analysis and Model Robustness
A. Petersson, Rapid Covariance-Based Sampling of Linear SPDE Approximations in the Multilevel Monte Carlo Method
A. Stein and A. Barth, A Multilevel Monte Carlo Algorithm for Parabolic Advection-Diffusion Problems with Discontinuous Coefficients
T. A. Stepanyuk, Estimates For Logarithmic and Riesz Energies Of Spherical t-Designs
Y. Suzuki and D. Nuyens, Rank-1 Lattices and Higher-Order Exponential Splitting for the Time-Dependent Schr¨odinger Equation
C. von Hallern and A. Roßler, An Analysis of the Milstein Scheme for SPDEs without a Commutative Noise Condition
Fei Xie, M. B. Giles, and Zhijian He, QMC Sampling from Empirical Datasets
Part I Invited Talks, H. Dong and M. K. Nakayama, A Tutorial on Quantile Estimation via Monte Carlo
L. Herrmann and C. Schwab, Multilevel Quasi-Monte Carlo Uncertainty Quantification for Advection-Diffusion-Reaction
B. L. Nelson, Selecting the Best Simulated System: Thinking Differently About an Old Problem
Part 1 - Differential Geometry: S. Suzuki and Y. Matsuyama, On complete minimal submanifolds in a sphere
M. Belkhelfa and F. Z. Kadi, The study of Ricci semi symmetry of normal complex contact manifold
R. Sachdeva, R. Kumar and S. S. Bhatia, Warped product slant lightlike submanifolds of indefinite Kaehler manifolds
S. Pandey, R. Prasad and S. K. Verma, Concircular curvature tensor’s properties on Lorentzian para-Sasakian manifolds
Mohd. Aquib, F. R. Al-Solamy, M. Jamali, M. T. Aldossary and M. N. Boyom
Inequalities for statistical submanifolds in Sasakian statistical manifolds
J. Roy, L. I. Piscoran, S. K. Hui, Certain classes of warped product submanifolds of Sasakian manifolds and applications
M. Ahmad, Jae-Bok Jun and M. A. Qayyoom, Hypersurfaces of a metallic Riemannian manifold
M. S. Lone, Willmore surfaces in three dimensional simply isotropic spaces
Part 2 – Algebra: Luisa Cairini, Vincezo De Filippis and G. Scudo, Product of generalized derivations having commuting values on lie ideals
C. Haetinger, M. Ashraf and M. A. Siddeeque, Some extensions theorems in the ring of quotients of *-prime rings
M. Issoual and N. Mahdo, Rings in which every 2-absobing ideal is prime
N. Ur Rehman, M. A. Raza and M. R. Mozumder, A note on skew-commutators with derivations on ideals
N. Dehghani and M. R. Vedadi, A brief survey on semiprime and weakly compressible modules
H. Alhazmi, S. Ali, A. Abbasi and M. R. Mozumder, On commutativity of prime rings with involution involving pair of Derivations
Part 3 – Analysis: T. Ibaraki, S. Kajiba, and Y. Kimura, Approximation of a common fixed point of two nonlinear mappings with nonsummable errors in a Banach space
Y. Kimura, Convex minimization problems on geodesic spaces and the shrinking projection method with errors
T. Kawasaki, An extension of integrals
D. Kaur and R.K. Mohanty, A higher-order finite difference method for numerical solution of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation
B. Kaur, An extension of the Robe’s problem
N. Rao, A. Wafi and S. Khatoon, Better rate of convergence by modified Integral type operators
R. Gandhi, S. K. Sharma and B. S. Komal, Generalized composition operators and Evaluation Kernel on weighted Hardy space
R. Ali and M. Shahzad, Common solution to generalized general variational-like inequality and hierarchical fixed point problems
Part 1 - Differential Geometry: S. Suzuki and Y. Matsuyama, On complete minimal submanifolds in a sphere
M. Belkhelfa and F. Z. Kadi, The study of Ricci semi symmetry of normal complex contact manifold
R. Sachdeva, R. Kumar and S. S. Bhatia, Warped product slant lightlike submanifolds of indefinite Kaehler manifolds
Accelerating Lattice Boltzmann Method by Fully Exposing Vectorizable Loops
A Solution for High Availability Memory Access
Verication of Microservices Using Metamorphic Testing
A New Robust and Reversible Watermarking Technique Based on Erasure Code
Exit-Less Hypercall: Asynchronous System Calls in Virtualized Processes
Automatic Optimization of Python Skeletal Parallel Programs
Distributed & Parallel & Network-based Computing Impromptu Rendezvous Based Multi-Threaded Algorithm for Shortest Lagrangian Path Problem on Road Networks
FANG: Fast and E cient Successor-State Generation for Heuristic Optimization on GPUs
DETER: Streaming Graph Partitioning via Combined Degree and Cluster Information
Which Node Properties Identify the Propagation Source in Networks?
t/t-Diagnosability of BCube Network
Strark-H: A Strategy for Spatial Data Storage to Improve Query Efficiency Based on Spark
Multitask Assignment Algorithm Based on Decision Tree in Spatial Crowdsourcing Environment
TIMOM: a novel time in uence multi-objective optimization cloud data storage model for business process management
RTEF-PP: A Robust Trust Evaluation Framework with Privacy Protection for Cloud Services Providers
A Privacy-Preserving Access Control Scheme with Veri able and Outsourcing Capabilities in Fog-Cloud Computing
Utility-aware Edge Server Deployment in Mobile Edge Computing
Predicting Hard Drive Failures for Cloud Storage Systems
Efficient Pattern Matching on CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Systems
Improving Performance of Batch Point-to-point Communications by Active Contention Reduction through Congestion-avoiding Message Scheduling
Applications of Distributed & Parallel Computing
An Open Identity Authentication Scheme Based on Blockchain
RBAC-GLA role-based access control gasless architecture of consortium blockchain
Developing Patrol Strategies for the Cooperative Opportunistic Criminals
Deep Learning vs. Traditional Probabilistic Models: Case Study on Short Inputs for Password Guessing
PPS: A Low-Latency and Low-Complexity switching architecture based on packet prefetch and arbitration prediction
SWR: Using Windowed Reordering to Achieve Fast and Balanced Heuristic for Streaming Vertex-Cut Graph Partitioning
Flexible Data Flow Architecture for Embedded Hardware Accelerators
On a category of cotangent sums related to the Nyman-Beurling criterion for the Riemann Hypothesis
Recent Progress in the study of polynomials with constrained coefficients
Classes of Nonnegative Sine
Inequalities for weighted trigonometric sums
Norm Inequalities for Generalized Laplace Transforms
On Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund Inequalities at Hermite Zeros and their Airy Function Cousins
The maximum of cotangent sums related to the Nyman-Beurling criterion for the Riemann Hypothesis
Double-sided Taylor's approximations and their applications in theory of trigonometric inequalities
The second moment of the first derivative of Hardy's Z-function
Dedekind and Hardy Type Sums and Trigonometric Sums Induced by Quadrature Formulas
On a Half-Discrete Hilbert-Type Inequality in the Whole Plane with the Kernel of Hyperbolic Secant Function Related to the Hurwitz Zeta Function
A remark on sets with small Wiener norm
Order estimates of best orthogonal trigonometric approximations of classes of infinitely differentiable functions
Equivalent Conditions of a Reverse Hilbert-Type Integral Inequality with the Kernel of Hyperbolic Cotangent Function Related to the Riemann zeta Function
On a category of cotangent sums related to the Nyman-Beurling criterion for the Riemann Hypothesis
Recent Progress in the study of polynomials with constrained coefficients
1 P. Freguglia et al., Modelling Ecological Systems from a Niche Theory to Lotka-Volterra equations
2 N. Petrovskaya and W. Zhang, Accurate Recognition of Spatial Patterns Arising in Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Invasive Species
3 A. Andò and D. Breda, Collocation techniques for structured populations modeled by delay equations
4 H. Laurie et al., Herding induced by encounter rate, with predator pressure influencing prey response
5 N. M. Brites and C. A. Braumann, Harvesting policies with stepwise effort and logistic growth in a random environment
6 C. Corbacho et al., Mathematical modeling of the population dynamics of long-lived raptor species. Application to Eurasian black vulture colonies
7 C. Bianchi et al., On the role of inhibition processes in modeling control strategies for composting plants
8 A. Martiradonna et al., Optimal control of invasive species with budget constraint: qualitative analysis and numerical approximation
9 S. Aniţa et al., A Shape Optimization Problem Concerning the Regional Control of a Class of Spatially Structured Epidemics - Sufficiency Conditions
10 A. d’Onofrio and P. Manfredi, The interplay between voluntary vaccination and reduction of risky behavior: a general behavior-implicit SIR model for vaccine preventable infections
11 F. Florian and R. Vermiglio, PC-based sensitivity analysis of the basic reproduction number of population and epidemic models
12 M. J. Wieteska, Linear dynamics of mRNA expression and hormone concentration levels in primary cultures of bovine granulosa cells
1 P. Freguglia et al., Modelling Ecological Systems from a Niche Theory to Lotka-Volterra equations
2 N. Petrovskaya and W. Zhang, Accurate Recognition of Spatial Patterns Arising in Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Invasive Species
3 A. Andò and D. Breda, Collocation techniques for structured populations modeled by delay equations
Enterprise Risk Management and Quantitative Risk Management
The Risk Management process. - Risk Management for life insurance and life annuities. - Risk assessment and impact assessment in life insurance business. - Risk assessment and impact assessment in life annuity business. - Sensitivity testing for long-term care insurance products. - References
Index
Preface
Introduction
Enterprise Risk Management and Quantitative Risk Management
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