Questions tagged [modelling]
Questions on how to represent real-world or non computer science problems with computer science tools.
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Simple Notation to Say "A combination of" components?
I would like to delve into writing in a more scientific way to define my problems. My though is that it will help me see more similarities between problems faster. Question Hence, I would like to ...
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Trying to model HIV using cellular automaton but can't replicate the results of some paper
There is this paper in which HIV is modelled using cellular automaton. I am trying to replicate this work but I am not getting the same results as the authors. In this paper the authors describe the ...
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Real-life applications of pure Mealy machines
I'm currently studying formal methods in software engineering related to state machines, specifically Mealy machines. This made me wonder how relevant Mealy machines really are for practical ...
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Encoding "all-except" constraints in CNF
I am looking for an efficient CNF encoding of the following situation: I have sets of boolean literals $A = \{ a_1, \ldots, a_m \}$, $B = \{ b_1,\ldots, b_n \}$ and subsets $B_1, \ldots, B_m$, where ...
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System Identification vs Machine Learning for dynamic system modelling
So I found another discussion regarding this, but the answers did not fully separate the differenced between SID and ML. Hopefully a discussion here can shed some light on some larger differences both ...
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Least squares fit of a rational function
I am fitting different 2D geometric transformations by least-squares. For instance quadratic, $$\begin{cases}a'x^2+b'xy+c'y^2+d'x+e'y+f'=X\\a''x^2+b''xy+c''y^2+d''x+e''y+f''=Y\end{cases}$$ which is ...
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A lower bound for the makespan of heterogenous fog nodes
Why there is a sigma in the denominator of equation (8) in the picture? suppose we have n tasks and m fog nodes.
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What is the best way to predict a continuous score based on image characteristics(pixels)?
I have a dataset with 9912 images, what is the best way to train them based on the pixels and features of the images to be able to predict a continuous target ranging from 1 to 100? The goal is to ...
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How to model an inverse "token relationship" in Petri nets?
Suppose I have the following Petri net: I wonder whether it is possible to model an inverse relationship between $p2$ and $p3$. Basically what I want to achieve is to make either $t1$ or $t2$ ...
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Best way to deal with strongly correlated variables in a prediction problem?
I am doing a prediction assignment as part of a machine learning course using loans data. I have just done some exploratory data analysis on my dataset of just over 9000 rows. There are 11 variables ...
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implementing a 802.15.4 math model based on a paper. How to verify it
I am implementing a mathematic model for predicting the congestion of 802.15.4 network based on the paper: Performance analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 non-beacon mode with the unslotted CSMA/CA Based on the ...
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Search algorithm for multidimensional space with custom topology
First, let's start with the description of the problem in dimension 1: Let $T_0$ be a space with $n$ nodes organized in a tree structure, with $m$ of those nodes defined as target nodes. In this space,...
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Explanation of roofline model
I am currently studying the roofline model. Wikipedia [2] shows the following example graph: The diagonal line shows $\beta * I$. But I do not understand why this line does not go through the zero ...
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How to specify mutated types mathematically?
Say I have an object which I pass to a method, and the method returns that same object, just mutated. So it goes like this: ...
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How do you have a type typed "Type" when implementing a programming language?
I am working on the base of a language model, and am wondering how to represent the base type, which is a type Type. I have heard of an "infinite chain of ...