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Algorithms for Sequential Analysis

A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). This special issue belongs to the section "Databases and Data Structures".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 14469

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Dr. Georgy Sofronov

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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Interests: statistical modeling; change-point problem; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; cross-Entropy method; optimal stopping rules
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In many applications, it is necessary to make decisions while information is still being collected. Decision-makers regularly face such problems in important areas including cyber risk, resource allocations, and finance. The purpose of this Special Issue is to gather a collection of articles reflecting the latest developments in algorithms for sequential analysis. This Special Issue provides a forum for academics and practitioners to disseminate high-quality results related to theoretical and practical aspects of sequential algorithms. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, dynamic programming, online machine learning algorithms, Monte Carlo methods in sequential analysis, Markov decision processes, Bayesian sequential analysis, optimal stopping rules, quickest change-point detection problem, and stochastic games.

Dr. Georgy Sofronov
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Dynamic programming
  • Optimal decision making
  • Sequential data analysis
  • Bayesian sequential analysis
  • Online machine learning
  • Reinforcement learning
  • Q-learning
  • Least square Monte Carlo
  • Quickest change-point problem
  • Optimal stopping

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Special Issue on Algorithms for Sequential Analysis
by Georgy Sofronov
Algorithms 2022, 15(12), 470; https://doi.org/10.3390/a15120470 - 10 Dec 2022
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In a large variety of different fields, it is necessary to make decisions while information is still being collected [...] Full article
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Sequential Recommendation through Graph Neural Networks and Transformer Encoder with Degree Encoding
by Shuli Wang, Xuewen Li, Xiaomeng Kou, Jin Zhang, Shaojie Zheng, Jinlong Wang and Jibing Gong
Algorithms 2021, 14(9), 263; https://doi.org/10.3390/a14090263 - 31 Aug 2021
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Predicting users’ next behavior through learning users’ preferences according to the users’ historical behaviors is known as sequential recommendation. In this task, learning sequence representation by modeling the pairwise relationship between items in the sequence to capture their long-range dependencies is crucial. In [...] Read more.
Predicting users’ next behavior through learning users’ preferences according to the users’ historical behaviors is known as sequential recommendation. In this task, learning sequence representation by modeling the pairwise relationship between items in the sequence to capture their long-range dependencies is crucial. In this paper, we propose a novel deep neural network named graph convolutional network transformer recommender (GCNTRec). GCNTRec is capable of learning effective item representation in a user’s historical behaviors sequence, which involves extracting the correlation between the target node and multi-layer neighbor nodes on the graphs constructed under the heterogeneous information networks in an end-to-end fashion through a graph convolutional network (GCN) with degree encoding, while the capturing long-range dependencies of items in a sequence through the transformer encoder model. Using this multi-dimensional vector representation, items related to a user historical behavior sequence can be easily predicted. We empirically evaluated GCNTRec on multiple public datasets. The experimental results show that our approach can effectively predict subsequent relevant items and outperforms previous techniques. Full article
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Perpetual American Cancellable Standard Options in Models with Last Passage Times
by Pavel V. Gapeev, Libo Li and Zhuoshu Wu
Algorithms 2021, 14(1), 3; https://doi.org/10.3390/a14010003 - 24 Dec 2020
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We derive explicit solutions to the perpetual American cancellable standard put and call options in an extension of the Black–Merton–Scholes model. It is assumed that the contracts are cancelled at the last hitting times for the underlying asset price process of some constant [...] Read more.
We derive explicit solutions to the perpetual American cancellable standard put and call options in an extension of the Black–Merton–Scholes model. It is assumed that the contracts are cancelled at the last hitting times for the underlying asset price process of some constant upper or lower levels which are not stopping times with respect to the observable filtration. We show that the optimal exercise times are the first times at which the asset price reaches some lower or upper constant levels. The proof is based on the reduction of the original optimal stopping problems to the associated free-boundary problems and the solution of the latter problems by means of the smooth-fit conditions. Full article
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Feasibility of Kd-Trees in Gaussian Process Regression to Partition Test Points in High Resolution Input Space
by Ivan De Boi, Bart Ribbens, Pieter Jorissen and Rudi Penne
Algorithms 2020, 13(12), 327; https://doi.org/10.3390/a13120327 - 5 Dec 2020
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Bayesian inference using Gaussian processes on large datasets have been studied extensively over the past few years. However, little attention has been given on how to apply these on a high resolution input space. By approximating the set of test points (where we [...] Read more.
Bayesian inference using Gaussian processes on large datasets have been studied extensively over the past few years. However, little attention has been given on how to apply these on a high resolution input space. By approximating the set of test points (where we want to make predictions, not the set of training points in the dataset) by a kd-tree, a multi-resolution data structure arises that allows for considerable gains in performance and memory usage without a significant loss of accuracy. In this paper, we study the feasibility and efficiency of constructing and using such a kd-tree in Gaussian process regression. We propose a cut-off rule that is easy to interpret and to tune. We show our findings on generated toy data in a 3D point cloud and a simulated 2D vibrometry example. This survey is beneficial for researchers that are working on a high resolution input space. The kd-tree approximation outperforms the naïve Gaussian process implementation in all experiments. Full article
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Cross-Entropy Method in Application to the SIRC Model
by Maria Katarzyna Stachowiak and Krzysztof Józef Szajowski
Algorithms 2020, 13(11), 281; https://doi.org/10.3390/a13110281 - 6 Nov 2020
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The study considers the usage of a probabilistic optimization method called Cross-Entropy (CE). This is the version of the Monte Carlo method created by Reuven Rubinstein (1997). It was developed in the context of determining rare events. Here we will present the way [...] Read more.
The study considers the usage of a probabilistic optimization method called Cross-Entropy (CE). This is the version of the Monte Carlo method created by Reuven Rubinstein (1997). It was developed in the context of determining rare events. Here we will present the way in which the CE method can be used for problems of optimization of epidemiological models, and more specifically the optimization of the Susceptible–Infectious–Recovered–Cross-immune (SIRC) model based on the functions supervising the care of specific groups in the model. With the help of weighted sampling, an attempt was made to find the fastest and most accurate version of the algorithm. Full article
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