We propose a class of actor-oriented statistical models for closed social networks in general, and friendship networks in particular. The models are random utility models develope...
Gerhard G. Van De Bunt, Marijtje A. J. Van Duijn, ...
— This paper attempts to recognize spontaneous agreement and disagreement based only on nonverbal multimodal cues. Related work has mainly used verbal and prosodic cues. We demon...
Most scientific models are not physical objects, and this raises important questions. What sort of entity are models, what is truth in a model, and how do we learn about models? In...
—With the development of on-line forum technology and the pervasive participation of the public, the Human Flesh Search is becoming an arising phenomenon which makes a great impa...
Motivated by the application of seismic inversion in the petroleum industry we consider a hidden Markov model with two hidden layers. The bottom layer is a Markov chain and given ...