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Measurement-system design for structural identification

In developed countries, the management of existing civil infrastructure is challenging due to evolving functional requirements, aging and climate change. Due to conservative approaches in construction design and practice, infrastructure often has hidden re ...

EPFL2020

Framework to Approximate the Value of Information of Bridge Load Testing for Reserve Capacity Assessment

Ian Smith, Numa Joy Bertola, Marco Proverbio

In developed countries, structural assessment of existing bridges should not be performed using the same conservative models that are used at the design stage. Field measurements of real behavior provide additional information for the inference of previous ...

2020

Strategy to validate sensor-placement methodologies in the context of sparse measurement in complex urban systems

Ian Smith, Numa Joy Bertola, Alberto Costa

The Internet of Things creates opportunities to develop data-driven design methodologies for smart cities. However, effects rather than causes are often measured in complex urban systems, requiring robust data-interpretation methodologies. Additionally, ef ...

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Robust Generalization via $\alpha$-Mutual Information

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The aim of this work is to provide bounds connecting two probability measures of the same event using Rényi

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Information Theoretic Characterization of Uncertainty Distinguishes Surprise From Accuracy Signals in the Brain

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Uncertainty presents a problem for both human and machine decision-making. While utility maximization has traditionally been viewed as the motive force behind choice behavior, it has been theorized that uncertainty minimization may supersede reward motivat ...

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Measurement-system design framework using multi-objective optimization for bridge load testing”

Ian Smith, Numa Joy Bertola

Due to conservative design models and safe construction practices, civil-infrastructure elements, such as bridges, usually have unknown amounts of reserve capacity that exceed code requirements. The quantification of this reserve capacity may lead to bette ...

2019

A methodology for measurement-system design combining information from static and dynamic excitations for bridge load testing

Ian Smith, Numa Joy Bertola

Managing infrastructure assets is challenging for developed countries because of demand for increases in capacity, the scarcity of economic and environmental resources as well as ageing. Due to conservative approaches to construction design and practice, i ...

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A Comparison of Greedy and Global Searches for Measurement-System Design in Bridge Load Testing

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Due to conservative design models and safe construction practices, infrastructure often has significant yet-unknown reserve capacity that greatly exceeds code requirements. Reserve-capacity assessments lead to better asset-management decisions through eith ...

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Strengthened Information-theoretic Bounds on the Generalization Error

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Amedeo Roberto Esposito, Ibrahim Issa

The following problem is considered: given a joint distribution P XY and an event E, bound P XY (E) in terms of P X P Y (E) (where P X P Y is the product of the marginals of P XY ) and a measure of dependence of X and Y. Such bounds have direct application ...

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Statistical Physics Methods for Community Detection

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This thesis is devoted to information-theoretic aspects of community detection. The importance of community detection is due to the massive amount of scientific data today that describes relationships between items from a network, e.g., a social network. I ...

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A Comparison of optimal measurement-system design with engineering judgement for bridge load testing

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Measurement-system design for structural identification

Framework to Approximate the Value of Information of Bridge Load Testing for Reserve Capacity Assessment

Strategy to validate sensor-placement methodologies in the context of sparse measurement in complex urban systems

Robust Generalization via $\alpha$-Mutual Information

Information Theoretic Characterization of Uncertainty Distinguishes Surprise From Accuracy Signals in the Brain

Measurement-system design framework using multi-objective optimization for bridge load testing”

A methodology for measurement-system design combining information from static and dynamic excitations for bridge load testing

A Comparison of Greedy and Global Searches for Measurement-System Design in Bridge Load Testing

Strengthened Information-theoretic Bounds on the Generalization Error

Statistical Physics Methods for Community Detection

Statistical Physics Methods for Community Detection

A Comparison of Greedy and Global Searches for Measurement-System Design in Bridge Load Testing

A methodology for measurement-system design combining information from static and dynamic excitations for bridge load testing

Measurement-system design framework using multi-objective optimization for bridge load testing”

Information Theoretic Characterization of Uncertainty Distinguishes Surprise From Accuracy Signals in the Brain

Framework to Approximate the Value of Information of Bridge Load Testing for Reserve Capacity Assessment

Strategy to validate sensor-placement methodologies in the context of sparse measurement in complex urban systems

Measurement-system design for structural identification

Robust Generalization via $\alpha$-Mutual Information

Strengthened Information-theoretic Bounds on the Generalization Error