{"title":"EU Trade Secrets Law and Algorithmic Transparency","authors":"Mariateresa Maggiolino","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3363178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3363178","url":null,"abstract":"To date, more and more decisions are supported or even directly assumed by algorithms. As a result, we need to understand how to prevent and govern those algorithmic choices that may prove to be wrong, unfair, or discriminatory. Algorithmic transparency, that is, the possibility to investigate the sequence of commands of which algorithms are made, could represent a solution, although partial, to this problem. However, algorithms can be protected as trade secrets within the meaning of the new European Directive 2016/943. Therefore, the paper discusses if and how much the rules foreseen in such Directive offer room to hypotheses of algorithmic transparency.","PeriodicalId":106276,"journal":{"name":"CompSciRN: Algorithms (Topic)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128813833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rong Jin, D. Simchi-Levi, L. Wang, Xinshang Wang, Sen Yang
{"title":"Shrinking the Upper Confidence Bound: A Dynamic Product Selection Problem for Urban Warehouses","authors":"Rong Jin, D. Simchi-Levi, L. Wang, Xinshang Wang, Sen Yang","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3342761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3342761","url":null,"abstract":"The recent rising popularity of ultrafast delivery services on retail platforms fuels the increasing use of urban warehouses, whose proximity to customers makes fast deliveries viable. The space limit in urban warehouses poses a problem for such online retailers: the number of stock keeping units (SKUs) they carry is no longer “the more, the better,” yet it can still be significantly large, reaching hundreds or thousands in a product category. In this paper, we study algorithms for dynamically selecting a large number of products (i.e., SKUs) with top customer purchase probabilities on the fly, from an ocean of potential products to offer on retailers’ ultrafast delivery platforms. We distill the product selection problem into a semibandit model with linear generalization. There are in total N arms corresponding to N products, each with a feature vector of dimension d. The player pulls K arms in each period and observes the bandit feedback from each of the pulled arms. We focus on the setting where K is much greater than the number of total time periods T or the dimension of product features d. We first analyze a standard Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) algorithm and show its regret bound can be expressed as the sum of a T-independent part and a T-dependent part, which we refer to as “fixed cost” and “variable cost,” respectively. To reduce the fixed cost for large K values, we propose a novel online learning algorithm, which iteratively shrinks the upper confidence bounds within each period, and show its fixed cost is reduced by a factor of d. Moreover, we test the algorithms on an industrial data set from Alibaba Group. Experimental results show that our new algorithm reduces the total regret of the standard UCB algorithm by at least 10%. This paper was accepted by J. George Shanthikumar, big data analytics.","PeriodicalId":106276,"journal":{"name":"CompSciRN: Algorithms (Topic)","volume":"70 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124452959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ships Matching Based on an Adaptive Acoustic Spectrum Signature Detection Algorithm","authors":"Dahai Cheng, Huigang Xu, Ruiliang Gong, Huan Huang","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3389706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3389706","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, an acoustic spectrum signature tracks matching algorithm based on the Manhattan distance and the Euclidean distance of signature vectors, and a multi-frame fusion algorithm are proposed for reliable real time detection and matching of boat generated acoustic signal spectrum signatures. The experiments results have shown that the proposed tracks matching algorithm has the ability to discriminate the tracks from different ships and the ability of matching of the tracks from the same ship; and the spectrum signature detection algorithm has captured the critical features of ship generated acoustic signals. In the process of signal spectrum signature detection, the observation of time and frequency space is structured by dividing input digitalized acoustic signal into multiple frames and each frame is transformed into the frequency domain by FFT. Then, a normalization of signal spectrum vector is carried out to make the detection process more robust. After that, an adaptive median Constant False Alarm Rate (AMCFAR) algorithm is used for the detection and extraction of boat generated spectrum signature, in which an extreme low constant false alarm rate is kept with relative high detection rate. Finally, the frame detections are accumulated to build up the track spectrum signatures.","PeriodicalId":106276,"journal":{"name":"CompSciRN: Algorithms (Topic)","volume":"157 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127966975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Solutions of Volterra Singular Time-Fractional PIDEs","authors":"M. Al‐Smadi, Omar Abu Arqub, S. Momani","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3270463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3270463","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, a computational algorithm is proposed for the numerical solutions of Volterra singular fractional partial integro-differential equations. By interrupting the 𝑛-term of exact solutions, numerical solution of nonlinear singular fractional equations of nonhomogeneous function type are studied from mathematical viewpoint. The utilized results show that the present algorithm and simulated annealing provide a good scheduling methodology to such singular equations.","PeriodicalId":106276,"journal":{"name":"CompSciRN: Algorithms (Topic)","volume":"191 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114312611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brian M Bulthuis, Julio Concha, Tim Leung, Brian Ward
{"title":"Fast and Precautious: Order Controls for Trade Execution","authors":"Brian M Bulthuis, Julio Concha, Tim Leung, Brian Ward","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2977667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2977667","url":null,"abstract":"Controlling the speed and direction of trades becomes increasingly important to algorithmic trading desks. Brian Bulthuis, Julio Concha, Tim Leung and Brian Ward propose a new optimal execution algorithm with both limit and market orders. An optimal strategy is derived analytically and illustrated numerically.","PeriodicalId":106276,"journal":{"name":"CompSciRN: Algorithms (Topic)","volume":"08 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114577518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Saravanakumar K. Rajasekar, R. Rangarajan, W. Dally, W. Dally, Zhizhou Fu, Xiang Ling, Yun-Lung Lee, J. Jou, Yen-Yu Chen, Eung S. Shin, V. Mooney
{"title":"Implementation of Scheduling Algorithms for on Chip Communications","authors":"Saravanakumar K. Rajasekar, R. Rangarajan, W. Dally, W. Dally, Zhizhou Fu, Xiang Ling, Yun-Lung Lee, J. Jou, Yen-Yu Chen, Eung S. Shin, V. Mooney","doi":"10.5120/10151-4986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5120/10151-4986","url":null,"abstract":"Network on Chips (NoCs) replace traditional busses in highly integrated Multiprocessor System on Chips (MPSoCs). As SoCs, communication issues take much important in NoCs but they need to give contention free architecture with low latency. To meet the above need several methods like handshaking mechanism and arbiter designs developed and implemented. This paper presents various scheduler designs using iSLIP scheduling algorithms and its comparative analysis with various arbiters. All the arbiters described using Verilog HDL and synthesized using Xilinx. For performance analysis, Cadence RTL compiler with UMC 0. 13µm technology used to compute power and area of all the algorithms for arbiter.","PeriodicalId":106276,"journal":{"name":"CompSciRN: Algorithms (Topic)","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126387136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sufyan T. Faraj Al-Janabi, S. Taha, Mustafa M. Abd Al-Jabbar
{"title":"Protocol Conversion Between ADLP80 and IEC 870 Communication Protocol Standards Using Formal Methods","authors":"Sufyan T. Faraj Al-Janabi, S. Taha, Mustafa M. Abd Al-Jabbar","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3467502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3467502","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, a protocol converter had been designed using formal methods in order to make a controlling station that supports ADLP 80 (ASEA) protocol standard able to communicate with a controlled station that utilizes another communication protocol called IEC 870 protocol standard, in a central control system. The two protocols are modeled using communicating finite state machine (CFSM) models. For simplicity, a converter is constructed for each application function using a conversion algorithm. This algorithm adopts a protocol data unit approach to derive the converter machine.","PeriodicalId":106276,"journal":{"name":"CompSciRN: Algorithms (Topic)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116977491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Conic Algorithm for the Group Minimization Problem","authors":"B. Simeone","doi":"10.3386/W0159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3386/W0159","url":null,"abstract":"A new algorithm for the group minimization problem (GP) is proposed. The algorithm can be broadly described as follows. A suitable relaxation of(GP) is defined, in which any feasible point satisfies the group equation but may have negative components. The feasible points of the relaxation are then generated in order of ascending costs by a variant of a well-known algorithm of Glover, and checked for non-negativity. The first non-negative point is an optimal solution of (GP). Advantages and disadvantages of the algorithm are discussed; in particular, the implementation of the algorithm (which can be easily extended so as to solve integer linear programming problems) does not require group arithmetics.","PeriodicalId":106276,"journal":{"name":"CompSciRN: Algorithms (Topic)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117320141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}