Search Results for author: Colm Connaughton

Found 7 papers, 2 papers with code

Distinguishing Risk Preferences using Repeated Gambles

no code implementations14 Aug 2023 James Price, Colm Connaughton

Sequences of repeated gambles provide an experimental tool to characterize the risk preferences of humans or artificial decision-making agents.

Decision Making Feature Engineering +1

Forecasting new diseases in low-data settings using transfer learning

1 code implementation7 Apr 2022 Kirstin Roster, Colm Connaughton, Francisco A. Rodrigues

Recent infectious disease outbreaks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the Zika epidemic in Brazil, have demonstrated both the importance and difficulty of accurately forecasting novel infectious diseases.

Time Series Analysis Transfer Learning

Dynamic and interpretable hazard-based models of traffic incident durations

no code implementations17 Feb 2021 Kieran Kalair, Colm Connaughton

For our use case, we take one year of incident data and traffic state time-series from the M25 motorway in London.

Survival Analysis Time Series Analysis Applications

Narrative structure of A Song of Ice and Fire creates a fictional world with realistic measures of social complexity

no code implementations3 Dec 2020 Thomas Gessey-Jones, Colm Connaughton, Robin Dunbar, Ralph Kenna, Pádraig MacCarron, Cathal O'Conchobhair, Joseph Yose

By tracking the network of character interactions as the story unfolds, it is found that structural properties remain approximately stable and comparable to real-world social networks.

Physics and Society

Assessment of Reward Functions in Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Modal Urban Traffic Control under Real-World limitations

no code implementations17 Oct 2020 Alvaro Cabrejas-Egea, Colm Connaughton

We use a calibrated model in terms of demand, sensors, green times and other operational constraints of a real intersection in Greater Manchester, UK.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Assessment of Reward Functions for Reinforcement Learning Traffic Signal Control under Real-World Limitations

no code implementations26 Aug 2020 Alvaro Cabrejas-Egea, Shaun Howell, Maksis Knutins, Colm Connaughton

Adaptive traffic signal control is one key avenue for mitigating the growing consequences of traffic congestion.

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