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Parolya, N. (author), Heiny, Johannes (author), Kurowicka, D. (author)Consider a random vector y = Σ <sup>1/2</sup> x, where the p elements of the vector x are i.i.d. real-valued random variables with zero mean and finite fourth moment, and Σ <sup>1/2</sup> is a deterministic p × p matrix such that the eigenvalues of the population correlation matrix R of y are uniformly bounded away from zero and infinity. In...journal article 2024
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Zhu, K. (author), Kurowicka, D. (author)Multivariate statistical models can be simplified by assuming that a pattern of conditional independence is presented in the given data. A popular way of capturing the (conditional) independence is to use probabilistic graphical models. The relationship between strongly chordal graphs and m-saturated vines is proved. Moreover, an algorithm to...journal article 2022
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Roelofs, M.N. (author), Kurowicka, D. (author), Vos, Roelof (author)Technology forecasting is an essential starting point for conceptual design of any complex engineering system. In fact, many research projects are focused on developing a small set of promising technologies to a suitable readiness level. However, selecting a set of technologies from a larger pool is a nontrivial task, opposed by uncertainty...journal article 2021
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Vogtländer, J.G. (author), Peck, David (author), Kurowicka, D. (author)The availability of resources is crucial for the socio-economic stability of our society. For more than two decades, there was a debate on how to structure this issue within the context of life-Cycle assessment (LCA). The classical approach with LCA is to describe "scarcity" for future generations (100-1000 years) in terms of absolute...journal article 2019
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Tene, M. (author), Stuparu, Dana E. (author), Kurowicka, D. (author), El Serafy, G.Y.H. (author)This paper describes a novel sensitivity analysis method, able to handle dependency relationships between model parameters. The starting point is the popular Morris (1991) algorithm, which was initially devised under the assumption of parameter independence. This important limitation is tackled by allowing the user to incorporate dependency...journal article 2018
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Ghaemi, N. (author), Zilko, A.A. (author), Yan, F. (author), Cats, O. (author), Kurowicka, D. (author), Goverde, R.M.P. (author)Disruptions such as rolling stock breakdown, signal failures, and accidents are recurrent events during daily railway operation. Such events disrupt the deployment of resources and cause delay to passengers. Obtaining a reliable disruption length estimation can potentially reduce the negative impact caused by the disruption. Different factors...journal article 2018
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Zilko, A.A. (author), Kurowicka, D. (author), Hanea, A.M. (author), Goverde, R.M.P. (author)The highly uncertain nature of a railway disruption complicates the tasks carried by the Dutch Operational Control Centre Rail (OCCR) in the Netherlands. A good prediction of disruption length is believed to help the decision making in dealing with the disruption. Zilko, et al. [Non-Parametric Bayesian Network to Forecast Railway Disruption...conference paper 2015
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Morales Napoles, O. (author), Cooke, R.M. (author), Kurowicka, D. (author)The theory of graphs is important not only for combinatorial problems but in physics, electrical engineering, chemistry, social psychology, and research of operations. Labeled trees find application in probability theory. These objects were first successfully counted by Cayley in 1889. Vines generalize trees. They were introduced by Cooke in...report 2010
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Havelaar, A.H. (author), Van Rosse, F. (author), Bucura, C. (author), Toetenel, M.A. (author), Haagsma, J.A. (author), Kurowicka, D. (author), Heesterbeek, J.A.P. (author), Speybroeck, N. (author), Langelaar, M.F.M. (author), Cooke, R.M. (author)Background: To support the development of early warning and surveillance systems of emerging zoonoses, we present a general method to prioritize pathogens using a quantitative, stochastic multi-criteria model, parameterized for the Netherlands. Methodology/Principal Findings: A risk score was based on seven criteria, reflecting assessments of...journal article 2010
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Papaefthymiou, G. (author), Kurowicka, D. (author)The increasing penetration of renewable generation in power systems necessitates the modeling of this stochastic system infeed in operation and planning studies. The system analysis leads to multivariate uncertainty analysis problems, involving non-Normal correlated random variables. In this context, the modeling of stochastic dependence is...journal article 2009
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Havelaar, A.H. (author), Vargas Galindo, A. (author), Kurowicka, D. (author), Cooke, R.M. (author)Objectives: To estimate the fraction of human cases of enterically transmitted illness by five major pathways (food, environment, direct animal contact, human–human transmission, and travel) and by 11 groups within the food pathway. Methods: Food safety experts were asked to provide their estimates of the most likely range for each of the...journal article 2008
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- Ale, B. (author), Bellamy, L.J. (author), Cooke, R. (author), Duyvis, M. (author), Kurowicka, D. (author), Lin, P.H. (author), Morales, O. (author), Roelen, A. (author), Spouge, J. (author) report 2008
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Cooke, R.M. (author), Kurowicka, D. (author), Hanea, A.M. (author), Morales Napoles, O. (author), Ababei, D.A. (author), Ale, B.J.M. (author), Roelen, A. (author)Hanea et al. (2006) presented a method for quantifying and computing continuous/discrete non parametric Bayesian Belief Nets (BBN). Influences are represented as conditional rank correlations, and the joint normal copula enables rapid sampling and conditionalization. Further mathematical background is in Kurowicka and Cooke (2007). This article...conference paper 2007
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- Kurowicka, D. (author) doctoral thesis 2001