In order to address power and energy demands of mobile electronics and electric cars, Li‐ion
technology is urgently being optimized by using alternative materials. This article presents …

Rechargeable batteries are key technology for developing many emerging applications.
Thousands of academic papers have been published on this topic. It is quite often that the …

In this paper, we report that Li can be stored in RuO 2 with an unusually high coulombic
efficiency. The process involves three electrochemical steps: i) formation of a Ru/Li 2 O …

This paper presents an overview of current research and development in the field of structural
health monitoring with civil engineering applications. Specifically, this paper reviews fiber …

Obesity is a complex multifactorial disease that accumulated excess body fat leads to negative
effects on health. Obesity continues to accelerate resulting in an unprecedented epidemic …

Differentiation of malignant and benign pulmonary nodules is of paramount clinical importance.
Texture features of pulmonary nodules in CT images reflect a powerful character of the …

Personalized web services strive to adapt their services (advertisements, news articles, etc.)
to individual users by making use of both content and user information. Despite a few recent …

With the increase in available data parallel machine learning has become an increasingly
pressing problem. In this paper we present the first parallel stochastic gradient descent …

Thompson sampling is one of oldest heuristic to address the exploration/exploitation trade-off,
but it is surprisingly not very popular in the literature. We present here some empirical …

In this paper we study the contextual bandit problem (also known as the multi-armed bandit
problem with expert advice) for linear payoff functions. For $ T $ rounds, $ K $ actions, and d …