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\section*{Acknowledgements} The authors thank Y.~Abe and O.~Zeitouni for discussions on excursions and cover times (as mentioned in the proof of Proposition~\ref{p_ind_exc_notcover}). The authors were partially supported by CMUP, member of LASI, which is financed by national funds through FCT --- Funda\c{c}\~ao para a ...
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\section{Acknowledgments} This work has been supported by the ERC contract OUTEFLUCOP. We acknowledge funding from the Investissement d'Avenir LabEx PALM program (Grant No. ANR-10-LABX-0039-PALM). \vfill \bibliographystyle{unsrtnat}
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\section*{Acknowledgments} This work was supported in part by Decanato de Investigaci\'on of the Universidad Nacional Experimental del T\'achira (UNET), under grants 04-001-2006 and 04-002-2006. J.G.-E. thanks Decanato de Investigaci\'on and Vicerrectorado Acad\'emico of UNET for travel support. J.G-E. and R.L-R. ac...
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\section*{acknowledgments} K.W.K.W. and E.B. are supported by NSF Grants No. PHY-1841464 and AST-1841358, and by NASA ATP Grant 17-ATP17-0225. We thank the referee (Neil Cornish), Quentin Baghi, Robert Caldwell, Tyson Littenberg, Travis Robson, Ira Thorpe, Nadia Zakamska, Hsiang-Chih Hwang, Kevin Schlaufman and all me...
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\section*{Acknowledgements} The author acknowledges the hospitality of the organisers of the ``XI Rencontres de Blois'' and the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, travel grant 99-02-78141.
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\chapter*{Acknowledgments} \thispagestyle{empty} Finally I have finished my thesis. The process of preparing and writing this thesis has lasted for about four to five years. Several people has helped or encouraged me during that time. I would like to mention them here (hoping not to forget anybody!). \selectlanguage{...
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\section*{Acknowledgements} This work was supported in part by NSF grants \#1850349, \#1564330, and \#1663704, Google Faculty Research Award and Adobe Data Science Research Award. We thank Stats Perform SportVU \footnote{\url{https://www.statsperform.com/team-performance/basketball/optical-tracking/}} for the basketb...
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\section*{Acknowledgments} We acknowledge useful discussions with Claude Duhr and Franz Herzog on the results of Ref.~\cite{Anastasiou:2014vaa}. The work of SM is supported by the UK's STFC. SF and GR are supported in part by an Italian PRIN2010 grant, and SF also by a European Investment Bank EIBURS grant, and by t...
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\subsection*{Acknowledgments} I would like to thank David Rosenthal for helpful discussions and Ulrich Bunke, Fumiya Mikawa, Christoph Winges, Takamitsu Yamauchi and the referee for useful comments on a previous version. \bibliographystyle{amsalpha}
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\section*{Acknowledgments} We acknowledge support from ERC under Consolidator grant number 771536 (NEMO). GP thanks SISSA for hospitality and the Gustave B\"oel-Sofina Fellowships for financing his stay in Trieste. He is also supported by the Aspirant Fellowship FC 23367 from the F.R.S-FNRS and acknowledges support fr...
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\section{Introduction} WAR (wins above replacement) is a fundamental statistic for valuing baseball players, and has recently been proposed to determine arbitration salaries \citep{war_arb}. So, it is of utmost importance to use a WAR statistic that accurately captures a player's contribution to his team. Howeve...
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\section{Introduction} Consumers increasingly rely on user-generated online reviews when making purchase decision \cite{Cone:11,Ipsos:12}. Unfortunately, the ease of posting content to the Web, potentially anonymously, create opportunities and incentives for unscrupulous businesses to post deceptive opinion spam fraudu...
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\section*{Acknowledgements} We thank a referee, K.~Asano, A.~Beloborodov, J.~C.~McKinney, T.~Nakamura and T.~Piran for useful comments. This work is supported by KAKENHI, 19047004, 22244019, 22244030 (KI), 21684014 (KI, YO), 22740131 (NK) and 20105005 (AM).
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\subsection*{Acknowledgements} Most of this work was done during a stay at IMPA (Rio de Janeiro) in November 2010, in the framework of the France-Brazil cooperation. I thank the first for its hospitality and the second for its support.
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\section*{Acknowledgements} It is a pleasure to thank Masaaki Kuroda for a fruitful collaboration and Lev Lipatov and Victor Kim for a splendid organization and a wonderful hospitality in Repino and St. Petersburg.
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\section{Introduction} \begin{table}[t] \setlength{\tabcolsep}{2pt} \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.1} \centering \begin{scriptsize} \textsf{ \begin{tabular}{|l|} \hline \rowcolor{gray!15} \multicolumn{1}{|c|}{\textbf{Segments of a Podcast Transcript }}\\ \hdashline\Tstrut What's good? Everybody is of all trades here ...
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\section*{Acknowledgements} I wish to thank Joe Polchinski and Fernando Quevedo for discussions and an anonymous referee for several useful comments. I also wish to thank the Abdus Salam ICTP for hospitality during the initial stages of this project. \bibliographystyle{apsrev}
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\section{Appendix} \subsection{Proof of Lemma \ref{le costly round-trip}}\label{proof le costly round-trip} \noindent For all $\mathcal{I}, \mathcal{J} \subset \{1,\dots,d\}^2$, let $\mathrm{ad}[Q^{(\mathcal{I},\mathcal{J})}]$ be the adjunct matrix of $Q^{(\mathcal{I},\mathcal{J})}$. \\ For $1\le j \le d$, we den...
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\section*{Acknowledgements} The visit of A.S. to France, when this paper was completed, was supported by the Ecole Normale Sup\'{e}rieure (Paris). A.S. also acknowledges financial support by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, grant 96-02-17591, as well as by the German Science Foundation (DFG) through grant ...
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\section{Summary and Conclusions} \begin{center} {\bf Acknowledgements} \end{center} We are grateful to Ignacio Aracena, Hayk Hakobyan and Will Brooks for useful discussions. We also thank Sergey Gninenko and Alberto Lusiani for useful comments. J.C.H. thanks the IFIC for hospitality during his stay. This wor...
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\section*{Conflict of interest} On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest. \bibliographystyle{unsrt} \section{Great Britain Transportation Networks Results: Air and Coach Travel} \label{app:air_and_coach} \subsection*{Coach Travel Network Analysis} Figures~\...
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\section*{Acknowledgments} This work is part of the Interdisciplinary Thematic Institute QMat of the University of Strasbourg, CNRS, and Inserm. It was supported by the following pro- grams: IdEx Unistra (ANR-10-IDEX-0002), SFRI STRATUS project (ANR-20-SFRI-0012), and USIAS (ANR-10-IDEX- 0002-02), under the framework ...
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\section{Introduction} \label{sec:introduction} The {\it action spotting} task as proposed by Giancola et al.~\cite{giancola2018soccernet} aims to detect a single characteristic time instant for each action in a video. In the current paper, we tackle action spotting on SoccerNet-v2, which is currently the largest soc...
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\section{Introduction} \label{intro} Mathematically optimized schedules have huge practical roles as they often have a large impact both economically and environmentally and one area where they provide significant results is in sports league scheduling. Professional sports leagues exists as big businesses all over the ...
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\section{Introduction} In this work paper we evaluate the algorithm used by \gls{fifa} to rank the international men teams. We also propose and study simple modifications to improve the prediction capability of the algorithm. We are motivated by the fact that the rating and ranking are important elements of sport...
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\section{Introduction}\label{sec:intro} Given partially observed pairwise comparison data from $n$ players, we are interested in ranking the players according to their skills by aggregating the comparison results. This high-dimensional statistical estimation problem has important applications in many areas such as rec...
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\section{Introduction} In recent years, the exponential speed of improvement in the technologies supporting the collection, storage, and analysis of data has a revolutionary effect on football analytics as well as many fields. The easy accessibility of data provides a great potential to propose several key performance ...
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\section{Introduction} The classic buy or rent ski-rental problem is the following: Given a buy cost $b$ for the ski gear, one needs to make a decision on each day whether to rent the ski for a cost of $1$ unit or end the sequence of decisions by buying the ski for a cost of $b$ units. The challenging part of the p...
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\section{Introduction} \vspace{-0.5cm} \label{sec:intro} \noindent \blfootnote{$^{}$ T Alhanai and MM Ghassemi contributed equally to this work and should be considered shared senior authors.} \noindent Sporting events are a popular source of entertainment, with immense interest from the general public. Sports analy...
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\section{Introduction} \input{section-introduction} \section{Model}\label{sec.model} \input{section-model} \section{Data Set} \input{section-data-set} \newpage \section{Comparing the Three Models} \input{section-comparing-three-models} \section{Functional Ratings}\label{sec.funRating} \input{section-functional-ratin...
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\section{Introduction} \label{sec:intro} Action detection and classification are one of the main challenges in computer vision~\cite{PeChapSpringer:2021}. Over the last few years, the number of datasets and their complexity dedicated to action classification has drastically increased~\cite{PeThesis2020}. Sports video ...
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\section{Appendix} \subsection{More Generated Dialogues for Qualitative Comparison} \label{sec:dialsample} In Table \ref{table:dialsamp} and Table \ref{table:dialsamp2}, we list and compare more generated dialogues of different models given a variable number of goals to focus on. The domains, what slots to request su...
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\section{Introduction} Nowadays, recommender systems (RS) accompany users in their everyday life, by proactively providing ``suggestions for items a user may wish to utilize'' \cite{ricci2015recommender}. Depending on the domain of application they face specific challenges. In the tourism domain the recommended items ...
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\section{Dataset building} The data included in FTR-18 was harvested during the 2018 Summer Transfer Window (STW18). Transfer windows are periods during the year in which football clubs can make international transfers. Every league has the right to choose two annual transfer windows, with the opening and closing da...
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\section{Introduction} \begin{figure}[tb] \centering \includegraphics[height=2.3cm]{example_fig.pdf} \caption{An micro-video interaction sequence with two interests: travel and pets.} \label{fig:ninterests} \end{figure} In recent years, micro-video apps such as TikTok, Kwai, MX TakaTak, etc. have become increasin...
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\section{Introduction} \setlength\intextsep{10pt} \begin{wrapfigure}{r}{2.5cm} \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{scope \small \node at (0,0) [circle,fill=black, scale = 0.4] (s) {}; \node at (0,-0.25) [] {$o$}; \node at (0,3) [circle,fill=black, scale = 0.4] ...
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\section*{NOTE} The work in this paper on bias in the mixed model estimators has been superseded by ``A Diagnostic for Bias in Linear Mixed Model Estimators Induced by Dependence Between the Random Effects and the Corresponding Model Matrix'' \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.08087}. In particular, the diagnostics in Equ...
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\section{Introduction} In fluid team sports such as soccer and basketball, players interact with each other while maintaining a role in a certain formation~\cite{Rein2016}. Since team formations highly affect the players' movement patterns, analyzing them is one of the most intuitive ways to understand tactics from the...
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\section{Introduction and Description of Results} The big hockey stick and puck theorem, stated in [Hilton1987] is: \begin{thm}[Hilton1987] (The Big Hockey Stick and Puck Theorem) \[\binom{n}{0}+\binom{n+2}{1}+\binom{n+4}{2}+\binom{n+6}{3}=\binom{n+7}{3}-\binom{n+6}{1}\] \end{thm} We have found the general form of abo...
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\section{Introduction}\label{sec:intro}} Home-court advantage is often discussed in sports circles as a contributing factor to the outcome of games. It is well-known that the home team typically benefits from some competitive edge from playing at their home-court, resulting in a better chance of winning. Thus, the NBA...
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\section*{Introduction} \import{sections/}{intro} \section*{Results} \import{sections/}{results} \section*{Methods} \import{sections/}{methods} \subsection*{Dataset} \label{subsection:dataset} The dataset used in this work is a log of the cars' locations, belonging to \textit{Enjoy}, a popular Italian ca...
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\section{Introduction} \label{sec:intro} Humans are naturally interested in competition. In the buildup to any contest of public interest, spectators have long made a study of predicting the outcome ahead-of-time, through a combination of instinct, prior observations, domain expertise, and, more recently, sophisticate...
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\section{Introduction} The COVID-19 pandemic has left its marks in the world of sports, forcing in February-March 2020 the full-stop of nearly all sports-related activities around the globe. This implied that the national and international sports leagues were abruptly stopped, which had dramatic impacts especially in...
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\section{Introduction} Our ability to point out and describe an athlete's performance relies on a solid sports understanding of his/her actions and all of the elements around him/her. Understanding any sport requires acknowledging its metrics, which is the element that modifies the scoreboard. In ultra-distance races,...
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\section{Introduction} This papers deals with two combinatorial aspects related to the so-called Sierpi\'{n}ski gasket. This graph belongs to the class of fractal objects of noninteger Hausdorff dimension. It is realized by a repeated construction of an elementary shape on progressively smaller length scales. The Sier...
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\section{Introduction} Physical match performance is one of the most studied topics in Sports Science since EPTS devices became a trend in soccer. Despite the vast number of publications, most research has focused on assessing player performance based on isolated metrics such as distance covered, accelerations, or hig...
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\section{INTRODUCTION} Ice hockey is a sport in which players score goals in a six-on-six game on a field. Each team tries to achieve a goal by sending a puck, a black disk used in ice hockey, to the opponent's goal. Currently, the defensive formation against the opposing team's attack is determined empirically, and it...
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\section{Introduction} Professional sports teams have started to gain a competitive advantage in recent decades by using advanced data analysis. However, soccer has been a late bloomer in integrating analytics, mainly due to the difficulty of making sense of the game's complex spatiotemporal relationships. To address...
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\section{Introduction} Athletic endeavors are a function of strength, skill, and strategy. For the high-jump, the choice of strategy has been of particular historic importance. Innovations in techniques or strategies have repeatedly redefined world records over the past 150 years, culminating in the now we...
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\section{Dataset} \label{section:data} Our dataset consists of play-by-play match event data for the 2017/2018 season of the English Premier League, Spanish LaLiga, German 1. Bundesliga, Italian Serie A, French Ligue Un, Dutch Eredivisie and Belgian Pro League provided by SciSports' partner Wyscout. Our dataset repre...
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\section{Introduction} \label{intro} Within this paper we look to determine the ability of those players who play in the English Premier League. The Premier League is an annual soccer league established in 1992 and is the most watched soccer league in the world \citep{yueh_2014, curley_2016}. It is made up of 20 t...
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\section*{Results} \subsection{Data sets and measures (Observe).} Our dataset consists of soccer logs \cite{gudmundsson2017spatio,stein2017how,cintia2015harsh,pappalardo2017quantifying} describing 760 games of the Italian Serie A in seasons 2015/2016 and 2016/2017. Every game is described by a sequence of events on the...
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\section{Introduction} The past decade has seen a rapid development of the live broadcast market, especially the e-sports market such as 'Douyu', 'Kuaishou' and 'Penguin E-sports' in China. One of the core function on live platforms is Highlight Flashback, which aims at showing the most exciting fighting clips during ...
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\section{Introduction} Consider a set of $n$ football matches which each end in either a win, draw, or loss. How many bets are necessary for an individual to guarantee that they predict at least $n-1$ of outcomes of the games correctly? What about having at least $n-k$ outcomes correct? The above problem is the classi...
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\section{Introduction} In the game of basketball, the purpose of an offensive set is to generate a high-quality shot opportunity. Thus, a successful play ends with some player from the offensive team being given the opportunity to take a reasonably high-percentage shot. At this final moment of the play, the player w...
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\section{\label{sec:level1}First-level heading:\protect\\ The line \documentclass[twocolumn,showpacs,preprintnumbers,amsmath,amssymb]{revtex4} \usepackage{graphicx \usepackage{dcolumn \usepackage{bm \begin{document} \title{Towards the perfect prediction of soccer matches} \date{\today} \author{Andreas Heue...
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\section{Introduction} We study the design of tournaments, which is scheduling the pairwise comparisons between participating competitors (players) \cite{sziklai2021efficacy}. There are varying formulations for such designs. While, in the literatures of sports, economics and management sciences, the formulation include...
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\section{Introduction} \label{sec:intro} For the past decade in sports analytics, the holy grail has been to find "the one best metric" which can best capture the performance of players and teams through the lens of winning. For example, expected metrics such as wins-above replacement (WAR) in baseball~\cite{whatisWAR}...
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\section{Introduction} There is a rapid growth in sports analytics over the recent years thanks to the fast development in game tracking technologies \citep{albert2017handbook}. New statistics and machine learning methods are largely needed to address a range of questions from game outcome prediction to player performa...
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\section{Introduction} The use of complex systems theory as an alternative paradigm for analyzing elite sport dynamics is currently arousing intense academic interest \cite{almeira2017structure,schaigorodsky2014memory,perotti2013innovation, erkol2020best}. Fostered by the new advances in data acquisition \cite{pappala...
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\section{Abstract} \setlength{\parindent}{10ex}The prevailing belief propagated by NBA league observers is that the workload of the NBA season dramatically influences a player's performance$^{1,2,3,4,5}$. We offer an analysis of cross game player fatigue that calls into question the empirical validity of these claims. ...
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\section{World Rankings} One of the mose fascinating results can be found in Table~\ref{mworldwind}, the wind--corrected performances. Donovan Bailey's 9.84s WR adjusts to a 9.88s equivalent in calm air. Meanwhile, Frank Fredricks' 9.86s clocking (Lausanne, 03 Jul 1996) was run with a wind reading of $-0.4$ m/s,...
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\section{Introduction} \label{sec:intro} Team sports analytics has numerous applications, ranging from broadcast content enrichment to game statistical analysis for coaches~\cite{Chen16, Thomas17, Zheng16}. Assigning team labels to detected players is of particular interest when investigating the relationship between ...
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\section*{Acknowledgment} \input{07_acks} \balance \bibliographystyle{IEEEtran} \section{Introduction} Sports analytics has been gaining increased traction as detailed spatio-temporal player event and trajectory data become readily available, enabled by enhanced data acquisiton systems~\cite{Assuncao19SportsAnalyti...
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\chapter*{Abstract} \noindent Climbing is a popular and growing sport, especially indoors, where climbers can train on man-made routes using artificial holds. Both strength and good technique is required to successfully reach the top of a climb, and often coaches work to improve technique so less strength is required...
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\section{Introduction} A large-scale Transformer encoder-decoder model, which reportedly has high performance in question answering and machine translation in the adjacent fields of dialogue \cite{wang2018glue,wang2019acl}, has been applied to a chat dialogue system \cite{Adiwardana2020TowardsChatbot,stephen2020blender...
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\section*{Abstract} We modeled the dynamics of a soccer match based on a network representation where players are nodes discretely clustered into homogeneous groups. Players were grouped by physical proximity, supported by the intuitive notion that competing and same-team players use relative position as a key tactica...
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\section{Introduction} In this paper, we propose a simple analysis of a $D/GI/1$ vacation system with impatient customers. Such models may be used to describe many data switching systems whose data transmission must be done in a very short time. Such systems may have to support periodic arrival streams and might also ...
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\section{Introduction\label{sec:Introduction}} Soccer is the most popular sport in the world, not only in terms of television audience (almost 4 billion followers in 200 countries) or players (more than 260 million)~\cite{Felix2020}, but also regarding research~\cite{kirkendall2020evolution}. Much of the research work...
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\section{Summary} In this work, we proposed a framework for sports camera selection using Internet videos to address the data scarcity problem. With effective feature representation and data imputation, our method achieved the state-of-the-art performance on a challenging soccer dataset. Moreover, some of our technique...
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\section{Introduction} Consider a tournament on $n$ teams competing to win a single prize via $\binom{n}{2}$ pairwise matches. A tournament rule is a (possibly randomized) map from these $\binom{n}{2}$ matches to a single winner. In line with several recent works~\cite{AK10,APT09, ssw17,swzz20,dw21}, we study rules th...
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\section{Introduction} \label{sec:intro} This paper investigates strategies to recommended travel destinations for users who provided a list of preferred activities at \url{Booking.com}, a major online travel agent. This is a complex exploratory recommendation task characterized by predicting user preferences with a ...
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\section{Introduction}\label{sec:intro} Modern online travel platforms (OTPs) offer a vast variety of products and services to travellers, such as flights, accommodations and ground transportation. Recently, offering a promotion such as a room upgrade, free meals, or discounted car rental has become a popular approach ...
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\section{Introduction} Probabilistic forecasting of sporting events such as football matches has become an area of considerable interest in recent years. One reason for this is that forecasting can help inform gambling decisions and therefore has the potential to support the identification of profitable betting strate...
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\section*{Abstract} From the viewpoint of networks, a ranking system for players or teams in sports is equivalent to a centrality measure for sports networks, whereby a directed link represents the result of a single game. Previously proposed network-based ranking systems are derived from static networks, i.e., aggrega...
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\section{Introduction}\label{sec1} Combining ranking results from different sources is a common problem. Well-known rank aggregation problems range from the election problem back in 18th century \citep{borda1781memoire} to search engine results aggregation in modern days \citep{dwork2001rank}. In this paper, we tackl...
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\section{Related work} Although the focus of the football analytics community has been mostly on developing metrics for measuring chance quality, there has also been some work on quantifying other types of actions like passes. Power et al.~\cite{power2017not} objectively measure the expected risk and reward of each p...
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\section{Conclusion} \label{sec:conclude} The motivation for {\textsc{\small Voyageur}}\ is based on the discrepancy between the needs of users searching for services and the current state of search engines. The ideas of {\textsc{\small Voyageur}}\ are applicable to many other verticals beyond travel. At the core of...
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\section{Introduction} The selection of the 2021 Best FIFA Men's Player in early 2022 caused some controversy when it was revealed that Lionel Messi, who came in second with~44 votes, had not voted for Robert Lewandowski, who won the trophy with~48 votes. Lewandowski, on the other hand, had given votes to Jorginho, Me...
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\section{Introduction} \label{sec:introduction} Determining which National Basketball Association (NBA) players do the most to help their teams win games is perhaps the most natural question in basketball analytics. Traditionally, one quantifies the notion of helping teams win with a scoring statistic like points-per-g...
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\section{Introduction} Soccer 2D Simulation league is one the first robotic leagues in RoboCup Competitions which is a great environment for researchers to invent and apply intelligent algorithms and compete with the best researchers in the field \cite{abreu2012performance}. Numerous teams participate in the WorldCup c...
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\section{Introduction} Sports tournaments are very popular events all over the world. A huge amount of money is involved in organizing these tournaments and also a lots of revenue is generated by selling the tickets and broadcasting rights. Scheduling the matches is a very important aspect of these tournaments. Schedu...
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\section{Introduction} Team INPUT was formed in August 2018. The team is unique in the aspect that many of its members have prior experience of participation in the RoboCup Junior Soccer Open. Our team consists of some members from three junior teams: CatPot, INPUT, and CatBot. These teams have participated in world co...
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\section{Introduction} Analyzing correlations among cricket teams of different era has been a topic of interest for sports experts and journalists for decades. In this paper we study such influence (or interaction) by constructing cross-correlation matrix $C$ \cite{plerou,fin,fin1,fin2,fin3,quantrans} formed by runs sc...
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\section{Introduction} \label{introduction} \review{A fundamental problem in Combinatorial Optimization is to partition a graph in several parts. There are many different versions of graph partitioning problems depending on the number of parts required, the type of weights on the edges or nodes, and the inclusion of...
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\section{Introduction} \label{sec:intro} The tremendous growth of video data has resulted in a significant demand for tools that can accelerate and simplify the production of sports highlight packages for more effective browsing, searching, and content summarization. In a major professional golf tournament such as Mas...
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\section{Introduction} \IEEEPARstart{T}{he} widespread availability of cameras has led to an enormous and ever-growing collection of unedited and unstructured videos generated by users around the world \cite{jiang2015super}. A popular domain corresponds to sports videos taken at public events and professional/amateur ...
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\section{Introduction} \label{s:intro} {\it Motivation}. Expedia (\url{www.expedia.com}) is the world's largest online travel agency. It has approximately 150 sites that operate in 70 countries around the world, with 50 million visitors a month and 200 mobile app downloads a minute. Expedia released a dataset (throug...
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\section{Introduction} The spatial locations of made and missed shot attempts in basketball are naturally modeled as a point process. The Poisson process and its inhomogeneous variant are popular choices to model point data in spatial and temporal settings. Inferring the latent intensity function, $\lambda(\cdot)$...
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\section{Introduction} The current paper stems from our participation in the 2017 Machine Learning Journal (Springer) challenge on predicting outcomes of soccer matches from a range of leagues around the world (MLS challenge, in short). Details of the challenge and the data can be found in \citet{Berrar2017}. We consi...
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\section{Introduction} Au cours de l'évolution, la physiologie humaine a été optimisée pour couvrir de grandes distances afin de trouver suffisamment de nourriture pour soutenir le métabolisme du cerveau. La popularité du marathon chez les humains est un héritage de notre capacité à courir de longues distances en...
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\section{Model} \label{sec:cricketmodel} \smallskip \noindent{\bf Intuition.} We shall introduce the {\em Latent Variable Model} here. It is motivated by the following minimal property that sports fans and pundits expect to hold for variety of sports: performance of a team is determined by the {\em team context} tha...
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\subsection{Conditional Autoregressive Prior for Player-Specific Coefficients} \label{subsec:CAR} Sharing information between players is critical for our estimation problem, but standard hierarchical models encode an assumption of exchangeability between units that is too strong for NBA players, even between those who...
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\section{TSP among $\alpha$-fat Regions} \subsection{Problem Definition and Background} The Euclidean TSP with neighborhoods (TSPN) is the following problem: Given a set $\mathcal{R}$ of $k$ regions (subsets of $\mathbb{R}^2$), find a shortest tour that visits at least one point from each region. Even for disjoint o...
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\section*{Acknowledgments} This work is the result of fruitful interactions and discussions with the other project partners. We would like to thank Nicolas Buompane, Steve Butcher, Les Fairbrother, André Gueisbuhler, Sylvie Martinet and Rui Vinagre from the FIG, Benoit Cosandier, Jose Morato, Christophe Pittet, Pasca...
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\section{Introduction} In this article we consider the dual version of two results on polygonal billiards. We begin by describing these original results. The first result is about the dynamics of the so-called pedal map related to billiards in a triangle $P$. The three altitudes of $P$ intersect the opposite sides (or...
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\section{Introduction} 3D human pose tracking has applications in surveillance~\cite{zheng2015scalable} and analysis of sport events~\cite{burenius20133d,kazemi2013multi}. Most existing approaches~\cite{iqbal2018dual,iqbal2018hand,DBLP:conf/bmvc/KostrikovG14,liu2011markerless,martinez2017simple,pavlakos2017coarse,to...
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\section{Introduction} \label{sec:Intro} The traveling repairman problem with profits (TRPP) \cite{dewilde_heuristics_2013} is a general model that can be stated as follows. Let $G(V,E)$ be a complete weighted graph, where $V$ is the vertex set consisting of the depot $0$ and the customer set $V_c=\{1, 2, ..., n\}$, ...
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\section{Introduction} \label{sec:Intro} Basketball professional European courts are 28 meters large and 14 meters wide, and 10 players (plus 3 referees) interact on it following complex patterns that help them accomplishing their goal, which can be either scoring or preventing the other team to score. These tactical ...
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\subsection{Dataset} We trained \texttt{baller2vec}{} on a publicly available dataset of player and ball trajectories recorded from 631 National Basketball Association (NBA) games from the 2015-2016 season.\footnote{\url{https://github.com/linouk23/NBA-Player-Movements}} All 30 NBA teams and 450 different players w...
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