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Described is a system for predicting system instability. The system can measure the degree of the network's instability due to critical transitions using the leading eigenvalue of the covariance matrix, where the instability measure is invariant to (1) the changes in network structure in terms of addition/removal of nodes and links, and (2) the feedback of the global system stability to the changes in stability. Based on that, the system is operable for providing an estimation of the network's changing connectivity when the network is near critical transitions.
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Described is a system for catastrophe prediction. The system generates a time series of observables at multiple time steps from data observed from a complex system. A surrogate time series based on the time series of observables is then generated. Inferred network structures for both the time series of observables and the surrogate time series are reconstructed. Next, spatial autocorrelation for each inferred network structure in both the time series of observables and the surrogate time series is computed. A statistical test of a detected trend between the time series of observables and the surrogate time series is computed to determine if the detected trend occurred by chance. Finally, an early warning signal of the detected trend occurring by chance is generated.
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Described is a system for predicting an occurrence of large-scale events using social media data. A collection of time series is acquired from social media data related to an event of interest. The collection of time series is partitioned into time intervals and semantic features are extracted from the time intervals as a set of semantic intervals. The semantic features are encoded into a multilayer network. Subgraphs of the multilayer network are transformed into a state transition network. A prediction of a future event of interest is generated by analyzing the encoded network using the state transition network. Using the analyzed encoded network, a device is controlled based on the prediction of the future event of interest.
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Described is a system for characterizing communication devices by device type. The system obtains device information for a variety of communication device types, each device type associated with a user account of a bidirectional network. The communication device types are analyzed to perform regional and temporal device characterization, behavioral and feature device characterization, and device homophily analysis on the bidirectional network. The analysis is then used for targeted regional marketing.
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A method for generating human-machine hybrid predictions of answers to forecasting problems includes: parsing text of an individual forecasting problem to identify keywords; generating machine models based on the keywords; scraping data sources based on the keywords to collect scraped data relevant to the individual forecasting problem; providing the scraped data to the machine models; receiving machine predictions of answers to the individual forecasting problem from the machine models based on the scraped data; providing, by the computer system via a user interface, the scraped data to human participants; receiving, by the computer system via the user interface, human predictions of answers to the individual forecasting problem from the human participants; aggregating the machine predictions with the human predictions to generate aggregated predictions; and generating and outputting a hybrid prediction based on the aggregated predictions.
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Described is a system for event prediction on microblogs. In operation, the system receives a social media post stream from a social network to generate and maintain a social network database and an audit trail database. New social media posts are filtered to determine if the new social media posts are related to a possible future event. The new social media posts are compared against the social network database and audit trail database to provide a quality score, the quality score representing a likelihood that at least one of the new social media posts is a true prediction of a future event. If the quality score is determined to be true, the detection is published as a true prediction of a future event.
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Described is system for inferring networks service dependencies. The system detects a set of network services from a set of network data. The system additionally detects a set of network service profiles in the set of network data. A network switching topology of the network is then determined. Finally, network service dependencies are inferred by analyzing a dependency structure of the network using at least one of the set of network services, the set of network service profiles, and the network topology.
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Described is a system for inducing a desired behavioral effect using an electrical current stimulation. A brain monitoring subsystem includes monitoring electrodes for sensing brain activity, and a brain stimulation subsystem includes stimulating electrodes for applying an electrical current stimulation. Multi-scale distributed data is registered into a graphical representation. The system identifies a sub-graph in the graphical representation and maps the sub-graph onto concept features, generating a concept lattice which relates the concept features to a behavioral effect. Finally, an electrical current stimulation to be applied to produce the behavioral effect is determined.
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Described is system for accurate user alignment across multiple online social media platforms. Out of textual messages from multiple user accounts of a first social media platform, the system identifies a set of textual messages from a first user account and a second user account of the first social media platform, each textual message in the set of textual messages comprising a set of specific character strings. The set of specific character strings represents a link to a post on a second social media platform, resulting in linked messages, the post originating from a linked account of the second social media platform. Either the first user account or the second user account is selected as an associated account by determining which originated the greater number of messages in the set of textual messages. A map component associated with a user identity that includes the associated account and the linked account is generated.
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Described is a system for multiscale monitoring. During operation, the system receives surveillance data of a scene having a plurality of zones. The surveillance data includes an object flow tensor V indicating a number of objects flowing from one zone to another zone at time t and an object communication tensor C indicating a number of communications sending from one zone to another zone at time t. The system then determines a cluster membership of the plurality of zones. Dependency links between communications and flows are then determined. At least one cluster of one or more zones is designated as a region of interest based on the dependency links, which allows the system to control a device based on the designated region(s) of interest.