Chlorophyll a fluorescence emitted by green plants reflects photosynthetic activities in a
complex manner. Recent improvements of fluorescence measuring techniques have made the …

How does a lack of sleep affect our brains? In contrast to the benefits of sleep, frameworks
exploring the impact of sleep loss are relatively lacking. Importantly, the effects of sleep …

The physics potential of e + e − linear colliders is summarized in this report. These machines
are planned to operate in the first phase at a center-of-mass energy of 500GeV, before …

Given a water distribution network, where should we place sensors toquickly detect contaminants?
Or, which blogs should we read to avoid missing important stories?. These seemingly …

When monitoring spatial phenomena, which can often be modeled as Gaussian processes (GPs),
choosing sensor locations is a fundamental task. There are several common …

Many applications require optimizing an unknown, noisy function that is expensive to
evaluate. We formalize this task as a multi-armed bandit problem, where the payoff function is …

Information diffusion and virus propagation are fundamental processes taking place in networks.
While it is often possible to directly observe when nodes become infected with a virus or …

Roots are the primary site of interaction between plants and microorganisms. To meet food
demands in changing climates, improved yields and stress resistance are increasingly …

Reinforcement learning is a powerful paradigm for learning optimal policies from experimental
data. However, to find optimal policies, most reinforcement learning algorithms explore all …

… This application requires solving a difficult real-world optimization problem, that can be
handled with the techniques discussed in this chapter (Krause et al. 2008b show in detail how …