Functional time series and high-dimensional scalar predictors frequently arise ina wide range of modern economic and business applications, which require statisticalmodels that can simultaneously handle the temporal and causal dependence that areprevalent in large sets of mixed-type data. We...

We develop a novel large-scale Network Autoregressive model with balance Constraint (NAC) to predict hour-ahead gas flows in the gas transmission network, where the total in- and out-flows of the network are balanced over time. By integrating recent advances in optimization and statistical...

The Steiner tree packing problem (STPP) in graphs is a long studied problem in combinatorial optimization. In contrast to many other problems, where there have been tremendous advances in practical problem solving, STPP remains very difficult. Most heuristics schemes are ineffective and even...