Airline Ticket E-Reservation: Adoption Among Malaysians

Sistem tempahan tiket penerbangan telah banyak direvolusikan oleh syarikat-syarikat penerbangan melalui penggunaan Internet dan pengenalan alat-alat mudah alih moden. The air ticket reservation system has been much revolutionized by the airline companies through the usage of the Internet and introduction of modern mobile devices

Uniform convergence rates for a class of martingales with application in non-linear cointegrating regression

For a class of martingales, this paper provides a framework on the uniform consistency with broad applicability. The main condition imposed is only related to the conditional variance of the martingale, which holds true for stationary mixing time series, stationary iterated random function, Harris recurrent Markov chains and $I(1)$ processes with innovations being a linear process. Using the established results, this paper investigates the uniform convergence of the Nadaraya-Watson estimator in a non-linear cointegrating regression model. Our results not only provide sharp convergence rate, but also the optimal range for the uniform convergence to be held. This paper also considers the uniform upper and lower bound estimates for a functional of Harris recurrent Markov chain, which are of independent interests.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/12-BEJ482 the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm

Lenia and Expanded Universe

We report experimental extensions of Lenia, a continuous cellular automata family capable of producing lifelike self-organizing autonomous patterns. The rule of Lenia was generalized into higher dimensions, multiple kernels, and multiple channels. The final architecture approaches what can be seen as a recurrent convolutional neural network. Using semi-automatic search e.g. genetic algorithm, we discovered new phenomena like polyhedral symmetries, individuality, self-replication, emission, growth by ingestion, and saw the emergence of "virtual eukaryotes" that possess internal division of labor and type differentiation. We discuss the results in the contexts of biology, artificial life, and artificial intelligence.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; submitted to ALIFE 2020 conferenc