“...B-spline surfaces possess attractive properties such as a high degree of continuity or the local support of their basis functions. One of the major...”

“...Tropical cyclones (TCs) present a considerable threat to people and engineering facilities in coastal and offshore regions. Accurate estimation of...”

“...Interpretable, Computationally Tractable Approximate Parameter Estimation for Corporate Defaults Measuring corporate default risk is a classic problem in...”

“...In the exemplar-based image inpainting approach, there are usually two major problems: the unreasonable calculation of priority and only considering the color...”

“...•A novel physics-based hurricane intensity model controlled by growth and decay terms is developed.•The important wind directionality effect on simulated...”

“...It is well known from the work of Schönbucher that the marginal laws of a loss process can be matched by a unit increasing time inhomogeneous Markov process,...”

“...The financial crises which occurred in the last several decades have demonstrated the significant impact of market structural breaks on firms’ credit behavior...”

“...Accurate characterization of white-matter lesions from magnetic resonance (MR) images has increasing importance for diagnosis and management of treatment of...”

“...•We have studied an issue of dependence structure between default intensities.•We use a multivariate shot noise intensity process, where jumps occur...”