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TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />

ABSTRACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii<br />

DEDICATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv<br />

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v<br />

LIST OF TABLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />

vi<br />

LIST OF FIGURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii<br />

LIST OF SYMBOLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />

viii<br />

1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1<br />

2 METHOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />

2.1 HIPM Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />

2.1.1 Measure of Fit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />

2.1.2 Entities specification and model library . . . . . . . . 13<br />

2.2 Experiment Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />

3 COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />

3.1 Increase in number of time-series input . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24<br />

3.2 Value of Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28<br />

3.3 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />

4 ANALYTICAL <strong>ANALYSIS</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />

4.1 Most recurrent models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />

4.2 Preliminaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38<br />

4.3 Model A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41<br />

4.4 Model B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48<br />

4.5 Model C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57<br />

4.6 Effects of increasing the number of constraints . . . . . . . . . 63<br />

5 CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65<br />

REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69<br />

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