If you haven't yet bought a ticket for the US national team's friendly in April against Mexico in San Antonio, you're officially out of luck.
U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati confirmed reports that the game was sold out with a tweet on Saturday:
We are thrilled that #USAvMEX on April 15 is officially sold out. The 65,000 fans will set an attendance record for soccer in San Antonio.
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U.S. Soccer will officially induct three legends of the sport into the National Soccer Hall of Fame on Saturday in San Francisco.
Though their selections were announced last year, Bob Bradley and Brian McBride, as well as Kristine Lilly, will be this year's inductees.
AMSTERDAM – Daniel Williams went the distance in midfield as Reading reached the FA Cup elite eight for the third time in six years with a 2-1 smash and grab victory at Derby County.
The US international ended up on the wrong side of a pair of referee decisions in the first half, starting with a yellow card on 28 minutes. A few minutes before intermission, Williams had a fair penalty shout ignored after his goal-bound shot was blocked in the area by the arm of Derby defender Richard Keogh.
AMSTERDAM – Borussia Dortmund playmaking prodigy Christian Pulisic saw a big week capped by public praise from manager Jürgen Klopp for his work as a surprise participant in first-team training.
DUBLIN, Ireland – Irish eyes could soon be smiling for Lamar Neagle, if reported interest from the Republic of Ireland national team comes to fruition.
It is believed that the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) is monitoring the Seattle Sounders' attacker after they were made aware that the 27-year-old possesses an Irish passport through his mother, Bridget.
Martin Paterson has his eyes firmly on the MLS career arc of Bradley Wright-Phillips after joining Orlando City SC for their inaugural season in the league.
As quick as he is to defend keeping a player off the pitch because he's not fit enough, Peter Vermes is even quicker to defend his players – and his league – against criticism he thinks unfair.
And the way Sporting Kansas City's manager sees it, US national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann was off the mark when he knocked player fitness during the recent January camp.
Sporting Kansas City have signed 25-year-old defensive midfielder Soni Mustivar, the club announced on Friday. Mustivar will occupy an international roster spot on the team's roster for the 2015 season pending receipt of his International Transfer Certificate and P-1 Visa.
AMSTERDAM – Bobby Wood fired his first two goals of the season on Friday night to lead Erzgebirge Aue out of the danger zone with a 3-2 victory away to Bundesliga promotion chasers Fortuna Dusseldorf.
The US attacker opened the scoring on the quarter-hour by charging into the box to oblige some fine set-up work by strike partner Stefan Mugosa. It was not only Wood's first goal in an Aue shirt, but also his first in the 2.Bundesliga since May 2013.
DUBLIN – There may not have been a horde of screaming groupies to welcome the LA Galaxy yesterday, but their reputation in Europe is undoubtedly on the rise.
Led by captain Robbie Keane, the MLS Cup champions completed a training session through the morning rain in the Dublin suburb of Malahide on Friday, with a handful of Irish press and local groundsmen looking on.
AMSTERDAM – Several Americans will turn into European road warriors this weekend, with in-form midfielder Daniel Williams aiming to help steer Reading past FA Cup round-of-16 hosts Derby County.
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DUBLIN, IRELAND – There appears to be no limit to Robbie Keane’s power of influence after opening the door for compatriot Kevin Doyle to join him in MLS.
Preseason matches continue on Friday, including the first formal tournament of the 2015 preseason, the ATX Pro Challenge, kicking off down in the Lone Star State.
TORONTO – Toronto FC has a new captain in US international midfielder Michael Bradley, who takes over from Steven Caldwell as the club’s seventh skipper.
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With FC Dallas at the halfway point of their 2015 preseason, plenty of questions exist as they head into the ATX Pro Soccer Challenge in Austin, Texas.
We investigate two data-dependent clustering techniques for content recommendation based on exploration-exploitation strategies in contextual multiarmed bandit settings. Our algorithms dynamically group users based on the items under consideration and, possibly, group items based on the similarity of the clusterings induced over the users. The resulting algorithm thus takes advantage of preference patterns in the data in a way akin to collaborative filtering methods. We provide an empirical analysis on extensive real-world datasets, showing scalability and increased prediction performance over state-of-the-art methods for clustering bandits. For one of the two algorithms we also give a regret analysis within a standard linear stochastic noise setting.
Multiple hypothesis testing is a significant problem in nearly all neuroimaging studies. In order to correct for this phenomena, we require a reliable estimate of the Family-Wise Error Rate (FWER). The well known Bonferroni correction method, while simple to implement, is quite conservative, and can substantially under-power a study because it ignores dependencies between test statistics. Permutation testing, on the other hand, is an exact, non-parametric method of estimating the FWER for a given $\alpha$-threshold, but for acceptably low thresholds the computational burden can be prohibitive. In this paper, we show that permutation testing in fact amounts to populating the columns of a very large matrix ${\bf P}$. By analyzing the spectrum of this matrix, under certain conditions, we see that ${\bf P}$ has a low-rank plus a low-variance residual decomposition which makes it suitable for highly sub--sampled --- on the order of $0.5\%$ --- matrix completion methods. Based on this observation, we propose a novel permutation testing methodology which offers a large speedup, without sacrificing the fidelity of the estimated FWER. Our evaluations on four different neuroimaging datasets show that a computational speedup factor of roughly $50\times$ can be achieved while recovering the FWER distribution up to very high accuracy. Further, we show that the estimated $\alpha$-threshold is also recovered faithfully, and is stable.
With the advances in information technology (IT) criminals are using cyberspace to commit numerous cyber crimes. Cyber infrastructures are highly vulnerable to intrusions and other threats. Physical devices and human intervention are not sufficient for monitoring and protection of these infrastructures; hence, there is a need for more sophisticated cyber defense systems that need to be flexible, adaptable and robust, and able to detect a wide variety of threats and make intelligent real-time decisions. Numerous bio-inspired computing methods of Artificial Intelligence have been increasingly playing an important role in cyber crime detection and prevention. The purpose of this study is to present advances made so far in the field of applying AI techniques for combating cyber crimes, to demonstrate how these techniques can be an effective tool for detection and prevention of cyber attacks, as well as to give the scope for future work.
The proliferation of heterogeneous data sources of semantic knowledge base intensifies the need of an automatic instance matching technique. However, the efficiency of instance matching is often influenced by the weight of a property associated to instances. Automatic weight generation is a non-trivial, however an important task in instance matching technique. Therefore, identifying an appropriate metric for generating weight for a property automatically is nevertheless a formidable task. In this paper, we investigate an approach of generating weights automatically by considering hypotheses: (1) the weight of a property is directly proportional to the ratio of the number of its distinct values to the number of instances contain the property, and (2) the weight is also proportional to the ratio of the number of distinct values of a property to the number of instances in a training dataset. The basic intuition behind the use of our approach is the classical theory of information content that infrequent words are more informative than frequent ones. Our mathematical model derives a metric for generating property weights automatically, which is applied in instance matching system to produce re-conciliated instances efficiently. Our experiments and evaluations show the effectiveness of our proposed metric of automatic weight generation for properties in an instance matching technique.
We study extensive form games where players might not be able to foresee the possible consequences of their actions and try to exploit the opponents' believed weaknesses in order to improve upon the final outcome. We build upon existing models of games with limited foresight, endowing players with the ability of higher-order reasoning, and proposing a novel solution concept to address intuitions coming from real game play. We analyse the resulting equilibria, devising an effective procedure to compute them.
Variable or value elimination in a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) can be used in preprocessing or during search to reduce search space size. A variable elimination rule (value elimination rule) allows the polynomial-time identification of certain variables (domain elements) whose elimination, without the introduction of extra compensatory constraints, does not affect the satisfiability of an instance. We show that there are essentially just four variable elimination rules and three value elimination rules defined by forbidding generic sub-instances, known as irreducible existential patterns, in arc-consistent CSP instances. One of the variable elimination rules is the already-known Broken Triangle Property, whereas the other three are novel. The three value elimination rules can all be seen as strict generalisations of neighbourhood substitution.
Jurgen Klinsmann has no problem combing Europe to find new talent for the US national team, no matter their place of birth, and now it appears there is another potential national-teamer plying his trade right in the coach's backyard, with the LA Galaxy.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – After years in the US youth national team ranks, Columbus Crew SC midfielder Wil Trapp finally earned his first senior-team cap against Chile on Jan. 28.
But it wasn’t quite the debut the 22-year-old was looking for. His 30 minutes of action as a second-half substitute came in a 3-2 loss, and Columbus’ midfield general wasn’t pleased with his performance.
Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber on Thursday notified Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman that MLS is no longer considering Las Vegas as an expansion market until after 2018.
The City of Las Vegas published the following letter:
Mayor Goodman provided the following statement in response to the news: