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In many organizations with a distributed operation, not only is data collection distributed, but models are also developed and deployed separately. Understanding the combined knowledge of all the local models may be important and challenging, especially in the case of a large number of models. The automated development of consensus models, which aggregate multiple models into a single one, involves several challenges, including fidelity (ensuring that aggregation does not penalize the predictive performance severely) and completeness (ensuring that the consensus model covers the same space as the local models). In this paper, we address the latter, proposing two measures for geometrical and distributional completeness. The first quantifies the proportion of the decision space that is covered by a model, while the second takes into account the concentration of the data that is covered by the model. The use of these measures is illustrated in a real-world example of academic management, as well as four publicly available datasets. The results indicate that distributional completeness in the deployed models is consistently higher than geometrical completeness. Although consensus models tend to be geometrically incomplete, distributional completeness reveals that they cover the regions of the decision space with a higher concentration of data. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.

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Taxi demand prediction with scarce historic information is among the most encountered challenges of the present decade for the traffic network of a smart city. Lack of sufficient information results in the failure of conventional approaches in prediction for a new city. Additionally, the prevalent Deep Neural Network (DNN) Models resort to ineffectual approaches which fail to meet the required prediction performance for the network. Moreover, existing domain adaptation (DA) models could not sufficiently reap the domain-shared features well from multiple source, questioning the models' applicability. Complex structure of these DA models tends to a nominal performance gain due to inefficient resource utilization of the sources. The present paper introduces a domain adaptation deep neural network model, Bootstrap Zero-Shot (BTS-Z) learning model which focuses on capturing the latent spatio-temporal features of the whole city traffic network shared among every source city and maneuver them to predict for the target city traffic network with no prior information. The presented model proves the efficacy of the bootstrap algorithm in the prediction of demands for the unseen target over the computationally expensive MAML models. The experimental results on three real-world city taxi data on the standard benchmark metrics report a minimum of 23.41% improvement over the best performing competitive system. © 2024 IEEE.

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