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Testing Game Theory

by Jörgen W. Weibull , 2004
"... Experimentalists frequently claim that human subjects in the laboratory violate game-theoretic predictions. It is here argued that this claim is usually premature. The paper elaborates on this theme by way of raising some conceptual and methodological issues in connection with the very definition of ..."
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of a game and of players ’ preferences, in particular with respect to potential context dependence, interpersonal preference dependence, backward induction and incomplete information.

The complete genome sequence of Escherichia coli K-12

by Frederick R. Blattner, Guy Plunkett Iii, Craig A. Bloch, Nicole T. Perna, Valerie Burl, Monica Riley, Julio Collado-vides, Jeremy D. Glasner, Christopher K. Rode, George F. Mayhew, Jason Gregor, Nelson Wayne Davis, Heather A. Kirkpatrick, Michael A. Goeden, Debra J. Rose, Bob Mau, Ying Shao - Science , 1997
"... The 4,639,221–base pair sequence of Escherichia coli K-12 is presented. Of 4288 protein-coding genes annotated, 38 percent have no attributed function. Comparison with five other sequenced microbes reveals ubiquitous as well as narrowly distributed gene families; many families of similar genes withi ..."
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within E. coli are also evident. The largest family of paralogous proteins contains 80 ABC transporters. The genome as a whole is strikingly organized with respect to the local direction of replication; guanines, oligo-nucleotides possibly related to replication and recombination, and most genes are so

Closed-form solution of absolute orientation using unit quaternions

by Berthold K. P. Horn - J. Opt. Soc. Am. A , 1987
"... Finding the relationship between two coordinate systems using pairs of measurements of the coordinates of a number of points in both systems is a classic photogrammetric task. It finds applications in stereophotogrammetry and in robotics. I present here a closed-form solution to the least-squares pr ..."
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translational offset is the difference between the centroid of the coordinates in one system and the rotated and scaled centroid of the coordinates in the other system. The best scale is equal to the ratio of the root-mean-square deviations of the coordinates in the two systems from their respective centroids

Policy gradient methods for reinforcement learning with function approximation.

by Richard S Sutton , David Mcallester , Satinder Singh , Yishay Mansour - In NIPS, , 1999
"... Abstract Function approximation is essential to reinforcement learning, but the standard approach of approximating a value function and determining a policy from it has so far proven theoretically intractable. In this paper we explore an alternative approach in which the policy is explicitly repres ..."
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represented by its own function approximator, independent of the value function, and is updated according to the gradient of expected reward with respect to the policy parameters. Williams's REINFORCE method and actor-critic methods are examples of this approach. Our main new result is to show

The economics of cultural transmission and the dynamics of preferences

by Alberto Bisin, Thierry Verdier - Journal of Economic Theory , 2001
"... This paper studies the population dynamics of preference traits in a model of intergenerational cultural transmission. Parents socialize and transmit their preferences to their offspring, motivated by a form of paternalistic altruism (``imperfect empathy''). In such a setting we study the ..."
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This paper studies the population dynamics of preference traits in a model of intergenerational cultural transmission. Parents socialize and transmit their preferences to their offspring, motivated by a form of paternalistic altruism (``imperfect empathy''). In such a setting we study

Performance persistence

by Gerald G. Brown, Robert F. Dell - Journal of Finance , 1995
"... Most optimization-based decision support systems are used repeatedly with only modest changes to input data from scenario to scenario. Unfortunately, optimization (mathematical programming) has a well-deserved reputation for amplifying small input changes into drastically different solutions. A prev ..."
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previously optimal solution, or a slight variation of one, may still be nearly optimal in a new scenario and managerially preferable to a dramatically different solution that is mathematically optimal. Mathematical programming models can be stated and solved so that they exhibit varying degrees

"Coherent Arbitrariness": Stable Demand Curves without Stable Preferences

by Dan Ariely, George Loewenstein, Drazen Prelec - JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, FEBRUARY 2003
"... In six experiments, we show that initial valuations of familiar products and simple hedonic experiences are strongly influenced by arbitrary "anchors " (sometimes derived from a person's social security number). Because subsequent valuations are also coherent with respect to salient d ..."
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In six experiments, we show that initial valuations of familiar products and simple hedonic experiences are strongly influenced by arbitrary "anchors " (sometimes derived from a person's social security number). Because subsequent valuations are also coherent with respect to salient

Monitoring and self-repair in speech

by Willem J. M. Levelt - Cognition , 1983
"... Making a self-repair in speech typically proceeds in three phases. The first phase involves the monitoring of one’s own speech and the interruption of the flow of speech when trouble is detected. From an analysis of 959 spontaneous self-repairs it appears that interrupting follows detection promptly ..."
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on the nature of the speech trouble in a rather regular fashion: Speech errors induce other editing terms than words that are merely inappropriate, and trouble which is detected quickly by the speaker is preferably signalled by the use of ‘uh’. The third phase consists of making the repair proper

Continuity of utility-maximization with respect to preferences

by Kasper Larsen - Mathematical Finance
"... This paper provides an easily verifiable regularity condition under which the investor’s utility maximizer depends continuously on the de-scription of her preferences in a general incomplete financial setting. Specifically, we extend the setting of Jouini and Napp (2004) to include noise generated b ..."
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This paper provides an easily verifiable regularity condition under which the investor’s utility maximizer depends continuously on the de-scription of her preferences in a general incomplete financial setting. Specifically, we extend the setting of Jouini and Napp (2004) to include noise generated

Voting procedures with incomplete preferences

by Kathrin Konczak - in Proc. IJCAI-05 Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling , 2005
"... We extend the application of a voting procedure (usually defined on complete preference relations over candidates) when the voters ’ preferences consist of partial orders. We define possible (resp. necessary) winners for a given partial preference profile R with respect to a given voting procedure a ..."
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We extend the application of a voting procedure (usually defined on complete preference relations over candidates) when the voters ’ preferences consist of partial orders. We define possible (resp. necessary) winners for a given partial preference profile R with respect to a given voting procedure
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