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Sample-based policy iteration for constrained DEC-POMDPs
No full textWe introduce constrained DEC-POMDPs — an extension of the standard DEC-POMDPs that includes constraints on the optimality of the overall team rewards. Constrained DEC-POMDPs present a natural framework for modeling cooperative multi-agent problems with limited resources. To solve such DEC-POMDPs, we propose a novel sample-based policy iteration algorithm. The algorithm builds on multi-agent dynamic programming and benefits from several recent advances in DEC-POMDP algorithms such as MBDP [12] and TBDP [13]. Specifically, it improves the joint policy by solving a series of standard nonlinear programs (NLPs), thereby building on recent advances in NLP solvers. Our experimental results confirm the algorithm can efficiently solve constrained DECPOMDPs that cause general DEC-POMDP algorithms to fail
Letter from Ida M. Day to John Muir, 1910 Dec 29
No full textMartinez, Calif. Dec. 29 San Francisco Happy New Year from your Sierra Club friend. Ida M. Dayhttps://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/43936/thumbnail.jp
Sarah M. Mead Diary
No full textDiary of a 12 year-old girl, Sarah M. Mead for July 15 - Dec. 31, 1850. In daily entries the girl describes her routine, noting the time she gets up every morning, going to school, washing dishes, watching the baby, going for walks, working on her lessons, social visits, etc. The location is not mentioned, but on page 1 Sarah notes that she is attending "Mrs. N.M. Hubbel's school.
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Russell M. Tickle
No full text"27th SASR. AIF. Russell M. Tickle Dec 1941 - April 1943."27th Special Air Service Regiment, Australian Imperial Forces. Russell M. Tickle December 1941 - April 194
Letter from K[atharine] M[errill] G[raydon] to [John Muir], [1900 Dec 14].
No full text[In bundle marked Indianapolis letters ][Dec. 14, 1900]From this dwelling in the light of setting suns, I send my Christmas gating. Distance nor time lessens my frequent, grateful, loving remembrance of you all.With Aloha nui,K[atharine] M. G[raydon]Honolulu[Postcard addressed Mr. John Muir, Martinez, California, U.S.A., postmarked Honolulu, Dec. 14, 1900]02812https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/40146/thumbnail.jp
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
On the dangers of decentralization
No full textThe author highlights some of the dangers of decentralizations. The benefits of decentralization in allocative efficiency are not as obvious as suggested by the standard theory of fiscal federalism. The assumptions of this theory are fragile. These doubtful benefits might carry a cost in production efficiency, but more empirical research is needed on this point. What is not doubtful is that decentralization runs counter to redistribution and stabilization. Decentralization makes redistributive policies, whether interpersonal or interjurisdictional, more difficult, if not impossible. Decentralization also makes macroeconomic stabilization programs more difficult to implement because subnational government fiscal policies can run counter to national policies. Serious drawbacks or potential drawbacks should be considered in designing any decentralization program. The arguments that the author develops make it easier to understand some of the real choices. These choices are not so much whether to decentralize in general but rather what functions to decentralize - in which sectors, and in which regions. Guidelines can be provided on this. Often, the problem is not so much whether a certain service should be provided by a central, regional, or local government, since the service often has to be provided with the intervention of all three levels of government. The real challenge is how to organize the joint production of the service. Decentralization refers simultaneously to a state and to a process. The virtues and dangers of decentralization are often discussed simultaneously for both concepts. This is a dangerous confusion because decentralization is path-dependent. What is desirable in a given country at a certain point in time depends on the present state of decentralization and the speed at which it has been reached. Much more work, particularly empirical work, is needed -- in review of decentralization (or centralization) experiences in general, as well as those encouraged or supported by the World Bank.National Governance,Banks&Banking Reform,Municipal Financial Management,Economic Theory&Research,Pharmaceuticals&Pharmacoeconomics
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Archives internationales d'histoire des Sciences, vol. XXIV, n° 95 (dec. 1975) - vol. XXVI, n° 99 (dec. 1976).
No full textCazenave M.-L. Archives internationales d'histoire des Sciences, vol. XXIV, n° 95 (dec. 1975) - vol. XXVI, n° 99 (dec. 1976).. In: Revue d'histoire des sciences, tome 30, n°3, 1977. p. 283
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