Changing Course

The economics of changing course

This paper reviews evidence that energy technologies and systems adapt over time to accommodate external pressures: that technical innovation and systemic change in the energy sector is largely induced by need, and restrained by potentially large transitional costs. A simple integrated model of optimal greenhouse gas abatement over time is presented, in which the abatement cost depends on both ...

Changing the Course Allocation Mechanism at Wharton

This paper reports on an experiment conducted at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, testing a new mechanism for matching students to schedules of courses. The experiment compared Budish’s (2011) approximate competitive equilibrium from equal incomes (CEEI) to the incumbent, a fake-money auction used by Wharton and numerous other professional schools. CEEI outperformed the auc...

Reconfigurable Control System for Ship Course-changing/keeping

This paper presents reconfigurable control system for ship coursechanging/keeping. Adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) is used to identify a steering gear subsystem (actuator) in order to build an accurate reference model for the fault detection in this non-linear component. The proposed control system uses a compensator for reducing the loss of the control performance produced by fau...

IS 2009: Changing the Course for Undergraduate IS Model Curricula

In this panel, the joint AIS / ACM Information Systems undergraduate model curriculum task force members together with other curriculum experts will be presenting and discussing the IS 2009 Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Information Systems document and soliciting IS community feedback regarding ongoing IS curriculum development efforts. As such, the panel discussion...

Changing Course in Turbulent Times: an Interview with David Lawrence