Macro program evaluation

Applying Inductive Program Synthesis to Macro Learning

The goal of this paper is to demonstrate that inductive progrwn synthesis can be applied to learning macrooperators from planning experience. We define macros as recursive program schemes (RPSs). An RPS represents the complete subgoal structure of a given problem domain with arbitrary complexity (e. g., rocket transportation problem with n objects), that is, it represents domain specific contro...

MAP: A Pascal Macro Preprocessor for Large Program Development

The programming language Pascal waH originally designed for tcaching introductory programming, currently, however, production systems use it as the primary implementation language. This paper describes extensions of Pascal intended to aid the large program developer. The extensions are implemented in a macro preprocessor MAP, which supports constant expression evaluation, source file inclusion,...

Program Evaluation

Anti-poverty programs implemented in recent years in developing countries typically have multiple goals beyond improving income levels. Assessing the effectiveness of these interventions has gained increased currency in light of the UN‘s Millennium Development Goals. We introduce multidimensional poverty measures to the program evaluation literature in order to provide a comprehensive measure o...

Program evaluation and random program starts

This paper discusses the evaluation problem using observational data when the timing of treatment is an outcome of a stochastic process. We show that, without additional assumptions, it is not possible to estimate the average treatment effect and treatment on the treated. It is, however, possible to estimate the effect of treatment on the treated up to a certain time point. We propose an estima...

Chemical Dependency Program Evaluation