The paper is concerned with several kinds of stochastic frontier models whose likelihood function is not available in closed form. First, with output-oriented stochastic frontier models whose one-sided errors have a distribution other than the standard ones (exponential or half-normal). The gamma and beta distributions are leading examples. Second, with input-oriented stochastic frontier models...

All chemistry dimension-reduction methodologies, such as quasi-steady-state approximation (QSSA), rate-controlled constrained equilibrium (RCCE), and intrinsic low-dimensional manifolds (ILDM), either implicitly or explicitly, provide a means of species reconstruction. Given a reduced description of the chemical composition (e.g., in terms of some ‘‘major’’ species), species reconstruction is a...

A major challenge of pervasive context-aware computing and intelligent environments resides in the acquisition and modelling of rich and heterogeneous context data. Decisive aspects of this information are the ongoing human activities at different degrees of granularity. We conjecture that ontology-based activity models are key to support interoperable multilevel activity representation and rec...

We analyze a divide-the-dollar majority rule bargaining game with an endogenous reversion point. A new dollar is divided in each of an infinity of periods according to the proposal of a probabilistically recognized legislator — if a majority prefer so — or according to previous period’s decision otherwise. Players’ payoff is the discounted sum of per period utilities. We show existence of a Mar...