In order to address inefficiencies of Nash equilibria for horizontal queuing congestion networks, we study the Stackelberg routing game on parallel networks: assuming a coordinator has control over a fraction of the flow, what is a good way of routing that compliant flow so that the induced Nash equilibrium is closer to the social optimum than the initial Nash equilibrium? We study Stackelberg ...

In this paper we propose a new learning algorithm for locally recurrent neural networks, called Truncated Recursive Back Propagation which can be easily implemented on-line with good performance. Moreover it generalises the algorithm proposed by Waibel et al. for TDNN, and includes the Back and Tsoi algorithm as well as BPS and standard on-line Back Propagation as particular cases. The proposed...

Most interesting problems can be speciied in many diierent but equivalent ways. Which of these is to be preferred depends on your sense of style. This paper investigates the choices that arise in writing a formal speciication, and suggests some guidelines that may help authors. For reasons of space, only small examples are given. The tension between clarity and brevity is investigated, and it i...

OBJECTIVE The research objective was to test the hypothesis that corporate health and wellness contributed positively to South African companies' financial results. METHODS The past share market performance of eligible healthy companies, based on Discovery's Healthy Company Index, was tracked under three investment scenarios and compared with the market performance on the basis of the JSE FTS...

Introduction Since the mid-1990s the search for extra-solar, terrestrial planets (called ‘exo-planets’ hereafter for brevity), and the possibility of life on them has received much attention. Both ESA and NASA are studying space-based telescopes that will enable the scientific community to conduct such a search. The most promising technology that will allow the detection of exoplanets and the s...

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The following list contains a survey of some important and recent research in modeling face-to-face conversation. The list below is a presented as a guide to the literature by topic and date; we include complete citations afterwards in alphabetical order. For brevity, research works are keyed by first author and date only (we use these keys on the slides as well as in this list). Of course, mos...