Professional singles tennis is a popular global sport that attracts spectators and speculators alike. In recent years, financial trading related to sport outcomes has become a reality, thanks to the rise of online betting exchanges and the everincreasing development and deployment of quantitative models for sports. This thesis investigates the extent to which the outcome of a match between two ...

The Single Transferable Vote (STV) is a voting system used in some parts of Britain and Australia today. We model the voting system by randomly generating N candidates over [0,1], and assigning areas closest to them. As N increases, the probability that the STV election and the plurality election will produce the same result decreases. In single-winner elections candidates at .5 have the highes...

The National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) men's Division I college basketball tournament is an annual competition that draws widespread attention in the United States. Predicting the winner of each game is a popular activity undertaken by numerous websites, fans, and more recently, academic researchers. This paper analyzes the 29 tournaments from 1985 to 2013, and presents two model...

A number of recent papers in environmental economics have focused on the process of researching preferences – agents are uncertain about preferences but with effort may narrow their uncertainty. This issue has arisen in formulating bids in contingent valuation as well as the debate over the divergence between WTP and WTA. In the context of contingent valuation, it has been suggested that the hy...

smart home is composed of several controllers with different plants in control. if each controller works independently, without considering the mutual effect of the others in the control process, the whole system could definitely not converge to an optimum desired status and may not ever reach the demanded condition. the function of different controller system may has conflict in some condition...

Sports provide a natural experiment on individual choices in games with high stakes. We study soccer, analysing a simple game theoretic model of a match and using data to evaluate the performance of this model in explaining actual behaviour. A team's optimal strategy depends on the current state of the game. When the game is tied, both teams attack because this maximises their probability of sc...