a total of 2000 records of egg quality of 746 birds and body weight data from 17th generation of fars native fowl breeding station were used to estimate the genetic parameters of egg quality and body weight traits. six univariate animal models with different random effects were fitted for each trait. a model with direct additive genetic and maternal permanent environmental effects was the most ...

This paper deals with preference representation and aggregation in combinatorial domains. We assume that the set of alternatives is defined as the cartesian product of finite domains and that agents’ preferences are represented by generalized additive decomposable (GAI) utility functions. GAI functions allow an efficient representation of interactions between attributes while preserving some de...

We consider the problem of maximizing the probability of hitting a strategically chosen hidden virtual network by placing a wiretap on a single link of a communication network. This can be seen as a twoplayer win-lose (zero-sum) game that we call the wiretap game. The value of this game is the greatest probability that the wiretapper can secure for hitting the virtual network. The value is show...

For a class of 2-Person 0-sum repeated games with incomplete information, Aumann/Masch. ler 119671 and Stearns [1967] have given a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of v (the value of the infinitely repeated game). Mertens/Zamir [19711 and Mertens [1971/72] have given the formula (and thus proved the existence) of lim Vn, the limit of the values of the n . .+ ~ games with n r...

Constraint-based learning of Bayesian networks (BN) from limited data can lead to multiple testing problems when recovering dense areas of the skeleton and to conflicting results in the orientation of edges. In this paper, we present a new constraint-based algorithm, light mutual min (LMM) for improved accuracy of BN learning from small sample data. LMM improves the assessment of candidate edge...

This paper studies mechanism design when agents are maxmin expected utility maximizers. The …rst result gives a general necessary condition for a social choice rule to be implementable. The condition combines an inequality version of the standard envelope characterization of payo¤s in quasilinear environments with an approach for relating maxmin agents’ subjective expected utilities to their ob...

This paper formulates a capital investment problem under ambiguity as robust control problem. We consider the particular form of maxmin expected utility model, such that firm's optimal decision becomes solution convex-concave function. As presence convex cost function with prevents us from deriving an analytical solution, we propose numerical procedure to derive via approximate dynamic programm...

We consider the problem of MaxMin allocation of indivisible goods. There are m items to be distributed among n players. Each player i has a nonnegative valuation pij for an item j, and the goal is to allocate items to players so as to maximize the minimum total valuation received by each player. There is a large gap in our understanding of this problem. The best known positive result is an Õ( √...