The annual ICFP Programming Contest has become one of the premiere programming competitions in the world. The 9 incarnation of the contest, “The Cult of the Bound Variable,” was held in July 2006 and organized by the Principles of Programming group at Carnegie Mellon University. This report details the contest tasks, the technology used to produce the contest, and the contest results. Several t...

We present the eleventh edition of the Multi-Agent Programming Contest, an annual, community-serving competition that attracts groups from all over the world. Our contest enables head-to-head comparison of multi-agent systems and supports educational efforts in their design and implementation.

This article experimentally studies a two-stage elimination contest and compares its performance with a one-stage contest. Contrary to the theory, the two-stage contest generates higher revenue than the equivalent one-stage contest. There is significant over-dissipation in both stages of the two-stage contest and experience diminishes over-dissipation in the first stage but not in the second st...

We report the results of laboratory experiments on rent-seeking contests with endogenous participation. Theory predicts that (a) contest entry and rent-seeking expenditures increase with the size of the prize; and (b) earnings are equalized between the contest and the outside option. While the directional predictions offered in (a) are supported in the data, the level predictions are not. Predi...

Two wealth effects typically arise in any contest: i) wealth decreases the marginal cost of effort, but also ii) decreases the marginal benefit of winning the contest. In this paper, we introduce three types of strategic contest models depending on whether the first, second, or both wealth effects play a role: namely, a privilege contest, an ability contest, and a rent-seeking contest. Our theo...

This study investigated basal and reciprocal relationships between implicit power motivation (n Power), a preference for having impact and dominance over others, and both salivary estradiol and testosterone in women. 49 participants completed the Picture Story Exercise, a measure of n Power. During a laboratory contest, participants competed in pairs on a cognitive task and contest outcome (win...

The 8th annual IEEE 3DUI Contest focuses on the development of a 3D User Interface (3DUI) for an Augmented Reality (AR) exhibit of constructive art. The 3DUI Contest is part of the 2017 IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces held in Los Angeles, California. The contest was open to anyone interested in 3DUIs, from researchers to students, enthusiasts, and professionals. The purpose of the contest ...

This study tested the hypothesis that implicit power motivation moderates individuals' testosterone responses to the anticipated success in and actual outcome of a dominance contest. Salivary testosterone levels were assessed in 42 male students at the beginning of the study, after they had imagined a success in an ensuing power contest, and immediately after the contest had taken place. Contes...

Contest behavior forms an important part of reproductive investment. Life-history theory predicts that as individuals age and their residual reproductive value decreases, they should increase investment in contest behavior. However, other factors such as social experience may also be important in determining age-related variation in contest behavior. To understand how selection acts on contest ...

There is currently little evidence about what tools, methods, processes, and languages lead to secure software. We present the experimental design of the Build it Break it secure programming contest as an aim to provide such evidence. The contest also provides education value to participants where they gain experience developing programs in an adversarial settings. We show preliminary results f...