Abstract We study pillage games (Jordan in J Econ Theory 131(1):26–44, 2006), which model unstructured power contests. To enable empirical tests of game theory, we relax a symmetry assumption that agents’ intrinsic contributions to coalition’s is identical. characterise the core for all n . In three-agent game: (i) only eight configurations are possible core, contains at most six allocations; (...

This paper presents solutions to Density Classification Task (DCT) using a variant of Cellular Automata (CA) called Programmable Cellular Automata (PCA). The translation property as well as the density preserving property of fundamental CA rules in 1D and 2D, and the advantage of PCA are embedded together to obtain the DCT solution. The advantage of PCA over standard CA is reported. A general 2...

We are using machine learning to construct a failure-susceptibility ranking of feeders that supply electricity to the boroughs of New York City. The electricity system is inherently dynamic and driven by environmental conditions and other unpredictable factors, and thus the ability to cope with concept drift in real time is central to our solution. Our approach builds on the ensemble-based noti...