Statistical profiling algorithms claiming to predict which jobseekers are at risk of becoming long-term unemployed spread unevenly across countries. However, the pathways and histories these tools understudied. Because path in France is a winding one, it fruitful study production acceptability within Public Employment Service (PES), upstream its reception by frontline advisers. Using mix interv...

Ongoing economic uncertainty is imposing stringent cost pressures on organizations across industries. In response, many businesses are prioritizing their investments to drive operational efficiencies and minimize IT spend on their application portfolios. However, several factors — including the expanding size and complexity of the application portfolio, poor license management, rising total cos...

Focusing on signaling games, I illustrate the relevance of the rationalizability approach for the analysis multistage games with incomplete information. I define a class of iterative solution procedures, featuring a notion of “forward induction”: the Receiver tries to explain the Sender’s message in a way which is consistent with the Sender’s strategic sophistication and certain given restricti...

Numerical layout optimization provides a computationally efficient and generally applicable means of identifying the optimal arrangement of bars in a truss. When the plastic layout optimization formulation is used, a wide variety of problem types can be solved using linear programming. However, the solutions obtained are frequently quite complex, particularly when fine numerical discretizations...

Planware has several types of knowledge, all encoded through parameterized theories. The first is knowledge of the scheduling domain, including the constraints on use of the different types of resources, such as reusable or sharable resources. Another type of knowledge is algorithm knowledge, such as generate-and-test, branch-and-bound, divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, and hill-climbin...