2 Igor M. Verner, Department of Education in Technology and Science, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel, [email protected] Abstract  This paper introduces the Trinity College FireFighting Home Robot Contest and describes the curricular impact of the contest in colleges and high schools. We present and discuss student work motivated by the contest. Fina...

BACKGROUND Innovation contests call on non-experts to help solve problems. While these contests have been used extensively in the private sector to increase engagement between organizations and clients, there is little data on the role of innovation contests to promote health campaigns. We implemented an innovation contest in China to increase sexual health awareness among youth and evaluated c...

This paper summarises the Agent Contest 2007 which was organized in association with ProMAS’07. The aim of this contest is to stimulate research in the area of multi-agent systems by identifying key problems and collecting suitable benchmarks that can serve as milestones for evaluating new tools, models, and techniques to develop multi-agent systems. The first two editions of this contest were ...

BACKGROUND The International Classification for Primary Care (ICPC) standard aims to facilitate simultaneous and longitudinal comparisons of clinical primary care practice within and across country borders; it is also used for administrative purposes. This study evaluates the use of the original ICPC-1 and the more complete ICPC-2 Norwegian versions in electronic patient records. METHODS We p...

In contest experiments, overbidding is a widely observed phenomenon. One common explanation for overbidding is that winning in itself yields utility, termed the joy of winning. However, the joy of winning is diffi cult to observe and to quantify. This paper develops a novel, incentivized way to measure the individual-specific joy of winning as well as the frustration of losing in a Tullock lott...

A contest architecture specifies how the contestants are split among several subcontests whose winners compete against each other (while other players are eliminated). We compare the performance of such dynamic schemes to that of static winner-take-all contests from the point of view of a designer who maximizes either the expected total effort or the expected highest effort. For the case of a l...

The teaching of Informatics in lower and upper secondary education has a long tradition in Slovakia. In 2009, a new subject, Elementary Informatics (“Informatická výchova“ in the Slovak language), was introduced into primary education. This paper describes its aims and relates how contests can be a form of learning and a way to test children’s knowledge. Secondary schools have the Bebras Contes...

This paper explores the specific criticism of directed altruistic living organ donation that it creates a 'beauty contest' between potential recipients of organs. The notion of the beauty contest in transplantation was recently used by Neidich et al who stated that '[a]ltruism should be the guiding motivation for all donations, and when it [is], there is no place for a beauty contest'. I examin...