We propose an elementary theory of wars fought by fully rational contenders that features three of the main rationalist explanations for armed conflicts: uncertainty, commitment, and indivisibility. Two parties play a Markov game that combines stages of bargaining, where offers are made, with claim stages, where one side can commit to impose surrender on the other. Under uncertainty on the pers...

Paper wasps recognise the dominant individual in their colony and surrender reproduction to this alpha individual. Contrary to expectations her dominance status is not signalled by a chemical indicator of fertility.

There has been considerable interest in boosting and bagging, including the combination of the adaptive techniques of AdaBoost with the random selection with replacement techniques of Bagging. At the same time there has been a revisiting of the way we evaluate, with chance-corrected measures like Kappa, Informedness, Correlation or ROC AUC being advocated. This leads to the question of whether ...

In this paper we describe our responsive video performance, Deep Surrender, created using Cycling ’74’s Max/MSP and Jitter packages. Video parameters are manipulated in real-time, using chromakeying and colour balance modification techniques to visualize the keyboard playing and vocal timbre of a live performer. We present the musical feature extraction process used to create a control system f...

We develop a novel machine learning (ML) framework to estimate surrender charge for variable annuities (VAs) with the balance between human behavior and rational optimality. Optimality accounts insurers' potential losses from strategic surrenders by policyholders who attempt take advantage of market situation. However, sometimes need VA because sudden personal financial distress or terminal ill...

Ethnographic research in an animal welfare organization challenges common, and harmful, framings of what causes guardians to surrender companion animals.