We allow a contest organizer to bias a contest in a discriminatory way, that is, she can favor specifi c contestants through the choice of contest success functions in order to maximize total equilibrium eff ort (resp. revenue). The scope for revenue enhancement through biasing is analyzed and compared for the two predominant contest regimes; i.e. all-pay auctions and lottery contests. Our main...

BECOMING A FUNCTIONING MEMBER OF THE COLLEGIATE CULTURE:HOW CELLPHONE COMMUNICATION AFFECTS FIRST-YEAR COLLEGESTUDENTS’ SELF AND IDENTITY IN COLLEGE TRANSITION.by

We provide a brief description of the Jason-DTU system, including the methodology, the tools and the team strategy that we plan to use in the agent contest. Updated 1 October 2010: Appendix with comments on the contest added.

We provide a brief description of the Python-DTU system, including the overall design, the tools and the algorithms that we plan to use in the agent contest. Updated 1 October 2012: Appendix with comments on the contest added.

SUMMARY Here, we present ContEst, a tool for estimating the level of cross-individual contamination in next-generation sequencing data. We demonstrate the accuracy of ContEst across a range of contamination levels, sources and read depths using sequencing data mixed in silico at known concentrations. We applied our tool to published cancer sequencing datasets and report their estimated contamin...

In this paper we make a brief report of the third edition of the International Symbol Recognition Contest, organized in the context of GREC’07. This contest follows the series started at the GREC’03 workshop. In this report we describe the main changes introduced in the test data according to the conclusions of the past edition of the contest. We also summarize the results obtained by the only ...

This paper studies market and analyst reactions to earnings (i) during a proxy contest for board seats and (ii) after a proxy-contest-induced management change. Despite indications of earnings management during the proxy contest, market and analyst reactions are more pronounced than in prior periods, and earnings surprises explain more of the cross-sectional variation in these reactions. Market...

In this paper we examine currently used programming contest systems. We discuss possible reasons why we do not expect any of the currently existing contest systems to be adopted by a major group of different programming contests. We suggest to approach the design of a contest system as a design of a secure IT system, using known methods from the area of computer

Buriak, Harper and Gliem (1985) analyzed contestant scores on the National FFA Agricultural Mechanics Contest. The researchers found that undetermined contestant variables accounted for a majority of the variance in the total contest scores. Buriak, Harper and Gliem (1985, p.32) concluded that “Investigations of the prediction value of selected variables could prove useful in the development an...

The Arc Segmentation Contest, as the fifth in the series of graphics recognition contests organized by IAPR TC10, was held in association with the GREC’2003 workshop. In this paper we present the report of the contest: the contest rules, performance metrics, test images and their ground truths, and the outcomes.