The Micro-Rato Contest of the University of Aveiro is a competition among small autonomous mobile robots that is organized by the Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics Department of that institution. The contest aims at promoting, in a festival-like environment, the practical and integrated use of several topics typically taught in electronics and informatics courses. The contest take...

Behavioural economists have employed beauty contest games in order to test for agents’ depth of reasoning. In multi-player beauty contest games, fully rational players should all bid zero. In experiments, it is observed that average bids are consistently much greater than zero, which may reflect a population of players consisting of a combination of full and bounded rationality. In contrast, in...

MESSAGE FROM THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE: In 2013, the Education Committee of the Human Genetics Society of Australasia (HGSA) established the DNA Day Essay Contest in Australia and New Zealand. The contest was first established by the American Society of Human Genetics in 2005 and the HGSA DNA Day Essay Contest is adapted from this contest via a collaborative partnership. The aim of the contest is...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of using a crowdsourcing contest to promote HIV cure research community engagement. METHODS Crowdsourcing contests are open calls for community participation to achieve a task, in this case to engage local communities about HIV cure research. Our contest solicited images and videos of what HIV cure meant to people. Contestan...

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 (TCFFHRC), evaluates the curricular impact of the contest at university and highschool levels, and provides examples of student projects inspired by...

We analyze existence, uniqueness and properties of equilibria in incompletely discriminating Tullock contests with logistic contest success functions, when contestants are risk averse. We prove that a Nash equilibrium for such a contest exists, but give an example of a symmetric contest with both symmetric and asymmetric equilibria, showing that risk aversion may lead to multiple equilibria. Sy...

The main drawback of the public-policy contest is that the notion of contest success function, a crucial component of the contest model, does not have microfoundations and, therefore, the random behavior of the government seems ad-hoc. In the present paper we propose a partial micro-foundation for the public-policy contest. The possible rationalization of random government behavior is illustrat...

We explore the relationship between the choice of the strategy space and outcomes in Tullock contests. In particular, in a framework where one of the contest’s participants moves …rst, we show that there is an equilibrium where this individual wins the contest with probability one. We also show that not only the nature of the outcome changes (e.g., who wins the contest) with the choice of the s...

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...

Empirical performance evaluation of raster to vector methods is an important topic in the area of graphics recognition. By studying automatic vectorization methods we can reveal the maturity of the tested methods whether as a research prototype or a commercial software. Arc Segmentation Contest held in conjunction with the eighth IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC’09) is ...