We put forward a new class of mechanisms. In this extended abstract, we exemplify our approach only for single-good auctions in what we call a conservative-Bayesian setting. (Essentially, no commonknowledge about the underlying distribution of the players’ valuations is required.) We prove that our mechanism is optimal in this challenging and realistic setting.

Cultural differences in questionnaire response styles have been reported in a number of studies. Compared to those of European-heritage, responses from individuals of East-Asian heritage tend to be more ambivalent and moderate. These stylistic differences warrant attention because they may contaminate substantive conclusions about cultural differences. One possible source of these stylistic dif...

Peter Facione's generally well thoughtout set of suggestions for messing up a critical thinking test l overlooked one significant option for the construction of defective multiple-choice (hereinafter MC) tests: require the impossible. 2 Perhaps Facione was being intentionally devious, leaving this option to be discovered by the intrepid reader, but it appears that one of the MC items he uses to...

The competitors in the airline industry often rely on pricing strategy to capture more sales as a main mean of competition. Thus, dynamic pricing is often utilized to maximize profit while allowing better pricing against competition at the same time. In order for dynamic pricing to be effective, airline company has to take in consideration both internal and external information. Tactical pricin...

This paper represents combination of technology management with human resources management component. Authors reviewed the literature regarding organizational readiness and organizational competences as one of its pillar. The paper proceeds and analyze an approach to strong competencies that when built successfully leads to competitiveness and future success of an organization. In this paper, a...

Despite their best efforts, scientists may be unable to construct models that simultaneously exemplify every theoretical virtue. One explanation for this is the existence of tradeoffs: relationships of attenuation that constrain the extent to which models can have such desirable qualities. In this paper, we characterize three types of tradeoffs theorists may confront. These characterizations ar...

At Aalborg University’s department of Medialogy, we are utilizing the Problem Based Learning method to encourage students to solve game design problems by pushing the boundaries and designing innovative games. This paper is concerned with describing this method, how students employ it in various projects and how they learn to analyse, design, and develop for innovation by using it. We will pres...

— There is not a method for analysing unreplicated factorial designs that performs well for various configurations of number and size of active effects. Moreover, the most popular tool that has been applied is informal and subjective. To overcome these drawbacks, this paper suggests a multiple testing to help practitioners making objective decisions and identifying active effects with a minimum...

I contrast two modes of error-elimination relevant to evaluating evidence in accounts that emphasize frequentist reliability. The contrast corresponds to that between the use of of a reliable inference procedure and the critical scrutiny of a procedure with regard to its reliability, in light of what is and is not known about the setting in which the procedure is used. I propose a notion of sec...

Teachers can often readily identify students who demonstrate high or low motivation in a certain task. Motivated students engage in the task with intensity and feeling, whereas unmotivated students procrastinate and indicate in other ways that they would rather do something else. These differences exemplify the quantitative dimension of motivation, ranging from high to low. Teachers can often a...