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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Dominance relations"”.
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Social behaviour of captive belugas, Delphinapterus leucas
… providing quantitative descriptions of social relationships .among individuals. Five groups of captive belugas were observed, allowing a cross-sectional view of sociality in groups of diverse sizes and compositions. Inter-individual distances were used to quantify patterns of spatial …
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Finding optimal alternatives based on efficient comparative preference inference
… user model and the related preference relations by comparing them to a sum of weights-based user model and the related preference relations. Product configuration, scheduling a meeting and the construction of autonomous agents are among several artificial intelligence tasks that involve …
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The structure of auctions : optimality and efficiency
… question involving transport maps and stochastic dominance relations. As an important application, we prove that a grand bundling mechanism is optimal if and only if two particular measure-theoretic inequalities are satisfied. We also provide several new examples of optimal mechanisms and we prove …
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Three Essays on Migration Economics
… interstate US migration, I provide stochastic dominance relations on pre-migration earnings that support the implications of the model. These give a stronger test for selection than selection on means. The third chapter presents evidence on the effect of immigrants on aggregate labour …
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Improving Approximate and Exact Approaches Based on Decision Diagrams and Dynamic Programming for Combinatorial Optimization
… pseudo-polynomial-time DPs that exploit state dominance relations for solving a Drone Delivery Scheduling problem. Furthermore, we extend the DP models to FPTAS, providing efficient approximate solutions with provable guarantees. % to prune the search space Overall, this dissertation …
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Facilitating the Use of Optimisation in the Aerodynamic Design of Axial Compressors
… that overcomes these limitations. The multiple dominance relations (MDR) formulation enables a larger number of performance parameters to be incorporated in a way that accurately reflects the desires of the designer. This is implemented within a Tabu Search (TS) that is capable of providing …
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Syntax and Prosody of Coordination
… may also be recursive, and replicate the dominance relations in syntax. I further argue that there is a close syntax-prosody correspondence, even when the coordinated phrases contain elided material. This has implications for the prosodic representation of silent material. An important …
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Inferring social structure and dominance relationships between rhesus macaques using RFID tracking data
… or tie-strength between individual animals. Dominance is a directed relation that is quantified using a heuristic for the detection of withdrawal and displacement behaviors. The results of an analysis based on these approaches for a group of 6 male monkeys that were tracked over a period of …