scholarly journals Competitive Benchmarking: Lessons Learned from the Trading Agent Competition

AI Magazine ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Ketter ◽  
Andreas Symeonidis
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
The Past ◽  
Trading Agent ◽  
Made In

Over the years, competitions have been important catalysts for progress in artificial intelligence. We describe the goal of the overall Trading Agent Competition and highlight particular competitions. We discuss its significance in the context of today’s global market economy as well as AI research, the ways in which it breaks away from limiting assumptions made in prior work, and some of the advances it has engendered over the past ten years. Since its introduction in 2000, TAC has attracted more than 350 entries and brought together researchers from AI and beyond.

scholarly journals Pushing the Limits of Rational Agents: The Trading Agent Competition for Supply Chain Management

AI Magazine ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Collins ◽  
Wolfgang Ketter ◽  
Norman Sadeh
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Rational Agents ◽  
The Past ◽  
Trading Agent ◽  
Internal Operations ◽  
Made In

Over the years, competitions have been important catalysts for progress in Artificial Intelligence. We describe one such competition, the Trading Agent Competition for Supply Chain Management (TAC SCM). We discuss its significance in the context of today’s global market economy as well as AI research, the ways in which it breaks away from limiting assumptions made in prior work, and some of the advances it has engendered over the past six years. TAC SCM requires autonomous supply chain entities, modeled as agents, to coordinate their internal operations while concurrently trading in multiple dynamic and highly competitive markets. Since its introduction in 2003, the competition has attracted over 150 entries and brought together researchers from AI and beyond in the form of 75 competing teams from 25 different countries.

Putting the “What Works” Research into Practice

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 472-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Correctional Services ◽  
The Past ◽  
What Works ◽  
Assessment And Treatment ◽  
Practical Guidance ◽  
Implementation Steps ◽  
Made In

Significant advances have been made in correctional research over the past decade. The research has highlighted the key elements of effective correctional assessment and treatment. However, organizations that wish to engage in effective correctional services by implementing the findings of correctional research have been given minimal practical guidance. This article discusses the experience of one probation department and its implementation of a risk and needs assessment tool as part of the daily practice of the organization. The implementation steps are identified as well as the challenges faced and the lessons learned.

The Chimes of Freedom: Bob Dylan, Epigrammatic Validity, and Alternative Facts

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN HARRIS
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Thomas Hobbes ◽  
John Stuart Mill ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
The Past ◽  
Bob Dylan ◽  
Alternative Facts ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Dylan Thomas

Abstract:This essay brings together work I have done over the past 10 years: on the nature of ethics, on the purpose of ethics, and on its foundations in a way that, I hope, as E.M. Forster put it, connects “the prose and the passion.” I deploy lessons learned in this process to identify and face what I believe to be crucial challenges to science and to freedom (as defended by, among others, Cicero, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Thomas Hobbes, John Stuart Mill, and Bertrand Russell). Finally I consider threats to freedom of a different sort, posed by the creation and dissemination of “alternative facts” and by what is sometimes called “super” or “full” artificial intelligence (AI).

Past, Present, and Future of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Virus Vaccines

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-153
Author(s):  
Maurice R. Hilleman
Keyword(s):  
Measles Virus ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Measles Vaccine ◽  
Rubella Vaccine ◽  
The Past ◽  
Viral Vaccine ◽  
The World ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Festive Occasion ◽  
Made In

It is a real pleasure for me to speak on this memorable occasion. Dr Saul Krugman is now entering his ninth decade while enjoying the world status of senior statesman! Saul and I have collaborated often during the last three of these decades. In the studies of new vaccines in our laboratories, our first clinical probes were made in cooperative studies with the late Dr Joseph Stokes and his colleagues and successors at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Following such initial phase, Dr Krugman received the vaccines for expanded clinical studies. Hence, he has been an indispensible clinical partner in most of the new viral vaccine developments in our laboratories during the past 30 years. In discussions with Dr Wade Parks, I was advised that I might speak on any subject I choose. I chose to talk about the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (M-M-R), a topic that has occupied Dr Krugman for nearly three decades and that is receiving renewed attention in the worlds of pediatrics and public health at the present time. This being a festive occasion, I feel I should keep it light. Therefore, I want to emphasize the science, but also to recount some of the less well-known "behind-the-scenes" activities that led to the creation and birth of M-M-R. There were lessons learned that might provide historic insight into problems that can be avoided in the future. MEASLES Measles vaccine began when the late Dr John Enders and Dr Samuel Katz and their coworkers developed and tested their Edmonston strain of attenuated live measles virus.1

Development of innovative consulting in the global market

GIS Business ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 114-120
Author(s):  
Kholbutayeva Shakhnoza Abduvaliyevna
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Consulting Services ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
Consulting Industry

This article discusses aspects of the development of the global market of consulting services. The features of the formation of the consulting industry in Uzbekistan in the conditions of transition to a market economy are evaluated. A number of services in the field of innovative consulting, influencing the development of the services market in the context of global challenges, are considered

South Asian Developmental Crisis (Review Article)

1973 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-188
Author(s):  
Rafiq Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
Integrated Theory ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Developed World ◽  
Second World ◽  
Made In

Like nations and civilizations, sciences also pass through period of crises when established theories are overthrown by the unpredictable behaviour of events. Economics is passing through such a crisis. The challenge thrown by the Great Depression of early 1930s took a decade before Keynes re-established the supremacy of economics. But this supremacy has again been upset by the crisis of poverty in the vast under-developed world which attained political independence after the Second World War. Poverty had always existed but never before had it been of such concern to economists as during the past twenty five years or so. Economic literature dealing with this problem has piled up but so have the agonies of poverty. No plausible and well-integrated theory of economic development or under-development has emerged so far, though brilliant advances have been made in isolated directions.

Mass Spectrometry Techniques: Principles and Practices for Quantitative Proteomics

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rocco J. Rotello ◽  
Timothy D. Veenstra
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Quantitative Proteomics ◽  
Protein Identification ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Complete Coverage ◽  
The Past ◽  
Proteome Level ◽  
A Cell ◽  
Quantitative Changes ◽  
Made In

: In the current omics-age of research, major developments have been made in technologies that attempt to survey the entire repertoire of genes, transcripts, proteins, and metabolites present within a cell. While genomics has led to a dramatic increase in our understanding of such things as disease morphology and how organisms respond to medications, it is critical to obtain information at the proteome level since proteins carry out most of the functions within the cell. The primary tool for obtaining proteome-wide information on proteins within the cell is mass spectrometry (MS). While it has historically been associated with the protein identification, developments over the past couple of decades have made MS a robust technology for protein quantitation as well. Identifying quantitative changes in proteomes is complicated by its dynamic nature and the inability of any technique to guarantee complete coverage of every protein within a proteome sample. Fortunately, the combined development of sample preparation and MS methods have made it capable to quantitatively compare many thousands of proteins obtained from cells and organisms.

The Future of Work and the Changing Workplace

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahesh K. Joshi ◽  
J.R. Klein
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Machine Intelligence ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
The Future ◽  
Market Opportunities

The world of work has been impacted by technology. Work is different than it was in the past due to digital innovation. Labor market opportunities are becoming polarized between high-end and low-end skilled jobs. Migration and its effects on employment have become a sensitive political issue. From Buffalo to Beijing public debates are raging about the future of work. Developments like artificial intelligence and machine intelligence are contributing to productivity, efficiency, safety, and convenience but are also having an impact on jobs, skills, wages, and the nature of work. The “undiscovered country” of the workplace today is the combination of the changing landscape of work itself and the availability of ill-fitting tools, platforms, and knowledge to train for the requirements, skills, and structure of this new age.

Evidence-based Assessment

2010 ◽  
pp. 76-98
Author(s):  
John Hunsley ◽  
Eric J. Mash
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Clinical Assessment ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
The Past ◽  
Specific Assessment ◽  
The Many ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Made In

Evidence-based assessment relies on research and theory to inform the selection of constructs to be assessed for a specific assessment purpose, the methods and measures to be used in the assessment, and the manner in which the assessment process unfolds. An evidence-based approach to clinical assessment necessitates the recognition that, even when evidence-based instruments are used, the assessment process is a decision-making task in which hypotheses must be iteratively formulated and tested. In this chapter, we review (a) the progress that has been made in developing an evidence-based approach to clinical assessment in the past decade and (b) the many challenges that lie ahead if clinical assessment is to be truly evidence-based.

scholarly journals H3ABioNet genomic medicine and microbiome data portals hackathon proceedings

Database ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faisal M Fadlelmola ◽  
Kais Ghedira ◽  
Yosr Hamdi ◽  
Mariem Hanachi ◽  
Fouzia Radouani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Genomic Medicine ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Significant Progress ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Scientific Expertise ◽  
Microbiome Data ◽  
Made In

Abstract African genomic medicine and microbiome datasets are usually not well characterized in terms of their origin, making it difficult to find and extract data for specific African ethnic groups or even countries. The Pan-African H3Africa Bioinformatics Network (H3ABioNet) recognized the need for developing data portals for African genomic medicine and African microbiomes to address this and ran a hackathon to initiate their development. The two portals were designed and significant progress was made in their development during the hackathon. All the participants worked in a very synergistic and collaborative atmosphere in order to achieve the hackathon's goals. The participants were divided into content and technical teams and worked over a period of 6 days. In response to one of the survey questions of what the participants liked the most during the hackathon, 55% of the hackathon participants highlighted the familial and friendly atmosphere, the team work and the diversity of team members and their expertise. This paper describes the preparations for the portals hackathon and the interaction between the participants and reflects upon the lessons learned about its impact on successfully developing the two data portals as well as building scientific expertise of younger African researchers. Database URL: The code for developing the two portals was made publicly available in GitHub repositories: [https://github.com/codemeleon/Database; https://github.com/codemeleon/AfricanMicrobiomePortal].

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